Designs Key West is a division of Blackhawk Design & Media, a graphics and web design design and publishing firm originated in Pacific Palisades, CA and was located there from 1987-1998. Blackhawk Design & Media designed catalogues, POP displays, direct mail and internet publishing for major motion picture studios, record labels, music equipment and pro audio manufacturers. Blackhawk Design & Media moved to Key West, Fl in June of 1999.
We have extensive knowledge with Apple, UNIX, Windows OS. We are proficient in Quark, Apple's Shake, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, Adobe's Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks, and in coding php and MySQL. We are the sole member of the Apple Consultants Network (ACN) in the Florida Keys.
We can help with your wired and wireless networks. For those who have made the switch to Macintosh for security against the daily attack of Windows based worms, viruses, spyware, adware, hacking and for the Mac's ease of use, but sometimes still need to run Windows programs. We can help you here too. VMWare's Fusion allows you to run any Windows operating system on a Macintosh and it will run it safer because your connection to the outside world is through the Mac OS and not Windows. You can run Windows NT, 98, 2000NT, XP, Vista or for extensive self punishment you could run Windows 7.
We can customize your software and your entire system for you and your business. We trouble-shoot and repair all models, install all of your hardware, external and internal; and set you up on the Internet and ensure your connectivity. We can turn you into your own multi-media studio, setting you up with cameras, printers, CD burners, studio playback monitors, scanners and a variety of equipment for your Mac or PC.
We also provide Apple Macintosh hardware and software consulting solutions for Key West and the lower Keys businesses and home users theu the Apple Businees Unit.
We provide software application support and OS troubleshooting, monthly maintenance programs, as well as network installations of all types and data recovery. In the event you should loose your data, we can help.
We have great success in recovering lost data. Before we begin any recovery job, we back up data and any sensitive materials. If you have any concerns in this area please let us know.
Contact us if you need assistance with your computer, your web presence, video production, digital audio or photography. We do just about everything that involves a computer, but here are a few specific items.
Computer and Software Support Sevices.
windows and apple macintosh computer pre- purchase consulting
software and hardware troubleshooting
hardware replacements and upgrades
system software installations and upgrades
windows, mac, mixed environment networking
system configurations
software training
multimedia and software development
graphics and web-site design
cd-rom and dvd-rom creation
professional digital photography & video
digital audio recording and data archiving
professional audio consulting
We can also supply high quality still film or digital photography or digital videos on CDs or DVDs.
We can also design high impact brochures, Point of purchase displays, direct mail and internet websites for your business.
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