It was our first time...and we decided to REALLY GO FOR IT. The world of Android is virgin territory to Sanborn Media Factory no more! Cosmopolitan took us out to dinner, said nice things about the iPhone app we developed for them and...one, three, six...we woke up with this Android app laying next to us.

Send Word Now has one of those products that is paradoxically simple and yet difficult to explain. Therefore, we overhauled their site with a new design and content strategy rooted in video and motion graphics. Where there was once paragraphs of text and easily ignored visual data, there is now a series of green screen video and animated data visualizations that convey the value of the offering in minutes. When the product speaks for itself, sometimes the best strategy is to get it out in front...and then get out of the way.

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Golf Digest came to us with a need to showcase their annual Hotlist issue in a mobile format. In years past, readers of the magazine would bring the physical magazine into their local pro shops, hold it up and say, "I want that one." To help reduce that payload (and engineer a Facebook-Connected gem of a mobile app) we developed this iPhone application and a companion microsite.

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Vanity Fair came to Sanborn looking for an iPhone application to serve as a digital, mobile, and social companion piece to their annual Hollywood issue. The challenge (as is the case with all apps) was to present something either entertaining or useful... and the result was a little bit of both. Users can vote for their awards show picks and then see how those picks compare with Facebook friends and other users of the app. Voting pools can be created and tracked the night of the event while news and special offers in the form of articles, slideshows and videos from VF and L'Oréal round out the feature set.

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Browse through featured items, share items on Facebook, and save your favorites. Sanborn Media Factory worked closely with Golf Digest to create a visually compelling design with which to present sponsored content.

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When George Steinbrenner calls and asks you to play shortstop for the New York Yankees... you don't ask questions... you just say yes and report for spring training. And when Cosmo magazine asks you to take their hugely popular Sex Positions content and send it into the mobile space (without pants but with a highly intuitive, visually stunning interface) you just say yes and report to your local place of worship to ask for a temporary reprieve. This one was pure fun.

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"The Best Holiday Picks from Vogue Advertisers." Vogue asked Sanborn Media Factory to design, build, and organize this online shopping destination... just in time for Black Friday.

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