Project6 Wins Two Top Honors in Website Design

Project6 has again been recognized as one of the top San Francisco branding and website design firms! This time, we’re honored to receive two awards from the Web Marketing Association’s 16th Annual WebAwards for our work with the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) or Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Maritime Academy.

The WebAward program is an annual website competition (and one of the longest running) dedicated to honoring the best websites across 96 industries. Sites are judged by a panel of experts and is based on seven criteria: website design, ease of use, copywriting, interactivity, use of technology, and content.

For the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), Proejct6 was awarded an overall recognition for Outstanding Website within the Government and Energy categories. We expertly integrated a Drupal content management system to better showcase the organization’s impeccable analysis, research, and scientific programs. Now, users can effortlessly search and find a plethora of relevant content, tools, and links. Additionally, we created a homepage for EETD that automatically updates as new content, news, and events are created.

The redesign of California Maritime Academy website earned Project6 the Standard of Excellence award in the Education category. Project6 was responsible for the full site redesign and development. California Maritime Academy has a focus on maritime education and it is one of the 23 colleges associated with the California State University system. The goal of the new website was to make content easier to find and use for students and to sync Cal Maritime’s branding up with the rest of the prestigious California State University system.

Project6 Design, founded in 2001, is an award-winning graphic design firm committed to using intuitive design to shape brands and solve complex usability problems. We collaborate with clients to help them portray their brand's story and to communicate it in a clear and compelling way.  For the best brand, print or web design services, contact Project6, the leading San Francisco design agency.

The Benefits of a Strong Brand

The most successful brands are not just about pretty pictures, catchy tag-lines or the ability to generate recognition but rather their value lies in the extent to which they drive customers’ buying decisions.  Companies create and nurture their brand in order to influence the behavior of customers but the customer defines the brand by building a relationship based on their experience with it.  Moreover since many products on the market perform very similarly, it explains why marketers often place more importance on the customer experience than with the actual functionality of the brand.   

Also as many consumers tend to do business with a company they recognize and feel an emotional connection to, a well-defined brand can help to set you apart from the competition and to stand out in the marketplace.  A strong brand can even help you to better survive a bad economy.    

At Project6 Design, we are an award-winning San Francisco graphic design agency that is committed to shaping brands and solving complex usability problems with intuitive design. We understand the ways in which design plays a pivotal role in how your customers feel about your products or services.  While you may not be able to control an individual’s perception of your brand, you can influence it. 

Our graphic design services include branding, print materials and web design and development.  We begin the process by getting to know everything there is to know about your business and what message you want to communicate.  Our experience includes helping businesses and nonprofit organizations to strengthen and shape an existing brand or to create a new one.  Please see our website or contact us to learn more about how we can help your company develop a valuable brand.   

Founded in 2001, Project6 Design is an award-winning graphic design firm committed to using intuitive design to shape brands and solve complex usability problems.  By collaborating with clients, we help them portray their brand's story and communicate it in a clear and compelling way.  For high-quality brand, print or web design services, contact the top San Francisco design agency. 

Source: smallbusiness.chron.com/effect-brand-consumer-behavior-61767.html

Newly Launched Website for Important Philanthropic Program

The team at Project6 Design knows how to help businesses and organizations create lasting impressions and to convey their story with strong branding and customer-empowered websites.  In addition we are proud of the fact that we have had the opportunity to partner with so many nonprofit organizations that are doing their part to make the world a better place.  One such project was to design and build the website for the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP).  The philanthropic program was created to support the Kigali Amendment of the Montreal Protocol.   

The Kigali amendment consists of a commitment by 197 countries from across the globe to cut their production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).  The agreement reduces potent greenhouse gasses used in refrigeration and air conditioning by more than 80 percent over the next 30 years.  The hope is that this action will help us to avoid a projected 0.5° C global warming by the end of the century.   

A collaboration of 18 foundations, K-CEP’s focus is on the energy efficiency of cooling to increase and accelerate the climate and development benefits of the Kigali Amendment refrigerant phasedown.  To effectively explain their mission as well as the multiple resources the program offers, they needed a website that was organized and designed to make it easy for visitors to access the information they need.  Project6’s team worked with K-CEP to design and build a website from the ground up using WordPress as the CMS.  The newly launched site offers easy, logical navigation regardless of what device their visitors are on.  

