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StudentUniverse Infographic
StudentUniverse conducted a survey exploring the habits and interests that today's college students have. They approached us to create an infographic from the data that they collected, so that it could be easily read and comprehended as well as spread virally through blogs and various social media outlets.
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Answers System Release Graphic
Answers Systems approached us to create this graphic for the latest release of their ContractPro software, with the prerequisite that the graphic be "playful" and "humorous." After a few unsuccessful attempts at the graphic using only text for a graphic element. We decided to loosen up and have some fun with this robot illustration. It turned out to be exactly what the client was looking for.
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Peter Nappi Website Design
To develop this new brand we worked with Anderson Design Group. In collaboration with their overarching creative direction we utilized the stunning photography and video within a site design that is as lush as the products themselves. The highly textured, organic backgrounds and vintage look and feel make this website stand out in a field of cookie-cutter ecommerce sites.
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Brite Website 2011
One of the things we like most about working on the Web is its ability to be changed and updated. Since launching in 2009, Brite Revolution has evolved into the service it is today. Its current user interface is the third iteration and possibly our favorite so far. Having joined forces with the music magazine Fringe (now Brite Magazine), the purpose of the website expanded dramatically.
For this third iteration, we drastically updated the aesthetic while still staying within the sphere of the original. Brite is now brighter and more easily accommodates its ever-growing artist roster. This new, lighter design makes it much easier to read the well-written articles that are now such an important part of the Brite Revolution service.
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Reba Website Design
The launch of Reba’s new site coincided with the release of her new album All the Women I Am, so meeting the launch date was critical. It’s hard to show how much work our project management team does, but they deserve some serious recognition for this project.
Anyone that is familiar with musician and entertainer sites know that they must accomplish a lot of things, especially if they have a career spanning decades. The design of Reba’s new site reflects the aesthetics of her new album and allows her team to have the look updated as she releases more work.
This design nicely incorporates the great amount of content and photography she’s amassed over the years. In the end, Reba and her team were truly pleased.
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Reba Style Website Design
At the same time we were building a new site to feature Reba McEntire’s career, we were also designing one to feature her four lines of merchandise. This new site combined those lines into one site and allowed the products to be easily found, searched and sorted.
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Two Moon Gallery Website Design
It's both challenging and satisfying to design a site whose purpose is to feature great art. The Two Moon Gallery in Nashville features some of the best paintings, sculpture and other visual art that can be found in the city. We designed a sleek site that complemented the art featured while still allowing that art to take the front of the stage. We even made sure the navigation menu could be pushed aside when necessary.
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Twelve South Website Design
We admit it: we're biased. We do all our work on Apple computers. We use iPhones. Some of us even have those Apple logo stickers on our cars. So when the folks at Twelve South, makers of cool Mac-only products, came to us needing a site, we were all in.
Luckily, this project came with inspiration for design already included: the products themselves. Each product continues the design aesthetic of the Apple brand they support. Once we had a range of product beauty shots completed, we created a clean and bold design that makes each product a hero.
Since it's an ecommerce site for a growing company, we also created an admin that the client can easily update with new information and new products as they are launched.
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The Hermitage Website Design
Here was our challenge: redesign a site we already designed years ago. Plus, since The Hermitage is an historical location, it needed to feel classical and modern simultaneously. We accommodated this challenge by incorporating design patterns reminiscent of the artistic wallpapers found in the Hermitage mansion and a color palette befitting the fashions of President Jackson’s era.
Inspired by our wireframes, the user interface of the site resulted in a much cleaner, easier-to-navigate experience that allows users to find information quickly and efficiently. Lastly, we think it’s a lush, beautiful site to look at, just like the mansion itself.
Special thanks to our friends over at Sitemason for their programming and CMS work on this project.
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Mochi Media Website Design
All of our work involves some amount of research. Mochi Media helps companies monetize their web-based Flash games. Hmm, research indeed.
Truthfully, this was a fun site to design. We got to work with their Mochi Man character and create a truly playful aesthetic.
Plus, Mochi introduced us to the game Puzzle Farter. It’s ridiculous…and careful that you don’t waste an entire afternoon playing it.
