Video can create a dynamic atmosphere in your booth while conveying a lot of information in a brief amount of time. (more…)
At SAC Designs, we craft high-energy, visually captivating animated videos that not only look stunning but drive real results. Inspired by the bold, cinematic styles of brands like HBO and National Geographic, our animations combine powerful storytelling with typography to ensure that every message hits home.
Typography is far more than just a design element—it's the backbone of effective communication. Here's how typography can elevate your animation and content strategy:
(more…)By: Steven Cotroneo
November 20, 2024Uncategorized
In today’s fast-paced digital world, video content has become a game-changer in marketing strategies. With projections indicating that video will account for 82% of all internet traffic by 2025, businesses must harness this potential to stay competitive. Yet, the idea of creating video content can be daunting. This guide will help you navigate the initial steps in the process and show you how we can elevate your projects.
(more…)By: Steven Cotroneo
November 4, 2024Uncategorized
Recently, Steve and I were guests on the weekly Cvent podcast, hosted by Alyssa Peltier, where we cover numerous subjects. Delving into the role AI plays in our work, the rise of 3D and 3D-like animation, our use of typography and high-impact visuals in our animations, and the incredible growth of SAC Designs from when Steve started the company back in the early 2000s, during the DotCom bust. It was a super fun discussion that reflected on how much the landscape of technology has changed over the past 22 years and how it has influenced how we operate.
(more…)By: Mark Maguire
October 9, 2024Uncategorized
The UpCity “Best of” Awards have returned after a successful inaugural year in 2021. To commemorate the top 50 B2B providers in each U.S. state and Canadian province, the UpCity “Best of” Award highlights the tremendous work being done by our partners and more in their local area.
(more…)By: Steven Cotroneo
November 16, 2022Uncategorized
This year’s Cvent Connect was thrilling for all sorts of reasons. First, it provided hope that we could be getting back to normal, once again meaning people face to face. Second, Las Vegas is always a blast. Third Cvent keeps finding new ways to make holding and attending events more gratifying, useful, informative and fun. Finally, SAC Designs, got the opportunity to be more involved, with numerous animations, than ever before.
(more…)By: Lucia Conchello
August 12, 2021Uncategorized
Steve, is always ready for: the next round golf, using his great sense of humor, performing his best dance moves for everyone, and a large iced coffee with an extra shot. He also manages to transform his God given ability to produce exceptional design and animation work into a highly recognized award winning design company. Steve is obsessed with providing his customers with amazing work, and they always appreciate the extra effort.
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By: Steven Cotroneo
April 17, 2019design, interactive design, print, typography, Uncategorized, website design and programming
PART TWO (of five): A Guide to Great Animation
Over the last 8 years or so there has been a lot of discussion on the best way to create animation on the web, Flash or HTML. But, recently we learned some sad news that Adobe announced that Flash will officially be no longer by 2020.
(more…)By: Steven Cotroneo
March 5, 2019banner advertisements, design, HTML5, marketing, sales
You may have noticed, but if not, we at SAC Designs are in love with animation. We especially love creating them, along with collaborating with clients who engage us in these endeavours, and who share our passion for this beautiful artform. The pièce de résistance being when these little wonders are presented to their intended audience. The following is a confession of our love and respect for this remarkable and memorable medium. (more…)
By: Lucia Conchello
February 13, 2019design, explainer video, HTML5, interactive design, marketing
PART ONE (of five): A Guide to Great Animation
Seems like animation has been with us for a very long time. From prehistoric paintings on cave walls: (“Hey, Bonk, is it just my iStone or is the Cavenet really slow today?”), to the prolific use of rapidly repeating gifs, to the ultra-sophisticated dynamic storytelling motion graphics of today, animation has always been a part of the human experience and always will be. (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
January 18, 2019design, explainer video, HTML5, interactive design, marketing
2018 has been a busy year for SAC Designs. We’ve accomplished a lot this year and gone through a few changes. It's been exciting working with our existing clients and getting to work with new ones. We’re happy to share with you SAC Design’s 2018.
