Dan & Charlie's new Website

For Dan and Charlie’s website we used our own personalized Brixwork software, designed specially for the Real-Estate market. You can take a look at it on http://www.brixwork.com/realtors/.

Realtors need websites where potencial clients can find what they are looking for, with speed and beauty.

Key features:

• clean layout, easy navigation, clean fonts
• automatic Twitter feed integration
• Facebook fan page integration
• Facebook like button integration on all listings & blog posts for exposure
• embedded Google Maps & Streetview for properties

Full WordPress Integration

Since 1970, Stonepay has offered construction & management services. Their work has been done in 13 countries, and covers Residential homes, Commercial buildings and Expatriate housing.

A glimpse of the Stonepay's home page

As always, we strive to provide our clients with a high-end, state of the art website with the latest technologies on the market.

We created a fully customized website for Stonepay, aiming for a well-structured site, with easy-to-find and organized content. We have replaced their old flash website with a new modern website that meets the industrial standards.

(note.: Sonika Studios did not do the branding and logo design for this company)

Diacarbon's bamboo USB Flashdrive

We are featuring the USB Flash drives. Instead of using paper for company presentations, we decided to go with a more sustainable alternative by keeping the material in electronic format on USB drives for their clients.

Covered with bamboo, the drive has all the information clients need. It includes a video explaining the basic information about the company as well as PDFs, which can also be printed, and links for their website, facebook and twitter pages.

Pop-Up Screen

We decided to have some fun with this here at Sonika Studios Inc. Perhaps this leans more on a gruesome side, but it’s Canadian hockey with plenty of hits, blood & testosterone.

Orca Hunts a White Shark

The Original Shot of the Shark

We started with a photo of a shark splashing out of the water. These rather menacing creatures have razor-sharp teeth that can rip you apart. Sharks can keep growing new teeth as they lose them, unlike humans, where we only get two sets of teeth throughout our lives (if you dont’ count the veneers).

Did you know that shark bodies do not have any bones? They are made entirely of cartilage! Also, their organs are not attached internally (being underwater relieves a lot of the gravitational force that would otherwise pull the organs downwards).

An orca snatching a seal off the coast

Next up is a photo of an orca snatching a seal. Orcas can sneak up to a seal resting near the shore (seals generally do not swim too far out, as they do primarily live above water breathing in air) and chomp down on one. Orcas are also more commonly known as killer whales. These magnificent (and potentially deadly) creatures are also the mascots of the Vancouver Canucks.

With these two photos as ingredients, we just needed a few photoshop brushes from our friends at Brusheezy.com to simulate some water splashes & blood splatters!

Biochar produced by Diacarbon (@ the DC Labs)

About Diacarbon Energy Inc.

This week we are featuring Diacarbon Energy Inc. business cards. Diacarbon Energy Inc. is a local green energy company that brings biomass solutions for true carbon neutrality.

Diacarbon is located in Vancouver, BC. Their goal is to produce renewable fuels from biomass, to provide waste solutions for pulp and paper, forest, and agriculture industries, and to make available portable biomass refinery technology.

About the Business Cards

Diacarbon Business Cards

We have used cleaner and environmentally friendly material In these cards by choosing 100% recycled paper stock (Sundance Felt 100lbs Cover Stock). The paper stock and the printing facility are FSC Certified. To minimize environmental impact we used no varnish or coating; the paper alone proved a great finish and feel.

Choosing the colours carefully, we managed to minimize the number of print plates and ink used in the cards. Moreover, the printing location was less than 7 kilometres away from the Diacarbon headquarters (and less than 3 kilometres from the Sonika Studios Inc. office), making this an even greener choice. Our clients (and we) believe in walking the talk, not just talking the walk!

We are also producing presentation folders and bamboo-cased USB flashdrives for Diacarbon. Check this page again soon for an update on these items.

Trifold Folder/Brochure with Document Pocket

The folder includes a pocket for holding contracts and paperwork and has a complete explanation of their services and advantages for their clients.

Alta Pacific's Business Card

The Business Card is a key item for communication; the business card portrays the first impression of the image and identity of the company. A poorly communicative and unapealing business card will not encourage potential clients to get more information about the company. For Alta Pacific we created a clean and direct business card, using their main colours–blue and white.

Alta Pacific has just moved to a new address:

306 Water Street
Suite 1, Vancouver, BC, BC V6B 1B6
phone: (778) 328-7401

That being said, we will now be clearing out our previous computers at a great price, so here they are:

iMac (Summer 2009)

We are selling the larger 24" model

Asking $1150 – includes iMac, full size keyboard w/ keypad, under warranty until summer 2012.

This unit has a 3 year extended warranty purchased through Futureshop, so it’s good until summer of 2012. The unit was very gently used – sitting on my desktop, basically, with no drinks or food near it whatsoever. The technical specs of this model can be found at this Apple webpage containing the model info. This model is the first 24″ model (MB418LL/A) with a Dual Core 2.66 gHz CPU. The RAM is stock at 4G, and the HDD is an astonishing 640Gbs! Great price for a unit in great condition & under warranty!

Macbook Pro (Winter 2007)

Macbook Pro from 2007 is still in good shape

Asking $600 – includes a near-new charger, original installation DVD, Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD.

This is a sturdy aluminum cased Macbook Pro from a while ago, with a RAM upgrade from the conventional 2G to 3G. I had a 2 year warranty, which covered the replacement of the optical drive, the HDD, the battery charger, and recently, under the recall of the nVidia video cards, had the video card replaced (only in February, so it’s fresh!). Also this year (2011) I put a brand new authentic Apple battery in.

Well maintained, with many new parts! The technical specs can be found at this Apple webpage with the model info. The model in question is the first model (MA895LL/A).

AMEX now accepted!

We have a new way for you to pay your bills without going through Paypal. As our company grows, we felt the need to get a better system set up with more flexibility & security, as well as faster processing for us as well.

Using a local company by the name of Beanstream, we’ve integrated our services into their API in order to facilitate the payments. We can now accept American Express cards as well as JCB cards in Canadian funds (Paypal had a restriction on this so we could only accept such cards in US currencies), and we can also easily set up recurring billing cycles for monthly or annual subscription services you have with us.

Payment methods accepted by our new gateway are:

• VISA
• MasterCard
• AmericanExpress
• JCB Cards

And of course we still accept the traditional payment methods such as:

• Cash
• Cheques
• Money Orders

We can also accept Interac Email Money Transfers through your approved Canadian financial organization!

Brixwork for Realtors, which is a product developed & offered by Sonika Studios Inc., also accepts this same payment mechanism for your convenience.

To pay using our new payment gateway, please visit our Contact Us page and scroll down to the green “Pay Now” button – and the rest is easy!

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/fuo/2178784416.html (tv stand)
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/fuo/2154377709.html (table/desk)
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/fuo/2154418442.html (coffee table)
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/fuo/2178798040.html (Desk with top unit)
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/fuo/2178800100.html (large sectional couch)

The above listings are on Craigslist – however if you wish to take any of these items please contact us directly!

#705 – 1221 Homer Street
Vancouver, BC. V6B 1C5

Our new location on Google Maps:

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This week we are moving all of our office equipment & furniture, so we will not be able to start any new contracts or big jobs. However ongoing maintenance and light amounts of work, bug fixes will still be happening. Please be sure to update our address in your record books, as well as with your accountants, in order to prevent an interruption in delivering material & cheques. We will maintain a connection with the property owner in order to continuously have the mail forwarded, but this can last only so long! To avoid any potential late payment charges (2% per month) please ensure your records are up-to-date.