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Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Industry: Education, Non-Profit
Type: Website Design
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Giving to MIT Website
Many of the initiatives of MIT's charitable activities are devoted to solving problems like cancer, energy consumption and technological education throughout the world. The Giving to MIT site is a place to learn about each of these programs and discover how to get involved. We designed a site that follows the design standards of other MIT properties, but allows them to establish a fresh look and feel for this special program. We only provided information architecture and graphic design for this project, since it turns out MIT had plenty of bright folks on their end that can code a website. Go figure.
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IDC Website Design
Redesigning the Industrial Door Contractors (IDC) website has been one of the most satisfying turnarounds we’ve done. We found out that a place that fabricated giant mechanical doors for airport hangars and munitions containment isn’t really all that different from a web design firm. In the end, they knew their past work spoke the loudest, with the rest of the site backing up what their portfolio promised.
We used our Addy-winning photography as a foundation for the look and feel. In addition to presenting their employees and heroes, we used plenty of photos of their finished products from all around the world in their portfolios.
Their main goal was to be trusted by the site visitors; we feel we heartily achieved that.
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WSW Website Design
WSW Certified Public Accountants are in the unique position of having three talented, friendly, handsome and fun-loving principals; so we decided to make them the hero of their new website. We wanted potential clients to be able to "meet" the partners and really get a feel for what it's like to work with WSW. Bob, Geoffrey and Trent were great sports and really helped propel an awesome design. The colors were based on the awesome interior decorating in their office. The type choices were friendly and professional. Because our clients really trusted our expertise, we got to do some non-traditional things with the subnavigation. The entire site is controlled by a custom Wordpress theme so that content can be kept fresh and current.
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LPS Collateral
With a new logo and new website, it was only natural that LPS Integration would want to have print collateral to match. We designed business cards and letterhead for them. We also helped with document styles. We paired them up with a trusted, quality printer here in Nashville and managed their first round of prints.
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LPS Logo
LPS Integration needed a new logo. Their old logo was the notorious @ symbol and didn't really communicate what they did. Their heritage was important to them. L, P and S are the first letters of their three founders, so after much exploration, we landing on the concept of creating a mark from those three letters. More sketching and exploration and we landed on a way to "integrate" the three letters into a logo mark.
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LPS Website
LPS Integration came to us looking for a site design that would differentiate them from their competition on the web. We designed them something very unique and very versatile, so they could keep their content fresh and accurate. We also created the four message icons (keys, lock, cogs and gauge) seen on the home and what we do pages. The use of illustration rather than stock photography helped to further separate them from other companies out there. After the initial round of design, the client had lots of feedback on fonts and colors. We added the green accent color and changed most of the fonts on the website to Arial.
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Telemanagement Website
Telemanagement, Inc came to us with a rough logo concept and a great idea for a one-page website. We created a professional looking logo from their sketches that was colorful, clean and modern. The site needed to be interactive, informative and allow a user to quickly contact our client. We designed a single-page, expanding box experience to highlight each of Telemanagement's many services and products. We wanted the design to distinguish Telemanagement from the plethora of other companies in this industry, so we created something soft, tactile, artistic and colorful. The same day that we launched, we got an email from our client telling us that they already had a potential new customer visit their site and contact them. The result was a 30% increase from their usual proposal!
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Sport Seasons Website
Sport Seasons sells sporting goods at their brick-and-mortar locations around Tennessee as well as online. Sport Seasons was looking for a major redesign from their old website. They wanted something clean, fresh, soft and professional. UniteU Ecommerce powers their database and shopping experience, so they were responsible for both front-end and back-end development. We worked directly with UniteU during design to make sure we stayed in the confines of their system while giving the user the best experience possible. Check out the results at sport-seasons.com, maybe even buy some new running shoes. We also designed and built them a blog (http://sport-seasons-blog.com) and email template for their newsletter.
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Brite Weekly News Email
As the new Brite Revolution grew into both a music service and an online music magazine, they needed a new email for their users. This redesigned email template allows them to feature new artists and new tracks by artists, and it leads to the music articles that have become such an important part of the service.
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Answers Infographic
Answers Systems has a pretty involved business process. It’s so involved that their clients and even their new employees had a pretty strong learning curve to get their heads around it. We wrote a plain-talking description and created some clear and approachable illustrations to demonstrate exactly how Answers Systems and their software ContractPro work.
Our client and their clients have been thrilled with the result. We see a lot more “a ha!” moments in their future.
