September 2003: Barneys.com.

The MANOVERBOARD Telegraph, No. 6.

Welcome to The Telegraph, the newsletter from MANOVERBOARD, a Web and print design company based in Brooklyn, New York. MANOVERBOARD creates and develops clean, clear, and compelling websites and visual resources for small and large organizations. This month's newsletter focuses on the completion of some exciting new projects and a very pretty book on Kabbalah.

Recent Client: Barneys New York

The new Barneys.com website, the flagship of retailer Barneys New York, was launched with great fanfare a few weeks ago. MANOVERBOARD, as the chief creative for the project, is thrilled to announce the site's entirely new look. Contracted by Keftec, a web development company focusing on high-end retail brands, MANOVERBOARD provided initial design concepts, interface design, template design, and creative consulting for the project. The new e-commerce enabled Barneys.com site, built in both Flash MX and HTML, took nearly a year to produce — and it is a privilege to be a key part of this continuing project.

Recent Client: Columbia Business School

As noted in our last Telegraph, MANOVERBOARD was recently asked by the The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) at Columbia Business School to create a new report on the emerging capital market for all forms of social entrepreneurship. The objective was to take complex written and visual information and to create a coherent and legible report for a large and diverse audience. Using a minimal palette and meticulous information design, the report is created to be both thorough for the practitioner and compelling for the casual reader. The report can be downloaded as a PDF at the RISE Project website.

Recommended Book: The 72 Names of God.

For me, the fall is always a time of reflection, intense learning, and occasional overeating. I highly recommend The 72 Names of God, an elegantly designed book by author Rabbi Yehuda Berg, who clearly lays out ways to think about our physical and emotional well-being and our relationship with "the infinite spiritual current that flows through life's realities." The concise, aphoristic text is at times powerful, at times hackneyed, but it is the illustrations and photos that make the book gorgeous and worth pouring over and thinking through. The book's companion site is also worth a close examination.

Featured Artist: Lynn Talbot

After many years of wooing, it is a pleasure to announce that painter and sculptor Lynn Talbot will be the October 2003 Featured Artist on The Site at MANOVERBOARD. The Site, an online art project space that is now over five years old (and will hopefully soon be undergoing redesign itself), will showcase some of her latest work. Visit it sometime in early October to see Talbot's stunning and mysterious paintings of still lifes, patterns, and mysterious texts.