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Architects are among the most demanding clients. How do you satisfy their drive for visual beauty in every detail, and still create a highly functional website?

Naterra Land, a premier provider of recreational and residential property, needed its website to heighten brand awareness, improve search results, and, ultimately, increase property sales.

Best Buy asked Larsen to create a “True Stories” microsite featuring videos of employees who describe how they helped customers solve problems.

Black River Asset Management, a global asset management company and wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill, asked Larsen to help enhance the visibility of its brand — and communicate sophistication and internationalism.

How a worldwide leader in factory and process automation strengthened its brand by redesigning its website for a global audience of prospects, customers, sales reps, manufacturers reps, and distributors.

Smithsonian Magazine called The Saint John's Bible, "one of the extraordinary undertakings of our time." The website showcasing this hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible had to be equally extraordinary.

TeleTech is a global leader in BPO, so we built a site that speaks to the global audience in 5 languages.

The Meadows at Castle Rock is one of the largest communities in Colorado. The site is run on a custom-built content management system.

Worksoft.com website redesign. With integration into Salesforce.com

MOVE Team Microsite for The Rocky Mountain Institute. One of 4 sites Imulus has designed for RMI.

GE Power & Water site with advanced lead generation capabilities.

Young American Center for Financial Education is a non-profit site designed for educators, students and parents.

Adidas: Complete redesign, custom content management system (CMS) and application development

Business Oregon: Website design and development for Oregon's Economic Development Department. Included a mobile site and AIR application

Tactical Distributors: Ecomerce website for a leading niche brand.

Quickbooks: Design, animation, flash & server side development for PURL campaign

Birchbox: Complete redesign -updated brand look and feel, magento enterprise ecommerce solution and complex hosting solution

NW Natural: More than just a visual face lift, we rebuilt the entire framework to cater to the wants and needs of site users. And how did we discern what users want and need? By taking advantage of new technologies that allowed us to track click patters, page traffic, and more, and then carefully analysing the results.

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Pickard Chilton Architects To complement our design of their dynamically resized main website, Design & Co. created a mobile website tailored to the iPad and smartphone experience. Rather than simply duplicate main website features, the PCA mobile website plays to the strengths of mobile device functionality–long, easy to scroll image bands replace point and click image presentations found on the main site.

Raw Art Works D&CO created a mission driven website complete with a robust content management system for RAW Artworks, a not-for-profit youth arts program based in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Boston Society of Architects One of our primary website initiatives for the BSA’s new website was to introduce a filtering tool, called "My BSA," to allow a site visitor to create a custom profile to "hand pick" BSA content tailored to an individual’s unique interests. The filtered content–articles, notifications, and upcoming events and activities–would appear as custom home page features, interactive calendar settings, and e-mail alerts.

Reed Hilderbrand Associates Recognized nationally and internationally for their highly refined and sophisticated aesthetic, Design & Co.’s second website for RHA provides an immersive image frame for their exquisite work.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals In addition to creating Ironwood’s complete branding program, D&CO designed a new corporate website that highlighted the $1.3 billion company’s identity as an employee-driven drug discovery firm with a strong value placed on team building and employee collaboration for its drug discovery programs.

Homepage of BRB (Be Right Burger) at eatbrb.com

Homepage of Cava Mezze Grill at cavagrill.com

Homepage of NothingButNets.net

Homepage of Artisanhouse.net

Redesign of Fanatiks.com

Redesign of Coredc.com

Bearded | A Design & Web Development Studio | Branding : Applications : Web : Print | Pittsburgh, PA

Wood Type Revival began as an idea for a Kickstarter project between Bearded designers Matt Braun and Matt Griffin. The two Matts promised to scour the globe for lost historic typefaces that now only exist as old letterpress wood type. Once the type was found, they started printing it on their antique printing press, and faithfully recreated those faces as modern digital fonts for modern designers. They then gave the digital fonts back to the Kickstarter project's backers in return for their contributions. The project received incredible support from the world's design community, easily surpassing it's initial funding goal. The digital fonts are now available on the Wood Type Revival online store. The fonts are also available for web use through Typekit, and one of the fonts is even available as a spell-your-own temporary tatto from Tattly.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is a national non-profit organization that has been helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities for 30 years. Their primary initiative, Building Sustainable Communities, is a wholistic approach to the revitalization of underserved communities that includes expanding Investment in housing and other real estate, increasing family income and wealth, stimulating economic development, improving access to quality education, and supporting healthy environments and lifestyles. Bearded was approached to develop an iPad application for LISC's 30th anniversary to help tell their story through an engaging, interactive experience. We worked with our contacts at LISC to develop the concept and structure of the app, and then created a design and interface that supported the needs of LISC and the app's users. The app features a timeline of the LISC organization, expandable navigation, photo viewers with a fullscreen option, and interactive statistic panels (they flip over when tapped to reveal more information). Creating the application as a native iPad app would have caused a number of practical problems, not least among them a tight timeline and the difficulty of getting Apple App Store approval. Our solution was to develop the project as a web-based javascript application which takes advantage of native iPad hardware features. This approach allowed us access to touch-screen commands such as touch, scroll, tap, doubletap, swipe, and pinch – while also giving us the ability to reuse elements of the app later for LISC's 2010 online annual report.