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Answers Handout
We love when the work we produce can be used for multiple projects. Our client, Answers Systems, needed some print collateral they could use to introduce the basics of their service to clients when talking in person. Having already created an approachable written explanation and some great graphics for them, we were able to reduce the complexity for a simple, folded brochure.
Just because it’s print doesn’t mean it can’t be interactive. The final piece exposes the story of Answers Systems and their software ContractPro as the reader unfolds this double-sided brochure.
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Answers Characters
Answers Systems is made up of a bunch of different people that handle trade promotions management. Sounds exciting, huh? Well, it's important and complex work for their industry that needed to feel a bit more approachable. We created multiple character illustrations to help them achieve this feel. These have already ended up in infographics, brochures and an animated video. And they're just getting started.
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Brite Business Cards
A rebranding always deserves new business cards. And these new ones for Brite are, well, brighter. Naturally, the logo with the unforgettable Brite Bubble is still there, and it's even replicated on the name side as a repeating element.
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Run Daisy Website Design
Using the Daisy illustration and logo created by Kathy Mitchell, we created a whimsical and chic design to speak to the youthful female audience our client needed to reach. The character of Daisy was so compelling that we decided to use her as the face of the site and feature her as the anchor of each page. Placing her in the context of an idyllic landscape scene wrapped up the look and feel of this site just the way we wanted it.
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Worship Together Website Design
The Worship Together website is used by church worship leaders as an invaluable resource. Many of these users are power users that might need to find songs in a particular key, tempo or theme, or by a particular artist. The folks at EMI that manage the site had the database taken care of. We made sure the design not only worked well with the needs of that database, but also gave them a bold new look. The client complimented us so much we almost got embarrassed...almost.
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Run Daisy Email Design
We do plenty of HTML email designs for clients, but few are used as often as this one. Those who sign up for the daily deals from Run Daisy are looking forward to that email every day. We not only made sure it reflected their landing page as closely as possible, but we also built it so the client can easily update the daily-changing information.
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The Gathering Logo
This was an enjoyable project for an identity creation. We took the client through a strategic set of moodboards and, eventually, logo approaches. Each one carried an important meaning for their brand. This church that meets each Sunday in a movie theater finally settled on a diverse-looking set of theater chairs gathered in a group of four to demonstrate their welcoming environment.
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The Gathering Website Design
After going through some moodboards and developing an original logo for this church, we turned our attention to the design of their new website. Since it was going to be a constant resource for their congregation as well as for website visitors hoping to learn more about them, it needed to be inviting and useful. Complete with multimedia, social media feeds and a detailed footer, this site is as easy to get to know as the folks at the church.
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Masato Website Design
We love using beautiful photography in our web designs. It's even better when it's of beautiful jewelry. The dark tones of this site let the photos of these ultra high-quality saltwater pearls shine with a true brilliance. Delicate shadows and lines accent the photos and messages with refined subtlety.
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Twelve South Photography
The products and the photos of them are the real heroes of this website. We worked directly with the client to make sure we got all the necessary angles to demonstrate how the products could be used and showed them in context with the Apple products they support. With the photographic approach and aesthetic established, the client has been able to have additional products photographed with their own vendor that match the original photography perfectly.
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Brite Website 2010
As Brite Revolution began to add more artists and get feedback from their growing user base, a slight redesign became necessary. We updated the color palette a bit but kept the bold, dark look. A carousel music player now had the featured position at the top and the calls to action and navigation became fully integrated.
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RenaLab Trade Ads
Magazine ads, especially trade magazines, are generally known for their busy look. So we took a completely different approach to these ads for Renalab. Using the text of the headline as the major design element, we made sure these ads stood out as a striking difference to their competitors.
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ICA Website Design
Businesses that do industrial work often have websites that look…well, industrial. ICA wanted to feel more approachable but not outside of their sector. We ended up with a site that uses an aesthetic reminiscent of the blueprints and maps they use for their work. Plus, the sparse design allows the work and messages to be easily noticed and accessed.
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IDC Logo
As part of a total rebranding, we updated the text logo for Industrial Door Contractors (IDC). Even though is was only their name and initials, it had to communicate the strength and steadfastness of their service.
We ended up with a logo that has no separate mark or illustration but is still reminiscent of the heavy gears, rollers and machinery found at their expansive shop.
