Stressdesign congratulates High Definition Sound and Display of Liverpool, NY as they have been selected for the ABC television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. High Definition Sound and Display provides custom home theater and business presentation solutions. Stressdesign has been providing brand and identity solutions for High Definition Sound and Display since the company was founded in 2005.

Now in it’s sixth season, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition comes to Geneva, New York. High Definition Sound and Display joins dozens of other craftsmen led by Mahoney Design and Build of Canastota. Gwen Jones, Owner of High Definition Sound and Display says “This is a great opportunity to take our day-to-day expertise skill and to make a positive difference in someone’s life… we’re thrilled to be selected.”

High Definition Sound and Display will be on site over the course of the 7 day build. “It’s a tight schedule” says Jones, “the show producers and the Mahoney team have it buttoned down to the minute.” The show will air on ABC this fall.

For more information on the project, and how you can help, please visit the Mahoney Gives website.

In observance of Independence Day, stressdesign will be closed on Friday July, 4 2008. We wish all our American visitors a happy and safe holiday weekend.

Stressdesign offers internships throughout the calendar year. We have internships available in 3 professional tracks.

Graphic Design Print
Graphic Design Web
Web Development

For details about what each track is, and instructions on how to apply, view our page at stressdesign.com/intern

We love naming things here at stressdesign. We’ve named companies, and products, and services over our past 8 years. Naming is always a fun exercise but it can be time consuming. Let’s suppose I told you you could get a world-tested name for about $99. What if I told you it was for exactly $99? The giant brains over at Kluster have done some more social engineering and come up with their latest digital product. NameThis. Get 3 names in 48 hours for 99 bucks. A pretty good deal if you ask us, and great way to get a new product, company or service off a napkin and into the wild.

Stressdesign is proud to be affiliated with Design Can Change. Design Can Change is simple. It works on the belief that the creative service industry can make positive change by working together. Use this resource as a starting point to help bring our community together to encourage sustainable practices. Want to help? Take the Design Can Change pledge, and do your part to help take action. Climate-related disasters are increasing. You can make a difference.

We’re starting a tradition at stressdesign: to observe —and announce via our AXNT™ e-mail tool— some of the less popular holidays and observances in the calendar year. April Fools day was one that we’d chosen to highlight this year. Our e-mail message went out to our regular database of more than 1,000 recipients. The message, was laid out in a combination backwards and wrong-reading text, as was the punch line, and we even purchased a backwards version of our URL www.ngisedsserts.com just to seal the deal. We clicked the send button, and didn’t think much of it. (more…)

Over the past 8 years, stressdesign has been refining our e-mail toolset and expertise towards the development of sophisticated marketing tool. Enter AXNT™ Direct e-mail marketing solutions. AXNT™ puts the emphasis on the ease of delivering professional e-mail campaigns to your audience. That’s just the beginning, anyone can send e-mail, AXNT™ goes further.

We’re proud to announce the public availability of this powerful marketing tool for your business or organization. You simply provide the mailing list or we’ll source the list, and we’ll do the rest.

See AXNT™ at stressdesign for more information, or call 315.422.3231 to start today.

Have you gotten a Facebook account yet? We have and we’re thinking it’s a pretty good thing. Facebook is unique amongst many of the social networking sites in that it allows business, organizations, and institutions to have their own page with in the site. LinkedIn is great for professional individuals, but there are no provisions for adding your company — we think this will change soon, by the way. There are other sites like Get Satisfaction that are only for business and services issues. Facebook has had the foresight to combine its great personal networking tools to include business.

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AboutUs features stressdesign.com as a SpotlightArticle. The websites featured demonstrate the effectiveness of a well constructed wiki page, and how such a page can contribute to a comprehensive SEO strategy.

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Marc Stress, president and design director of Stressdesign, a Syracuse-based design firm specializing in communications for business and education clients, was selected for the January 2008 “People to Watch” issue of Graphic Design USA. Stress was among 43 design professionals across the country to receive a full-page profile in the industry-leading magazine.

Graphic Design USA, the news and ideas magazine for graphic design professionals, was established in 1963 and has an estimated monthly readership of over 100,000. In January of each year, Graphic Design USA magazine publishes the “People To Watch” feature. Those selected embody the spirit of the creative community. They are individuals who the publication has come to know and respect for a combination of talent, leadership, success, insight, business savvy, community service and newsworthiness.
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