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specimen: interaction + motion + identity + print + code

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>PROFILE

Dave Granvold is the owner and creative director of Specimen, a small creative multimedia and interactive design studio operating in San Francisco since 1996. Prior to 1996, he studied graphic and interactive design in the BA program at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He then went on to teach senior level graphic design students at CCA. Prior to that he was a software engineer, software development manager and senior software analyst for various companies in the I.T. and financial industries.

Specimen designs and builds web sites from small brochure type HTML sites to 500+ page rich interactive sites. We create motion based / video presentations for companies and organizations on a variety of media (DVD, video tape, CD-ROM, computer and online) and have created many identity, branding and print collateral design campaigns.

We draw upon a pool of talent including graphic designers, animators, motion graphic designers, sound engineers, music composers and the best in design engineering.

>RECOGNITION

Specimen's work has been featured in many design publications and books including ID Magazine's Interactive Desgin Annual, HOW Magazine's Interactive Design Competition, Print's Interaction Design Annual, Publish Magazine's Design Annual, Web Design Now (book), IMG SRC 100 (book) and Hot Sites (book.)

We have won many awards including the WADC Bronze Medal Award, HOW Magazine's Interactive Design Competition, Print Magazine's Interaction Design Annual, ID Magazine's Interactive Annual Gold Award and Publish Magazine's 10th Annual Design Awards 1st Prize.

In collaboration with the graphic designer Martin Venezky, our work on the Speak Magazine website is housed in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's New Media Permanent Collection.