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IDC Photography
We count the photography for this site as one of our greatest discoveries. The client was adamant about wanted a complete rebranding. After speaking with them and visiting their facility in Columbia, TN, we realized they were most proud of two areas of their business: their people and their facilities.
We decided to let photography of their dedicated employees in the context of their day-to-day work communicate the strength and quality of their brand. With very little setup, we literally had it interrupt these guys and shoot photos of them in just a few minutes before allowing them to get back to their hard work. These guys were serious about their work, and they worked in a tough-looking facility.
Our result provided the foundation for the design of the entire site. The photography even won a Silver Addy all on its own.
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Skinny Pig Business Cards
These cards look almost good enough to eat. And that's perfect for this brand that is being developed into a new food blog. Sporting the new logo and identity we developed, these cards are elegant and inviting.
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Skinny Pig Logo
The owner of the upcoming food blog The Skinny Pig had quite a transformation in her life. She shed a lot of weight and still found ways to enjoy the types of food she loves. So much that she's developing a blog around her experience. She had a logo concept, but it needed some serious work. Fortunately, we took it through its own transformation and landed with a great look for this new brand.
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KnifePro Website Design
Keeping with the style of the trio of Master Grinding sites, the KnifePro Cutlery design featured our original beauty shots of knives. But this time those shots were in context with well-styled foods. A cool blue color scheme is used against the dark background for the homepage, while the interior pages lighten up a bit so text can be easily read.
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KnifeSpa Website Design
At first consideration, it may seem that the terms "knife" and "spa" shouldn't go together. But it makes perfect sense for KnifeSpa. While keeping in line with the styles developed for her sister sites KnifePro Cutlery and the Master Grinding main site, we gave this one a softer edge (so to speak). If you visit the site, just don't let it make you feel too relaxed around knives.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Email Design
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Master Grinding Email Templates
We created a series of email templates for a suite of sites for our client Master Grinding. Each reflects the photo-centric and dark design of each site.
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Master Grinding Website Design
As part of a trio of sites for this client, the Master Grinding site educates visitors about the parent company and cutlery in general. Using our original photography and matching the look and feel of the other two sites, this site presents our client head and shoulders above their competitors.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Logo
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Master Grinding Logos
We’re pretty comfortable with creating logos for websites and brands. But this time we were creating three. Each had to have its own identity and still feel like it belonged in the same family. And more than just appearing on websites and collateral, these logos would appear on the products themselves.
Our result was a family of logos that met every challenge set before us.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Photography
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Master Grinding Photography
When designing a trio of sites for Master Grinding Service, we were glad to make great product photography a main feature of the designs. Our graphic designers worked closely with photographer Kris D’Amico to create an aesthetic that featured the products as the true heroes of these sites.
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Brite Ad for Nashville Scene
Soon after Brite Revolution was launched, they took out some ad space in the Nashville Scene alternative newspaper. This full-page ad had to grab readers and reveal the purpose of Brite within the amount if time it might take a reader to turn a page.
Our designer created what has become known as “the equation.” This profound, icon-based message revealed the essence of Brite so well its owner was compelled to call us up just to remark how much he loved it.
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Brite Website 2009
Our original design for the new Brite Revolution website created a deep, dark look that was pretty different from many of the music sites emerging then. Against the dark background, the words and song titles are hard to miss. The simple site design made it clear that the music and causes were the focus.
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Bell Website Design
Along with their rebranding, Bell asked us to build them a completely new site experience. The design included an architecture that allowed the client to update the site on their own as construction projects were completed. They're now able to add photos, written content and press releases on a regular basis. Most importantly, the site strongly showcases the quality and scope of work that has given them the stellar reputation they've earned over the years.
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Brite Logo
We love the opportunity to create an identity for a new brand, especially one as exciting as Brite Revolution. We started with moodboards to establish the general aesthetic. Once that was determined, we tried several different directions. It was a tough choice, but the client ended up with a truly versatile identity that has easily evolved with the brand while remaining very close to the original vision.
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Bell Logo
As one of the largest construction firms in the Southeast, Bell made a critical decision to update their brand. We started with a visual re-branding and logo which was used for the website, microsites, newsletters, and other print collateral. It turned out to be simple, easy-to-read, but still unique. They liked it so much they can hardly remember the old one.
