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Debbie Parhar

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:40:44 +0000

Debbie Parhar is Public Relations and Communications specialist located in Vancouver. She has worked with the largest CEOs and corporations in BC and helps them define their communication goals. Realizing the growth in communications online, she directed me to create a website and blog. What a treat it is to work with someone who can create communications plans and strategies! It makes designing significantly easier. Designing Debbie’s website made me re-appreciate the incredible value is simple, clean websites.

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!

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.

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Robert Wilson Music

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:12:17 +0000

Robert Wilson is a Canadian singer-songwriter in Vancouver, BC. He has released 3 albums full of highly personal songs range from sweetly quiet to playfully upbeat. Robert has established himself as one of Vancouver’s most engaging live performers, and has shared live shows Aimee Mann, Shelby Lynn, Jason Mraz, Dan Bern, eighties soft rockers Air Supply and The Brothers Creeggan (The Barenaked Ladies), to name just a few.

On the eve of the release of his third studio release “Lovers One – Haters Zero”, Robert Wilson needed a new website which more closely aligns with the look and feel of this album art. So his website was inspired by a 70′s ‘Saul Bass’ design mixed with a west coast flavor. WordPress was used to help Robert Wilson connect and communicate with his fans pulling in Flickr, YouTube, and blogging to make his website come alive.

If you want to listen to Robert Wilson’s music, you can download his mp3s on iTunes or Bandcamp.

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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.