Graphic Design

For more than 20 years, Ideogram Design has been specialised in visual communication for major institutions and companies such as the CNRS, Texas Instruments, Lucent Technologies, Digital Equipments-Compaq-Hewlett Packard, Nortel Networks or Alcatel.

Ideogram Design has been developing Texas Instruments' product packaging for the general public for the whole of Europe since 1988.

Fully equipped for digital production, the company carries out design, creation and development of brochures, marketing and advertising material, help tools for sales and customer relations departments, Intranet and Internet interfaces, interactive CD-ROMs, DVDS, videos and all the necessary communication elements for seminars and events (posters and large format visuals).

Softwares: InDesign, Quark XPress, Illustrator, Photoshop.

2D and 3D Animations

Ideogram Design has developed many 2D and 3D animations for the CD-ROMs and videos it produces. Seamless proficiency in Flash animation andprogramming, modelling and 3D rendering software as well as image and video editing software allows us to produce all sorts of animations which perfectly suit your project styles and objectives.

Softwares: Amapi, Bryce, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro.

Video

Ideogram Design carries out all video production itself: filming, sound recording, digital editing, mixing and special effects.

Our proficiency in different compression types allows us to provide files that are optimised for specific use on CD-ROMs or DVDs.

Sound

Voice-overs, sound-tracks, special effects.

Ideogram Design has produced more than 30 sound-tracks for animations and videos as well as localising video files in foreign languages (korean, chinese of Beijing, Taiwan or Hongkong, japanese, portuguese, german, italian, spanish, dutch, etc.).

Recording studio 24 bits, 48 kHz/Digital mixing table.

Softwares: Cubase software package, Sound Edit, Reason 3.

Web & Multimedia

Ideogram Design endeavours to produce efficient and user-friendly sites adapted to the intended target audience.

Specific functional developments are carried out for each CD-ROM and web site in order to meet the customer's objectives: special photo and film shooting, illustrations and animations, interactivity, web page design and editing, etc.

Client programming:  HTML, XML, Javascript.
Softwares: Dreamweaver, BBEdit Pro, Flash.
Platforms: Windows XP, Vista and Seven, Apple Mac OS X, Linux.
Server programming:  ASP, PHP, JSP.
Databases: ACCESS, MySQL, POSTGRES.

>Content management systems (CMS)

Printing

Pre-press, selection of printing companies and sub-contractors according to their specialities, production monitoring, processing, quality control and delivery.

Fulfilment & shipping

Ideogram Design manages the stock, fulfilment and shipping of marketing collaterals for its customers.