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SCORM Website Design
Simplifying the complex. Rustici Software owns the domain scorm.com and they deserve it. Their total expertise is devoted to SCORM solutions.
SCORM is a set of standards for e-learning software. Compliance with this government reference would mean understanding over 1300 pages of text. The folks at Rustici take care of that compliance easily with their software. But explaining what SCORM is and how Rustici helps to non-technical users was quite the challenge. So we created an information architecture, content and design that easily explains what it is and how they help.
What they do is make an incredibly complex thing simple. And, fortunately, that's exactly what we did for their users.
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RenaLab Photography
It's not often a client asks you to make sure your photos make their environment look cold and sterile. But when you're Renalab, that look is just what you need to communicate. We were lucky enough get access to their facility (with scrub-like gear of our own, of course) and shoot their precision instruments, expert technicians and truly impressive space. You can't help but have confidence in them after you see these photos.
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KnifeSpa Order Form
It's easy to take for granted that everyone has web access all the time. But our client Master Grinding found they also needed a printable order form for some visitors of their KnifeSpa website. Even though it's a bit of an involved series of questions, we developed and designed a one-page PDF form that allows users to easily fill out information on the knives they need sharpened and stills get KnifeSpa the information they need.
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Peter Nappi Copy
Writing for the Peter Nappi brand was a true pleasure. The touching family story behind the business and the richness of the product background gave us more than enough to reveal in their messaging.
We developed the messaging for both their printed fashion lookbook (developed by Anderson Design Group) and the website we designed for them. Full of history and emotion, the copywriting matches perfectly with the photos and video used to feature these luxurious products.
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Peter Nappi IA/UX
Our goal with the experience of this site was to actually make the products seem almost heroic. The large rotating header and detailed product pages give users plenty of opportunities to discover the quality of these boots and bags. Even simple elements, like making sure the shipping and return policies are easily accessible makes the experience truly customer focused.
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Run Daisy Discovery
The folks at Run Daisy came to us with an interesting challenge. They were entering into the online daily coupon market and needed a solid plan of how to get there. So we all settled into a conference room and asked a bunch of tough questions. As a result, the client was able to answer exactly how they wanted to approach their market and what they needed to accomplish next.
We always know it’s been a successful strategy session when the client says, “Wow, I don’t know what we would have done without this meeting.”
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Run Daisy eCommerce Admin
We worked with our trusted vendor Foxycart to handle the ecommerce programming. We also worked out some special ecommerce needs like delivering the deal vouchers to buyers and making sure the all-important email signup list was easy to manage and update. Not to forget the charities they support, we made sure proper reporting was available in their custom-built CMS so the folks at Run Daisy can give to those charities based on the number of deals purchased that day.
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Run Daisy IA/UX
A daily deal site has a lot of moving parts and most of them live on one main page: the deal page. We began our work here and developed a scheme that ensured all the functions and content were accounted for. We also made sure the activities of the page were intuitive and even fun to use.
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Run Daisy Website Copy
We developed marketing copy and some initial deal copy to establish the character of Daisy running around town gathering up the best deals she could find. We also made sure that business and website users alike would have clear and approachable messages to help them understand the value of the service.
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Two Moon IA/UX
We often create sites that feature products, but when that product is art, displaying that product is even more important. The Two Moon Gallery has a constantly changing roster of superb visual artists. We developed a scheme that allows the art featured to be used right on the homepage. Plus, each artist's page has a nicely contained experience that allows multiple examples of their work to be perused by visitors.
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Answers Discovery
So, what do you do if your client has a business that is really complicated? I mean, really, really complicated. You talk to them about it…for a long time.
That’s what we did with Answers Systems to learn about how they’ve improved the trade promotions process in the foodservice industry. We spent two days in a room with them writing on white boards, taking furious notes, and generally learning out butts off. Good thing we did, too; that work provided the foundation for everything we’ve accomplished for them since.
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ICA IA/UX
The Infrastructure Corporation of America (ICA) came to us because of our success with websites for other construction-based firms. Due to this experience, we knew that creating a site that featured the scope of their work would deliver the messages they needed.
The end result seems simple, but the architecture process was critical for this project because it exposed how they wanted to feature their portfolio and present the data for the jobs they completed. It seems this data is critical for their audience, which is often members of state governments.
