Thoughtfully Designed Websites & Branding
We help small businesses, startups, brands, and individuals stand out with brilliant design, copy, and code.
Polyurb Website Builder
Role: Custom Development, Website
Polyurb is a website builder for the SMB market. Our goal with Polyurb was to reduce the cost and complexity of having a quality website. Polyurb combines the ease of management and predictable monthly subscription costs of platforms like Shopify and Squarespace with the deep and broad feature set of WordPress and its ecosystem.
Our extensive experience in software development meant that we were able to launch within two years.
Cultural Blends
Role: Branding
Founded in 2012, streetwear designer Cultural Blends sells their own clothing and accessories line. They also retail vintage threads and collector sneakers.
Cultural Blends’ old wordmark wasn’t reflective of what the brand had grown into. We assessed the brand’s history and customer demographics to design a new wordmark. The new wordmark respects the brand’s street wear and sports heritage, while appealing equally to men and women. It’s also visually compatible with the existing logo symbol, which carries a lot of brand equity.
The Sheridan Prize for Art
Role: Website, Custom Development
The Sheridan Prize for Art is the first regional art prize for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was conceived as a new space to revitalize the Bay Area art scene. In addition to 10 juried awards, the prize includes two awards decided by participating artists and viewers. The prize is conducted entirely online, with artwork submissions and voting occurring on the website.
In its third year, the Sheridan Prize for Art suffered from technical problems that hampered growth. Our audit of the site revealed extreme technical debt. We worked with the client to form a plan to put the prize on stronger technical footing. Items we focused on included mobile-friendliness, security, stability, handicapped accessibility, the eCommerce experience, and reducing web hosting costs. As part of the implementation of that plan, we developed a new website with redesigned artwork submission and voting booth areas.
BeSpoke Speech and Language
Role: Custom Development, Game Development
BeSpoke Speech and Language is a resource for interactive, digital language therapy materials.
They needed several speech therapy video games ported from Windows to the browser. They also needed a way to embed the games in a members-only area of their website. We developed browser ports of the games and the website embed feature. Our expertise in software development meant we were able to do so cost effectively.
Blast Kids’ Parties
Role: Website, Branding, SEO
Blast Kids’ Parties is a children’s birthday party character company. They’re on a mission to make the world a better place. In addition to doing awesome birthday parties, they’re giving back with a character development program for kids.
We delivered a fun visual identity that taps into the child in all of us, without feeling cheesy or cheap. We also developed a custom WordPress site and made them visible in search with an SEO campaign.
Ken Rosenfeld Glass Art
Role: Website
Ken Rosenfeld is a glass artist specializing in contemporary lamp work paperweights. His art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Glass in New Jersey, the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, and the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Wisconsin. It has also been featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s catalog.
We revamped the site’s front end to more closely match what the client had envisioned and fixed the broken eCommerce setup. We also migrated the site to our web hosting platform to stop the outages the site had experienced previously.
Indispensable: Learning to Succeed and Lead from George Washington
Role: COVER DESIGN, BOOK DESIGN, KINDLE FORMATTING
Indispensable is a companion book to the Indispensable Leadership program. Indispensable Leadership teaches leadership techniques from historical figures at seminars around the world. Author David Cross is the CEO of Indispensable Leadership, founder of Bow Tie Tours which was awarded “Best Tour Company in Pennsylvania” by Travel & Hospitality magazine, and was a successful criminal defense attorney for 25 years.
The client needed book and cover design for paperback, hardback, and Kindle editions of Indispensable. He also desired that specific visual elements be included in the cover design. We produced work that reflects that the book is historical, but not unapproachable, and incorporates the required visual elements.
Sister Mary’s Angel
Role: Key Art, Film Poster
Sister Mary’s Angel is a comedy drama film by independent filmmaker Mary Knight Productions. Identical twin sisters Angel, a lingerie model, and Mary, a nun, trade places so that Angel can get medical care for a life-threatening condition.
After securing a distribution deal with Filmhub, the client needed new key art that met licensing partner requirements. We worked with the client to create a fresh, new design that met the technical and quality standards.
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- Brand guidelines
- Copywriting
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Author Services
- Ebook conversion and formatting
- Book cover design
- Editing and proofreading
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