Portland Art Focus is an association of local art institutions. Before inviting oyoaha on board, they used print advertising as their primary means of communicating the Portland community's contemporary art happenings with the rest of the world. This, or course, had some limitations. oyoaha built a bridge between two mediums (print and web) in order to seamlessly connect the invitation through advertising with the informational web content.

The Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA) requested a website upgrade. They had a working framework whereby independent art galleries could manage an online art exhibit and show listing, but the whole effect somehow seemed incomplete. The content was there, but the message didn't seem to consistently come together. Here are a few highlights of oyoaha's final solution.

We are always interested in new means of implementing exciting, effective design. AJAX specifically is a new resource we have yet to see fully embraced by the global design community. Whether it's true or not, we get motivated with the thought we're helping to blaze a new path. (See history of html, Flash, CSS, etc. - those dang developers just don't seem to always recognize the full brilliance of what they create...) Anyway, we think this evolving project is one piece of the design by AJAX pie.

Some of the best concept work (for a post-production company) produced by oyoaha that hasn't been implemented.

Classified reads: "Abandoned concept in need of good home. Potential owners should be clean, mostly sober, and capable of recognizing good design."

oyoaha continues to enjoy an ongoing relationship with Monsieur t.: brand process, web development, identity, catalogs, and, yes, even a t-shirt design (for which we received some publicity goodness in issue #13 of monster children).

A multidisciplinary, multimedia design project for the successful warehouse art show, Modern Zoo. The project's scope required identity, digital, and print collateral that made its way into an interactive Kiosk, a website, and an interactive CDROM (including packaging). The project was 100% oyoaha from start to finish and involved the use of almost every design program on our computers (including the additional software we developed to pull it off).

Brede Rorstad is a classically trained composer with an ever increasing list of projects that transcend traditional classical music contexts. After launching the site, Brede immediately began to fill it with content: images, blog posts, and most importantly music. We were a bit impressed (and surprised) at the almost instantaneous outflow - in response Brede offered us an important compliment. "It was so easy to use the site I just kept on posting." Perfect!