Please visit our website to learn more about Project6’s extensive graphic design services.  We have examples of many of the successful projects we have done over the years and have the expertise to do the same for your business or organization. 

Founded in 2001, Project6 Design is an award-winning graphic design firm committed to using intuitive design to shape brands and solve complex usability problems. We collaborate with clients to help them portray their brand's story and to communicate it in a clear and compelling way.  For the innovative brand, print or web design services, contact Project6, the leading San Francisco design agency.

Recently Recognized by the Prestigious “Horizon Interactive Awards”

Throughout our many years in the business, Project6 Design has been privileged to be honored by many industry awards for our outstanding work.  Most recently we were recognized with two Bronze Awards for website design excellence from the Horizon Interactive Awards; one of the leading international interactive media awards competitions.  The recently announced 2016 award winners highlighted the year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production. 

One of our Bronze Awards was for the website design project we did for the DRK Foundation website (Advocacy / Non-Profit).  The other Bronze we received was for our website design for Traina Foods (Restaurant / Food Industry). 

Traina Foods, which is located in the CA’s San Joaquin Valley, grows, sun dries and produces premium sun dried fruit for Industrial Ingredient and Foodservice customers around the world, had a website that needed a complete redo.  Project6’s task included redesigning and developing the site from the ground up.  Working closely with Traina, we were able to fully and visually communicate their brand story and promise as well as making the site scalable to their future needs.   

By reorganizing the site content, we made it easier and more intuitive for visitors to browse the site and to locate the products and information they were seeking.  Our team enabled a secure partner login so Traina’s partners could take advantage of vital sales tools. The redesign also included a customized ecommerce shop designed to sync with their in-house inventory management tools.  Furthermore, we integrated a third-party store locator tool. 

We encourage you to take a look at the visually pleasing and colorful Traina site that now effectively communicates the family brand as well as the high quality of their products.  Contact us to learn more about how Project6’s broad range of graphic design services can help your company communicate its story.  

Founded in 2001, Project6 Design is an award-winning graphic design firm committed to using intuitive design to shape brands and solve complex usability problems. We collaborate with clients to help them portray their brand's story and to communicate it in a clear and compelling way.  For the best brand, print or web design services, contact Project6, the leading San Francisco design agency.

Helping Clients Successfully Compete Against Established Brands

With over a decade and a half in business and more years than that in the field, we are a graphic design firm that helps companies establish strong identities to successfully compete.  One project our team worked on a couple of years ago was for a solar start-up, Enphase Energy.  As a new company, they needed to create a brand identity that would set them apart from the competition as well as to educate their audience on the new technology they were creating. 

By working closely with Enphase Energy, we developed a clean, modern brand identity and materials that would effectively communicate their message.  To ensure consistency across the board, we developed an “about us” brochure, trade show booth designs, corporate website design, and data sheets along with other items. 

However don’t just believe us that the branding for Enphase Energy was a huge success, but read what their Director of Marketing, Leesa Lee, had to say about it.  She reports, “The excellent brand and collateral design work that Project6 did for Enphase Energy helped us establish ourselves as a credible player in the cleantech industry. Project6 developed a brand identity for us that was the perfect balance of innovative and credible. We sold over 100,000 microinverters in our first full year of production.”

Further proof of Enphase Energy’s success is that they became the first solar company to go public on the U.S. market since the fall of 2010, when its stock began trading on the Nasdaq.  From start-up to global energy technology innovator, the company now has almost 500 employees, has shipped more than 13 million inverters worldwide, and operates in 21 countries.   Please visit Project6 Design to see other success stories and to learn more about how our graphic design and web development services can help your business.  

Project6 Design, founded in 2001, is an award-winning graphic design firm committed to using intuitive design to shape brands and solve complex usability problems. We collaborate with clients to help them portray their brand's story and to communicate it in a clear and compelling way.  For the best brand, print or web design services, contact Project6, the leading San Francisco design agency.