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About Fantastic Damage.


We are a refreshingly creative design team.


Our Experience:


  • Working professionally for over 10 years
  • Design and database work for Fortune 500 companies


  • Our Mission:1


  • Design things that look good
  • Create pages that work well
  • Be enjoyable to work with
  • Avoid buzzwords2


  • Our Design Rules:


  • Let design always support content.3
  • Function over form
  • Clean, upfront design
  • Try to avoid really really bad design.4
  • Design each website from scratch.5






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        FOOTNOTES
    1  We had planned to write a mission statement but found out Microsoft Word did not come with a Mission Statement Template.
    2  We, unfortunately, do not help "synergize turn-key schema across the enterprise." As of this writing we are unavailable to "streamline cross-media global interfaces." We have no plans to "orchestrate deployments" of e-anything or to "envisioneer bleeding edge strategies" to create "best of breed scaleable success metrics."
    3  Nothing makes us more rabidly furious than visiting a webpage and being forced to fuddle around with a ridiculous Flash interface (or worse, intro). It's just very 2001.
    4  For those a bit knowledgeable on the subject, this includes excessive use of Lens Flares, drop shadows, and general eye candy that looks like tacked on trash. Now, if you, as a potentially profitable client, would like us to include that in your design(s), we'll be more than happy to oblige. But that grating sound you'll hear will be our teeth.
    5  If you want prefabricated sites, there are plenty of organizations that will be happy to provide a mindless cookie-cutter site to you for peanuts. It will be completely uncustomized to your needs but will look very nice and professional... until you realize that 75 of your competitors have the same site. Trust us, we've seen it happen.



    We design from the ground up. Our sites aren't created by scripts. We don't use templates. We don't have a suite of 50 pre-fabricated sites you can choose from. You don't pick the "Gold Package" for $249.95 and pick "Desert Wind" as your color scheme. That kind of site design, fortunately, is not what we do.