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By: Lucia Conchello
December 21, 2018design, interactive design, print, typography, Uncategorized, website design and programming
There are times that stand out beyond the regular day to day moments of graphic designers. They are moments of stress as vast as space and annoyance that continues past infinity. Moments that lay in the shadows. Moments that lurk in the darkest pit of a designer’s worst fears. Designers go through their lives wishing and hoping to never experience these moments, but they are as inevitable as the setting of the sun. The following seven graphic design horror stories will bring very real, terrifying nightmares to graphic designers everywhere. (more…)
By: Lucia Conchello
October 26, 2018design, interactive design, print, typography, Uncategorized, website design and programming
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then the value of an interactive design – one that engages its viewer in a branded experience – is immeasurable. Below are our top 3 reasons to make your business-related graphics interactive. (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
August 14, 2018design, explainer video, infographic, interactive design, Uncategorized
Lucia Conchello is a talented and energetic designer who is always eager to push her capabilities. Her willingness to take on any type of job and develop it into the best it can be makes her a real asset to our team. Her extensive design expertise has helped SAC Designs expand our creative capabilities. (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
August 1, 2018design, interactive design, print, typography, Uncategorized, website design and programming
SAC Designs has been busy since day one. Based on client jobs archived on our servers, SAC has worked on at least 3,581 projects as of July 5, 2018. With so much creative talents within our team, we can accomplish a wide range of different projects. Check out the stats below to see what this motion, web, and print design studio has worked on so far. (more…)
By: Lucia Conchello
July 9, 2018banner advertisements, design, explainer video, infographic, interactive design, marketing, print, trade shows, typography, website design and programming
SAC Designs is often called upon to help local businesses around the Boston and Stoneham MA areas to boost their sales. We do so by improving the design and navigation of their websites, increasing their SEO rankings, creating more of a social media buzz around their business/brand, and assisting in the conversion of online leads to real customers.
(more…)By: Steven Cotroneo
Steven Cotroneo, the president of SAC Designs, just got featured in @Bostonvoyager Magazine as one of Boston’s hidden gems. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
July 19, 2017banner advertisements, design, marketing
I began my career about the time Flash animation was just becoming popular. At that time, 85% of the work we created was developed in Flash ( now adobe animate). Believe it not, I would estimate that about half of our projects involved creating Adobe Flash banner ads. We became well-versed in the Flash language, ActionScript, and became pretty well established as a Flash expert in our area. Other well known Boston design studios would often reach out to us to collaborate with them on their larger Flash projects. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
June 1, 2017banner advertisements, design, marketing
If you ever find yourself in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, we highly recommend you search high and low for a living, breathing design pro. A good designer can always manage to get you out of any crisis. Throughout their creative careers, designers have learned extensive problem-solving skills that would certainly come in handy in the occasion of a zombie apocalypse. Read on to discover our top 7 reasons why a designer would survive a zombie apocalypse. (more…)
By: Lucia Conchello
October 20, 2016design, typography
Video marketing is rapidly growing, with a whopping 87% of marketers leveraging video for their content marketing. In fact, YouTube is now the 2nd largest search engine, transforming the way we research information online. There are several ways to use video to drive more traffic to your website and increase conversion rates. Below are just a few examples of how we have helped our clients at SAC Designs to effectively use this visual communication strategy to engage and entertain their target audiences. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
September 19, 2016explainer video
Explainer videos have seen explosive growth over the last few years and they are continuing to increase in popularity. These videos are so successful because they are proven to rank better in search engines, increase web traffic and help your audience retain information by more than 3o% over static text. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
August 17, 2016explainer video
There are a lot of social networks out there, and more popping up every day. Sometimes it's hard to keep a handle on them all. As a designer I spend hours searching for the right social icons to use for web or print, and once I find them I often spend a good amount of time adjusting color and size to match my designs. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
February 29, 2016design, typography
From building websites functionality and appearance to coding and navigation, there are many steps to consider when designing and developing a website your prospects will love. But some factors weigh more than others. Having worked on sites for both small startups and large corporations over the years, we have developed a sweet list of essential steps to ensure a successful site. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
February 11, 2016design, website design and programming
Okay, who's tired of the same old list of tools and applications every web designer should be using? (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
December 31, 2015design
Design is a balancing act--a dance between a person of vision and the moment to moment world in which he or she lives. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
September 21, 2015design, Uncategorized
Marketing partners can be a great resource in driving attendance to your event. Partnering with trade associations, universities, service providers, etc., (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
Video can create a dynamic atmosphere in your booth while conveying a lot of information in a brief amount of time. (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
April 8, 2015marketing, trade shows
Imagine a room filled with creative, talented people. Now imagine they face a 48-hour deadline and an impossible goal. (more…)
By: Mark Maguire
April 7, 2015game design, game development
It's a myth that having custom explainer videos is expensive and only large corporations can afford them. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
April 3, 2015design, explainer video
Huffington Post recently published an article about the California drought (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
April 2, 2015design, infographic
Online video advertising has doubled in growth and is on course to disrupt TV advertising in the next few years. (more…)
By: Steven Cotroneo
April 2, 2015banner advertisements, design