With our best wishes for the season and coming year, please enjoy some 3D holiday images or some of our other holiday games.

Have a joyous holiday season!

The Scott Design team

What is augmented reality?

Augmented reality is the combination of real-world video with virtual computer-generated imagery. Using a webcam, an AR app can capture an image on video, recognize objects in the real world, and let you interact to with the application through your video camera. The results are a mixture of the real world and a virtual world, or, an augmented reality.

We have had hours of entertainment sticking our friends’ faces on dancing elves with Elf Yourself. We’ve been mesmerized by AR projects, such as the GE Smart Grid and tobi.com’s Virtual Dressing Room. But at Scott Design, we wanted to create an AR app where you could combine video of yourself with something fun and beautiful.

Introducing the Augmented-Reality Snowstorm

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Augmented-Reality Snowstorm, where you can put yourself or your family in a virtual snowstorm. Instead of just adding yourself to a piece of art, or playing around with a business app, you can add a peaceful (or not so peaceful, depending on your preferences) snowfall to your life.

All you have to do is download an AR marker, visit the Augmented-Reality Snowstorm, and hold the marker up to your webcam. Your video camera shows your image and picks up the image of the marker and it begins to snow on you. You use the marker to control the snowstorm by twisting and turning it, plus you can add more flakes or make the snow fall more quickly by using on-screen sliders. When you’ve got your snowstorm just how you want it, put down the marker and just enjoy the snowfall.

Don’t have a webcam? No worries!

If you don’t have a webcam, you can still have fun with the Virtual Snowstorm. Instead of using the webcam and marker, you change the snowstorm using a series of on-screen sliders.

More holiday fun

When you’re done making it snow on yourself, you can go back inside and visit the Scott Design Holiday page and play with the Snowflake Designer, curl up by the Virtual Fireplace, try your hand at Snowbash, and send out your holiday greetings using Special Delivery. They’re all part of our collection of online apps designed for just one thing: having fun!

We wish you happy holidays and a prosperous new year!

The Scott Design Team

The Summit EMA competition is based on the premise that advertising is consistently at the forefront of the technological evolution of communication. “Those involved in today’s emerging media technologies are the leaders who are establishing tomorrow’s avenues of advertising communications.” Said Jocelyn Luciano, Executive Director for the Summit International Awards (SIA). “Most communication professionals recognize that established avenues of communication can be reliable and safe.  Developing and engaging in emerging media technologies, along with creative messaging and market awareness, is often a difficult criterion which makes earning a Summit EMA a significant achievement.”

Special Delivery is an innovative application that lets you easily create your own web pages to share with families and friends. You can select backgrounds, add messages, include animations, and even add a slide show of your photos. You can use Special Delivery to make an online holiday card, send a party invitation, or just design a creative fun web page. You can then send a link to your page through e-mail or on your social networks. We created Special Delivery as one of the fun online games that we create each year.  You can play the other games on the Scott Design Holiday page.

Scott Design’s Special Delivery web application also won a Platinum International Marcom Award, a Silver Davey Award, a Bronze ADDY Award, and a Bronze Horizon Award. Special Delivery was a semifinalist in the 2009 Adobe MAX Awards.

For the latest information on recent awards, visit the Design Awards page.

Special Delivery: Create your own holiday-themed web pages

Design and share your own one-of-a-kind holiday pages in minutes with Special Delivery. You can make a holiday page, send birthday wishes, invite friends to a party, or create a page just for fun. Upload your own photos, include music, select from beautiful backgrounds and borders, add animations, and write messages. It’s a free, easy, green alternative to traditional cards! Create your holiday greetings.

Snowbash: Can you stop the snowmen?

See how many snowmen your gingerbread man can get without harming the innocent pink bunnies in the award-winning Snowbash game, Best-of-Show at last year’s Silicon Valley ADDY awards. Play Snowbash.

Snowflake Designer: Design your own beautiful flakes

Select the number of branches, the shape of the crystals and their complexity, and watch as your snowflake grows right outside your window! Make some snowflakes.

Virtual Fireplace: May your days be merry and bright

Just because you’re stuck at your computer doesn’t mean you can’t gaze into the hypnotic flames of a crackling fireplace. Have fun decorating the mantle for the holidays, or just kick back and imagine the warmth! Curl up by the fireplace.

Happy Holidays!

We hope you have a lot of fun and hope you share your Special Delivery online greetings, as well as the games, with friends and family.

All our wishes for a wonderful holiday season!

We received rave reviews for our online holiday card maker at Killer Startups. Take a look at Special Delivery and give us a vote if you like it!

Here’s the review:

Have you ever wished you had your own web pages so you could leave messages to your friends, make invitations, or just share things with those you care about? If this is something you’re interested in but haven’t quite felt like you could do it, now is your chance. No matter how much or how little you know about web design, SpecialDelivery.me is the place where you can make your wish come true.

At Special Delivery, you can create your very own web pages very quickly and then share them with those you care about. The site has absolutely everything you need in order to get the job done. You can choose from a variety of different backgrounds and borders, add music and animation, add your personal messages, and even upload your own images and photos.

Once you’ve finished your web page’s design, you can send the link to as many people as you like, directly from your own e-mail program. You can also post your page directly on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. With SpecialDelivery.me you can send Christmas greetings, show friends and family what you were up to on vacation, invite friends to a party, mark a special occasion, or just say hey.

Scott Design’s Special Delivery web application has won a Platinum International Marcom Award, and Emerging Media Innovator Award, a Silver Davey Award, a Bronze ADDY Award, and a Bronze Horizon Award. Special Delivery was a semifinalist in the 2009 Adobe MAX Awards.

Scott Design Inc. has developed a free holiday web page maker called Special Delivery that allows users to create custom web pages as an alternative to buying, writing, and mailing traditional holiday cards.

Special Delivery goes far beyond typical e-cards, allowing users to add their own photos and personalized messages along with beautiful backgrounds, animations, and even music—and then share with friends and family.

And it’s not only for the holidays—users can send online birthday wishes, design party invitations, share news and photos with friends, and post their creations on their Facebook and MySpace pages.

We were planning on creating this as a holiday gift for our clients, but with the current economic situation and environmental concerns, we decided to make this available to everyone. And, personally, I’m looking forward to using Special Delivery as an easier, quicker way to keep in contact with colleagues, friends, and family, since I’m a notorious procrastinator when it comes to sending out holiday cards.

Special Delivery was built in Adobe Flex, a set of technologies used to develop rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

I hope you have fun creating cards for your friends and family this holiday season, and throughout the year!

The International Academy of the Visual Arts has awarded Scott Design four Silver Awards in the 2008 W3 Awards competition that recognizes outstanding websites, web marketing, and web video worldwide. The competition included more than 3,000 entries from leading interactive agencies, designers, and other creative professionals.

Scott Design received Silver W3 Awards in the Best Structure/Navigation and Computer Hardware Industry categories for its redesign of the LogLogic website.

For its redesign of venture capital leader Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s website, Scott Design received a Silver W3 Award in the Professional Services Industry category.

Scott Design’s Holiday E-mail and Snowbash Game garnered a Silver W3 Award in the Self-Promotion  category.

The DFJ website also earned an Interactive Media Best in Class Award, a Summit Emerging Media Leader Award, a Gold International Marcom Award, a Communicator Award of Distinction, a Silver ADDY Award, and two Silver Davey Awards.

The LogLogic website also received a Silver ADDY Award, a Bronze Horizon Award, and a Communicator Award of Distinction.

For the latest information on recent awards, visit the Design Awards page.