Sunday, March 26, 2017

Comprehensive Design Services for Startups


At Project6 Design we have a lot of experience in helping new companies to build comprehensive identities.  Working closely with each client, we begin the process by creating a name and brand identity, along with print materials and a new, customized website.   

Our team understands how design plays a pivotal role in a corporation’s image, and we will use it to help enhance customer experiences.  While no one can control a person’s perception of your brand, our professional services will help influence it by communicating the right messages about your products and services in a clear and consistent manner.   

One such comprehensive project we did a few years ago was for a new solar startup.  Silevo is a solar cell innovator and photovoltaic (PV) solar module manufacturer that has advanced the use of silicon for solar in order to offer cost-effective high-performance solar modules. 

Our team was tasked with helping Silevo rebrand themselves from their former identity of Sierra Solar Power as they moved out of corporate stealth mode to introduce their innovative cell product in a highly competitive solar marketplace.  We first went to work to help them rename the company and to create clear messaging about the brand.  This was accomplished through a series of interviews with customers and management.   

Our next job was to create a new logo for the company as well as a complete corporate identity that included marketing collateral and a new website.  We used a content management system that allowed the Silevo team to easily update their content.   As a result of their great product along with lots of careful planning by the entire team, the company quickly received rave reviews.  Within three years, they were acquired by Solar City.   

Project6 Design has the expertise to help your company develop a new identity or to strengthen an existing one.  Contact us to learn more about our long-term, cost-effective solutions. 

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.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Increase Your Profits with a Responsive Website


To remain competitive and to ensure you are reaching all of your potential customers, your business should have a responsive website that works across any device.  Responsive designed sites automatically make the necessary adjustments to provide users with an optimal experience whether they visit your site on a widescreen desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. 
Some of the changes that occur when you build a responsive site include pairing down and resizing the text and images designed to fill a large desktop screen to that of a much smaller sized screen found on a mobile device.  In some cases superfluous images may not appear on a mobile device if they are in danger of competing with the necessary information that needs to be a part of the smaller display. 
A responsive website design is flexible enough to fit into any screen resolution and will automatically share all of your information across any device.  By integrating touch screen functions used on tablets and mobile phones and various screen sizes and pixel resolution, your website is able to detect the device orientation.  Furthermore, if your business is interested in driving relevant organic searches to your site using SEO, Google favors a mobile responsive site.
At Project6 Design our web and design services can help you to develop highly-usable interfaces that attract and keep customers.  Our team will create navigational structures that are easy and intuitive and allow your visitors to find what they want in a fast and logical way no matter what device they are on.   Project6’s experience includes UI/UX Design, Open Source Development, Content Management System Integration (Drupal!), Ecommerce Development, Custom Backend / Front-end Development, and much more.  Contact us to see how we 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.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Customer Satisfaction is Extremely Important to Us


Ever since Project6 Design was founded in 2001, we have been gratified to see our efforts pay off with the successes of our many clients.  We have experience working with high-tech and retail companies as well as educational institutions and nonprofit organizations.     

Some of our clients include the cookie and spread company, Biscoff, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, Rosendin Electric, Save the Redwoods League, DeLeon Realty and many more.  Projects for our clients range from branding, to print materials and web design and development.  

When we get positive feedback from our clients as to how our work is helping them communicate their message, we recognize that no one is a better spokesperson for our services than our customers.  One example of such praise is from Idil Kozanoglu, the Direct Marketing Manager for Biscoff.  Kozanoglu states that, "We asked Project6 to design a site that reflects Biscoff’s brand equity and serves as a platform that encourages interaction with our customers.”  She explains that we not only delivered on Biscoff’s demands but that we built a website that is both effective and aesthetically pleasing.    

Ashley Plaga from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation writes that, “Our website needed a big update in design and functionality to better showcase the growth of our portfolio and to reflect the new ways that people engage online. Project6 was able to very quickly understand and translate our look and feel into a fresher, updated website that reflected us perfectly.”  She adds that the final results were exactly as they had envisioned. 

Another one of our successful projects was for Cartelligent, a concierge car buying service.   Jessica Carstens, the Marketing and Operations Manager notes that, “We wanted a new website to meet two main objectives—to better communicate the value of the Cartelligent service and to increase the number of site visitors that contacted us.”  Carstens explains that Project6 was able to deliver on both of their objectives.  Contact us to learn how we can help your business. 

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.

Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Expertise to Drive an Increase in Relevant Traffic to Our Clients’ Websites


One prime example of Project6 Design’s breath of experience working with a diverse group of businesses and organizations was the design and development of a concierge car buying service website.  Cartelligent is an innovation company that connects consumers with the new car they want at the right price without the hassle of having to set foot in a dealership.   

Our task for Cartelligent included doing a complete overhaul of their website beginning with refining the site’s architecture.  We created a site that is not only easy to navigate but focused content pages to effectively funnel users to a contact form, which is tool by the company to get leads and gather information for future marketing.  Cartelligent also had us update metadata with keywords that will help the site get more relevant organic searches and optimize it for higher search rankings.   

Proof of our efforts were quickly realized when Cartelligent’s new site received a 344 percent increase in traffic and an huge 833 percent increase in traffic from organic searches within the year.  Project6’s redesign project also resulted in the company having a 69% increase in converting San Francisco Bay Area website visitors into leads and a 91% decrease in bounce rates. 

