4D Projections provides ‘enterprise class’ production services. This means that we utilize our technical ability in print, web, and film production, in order to power our core specialty, which is editorial production. We are clinical: editorial production starts with clearly defined objectives. These objectives determine what resources are needed, to achieve the target.

4D Projections differs from an advertising agency in two key ways:

1As indie producers, we know all the shortcuts to get projects produced as quickly and cheaply as possible, without compromising on the quality of the media.

2Our Editorial Direction specialization allows us to take the burden of ‘working out the fine details’ off of the client. Thus, clients need only to give broad directives and then monitor. We make the whole process easy and efficient.

Here are two of our most recent ‘enterprise class’ successes:

that’s Shanghai magazine

Urbanatomy.com is the online home of that's Shanghai, the city's largest expat mag. Despite excelling in print, that team was clumsy with web media, so they turned to 4D Projections with a very vague directive: ‘please make us a powerful city portal that non-tech people can manage easily.’

For the next 6 months, 4DP worked as a full-time consultant, temporarily assuming the dual roles of Lead Developer/ Managing Editor. Among our achievements:

• New CMS: erased their existing site and replaced it with a Joomla content management system.
• Add-ons: added numerous community functions to the Joomla core, customized per client specs, and helped train non-web staff to operate the system independently.
• Editorial: produced a base layer of content, created initial parameters, and trained the print editorial team to 'run wild' without need for tech intervention.
• Tech training: trained in-house tech staff to maintain, customize, and manipulate the system, thus ensuring maximum future scalability.

Ameson Foundation

As the that's Shanghai gig was winding down, 4DP met Ameson, who mentioned they were looking for a talented web developer. In fact, they wanted someone to create an entire China teachers’ info portal, to a world-class standard. They also wanted a company brochure site, to highlight their organization’s many sub-projects.

4DP accepted. We quickly excelled, and were then asked to expand our single-handed efforts into print... 

Rising to the challenge, 4DP spun multiple plates (print brochures, company logos, Chinese newspaper advertisements, etc), while at the same time delivering the the goods as promised: a world-class teachers' portal and a solid organizational portfolio site that documented the intricate (and previously undefinable) elements of the company.

On both sites, 4DP did all of the following, solo: creation of editorial parameters and targets; web development; grahpic design; writing and research; photo editing; creative direction.