We make stuff for the internet
What we do:
Web Application Development
Interface Design / Development
Web Design
Broadcast Industry Tools
Direct Marketing ToolsAbout us:
Bad Math is a Toronto-based design and web application development company. We specialize in building rich, unique looking websites, cutting-edge web interface design and custom web application development. The company's principals are Janis Mussat and Adam Putter, who combined have more than two decades of professional experience with the web going back to its earliest days.
Bad Math's contribution to the Google Maps Mash-up scene "The Beer Hunter" has been chosen to be in an exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art in New York titled "Design and the Elastic Mind".
The exhibit features 200 items that showcase "designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores". We're very proud to be included in this exhibit. The show runs from February 24 to May 12, 2008.
Bad Math is looking for full-time web developers.
We're a small shop that does big projects, which means the work always stays interesting. We're looking for creative problem-solvers who take initiative, can work independently and meet deadlines. The successful applicant will be working with us on building web applications - both on the server-side and the UI-side - at our King and Bathurst office in downtown Toronto.
What we do...
Using the web as an application platform means having centralized software you can access from any computer with an internet connection. Bad Math develops custom, robust, enterprise-class software that's as easy to use as your webmail account. (And it's not as expensive as it sounds.) We're proven, too: Take a peek at Marigold, originally developed for The Partners' Film Company to let sales reps make one-off demo reel DVDs from their vast video library without the need for any production staff. Now a commercial product!
Being experts in both graphic design and software development - and especially all the gooey technical stuff that sticks the two together - we're often called upon to provide user interface development for existing applications. We'll make your app slick looking, easy to use, and deliver front-end code that actually works in every browser! Just slip it over your existing code. (Hey, if it's good enough for ClearChannel...) We'll even work with the buzzword or cleaning product of your choice, enthusiastically. (AJAX? SOAP? User-driven-socially-networked-meta-moderated-tag-clouds? Web-two-point-what?)
Yes, on top of all that other stuff, we also make web sites. Fancy ones! Come to us if you want something that doesn't look like everything else. We've also got Flash animators and Flash coders with skillz (yes, that's a Z) to give your site that dynamic, glossy look and neat interactive toys. We can even throw in easy editing tools so you can keep your site up to date on your own, and on your own terms.
What's this "standards-based markup" you say? It means your site will work as promised everywhere (none of those "best viewed in another browser" excuses) with scalability in mind, so it won't cost you a fortune to change it later.
The Peak Show
CHAT
Traffik
PodChannels
Thrill of a Lifetime
Rouse Resources
The Extreme Group is one of Atlantic Canada’s largest communications agencies, employing nearly 65 communications professionals. Extreme came to us with a clear mandate: They wanted a website that was easy to update, that used the web’s best practices and that showed up in search engines.
We gave Extreme a website that was engaging, fun and showed off their extensive award-winning work. It also reflected the duality of their corporate personality - fun and irreverent, but with a certain depth and cleverness that is only apparent after a closer look. Their site is both fun and elegant at a glance, but also reveals hidden surprises to those who take the time to poke around.
Direct marketing tools
Metrics galore! What's better than an advertisement that evaluates itself? We can make sites that track every users' movement so you're not just measuring how many people are looking at your site - you're also measuring what parts they click on the most and what path they follow through it. All stats are collected and calculated in real time, so you can monitor a campaign during its run and tweak where necessary. Find that Product Photo B gets a better response than Product Photo A? Switch 'em now, and convert more eyes to hand raisers, and more hand raisers to sales before your promotion runs its course. We've got a suite of tools for all your viral marketing and demographic data collecting needs, and experience with brands like Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge and Sony Pictures.
Broadcast industry tools
Bad Math has a long tradition of partnerships with the broadcast industry, developing tools for handling online client approvals, managing production assets, publishing online demo reels, and automating mind-numbing tasks like making slates, tape labels, DVDs, etc. without sacrificing precious branding or custom appearance. We've made tools for Guru Studio, Calibre Digital Pictures, Chuck Gammage Animation and The Juggernaut, to name a few.
Imagine being able to keep your online portfolio up to date by yourself, the way you want to, without having to fit into someone else's clumsy service! Once you try our Production Extranet, you won't believe how many client meetings you won't have getting in the way of all that valuable production time.
Every once in a while, our math is so bad, it must be released to the world at large, free to roam the community, and hopefully return with a lesson or two for us.
On now: Get PNG alpha transparency to actually work everywhere - IE included - without any extra work. Just stick 'em in <img> tags the way you normally would, drop this script in your page, and it will take care of the rest.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out The Beer Hunter. Word of mouth alone carried it across the blogosphere and back with souvenir stickers on it's luggage from mainstream press ranging from The Globe and Mail to Der Spiegel. These days, it seems, everyone has a use for an interactive map - be it of retail locations or places to avoid the radar gun in your shiny new wheels. Have something to map? Drop us a line.