act3 helped NASCAR commemorate the life of Bill France Jr. with this interactive timeline.
To tell Scott Smith’s story, we turned him into a superhero: the star of his own interactive video game.
What inspires an annual pilgrimage of 5,000 steel guitar fans? This story for NPR explains.
08.08
We begin an exciting new collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to provide educational support for their exhibits.
Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority, a national sorority founded in 1909, turns to act3 to create a centennial film piece, commemorating the rich history of the organization.
07.08
Partnering with our friends from 600 Series Design, we helped design and execute an interactive experience for Canadian engineering firm Bantrel to help educate oil refinery executives about greenhouse gas emissions. Bantrel expects this unique storytelling tool, delivered via touch-screen kiosk, to be an attention-catching hit at their upcoming trade shows.
06.08
We love stories and storytelling, so we decided a blog might serve as a great story laboratory ... a way to poke, prod, and take a closer look at the stories we see, the stories we tell, and our own assumptions and knowledge about why stories work (or don't). Check it out here.
Our team welcomes three new interns (and rock stars in the making) into the act3 fold: Jennifer Goldstick, Devon Hirth, and Laura Ehret.
05.08
We bid farewell to our long-time rock-star intern, Blake Besharian, who will begin graduate studies at CalArts this fall. We miss him already, and wish him the best of luck!
04.08
The Gateway Foundation breaks ground for City Garden, a two-block sculpture park and botanical garden in downtown St. Louis. Between now and July 2009, when the park opens, act3 will help with the development of City Garden's web presence and audio tours.
The act3 team traveled to Chicago to conduct two Framing sessions with AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association. Those sessions kicked off projects in which act3 will help tell two important stories: one about the benefits of keeping a Personal Health Record, and another that will help attract candidates to careers in Health Information Management.
We held a Framing session with Gershman Mortgage to lay the foundation for the development of a new corporate intranet for them. This communication tool will allow improved internal collaboration, enabling talkback functionality between mortgage brokers, commercial real estate agents and internal support staff, helping all of them tell the Gershman Mortgage story more effectively.
03.08
String Theory, our original podcast about the guitar, returns with an episode of Three Chords and the Truth, featuring guitar virtuso/iconoclast Kevin Gallagher.
Sometimes, cool ideas don’t make it past the design phase. But that doesn’t mean they’re not still cool ideas. Rather than let them waste away in our archives, we decided to dust them off and share them with you in a new section of the site we like to call, We Loved It. They Didn’t. You Might.
act3's Eric Ratinoff facilitated the annual advance for the Board of Directors of Metro Theater Company, examining how the organization is perceived in the community, and how well that perception aligns with reality. The day laid the foundation for act3's partnership with Metro, which will help tell their story as one of St. Louis' indispensible arts institutions.
We further our partnership with the Gateway Foundation by facilitating a Framing session that will lay the groundwork for the design and development of a web presence for St. Louis' newest urban treasure, City Garden. The 2-block sculpture park/urban oasis is set to be unveiled to the public in July 2009.