Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! It’s that time of year again, when business is a bit slower and people are a bit more relaxed in anticipation of seeing family and friends. In observance of this special time of year, we will be closing our office from December 21 to January 1. If you’re a current or prospective client, you can still reach our customer service team by sending an email to info@3roadsmedia.com. Response times will be a bit slower than normal, but we should get back to you within one business day.

It has been awhile since we have released a desktop wallpaper, so with Halloween fast approaching, I thought I would illustrate a nice desktop Halloween wallpaper for the occasion.

This designer wallpaper shows the best part of Halloween: Trick-or-Treating! A classic, muted color palette, some fun costumes and a spooky ghost following up the pack all bring back memories of this classic American holiday. Whatever your plans this year, I hope you enjoy this free Halloween desktop wallpaper. Happy Halloween!

Font: “Canaveral” by Riley Cran for Lost Type Co-op

Good ol' fashioned Trick-or-Treating

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Cliché as it might sound, it’s hard for us to believe that another year has gone by, and that our second Bordo Bello experience is already in the rear view mirror. While we seriously enjoyed ourselves at last year’s event, the event coordinators really outdid themselves this year. The four hours we spent at BB ’11 flew by in no time.

This year’s event was held at the much more spacious Redline Gallery (24th and Arapahoe), which gave us plenty of room to mill about, and also provided plenty of wall space for this year’s entries. We can’t be sure, but it felt like there were more boards on display this year (and the overall quality of submissions was definitely a step above 2010′s).

A view of the event in its early hours (photo courtesy of AIGA Colorado)

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As mentioned a year ago, Bordo Bello is an annual skateboard art fundraiser which takes place right here in our backyard, beautiful Denver, Colorado. This year’s event is happening this Friday, September 30th, with participants from all over the country. We here at 3 Roads Media were very excited to once again jump on the chance to design some more decks for such a great cause! We will post a recap of the event after this Friday (See our Bordo Bello 2010 recap here), but for now we thought we’d give a preview of our submissions.

Our lead graphic designer, Brennan, designed & illustrated this radical pink and green zombie deck aptly titled “Run, Kids, Run!”.

Lead web designer & developer, Ryan, designed this deck (“Le Tweet”) which pokes fun at Twitter and social media culture, his twittering bird fully equipped with beret, baguette, and self-importance.

If you have not yet done so, be sure to grab tickets for Bordo Bello 2011 over on their website: BordoBello.com (tickets are $15 online, and $20 at the door). Last year was a great event, and we can’t wait to see how the fine folks with AIGA have topped themselves this year!

When you combine a love for Photoshop brush designs with a plethora of boxes, you get a nifty brush set. At least…that’s how things work in our studio. In our first foray into the world of PS brushes, we scanned labels from some of the boxes laying around our workspace, tidied them up, and packed them into a neat little set of 11 real-life box stamps and seals.

A sample of the brushes in this pack.

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We are proud to announce that we have designed a new website for Steamboat Lodging and it has been released into the wild. The Steamboat Lodging website was designed to showcase amazing deals on lodging and vacation rental properties in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Visitors can search different categories of lodging including On Mountain, Downtown, Homes or Condos.  Vacation-goers looking for great deals on a wide range of rental properties, from affordable to 5-star luxury lodging can search the website to find a variety of options. Continue Reading »

To coincide with the complete overhaul of our studio website (3roadsmedia.com), we were recently lucky enough to get new headshots from an extremely talented and well-known photo-journalistic photographer in Denver: Jackie Nuxoll with Selah Photography. The photo shoot was extremely fun and relaxed and provided us with some great shots. As the company grows, we can’t wait to use these to promote our endeavors as a forward moving design and interactive agency in Denver, Colorado.

Continue reading to check out some of our favorite photos from the shoot, and view more on Jackie’s blog: http://www.selahphotography.org/creative-headshot-photographer-denver/

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On a recent client project, we decided to use Cufón font replacement on the website’s main navigation. This navigation included some drop-down menus, where the main link was font replaced, but the nested list items were not. We also had a couple of other requirements, and getting them all implemented was harder to pull off than I expected.

In an effort to save my fellow developers some time, I present the following solution.

A working demonstration

Before you get into the solution, you might want to view a working demo. This demo meets all of the requirements laid out in the next section.
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Just recently, Getty Images approached us requesting to feature one of our favorite website redesigns on their Photos.com Facebook page.

We were excited for the opportunity to delve a bit deeper into our successful, client-pleasing redesign.

Getty Images’ Photos.com features high-quality redesigns, particularly, successful website facelifts. When they first approached us saying that they wanted to feature one of our redesigns on their website and Facebook fan page, we were certainly excited; it was then a matter of choosing which redesign to feature.

Professional Ponds Website: BEFORE

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Last Thursday, we made our inaugural trip to the 18th annual AIGA Heart Art Auction, which was hosted at the swank Love Light Lounge in Five Points.

Heart Art is an annual silent auction event that raises money for Project Angel Heart, a Denver charity that provides no-cost meals to those living with terminal illnesses like cancer and HIV.

The Event

There was a wide range of art on display: everything from screen printed gig posters to jewelry, painting, and illuminated signs. The most unusual (and impressive) piece on display was a sinuous metal lounge chair, painted red and covered in heart-shaped cutouts.

Artwork for auction included letterpress gig posters by Hatch Show Print.

There was beer and food aplenty, a full service bar, a make-your-own-button station, and copious amounts of door prizes. The overall theme, which was well executed, was “sultry 1960s lounge” (think Mad Men after hours).

The overall atmosphere was good – the Love Light is full of character and ideally suited for large events such as this. The personal highlight for me, however, was the wall of cupcakes at the south end of the room, generously supplied by The Denver Cupcake Truck. The red velvet ones were sinful, and the diminutive size of the little cakes made them much easier to eat en masse.
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