Vostok is a small prestigious studio based in Madrid and with an international reach. We are known for being obsessive about order, simplicity and elegance. We hate gratuitous ornament. Every pixel counts, every sequence must have a meaning. Ah, and we have a pretty cool blog ;)
Vostok helped design Google Favorite Places, an initiative by Google Inc. in which world renown celebrities, athletes and intellectuals such as Al Gore, Paulo Coelho and Moby choose the favorite places around the world (view video). The website is backed by real world markers which decorate the locations.
Planetaki is a place where you can read your favorite websites in a single page (like a feed reader, but we hate the word). Other tools are bloated with useless features, and you always feel in a rush to read everything. Planetaki is easy to use, and you will never feel that information anxiety again.
floresfrescas.com is a place to buy nice & fresh flowers in Spain for half the price you would pay at any kiosk. The concept is simple: they carry only three products and you can subscribe to a "bouquet of the week". Vostok redesigned and programmed the website and all the internal applications (courier interfaces, inventory management, etc.)
Tuenti is Spain's leading social website. Vostok assisted Tuenti's design and development team in a major redesign of their website. We also benchmarked the redesign by conducting usability tests with real users.
The Cosmonaut is an innovative film project by Riot Cinema which is financed through crowdfunding and will be released with a Creative Commons license. You can become a producer from just 2€. Vostok designed and programmed the website, blog and online store.
Vostok helped design Add Google Maps to your website, a comprehensive guide on how to integrate maps in a page. Case studies illustrate novel ways in which Google Maps' API is being used across the web.
Vostok has an on-going design collaboration with minube. Minube.com is a traveller community where you can plan a trip based on the experiences of travellers along with minube's flight and hotel search engine. Recently we had the opportunity to redesign minube's homepage.
Vostok designed and custom-developed a knowledge management solution for BBVA (Spain's leading bank). The product allows their work teams to publish, organize and find information for their intranet, share best practices and keep the content up to date in an easy and intuitive fashion.
Vostok developed and designed a thesaurus of banking terms for the intranet of the Spanish Confederation of Saving Accounts (CECA). The thesaurus has a hierarchical column navigation, and allows you to subscribe to any group of terms that might interest you.
Vostok has an on-going design collaboration with BeBanjo, a start-up company offering a suite of products to manage TV operations efficiently.
Tooio is a social web and mobile application that allows you to find friends, events and photos by location. Vostok designed Tooio's web application front-end.
Before launching the Vostok spaceship two years ago, Javier was partner and co-responsible for design and usability of 11870.com. He was also Design Director at The Cocktail, and part of the HCI teams at Indra and IconMediaLab.
Sam is a Ruby on Rails developer superstar, and an avid open source enthusiast. A native of East Yorkshire (UK), he launched his professional career working at CERN Geneva in 2002, and now resides in Madrid where he provides nuclear thrust to Vostok's rockets. In his younger years he delivered newspapers on a unicycle (really), now he lets Planetaki do all the hard work.
Recently imported from the other side of the Atlantic, Mark was born in Canada and raised in Mexico, where he studied information design and worked as an interaction designer. On his free time Mark writes about design and lectures on the art of manliness, which inevitably falls of deaf ears.
María majored in journalism, and she brings design fire-power plus some serious communication skills to the table. She started her professional relationship with Vostok doing content related work for Planetaki, and her top-notch skills soon landed her a full-time position at the studio. She lived two years in Turin, and speaks fluent italian.
