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Bringing the Winter Stoke (and hopefully some snow too)
The most exciting month of the year. Fall turns into winter, snow gathers in the clouds and blankets the summits. Winter—the season we work toward for 10 months of the year—finally arrives.At Trampoline, we’re fortunate to be able to follow our passions online and offline.
Open Casting Call: Expert Skiers and Snowboarders
We’re casting expert skiers and snowboarders for a photoshoot project for Windham Mountain. We’re seeking expert alpine skiers and snowboarders age 18+ who live in the New York area, closer to Windham. We're looking for expert individuals along with experienced families.
Give Back on Giving Tuesday
We're from a small community - Glens Falls, New York to be exact. There are a multitude of ways to support local — to make a small change in your routine to make a big difference for your neighborhood, your community, and the area in which you live.
A refresh to stay current
Whether you suffer from writer's block, the 3 o'clock yawns, or the stuck-inside-for-a-year-pandemic-doldrums, change, or a refresh, might be just the thing to perk you up again. We all need to flip the pages every now and again, to stay motivated, relevant, and feeling good. The same goes for businesses.
Making fruit juicy.
When CLS Farms came to Trampoline to design a new Organic Fruit brand with the goal of creating excitement, our design team was eager to take a bite, geeking out over apricots like we do beer. Learning that the signature fruit would be the Robada Apricot, we got to work with the first step in our process: discovery.
Making music during a pandemic:
The changes we have witnessed and survived through COVID-19 have been business-altering across all industries. There were unimaginable losses that we mourned, while others passed largely unnoticed. The introduction of musical instruments to elementary school students was a potential casualty of lockdown.
Business during climate change: Code Red for humanity
As a design and communication agency, we want to contribute to conversations and efforts around climate change. Our clients often ask us to help with a green message.
Depth of Field
In search of a videographer with drive to narrate, chronicle, and produce content for clients in the outdoor adventure industry, higher education, healthcare, and non-profit spaces.
Putting UX above the fold
Below, a few examples of recently launched websites that do more than just communicate. Our approach to user experience takes careful consideration of our audience and how they will interact with a particular brand online.
From laid-off to fitting in
Life is a journey, and mine started in Upstate New York. It’s taken my traveling spirit on twists and turns to places far and wide—the latest is my position at Trampoline. But before I get too far into my Trampoline post, I need to share a little backstory.
Hiring Account Manager
Trampoline is hiring an Account Manager to join our 18-person shop. This role will be responsible for managing a portfolio of clients, working with our Senior Leadership team to establish timelines and project scopes.
An update: New Year, New Opportunity, New Intern into New Employee
We’re thrilled to enter into 2021 with open minds and an open internship position! Due to Covid-19, we’re working remotely, so you will be, too. We’re seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, creative individual who isn’t afraid to raise their hand with good ideas or ask for work if they are light.
A focus on preservation: Revealing hidden histories frame by frame with Preservation League of New York State
One of the most important things we do for clients is to create bridges. First, we deliver stories, missions, products, and experiences to potential audiences and clients using video, design, and language. Then, our skills get used in different ways to most effectively build those bridges.
Unexpected Loss & Gain: College of Saint Rose Grads Reflect on Program Closures
We read with heartbreak the news of the College of Saint Rose closing several of their programs. It feels cruel in a year when students have missed out on tradition, graduates are having a door sealed forever.
Donation communication: Standing out for a cause
It's Giving Tuesday, 2020: a year that has pushed non-profit organizations to the brink organizationally, and financially. It's become a Tramp tradition to use this day to point potential donors toward our causes and clients, who are working hard to make a difference.
An Outbreak of Optimism
There is certainly no shortage of material out there covering the declining economy, government failure, the sick and dying, failing small businesses and the list goes on. As a small business owner (and to hang on to a sliver of sanity) I wanted to pivot and talk about the positives over the last 6 months as it pertains to Trampoline.
Graphic design at world's end: Recognizing the need to keep communicating
Against a backdrop of global warming, immigration issues, social unrest, and political posturing—do we really expect people to care about Pantone chips, frame rates, serifs, and spacing? Yes.
Time to define: what happens next?
We’ve moved beyond “unprecedented” as the adjective of the moment. The novelty of remote work and Zoom calls has faded. Headlines like New Normal and Uncertain Future run, while articles speculate on loan forgiveness and unemployment rates.
Respect the Spend
Is mountain biking the perfect activity? Exercise and adventure, socially distant outdoor destinations, and fun technical equipment...sounds like it to me. Based on the numbers, a lot of people are pedaling in that same direction.
Design Deferred
Today, July 13th, marks 4 months since we locked up our studio and began to create remotely. Home office setups became the place for designing-while-parenting, pet photobombs, and laundry debacles... while each Zoom Conference / Google Meet / Microsoft Teams streamed it all for clients and coworkers alike.
The importance of proofing your work before sending it out into the world cannot be underestimated. And thanks to longtime AI products like simple spellcheck and the newer Grammarly, we can get a quick assist—but nothing truly replaces an eye and ear for detail and context. That's where a proofreader (preferably human) comes in.