X3 Studios Blog

We launched Extrude Studio Architecture. This time we decided to let the client do the talking:

“We wanted a website able to communicate with the visitor both directly and on an intuitive basis our way of approaching a project, but also the two-sided partnership between us and our clients. The structural and dynamic clarity and simplicity, dominated by a self sustained expressive load, are the basic coordinates of the visual experience the site has to offer, concepts that we recognise as fundaments for the architectural design style promoted by our office. The duality, the expressive symbolic symmetry constantly present as part of the graphic design, is an expression of our concept about the partnership designer-client, key elements that constantly shape and reflect each other.The X3 Studios team understood our needs, and furthermore, felt and completed our vision. They are all dedicated, talented people, highly professional, which now, at the end of our collaboration, or perhaps better said, at the beginning of it, we got to consider as friends. Most surely a partner our office has gained for all the projects that will follow.

We are sure you will find our website most useful, that it will convince you of our professionalism, seriousness and quality of services, and nevertheless, that you will enjoy the visual experience it has to offer.”

Dragoş Cutova, Project Manager Extrude Studio

Design and Design is an online gallery, which showcases one piece of work a day from two design categories, graphic design and product design. All selected work will be published in “The Design and Design Book of The Year”.

Today August 20^th, our work is featured again on Design and Design, this time with the identity package we created for High Class Events.

With the summer coming to an end, we can slowly but surely return to our blog. And to start out with a more optimistic touch, we want to tell you about the most recent Flash websites we launched (Poesis Hotel & Restaurant, Tonik Gym and X3 Studios V5), that received a lot of “love” from some of the major online galleries out there.

We thank Pagecrush, NewWebPick, Designlicks, Xhilarate, Designcharts, TheBestDesigns, Lookom, Mostinpired, Dailyslurp, Webdesignawards, Designyoutrust, Kreativos and all of you who wrote about these sites on your blogs, and of course we really want to thank the hundreds of Chinese guys who appreciated our work and mentioned it

Today is the big day we finally launch our new site - version 5, for those who keep track of such things ;). We received a lot of relevant feedback to our previous site, which definitely helped us with the creation of this one. The entire site structure was reorganized and content completely redone. But most of all, we invite you to explore your creative side with a certain site feature that should become obvious within second from entering the site (at least we hope so).

Given the site’s complexity, there could be some minor bugs that escaped our testing process. If there is anything at all you notice as being off, please let us know. Other than that, we hope you’ll enjoy it!

Tonik Gym (www.tonikgym.ro) is a fitness and bodybuilding club from Timişoara, which rapidly gained its recognition among other fitness clubs around.

It’s not usual when going into a fitness and bodybuilding club to see huge drawings on the walls, it’s not usual that such a location is monochromatic, without any of the bling-bling that we got so used to. However, Tonik Gym is a fitness and bodybuilding club which has a monochromatic website and full-of-graffiti walls. By using these guidelines, we tried to create something different, powerful and unique. The project is multimedia all the way down, including print materials, sport sacks and T-shirts, interior and exterior graffiti up to an interactive experience and Flick account.

You can find the official press release about this launch at X3 Studios Press.

I know I speak for the entire team when I say that we’re very happy to see our projects have such a resonance for others. It is well known that the highest form of appreciation is copying somebody - so we can only be flattered in this situation. As designers, we always wanted to become role models for others to follow - and as it turns out, our wish came true ;).

PS: Fellow creators, we would be happy to give you our source codes for other projects we’ve created, so you don’t have to bother with printscreens, or those messy SWFdecompilers…

Timişoara, July 14th 2008 - The design studio X3 Studios launches press.x3studios.com – an online pressroom specifically created to facilitate communication between the company and media representatives.

Read the press release…