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Miss 604

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:59:44 +0000

Miss604 is one of the most influential bloggers in Vancouver. Her social media reach is well renounced in BC and Canada. The most interesting challenge in designing her website was to maintain her current brand (colors, logo and avatar) but spice it up. I decided to give the header a very playful feel, with elements of simple shapes to symbolize the BC. The illustrations of Vancouver’s iconic buildings were the greatest challenge, and sometime these challenges turns into something special. I’m always happy to help out my good friend!

TELUS Day of Service 2010

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:11:32 +0000

TELUS Day of Service is a national initiative to encourage TELUS employees to give back to their community. On May 29, 2010, 30,000 volunteers from TELUS signed up to various charitable organizations and donated over 100,000 volunteer hours on that day. This website was created as a picture book of sorts, to show what happened that day, and hopeful show that the spirit of corporate community investment.

Orquidea

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:14 +0000

Orquidea is a fashion boutique nestled in the trendy Dunderave area of West Vancouver, B.C. Their motto is Modern Fashion…Timeless Style which is the direction given for this website’s design. Or decision was to create something modern and clean that caters to the modern woman. We coordianated with her instore brands such as Blacky Dress, Cheri Milaney, and Sara Pacini, and created a unique gallery of fashion and design that are in season.

This WordPress design mimics many high-end fashion and clothing brands but keeps the user interface easy enough for the Maureen to update her content in the ever changing fashion retail market.

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Coke – 2010 Olympic Torch Relay

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:56:44 +0000

I provided this design to my good friends at Sixty4Media who provide social media solutions for companies that want to engage with their customer better.

Coca-Cola is an official sponsor of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games torch run and as such, they were in need of a social media newsroom. The goal of the newsroom, built on WordPress, is to bring together images, videos, news releases and updates about the run in a central and branded location. We were able to provide a design, theme, and two full sites (in French and English) using WordPress. It was a real treat to work on this project as we watch the countdown to the Games.

Camp Kintail

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:50:52 +0000

Camp Kintail is a Presbyterian summer camp for kids located on the shores of Lake Heron in Ontario, Canada. Summer camps, like so many non-profit organizations, need to attract kids, young leaders, and donations on a limited budget. But one Camp Kintail’s strengths is their highly motivated alumni, and volunteers, not to mention a very-engaged leadership. So the strategy for their website was to create a robust usable website that’s easy to update by the Camp Kintail director (Theresa MacDonald-Lee) and her team.

This is where WordPress really shines. I was able to use the free tools already available on the internet that Camp Kintail was currently using such as Flickr and Blogger. With WordPress’ vast plug-in library, I was able to make it easy for Camp Kintail to make changes and updates to their website without a large learning curve. I think it’s important to not complicate your clients, but make their life easier! Hopefully, as the Camp Kintail website becomes a stronger marketing and communications tool, the value of having a customizable interface, will be an asset to their growth.

Webdesign Award

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Riese The Series

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:36:46 +0000

Riese the Series is an steampunk inspired webisode shot using the Red Camera. The vision for this project is to create a website attracted fanboys (and fangirls) to watch episodes, engage in the community, and emerse themselves in the Riese world. Promotions for the Riese the Series website was coordianated through Social Media outlets such as Facebook, and Twitter.

SixSix8 teamed with Novel Media and create a strategy and design for the Riese team to help them make their ideas for the film to come alive. The project was divided into 1 phases. The first was a place holder website made to direct the potential fans to a facebook site. The second phase was a wordpress design created to receive traffic from an aggressive marketing campaign at Comic-Con 2009. Our intention is to properly direct users to different engagement tools (forums, blogs, facebook, twitter, etc.)

The final phase will be the final resting place for the video series. Each of the 10 episodes will be released on a schedule, and the users will be able to watch, comment and participate in the adventures of Riese and her ever evolving world of Elysia.

UPDATE: Episode 1 “The Hunt” released on November 5.

TELUS TeamVision

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:29:00 +0000

TeamVision is an corporate video series distributed bi-weekly to TELUS employees nation-wide. Shot, edited and presented in a lifestyles magazine format, TeamVision showcases TELUS’ spirited teamwork, innovative technologies, and highlights new products and services. This award winning corporate communication engages an average of 11,000 employees across Canada and helps bring a national corporate closer together.

Established in 2002, teamVision is distributed to company employees via email and featured on the corporate internet and the corporate digital signage network. One of the major challenges is to create innovate techniques to broadcast this presentation in an ever changing technological and social landscape. The initial broadcasts were transcoded in a postage-stamp sized video window. During SixSix8′s involvement with this project, teamVision has evolved in using syncronized PowerPoint, closed captioning, audio translation, online contests, social commenting, star rating and HD/widescreen presentations. The goal was always to create a more engaging experience for users, all the while never detracting from the core message.

SixSix8 has helped TeamVision has won multiple awards including mutiple Gold Quill awards from IABC, and 3 international Stevie Awards (widely considered the Oscars of the business world).

Camp Columbia

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:47:34 +0000

Camp Columbia is a Christian summer camp for children located on Thetis Island, BC, just off Vancouver Island. Each summer, Camp Columbia welcomes hundreds of all ages kids to their action-packed camps and leaves them with an experience of a lifetime. During the off-season, the camp’s facilities are rented to youth groups, company outings, and school outdoor programs.

Both the summer and offseason programs were equally important, and both needed an unique design to cater to interested adult groups and inquiring parents and kids.