At Got Your Nose, we recognize the importance of intelligence in design, no matter what the medium. Truly great web sites should be as intuitive as they are cool-looking. We believe strongly that design should never act as a barrier to information retrieval. Rather, our primary job is to help the client deliver an appropriate image and message to its audience that best enables the web site user to accomplish his or her goals.

Recently, our work on the Transamerica Retirement Services Website was honored with the prestigious 2005 Dalton Pen International Communications award for outstanding Graphic Design.

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But it doesn't stop with websites. Not by a long shot. We apply our design philosophy to any project — logos, business cards, posters, brochures, invitations — you name it. Take a look at the breadth of our portfolio and you'll see what we mean.



Despite how young we look, G.Y.N. founders Raegan, Steve, Dan, and Neal have been in the internet business since before Amazon made its first sale, before eBay got its first bid. As such, we recognize the tendency toward trendiness in web design.

We quickly grew tired of copycat design and instead focus our efforts on creating sites full of warmth and energy that are themselves works of art — as intuitive to navigate as turning the pages in a book.

Creative Director & Co-founder — Raegan McCain Raegan got a nose ring when the other kids were wearing denim and feathering their hair. She brings healthy snacks to company outings and is both the muse and the creative voice of G.Y.N. Raegan shapes the creative strategy of all G.Y.N. projects, from initial concept to final design, taking industry catch phrases like "online branding" and "intuitive user experience" and making them mean something. Her background in interactive media belies her tender age. She has served as art director for MCA Records, Wheel of Fortune, and Fashiontrip, as well as AFI's award-winning 100 Years-100 Stars site. She was also instrumental in creating Universal Studio's online presence. Her work for American Honda includes HondaFinance.com, Owner Link, Acura.com, and the Acura RSX mini-site. An accomplished painter and photographer, Raegan earned her B.F.A. in electronic media from NIU. Content Strategist — Dan Zarin Dan understands people. As content strategist, Dan draws on equal parts research, logic, and empathy to help each client deliver information and functionality to its web site visitors. Dan enters a trance-like state to get inside the mind of the end user, ensuring a valuable user experience and a reasonable approximation of inner peace. Dan has served as chief editor and copywriter on American Honda web sites including HondaFinance.com and Owner Link, working closely with G.Y.N. co-founder Raegan McCain. Other copywriting experience includes Acura.com, Acura online advertising and Disney/ABC Cable Networks. As a strategist and research analyst, Dan helped shape the online presence of LifeMasters Assisted Self Care and American Honda Motor Co. Dan also spent five years, underappreciated and underpaid, performing industry research for the Center for Corporate Innovation, a national consortium of high-tech and health care CEOs from Fortune 1000 companies.

Engineering Director & Co-founder — Steve Brykman Steve has been building sites for so long, he even remembers using the <pre> tag. He's programmed sites for allstudentloans.org, MediaOne, L.A. Times, Boston Beer Co., Interbath, Newton Online, and others. But he's equally proud of his work over the last three years, as webmaster and managing editor of National Lampoon, helping to revive the troubled brand and build a Webby-nominated comedy site with over a million visitors per month. In addition to having published fiction in Playboy and Nerve and writing for Prairie Home Companion, Steve's National Lampoon response to 9'11 is preserved in perpetuity in Smithsonian's Digital Archive. As a UMass writing fellow and M.F.A., his work has twice been awarded the Harvey Swados prize for fiction. Technical Lead — Neal Kaiser Neal Kaiser is as fine a guitar player as he is a programmer. He is also extremely tall. Not to mention he has the best credentials of us all: over ten years of software engineering and management experience. He founded his own company, Make-a-Store, inc., while still in college — long before e-commerce was a household buzzword. In fact, his software was one of the first e-commerce applications on the internet. Neal has led software development efforts for Cabletron Systems in New Hampshire, NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, MD (the folks with the space shuttles), and the Dept of Justice in Washington, D.C. (keepers of our nation's lawyers, guns, and money). He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.