The ensuing architecture brings their projects forward while making it easy to discover their unique benefits.
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ICA Website Copy
The messages that resulted on this website can seem simple and straightforward. It may not seem that they were challenging. Actually, the greatest challenge came before the actual writing began. We helped ICA discover what their true benefits to their customers are and how to reveal what they offer to them.
This process of message creation revealed as much to the client about what they do as to their audience.
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IDC Website Copy
Crafting messaging for the rebranding of Industrial Door Contractors (IDC) meant starting over from the beginning. Their core message had gotten lost, but we discovered it again by talking directly with the brand owners. We learned that they built these giant doors all within their own facility. They even have their own rail line. Also, they are completely dedicated to their employees, and that dedication is returned ten-fold. Will a surprisingly low turnover rate and many employees counting their tenure in decades rather than years, we knew that they earned the right to sound confident in their messaging.
The result is clear-voiced messages that don’t waste time with marketing. It respects their audience by confirming that they truly are the best and quickly explains exactly what they offer.
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Masato IA/UX
This client was able to provide us with plenty of high-quality photos of their exquisite pearl jewelry. Because of that, we developed an experience that relied on big, beautiful background images of the jewelry for the homepage. And the interior pages always featured copywriting in association with the photos.
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Masato Website Copy
Our client Masato is introducing a new line of jewelry featuring their own saltwater cultured pearls. Developed to be among the most valuable pearls available in the world, the client needed to position themselves apart from average department store pearls. We developed messaging that educates the site's visitors about the history of cultured pearl jewelry and describes the expertise and care that goes into culturing, harvesting and selecting these rare jewels of the sea.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Information Architecture
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Master Grinding IA/UX
Tasked with creating a suite of three sites for our client Master Grinding at one time was certain to be a respectable amount of work. Just as the aesthetic designs of each site would need to both feel like part of a family and have their own identity, the user experiences needed the same treatment. Before designing one page, we developed the experiences for each site in wireframes. These included multiple customized and unique ecommerce experiences and educational content.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Development
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Master Grinding Sales Admin
The folks at Master Grinding might sell one type of knife to thousands at a time. For this reason, we built some special functions for the administrative area of their ecommerce site KnifeProCutlery.com. Not only can our client track and manage online sales, but they can also handle offline sales with it, too. More than just an ecommerce engine, this backend allows them to manage their full inventory, online and off.
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Client: Master Grinding Service, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Products, Industrial, Professional Services
Type: Copywriting
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Master Grinding Website Copy
While recreating the branding for a trio of websites, we needed to establish new messaging for two of them and create new messaging for a new service. The client is dedicated to their business and wanted to educate their users on the craftsmanship and quality of their cutlery as well as on the proper use and care of their knives. In addition to this, we had the honor of working with a brand that had its beginnings over three generations ago.
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Peter Nappi Ecommerce Admin
The custom CMS and unique ecommerce solutions we delivered allow our client to manage their product lines and website content as well as track orders from one administrative area. And here's the best part; since we built the CMS in Django we can rapidly deploy updates to match the changing business needs of the client while helping them to keep their development costs low. We call that a win, win.
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Reba Style IA/UX
Reba McEntire has made a giant career as a musician, a TV star, an author and a Broadway performer. But she also has her own line of merchandise; four lines to be exact. Originally, each of Reba’s lines had their own separate web domain. Under our new architecture, we combined them into one domain with easy navigation between each brand and line. The result is a site that connects fans of one of her lines to the other three.
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Reba Style Website Admin
It may not be an ecommerce site, but the new RebaStyle.com still has hundreds of products to manage. Within her four lines of products--including housewares, clothing, shoes and even luggage--there are plenty of variations, photos and descriptions. Plus, she's always coming up with something new. Using Django, we built a custom Content Management System that allows the client to manage the products lines as easily as adding photos to Facebook.
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Reba Website Admin
Reba McEntire's new album is called All the Women I Am. This seems to fit because it doesn't seem possible that one person could have done all she has. We built an admin area for her new site in Django so administrators can update music files, videos, press recognition, tour dates and ticket sales on a daily basis, if they need to. It turned out to be no ordinary artist site--but Reba is no ordinary artist.
