MN Veteran Family Support – This is stage one of a proposed two-stage redevelopment of this Minnesota-based charity's web presence. We'll be adding online registration for events and programs and a volunteer management componant in spring 2010. For now, they have a clean, easy-to-read, (and we think quite attractive) site for potential clients - and potential donors.
Approximate time to design and build: 12 hours

Super Express Transportation – Straightforward and light on text - no reason to add bells and whistles to this one. They would just get in the way of customers finding the information they needed, and hiring this Cleveland-based company. Plus, in less than a month we saved Super Express over $1,000 by switching them to a cheaper hosting package and consulting on effective ROI for online ads and search engine placement.
Approximate time to design and build: 10 hours

Pamela Dills – Another start-to-finish website for an Ohio and Florida-based artist. Design sketches based on her works. Reconfiguration based on her feedback. Web hosting easily acquired using our walkthru. Dozens of galleries posted, contact email created, and more, all in time for the busy fall shows season.

Oberlin Community Services – This nonprofit's website was first built years back by helpful volunteers. Since then it had become a mix of styles, content, and organization. We started by identifying OCS's three constituencies – clients, donors, and volunteers – and then working with staff to merge existing web content and printed materials in a way that was easy to follow. While creating this clearer navigation, we built a design that lets visitors find the information they need – hours, contact info, or specific details on programs – at a glance.

Joel Haugen for Congress - Independent congressional campaigns don't have a ton of money available. We focused on a strong top graphic, simple layout, and the goal of providing the campaign with a design they'd like and only have to tweak slightly, thus cutting down on the amount of time it would take us to build. The small campaign staff makes all the updates to the site - a basic knowledge of one computer program is all they need.

Nanotech Innovations - One product, one lab, and an upcoming trade show meant this company was on a tight schedule. Despite a logo and color scheme change mid-design, we got this to them on time and on budget. We're low on ego here, so if you turn around and say, 'actually, can you use this design for part of the header' we will, in fact, use that design for part of the header.

Infinite Monkey Comics and Games – When Matrix Games (see 48 hour creations, below) changed their name and their look in 2007, they came back to us for a complete site redesign and reorganization. We worked with them on updating and expanding the content, finding a design that incorporated the new sign for their physical store and reflected the new tone of their business, and even got them new web hosting to complete the makeover.

A Different Spin – A four-man circus arts troupe in the San Francisco area needed a revamp to their old website. The previous version had some dead-end pages, haphazard image placement, and didn't fully capture the energy and style that make the troupe unique. We reorganized the site, created a new, brighter wrapper, and moved all their content and some additions to the new version.

Do It For the Squirrels – Oberlin College decided to create a separate fundraising campaign for young alumni and agreed that a website would be the central case statement. We settled on a more tongue-in-cheek approach with an air of 'officialness' to it; the mix draws alums in and keeps them browsing long enough for Oberlin to impart its message.

Rebecca Cross Textiles – Rebecca contacted us saying 'everyone has a website these days, and I need one just to keep up.' We discussed options for several hours while reviewing her work. The abstracted nature of her pieces called for a more modern design to highlight each piece as the center of its gallery page. The clean lines and black background of the main gallery page emphasize the strong colors and textures Rebecca typically employs.

Gayle Pritchard Art/GAPDesigns – Gayle had a book going to press in a few months and needed a website for the book jacket and tour. She also needed gallery space for her own artwork, some of which is for sale. We created this design using some of her pieces, bringing in elements of the more natural fabrics she uses. We chose a warmer palette and design for the wrapper to reflect the 'homespun' heritage of quilting that permeates her work.

The Heart Project – A small but growing organization in Indiana needed a design that capitalized on their highly recognizable logo, and that they could quickly update themselves. A graphics designer created a package of materials - letterhead, bookmarks, business cards - and we developed the site design to match the look.

The Oberlin Fund Professor X Challenge – In 2005-6, Oberlin College needed to push a comprehensive case statement to a more narrow group of alums. We adapted existing brochure text and fit it into a navigation scheme designed to be less administrative and more conversational – like how the alums remember their relationships with professors.

Oberlin Summer Theater Festival – Reorganization and redesign using an existing logo for a professional theater company in Northeast Ohio.

Women Aren't Funny – Redesign and minor reorganizing for a feminist sketch comedy troupe in New York City (they picked the name; we think it's clever).

obiegame.com – A semi-mysterious design for a semi-mysterious purpose...

Matrix Games Oberlin – site redesign for a small comic and game store that needed to highlight an upcoming event.

ARG: Government Office – quick design for use in a local alternate reality game. The emphasis here was on things like the logo, which added a sense of reality to the excursion.

ARG: Venture Capital Group – another design for another installment of the game. Here we sought a clean, professional look that merged idealist philanthropic motives (the logo in the top left) with a punchier, capitalist motif (the project descriptions and color palette).