Black Dot Digital is a technically capable and brand aware development agency. Able to be both lead by and contribute to a client’s brand. We partner with advertising and marketing agencies to build striking online applications. Some times these take the form of a website but increasingly we are building richer more immersive applications often developed in Adobe Flash and Flex and other emerging technology platforms. We don’t deliver solutions that are just superfluous eye candy or starkly utilitarian but ones that extend the brand and are useful and useable. Advertising, Design or Marketing agencies are usually the” keepers of the keys” when it comes to their client’s brand. We don’t think it makes a lot of sense to drop the corporate style guide off at a standalone web design studio and expect that the solutions they deliver are going to necessarily fit into the over all brand strategy. Conversely often designers aren’t aware of what can be done or how things should be done from a techncal position so sending mockups to the developer with an expectation of verbatim implementation is also not a great plan if you want to develop killer online solutions for a client. Black Dot Digital differentiates itself from standalone web design firms in that it has no retail clients. Our clients are solely creative or strategic agencies. Black Dot Digital differentiates itself from web development firms in that we see increasing brand as the goal not just technical excellence. We differentiate ourselves not just in market but also in the platforms we are adopting. HTML based websites with Content Management Systems and eCommerce solutions are rapidly becoming a commodity . Smart developers are building white label tools that they can license to design agencies and smart design agencies are simply reselling these systems to reduce their reliance on web developers. When it comes to more immersive and rich technologies such as Adobe Flash and Flex most creatives are unaware of the possibilities and all but the largest agencies are technically unable to deliver these projects. Developing on these rich platforms is set to become a 3 Billion dollar industry by 2011 and Black Dot Digital will partner with leading creative minds to build some of the best.