AIGA Pittsburgh is the city's chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. Every year AIGA Pittsburgh holds a contest for the city's best design work. For 2012, they decided to change the name of the contest from Context to PGH365, bringing it in line with AIGA national naming conventions. Bearded was asked to brand PGH365 and develop the print materials for the contest's first year. Our approach combined original wood type letterpress prints created in our studio with digital layout tools, resulting in eye-catching pieces that speak to the aesthetic sensibilities of designers. The narrative we developed for the series also conveys a sense of renewal and fresh starts: "We've forgotten who you were. We want to know who you are now."

The Sprout Fund Spring Program offers grants to organizations and individuals for projects in the Pittsburgh region focused on biodiversity. Bearded was asked to brand this new program – working with The Sprout Fund to develop the name, tagline, and logo – and design a print "teaser" card to raise awareness, and encourage applications for the new grants. We employed custom-printed woodblock textures and 2-color overprinting in the printed piece, to achieve an approachable hand-made aesthetic that could be printed on a tight budget and timeline. To add some variety into the cards we designed three versions showcasing different animals from the region, and printed the run on two different colors of French Speckletone paper. The paper is one of our favorites for appearance and environmental concerns – it's FSC-certified, contains 30% post-consumer recycled content, and was created using French's own river-based hydroelectric power. Once the teaser was in place, we followed up with an informational Wordpress-based website and a print piece that does double duty as a poster and brochure for the program (again on environmentally-conscious French paper).

Rodef Shalom is a Reform Judaism congregation located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Though steeped in historical importance, they are a progressive and forward-thinking congregation. This vision is currently under the direction of their young, articulate senior rabbi, Aaron Bisno. The issue that Rodef Shalom approached Bearded with was one of perception. Though the congregation espouses modern progressive views, with a focus on initiatives for the social good, they had become known more for their historical standing – lending them a mustier image than their activities and policies deserved. Launched on the heels of Pursuer of Peace, the Rodef Shalom rebranding and website are the first part of a comprehensive effort to position them as the big, open, progressive congregation they are. The site provides a wealth of information on the congregation and its activities, including a comprehensive events calendar, online newsletter articles, blog posts from Rabbi Bisno and others, and profiles of staff and board members. The logo redesign shifts the focus away from the sometimes imposing facade of the synagogue, towards the open, inclusive nature of the congregation. The figure / ground relationship between the colorful interlocking forms and the negative space emphasizes the spiritual nature of the organization

The HOLLY HUNT online experience brings the silhouette, texture and line of the HH collection into focus. Trade professionals explore luxury furnishings, lighting, textiles and leather through a personalized dashboard and real-time, interactive tools. To learn more, visit hollyhunt.com

When BMW asked 50,000feet to help launch MINI in the United States, the challenge was clear: to establish the vehicle as a lifestyle brand that would become a part of American culture. Through engaging catalogs, collateral, advertising, direct mail and packaging, we helped MINI exceed projections and secure the vehicle’s status as a car for the ages.

With an unwavering hand to the smallest detail, 50,000feet created a site for Lucien Lagrange Architects that helped them ascend to new heights. A showcase of some of Chicago’s most treasured architecture, the website conveys the sensibilities, subtlety and style that have become the unmistakable hallmarks of the world-renowned firm.

50,000feet partnered with HomeMade Pizza Company to deliver a fresh new website as well- designed as its stores. A fast-growing, take-and-bake pizza company with locations in Chicago, Minneapolis and DC Metro areas, HomeMade Pizza asked us to design and build a new site that incorporates a robust content management system with online ordering. The HomeMade Pizza Builder allows you to create and order the pizza of your dreams, using all natural, farm-fresh ingredients. This site was the company’s first step into e-commerce and a broad CRM program that included retail and social media channels. The site is based on a CMS that we extended to allow for the dynamic management of menu, item, region and store-level operational data. The CMS integrates with a custom pizza builder application that we created to support real-time custom configurations and pricing and that syncs online orders with in-store service, resulting in a seamless purchase and fulfillment chain.

50,000feet collaborated with Rohner Letterpress and Engraving to build awareness with their clients and inspire them to act. The direct mail communication employed an artisanal approach to represent a variety of printing techniques, all delivered with a personal touch. Its appeal was direct to the senses, playfully exploring how words sometimes take the shape of the sounds they make. The result combined sight, sound and touch in a simple, but impactful, series.

Designed to compete by providing lifestyle features and content, the site integrates blogging, educational articles and recipe videos along with product catalog and e-commerce features. The site includes marketing partnerships with Top Chef and Bon Appetit and has also been licensed, as a custom store for Bon Appetit. Custom features include a complex taste-matching algorithm that recommends wines based on what a user is looking at or based on preferences in their profile.

The newly branded web site for personal chefs- The Comfort Brothers. Check out the Comfort Brothers at http://www.comfortbrothers.com.

The marketing site for social collaboration platform- Groupsite. The objective was to create a site that prompted action, projected a sense of credibility, and active engagement. Check out Groupsite at http://www.groupsite.com.

The new product site for Overture Technologies' Student Loan Marketplace. A visually rich yet easy to update site using WordPress. It integrates into a full social strategy with Twitter and Facebook integration. Check out The Student Loan Marketplace at http://www.overturemarketplace.com.

A selection of web application interfaces that range from the travel industry to the financial industry. These interfaces included intensive wireframing, prototyping, and testing.

The online presence for the US Travel Association. This project included intensive information architecture, wireframing, and user research. These activities allowed us to create a great looking, easy to use site that demonstrates organizational value and membership acquisition. Check out US Travel at http://www.ustravel.org.

Modal is a digital agency that specializes in user experience design and social media. That means we know how to create a brand, design a user friendly web site, optimize a web app for ease of use, and generate awareness utilizing social media. Call us today at (703) 327-4639.