When You Launch the Maritime Museum Web Site, Do You Smash a Bottle of Champagne Across the Bow?

One of the best things about working at Red Door is that we get to serve extraordinary clients. The Maritime Museum of San Diego is a perfect example. Red Door Interactive was recently chosen to create their new Web site. The museum is great local organization and has been an asset to the community for decades.

The Maritime Museum’s research credentials and educational programs are second to none. Nautical books, seafaring music, a

Red Door’s Beer:30 boxcar wins at the San Diego ADDYs

Every year, Red Door enters top creative to the San Diego ADDYs Creative Show. We’ve walked away with numerous awards over the years, but never anything quite like this. This year, the San Diego Ad Club decided to host the first annual Pinewood Derby contest where local agencies race in-house designed boxcars. The Pinewood Derby supports this years ADDYs theme “Your ideas have legs. Now let’s see if they have wheels.” There were four awards given: Fastest, Slowest, Most Creative and B [...] Continue Reading

When it’s okay to break the rules.

Recently, my six-year old daughter was looking over my shoulder as I was writing some ad copy. She then said, “Hey Mom, you can’t start a sentence with and.” “Well, Gina,” I said, rather at a loss for words, wondering how does she know this, “I’m writing Web copy. It’s okay to break the rules.” My apologies to Gina’s first-grade teacher Mrs. Willis, I am one of those responsible for the decline of the English language. But as a copywriter, I’m not writing to please [...] Continue Reading

Sex, Links and Videotape

Yesterday I  went back to an older post on this blog to watch a video of the Red Door creative department at the New Children's Museum. I was rather surprised to see a selection of related videos show up in the screen when the video was done playing. One of these videos was titled 3-D Interactive Sex Game as you can see in the screen shot below. Oh my goodness. Apparently, one of the prices you pay for streaming to YouTube for free is the ready availability of other content. W [...] Continue Reading

Creative outing to the New Children's Museum

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso Every so often, the Red Door creative team makes an outing to a local museum for inspiration. Interactive Designer Michelle’s sister Lindsay works at the New Children’s Museum, just a short stroll along the embarcadero from the RDI offices. Museum is really a misnomer for the place, it’s more like New Children’s Fun-o-rama and the creative team had no problem tapping into the i [...] Continue Reading