As part of our design and development services, we gave Cartelligent a new modern, streamlined parallax design along with a bright, fresh palette and content that is helping to increase brand awareness and user engagement.  In addition the new site is supported by a custom Drupal Content Management System (CMS) that is easy to navigate and as well as update and is fully responsive on a variety of mobile devices. 

The Cartelligent redesigned website was also recognized with a silver W³ award.  The W³ Awards recognize creative and marketing professionals behind award winning websites, web videos and online marketing programs.  Agencies worldwide, both big and small, competed for the awards. 

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.

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Complete Branding and Strategic Marketing Services


At Project6 Design, we expertly provide clients with a complete range of services including branding, print design, graphic design, web design, user interface design, information architecture, Drupal CMS, and web design and development.  Our extensive experience includes working across many different sectors including high-tech, retail, educational and nonprofit organizations.   

We will help you to communicate your own unique story, and most importantly to attract customers and keep them coming back.  Our team provides comprehensive graphic design solutions for virtually any communications challenge and will help you to create a strong brand and corporate identity from the ground up.  Throughout our more than fifteen years in business and many more in the industry, we have assisted clients from everything to logo development, brand family designs, annual reports and corporate brochures to trade show booth designs. 

When companies turn to us for programming services, we bring our expertise to create intuitive navigational structures and websites that are responsive no matter what device your customers are on.  Project6 web development team includes specialists in interactive technologies, usability and user interface design, and bring years of experience to developing smart websites that are architecturally elegant and easy to use.  Also our team is adept in PHP, JavaScript and other technology, and we even have a programmer that has the distinction of being one of the first 60 people to receive the Drupal Grand Master Certification.   

Furthermore, our web design and development services integrate a variety of sophisticated functions including content management systems, ecommerce development and back-end database integration.  Also when you have Project6 create, update or redesign your website, we will integrate our branding expertise to enhance your existing brand or help you to define a new one for long-term solutions.       

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.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Using Our Expertise to Assist an Innovative Philanthropic Foundation


We are especially proud of the fact that many of Project6 Design’s projects involve helping nonprofit and community organizations to improve their services and communicate a clearer message regarding the scope of their work.  One such project was to design and develop a microsite for the ClimateWorks Foundation, which is an organization that “mobilizes philanthropy in order to solve the climate crisis and ensure a prosperous future.” 

The creation of the Carbon Transparency Initiative (CTI) microsite is to keep track of progress toward a low-carbon future.  The site provides greenhouse gas emissions trends that will be used to allow funders of the ClimateWorks Foundation to leverage their response to global climate change.  The data will be analyzed to improve strategies and track progress of those strategies over time. 

Our job at Project6 Design was to help ClimateWorks to create a set of tools to help funders and decision makers within the climate community project as well as other partners to track and analyze this information.  We not only designed and developed the microsite so it is easy for users to navigate and access reliable, consistent information, but made it easy for system administrators to update. 

The Foundation is also using the ClimateWorks Tracker to draw upon peer-reviewed Carbon Transparency Initiative Models that will chart and record greenhouse gas emission pathways from 2010 to 2030.  Additionally the CTI will record year-to-year changes in order to track actual progress toward national emissions targets and allow for sectoral and regional comparisons. 

We encourage you to visit our website to take a look at the other projects we have featured on our site.  In addition to nonprofits, Project6 Design’s experience includes working with high tech, retail, and educational 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. 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.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Trust the Services of a Multiple, Award-winning Graphic Design Agency



When we say we are an award-winning graphic design firm, we really mean it!  Project6 Design has been the proud recipient of an impressive array of industry awards over our sixteen years in business.  

Last April, we were awarded four prestigious 2016 Horizon Interactive Awards.  The international contest recognizes outstanding achievement among interactive media producers and receives thousands of entries from all over the world.  Our honors included a silver award for Biscoff in the Restaurant/Food Industry category. In addition we were the proud recipient of three Bronze awards including Lighting Services Inc. and Rosendin Electric in the Corporate & B2B category, and Leisure Sports Inc. in the Health/Human Services category.  

In May 2016, we received three Silver Communicator website awards from their 22nd annual competition.  The Communicator Awards is one of the largest award programs of its kind in the world and recognizes big ideas in marketing and communications. Project6’s winning projects included the: California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) for the Health Care Services category; Lighting Services Inc. in the Manufacturing category; and Career Girls for the Charitable Organizations / Non-Profit category.   

In November 2016, we won a silver Davey Awards for the Elan Home Systems website and the year before we received three silver Davey Awards from over 4,000 international entries.  The awards are judged and overseen by 700 plus members of the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) organization to honor the best work from small agencies, firms and companies throughout the world.  Our 2015 silver awards were for the Rosendin Electric, Trihydro Corporation and Lighting Services Inc. websites. 

We also picked up five 2015 Communicator awards that included two gold for our redesign of the Rosendin Electric and the Belvedere Tiburon Library websites.  Our three silver awards were for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Trihydro Corporation, and a prominent university.  Our winning four categories included: Construction; Charitable Organizations/Non-Profit; Consulting; and School/University.  Please visit our website to learn more about our many award-winning projects and to find out how Project6 can help your company.  

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.