Two New Bronze Awards for Exceptional Website Design!

As one of San Francisco’s leading graphic design firms, Project6 Design has been honored once again from the prestigious Horizon Interactive Awards with two new Bronze Awards for website design excellence.  The 2016 winners were just announced and highlight the year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production.   

For fifteen years, the Horizon Interactive Awards have recognized, promoted and awarded the best websites / website design, interactive, videos, online advertising, print media and mobile applications.  Each year the organization receives thousands of entries from all over the world, and the competition is judged by a volunteer panel of industry professionals with backgrounds in diverse multi-media, graphic design, advertising and marketing.

Our last blog post focused on the Traina Foods project, which was one of our Bronze Award winners.   Project6’s other Bronze Award, in the category of Advocacy / Non-Profit, was for the extensive redesign of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) website.   Our success on the DRK project was important as they are a global venture philanthropy firm that supports early stage, high impact social enterprises.  The organization believes that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.  

Before we began the project with DRK, their website only supported desk-tops, and was cluttered and not easy for visitors to navigate or find what they needed.  Perhaps most importantly it did not persuasively or effectively communicate the foundation’s powerful mission of supporting passionate individuals who can change the world. 

Our tasks included designing a longer page scrolling experience across the site in order to showcase individual organizations and breaking news.  Project6’s team also simplified and streamlined the architecture.  By creating a unified portfolio section, visitors are now able to browse both organizations and people.  In addition we developed a new community section that allows DRK’s entrepreneurs and alumni to share news, resources, and upcoming events.   As with most of our projects, DRK’s new site is built on a WordPress platform and is simple for staff to update and grow.   

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.

Let the Experts Help You Communicate Your Message

Since 2001 Project6 Design has been assisting high tech, retail, educational and non-profit organizations to communication their message through branding, print materials, and web design and development.  We are one of the leading graphic design firms in the San Francisco area and we have won dozens of awards for our many projects.   

 

Our expertise is to help clients strengthen or rework an existing brand or to create an entirely new one.  We provide a wide array of services including brand family design, logo development, identity system design, custom graphics, infographics and icon design.  Businesses and organizations have turned to us for help solving problems including a brand that no longer resonates with customers or a shift in a company’s direction that makes their current brand obsolete. 

In addition we can create a broad range of print materials that convey your brand's personality and speaks to your audience clearly and concisely.  Our services include trade show booth designs, marketing collateral, conference materials, book designs and stationery systems, annual reports and much more. 

However our comprehensive services do not stop there.  The Project6 team also designs and builds enterprise-level, responsive websites.  We use Drupal as our core development platform and create highly-usable interfaces that allow site administrators to easily update and edit content as well as intuitive navigation to attract customers and drive business.  

We invite you to visit our website to learn more about our graphic design firm and the many projects we have already successfully completed.  Let us help move your company or organization forward with strong branding, effective print materials and responsive websites. 

 

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.

Project6 Design Wins Gold at the Horizon Interactive Awards Competition

The Project6 Design team was proud to be recognized for their excellence with a 2016 Gold Award for the Corporate & B2B website of the luxury home automation company, ELAN.  Sponsored by the Horizon Interactive Awards, the Competition recognizes the best interactive media production work from among entries from across the globe.  This year’s winners were selected from over 1,200 submissions representing 20 countries and 40 US States.   This year’s winning entries showcase the industry’s best interactive media solutions including web sites, mobile applications, print media online advertising, video, and more.  

Project6 Design’s recent overhaul and redesign of ELAN’s website resulted in a clean, visually appealing site that is easy-to-navigate, update and maintain.  In fact the new, updated, mobile friendly website design better complements the company’s goal of simplifying and enhancing a connected home.   

The customizable design system utilizing Drupal as the CMS allows ELAN staff to easily edit or add content. Highlights include improved functionality making it easier for dealers to be found and products to stay up to date. In addition, a custom feed of products automatically updates the website, creating product pages on the site and populating the content on those pages. 

ELAN’s business model involves creating private network hubs for their customers that seamlessly combine music, TV, climate, lighting and other home systems with an easy-to-use interface that puts the user in control whether at home or away.  An ELAN system allows users to see, hear, and respond to visitors while sitting on the couch, in their car or out of the country.   

We encourage you to visit our website for more information regarding our graphic design and web development solutions.  Our experience includes working with both large and small companies in a variety of sectors such as high-tech, retail, educational, and non-profit organizations. 

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.

Need Help Building Your Brand from the Ground Up?

Among our many successful projects, the team at Project6 Design has worked with clients to help them build a brand and online presence starting from the ground up.  One such project was Presido Classics, which was a newly formed startup that offers design professionals a trusted source for affordable and fair-trade, luxurious natural fiber window treatments and rugs. 

Our tasks involved helping Presido Classics create a customer experience that would effectively communicate the exceptional value of the sustainable sourced luxury home textiles.  We were also charged with developing a brand strategy that would easily scale as the company grew.  In addition we had to build a fully customized ordering process that offered the ability to adjust costs at will. 

As most of our projects begin, we started by researching other similar luxury and environmentally conscious brands to get an idea of not only the products but what customers were looking for.  Our team did an in-depth analysis of the desired user experience as well as created a storyboard that was used to develop a wireframe structure for maximum visual impact and to support the many needed customization options.  

By using Drupal commerce to build a custom ecommerce system, we gave Presidio Classics a responsive website that is as conducive to content management tasks as to search engines. Once you take a look at the finished product, we are sure you will agree that the site is not only visually appealing with its clean sans-serif logotype, neutral palette, and open page layout but it is also extremely user friendly.  However the benchmark for success from Presido Classics was that we created an ecommerce site that allowed for complete pricing flexibility as well as seamless customization.    

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.

Providing the Framework to Attract Customers & Keep Them Coming Back

While we are proud to be a multi award-winning graphic design firm, our biggest accomplishments come from providing clients with the framework they need to attract customers and to keep them coming back.  Our experience includes helping some of the leading retail, high tech, educational, and nonprofit organizations to effectively portray their story with strong branding, print materials and web design and development.  Located in the Bay Area, we have been privileged to work with the Belvedere Tiburon Library, John Muir Health Foundation, Stanford University, Enphase Energy, and Cartelligent to name but a few of our clients.

You may want to consider using the services of the experts at Project6 Design if you are one of the many companies or organizations running a website that no longer resonates with your customers or reflects your brand’s true character.  Often an aging website can lack direction and not only be difficult to navigate but have clunky graphics and outdated messaging.  Since the Web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment, it is important that your site effectively portrays your brand’s story as your competitors’ websites are just a click away.      

Project6’s team has the experience to help you do something about an outdated website.  We will overhaul your web presence by refining your site’s architecture, simplifying navigation and developing more focused content rich pages.  We can also update your metadata with unique keywords for more relevant, organic searches and optimize your site for higher search rankings. 

Above all our goal is to design and build enterprise-level, responsive websites that are easy to update and maintain and offer your customers a seamless experience on a desktop, tablet or mobile device.  Please visit Project6 Design’s website to learn more about our complete graphic design services and how we can assist your company.   

Founded in 2001, the award-winning Project6 Design is a 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 innovative 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.