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Reba Website IA/UX
Reba McEntire has done a lot of work that spans the music industry, television, books and Broadway. With such a vast career, presenting her work in an easily accessible way for her fans is paramount.
We used the information architecture phase of this project to solidly determine what content and functions need to be on the site for her fans. One of the most critical spaces involved her discography. On the old site, users had to visit a separate page just to learn about an album. With the new experience, they can view and listen to tracks from any album without leaving the music page.
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The Hermitage IA/UX
The Hermitage is the historic home of former President Andrew Jackson. As both a museum and an historical site, visitors to The Hermitage are the lifeblood of this non-profit. We were eager to redesign this site even though it was cabedge that designed the then-current live site. It seemed like a lifetime ago for us, and we were ready to show how far we had come.
Getting the user experience and organization of the site improved was the first goal. Much of our efforts was spent on reorganizing the content into a new sitemap to make it more intuitive for visitors to experience the site in one of two ways: as potential visitors looking to tour the museum and grounds or as students and researchers looking for deep academic writings about The Hermitage.
The result was a site scheme and page experiences that made it easy to find out operating hours and ticket prices for individuals and groups. It also organized the historical research writings on the site in a far more intuitive and easily searchable manner.
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Answers Video Script
Finding a good copywriter can be tough. Finding one that knows how to write in script formats, even tougher. Fortunately, we have one in house. We worked with our client Answers Systems to craft a script for an animated video to explain the benefits of their business processes.
Even though it involves talking about a computer program and some pretty brainy work, we were able to turn their process into a story that actually makes it all seem pretty approachable. It also made it much easier for our illustrator and the animators to work from a solid script in the first place.
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Brite Custom CMS
From the beginning, Brite Revolution was all about fresh content. At first, it was about continually adding new music downloads from their growing artist list. Today, they’ve grown to include an online music magazine format along with music downloads.
All that means content, content, content. We built a Content Management System (CMS) that allows multiple users to update the site with new artists, new music files, online and downloadable videos, and article content. In fact, it allows them to update virtually any article of content without having to rely on a web designer to do it for them. Plus, the administrative area of their site also allows them to keep track of music downloads, subscribers, affiliates and the authorized users who manage it all. When the folks at Brite say the like how well the website works, they may actually be talking about the parts the public doesn’t even see.
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Brite Discovery
When the folks at Brite Revolution first walked into our offices, their service was just a dream. To make it real, we had to start by putting some boundaries around that dream and getting a plan together.
We used several discovery sessions to determine the strategy and true business goals of this new music download service. Brite Revolution has come a long way since those initial discussions. And this evolution has been accompanied by continuing our process of continual discovery and evaluation.
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Brite IA/UX
Even if it is your own idea, it can be difficult to envision what your new web service will look like or how it will work. From the beginning, we’ve created information architecture documents like sitemaps, user flows, and wireframes to determine the content and functions of every iteration of the Brite Revolutions site. It’s always proven to make the user interface design process quicker and more successful. It’s essential to the client and essential to us.
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Brite Website Copy
Brite Revolution was more than just a new website or service: it was a new paradigm for exposing musicians and connecting people to great causes. In much the same way we use moodboards to establish a visual aesthetic, we started with some written voice samples to find out how Brite would “talk” to its audience.
This critical step allowed us to produce the originally copy for the newly launched site and has proven to be a strong foundation for a service that is continually producing new content.
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Twelve South eCommerce Admin
This database, naturally, allows the site owners to add products and manage web site content. But its real power is in its abilities to track orders, automatically send data to the fulfillment provider (so the client doesn't have to), and even allow retailers a space to make wholesale purchases online.
We even developed a special mobile version of the database so our client could keep track of orders and all things Twelve South wherever he could use a smartphone.
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RenaLab Website Design
It was important for the design of the RenaLab website to reflect the look and feel of their facility. We used the photos we took of their center to give us the aesthetic foundation. The rest is truly a less-is-more approach. The information they offer on the site is critical to their audience and finding it easily was the priority. In the end, we have a clean and efficient site...just like RenaLab.
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RenaLab Website Copy
The majority of RenaLab's audience is made of other medical professionals. Each gets a different benefit from interaction with RenaLab. We developed copy that speaks, in detail, to each of these clinical roles. In addition, we delved into the complexities of their industry to get a solid understanding of it, and produced the rest of the marketing copy for the site as well.