Our Work

WORK handles a wide array of clients with unique brands. This portfolio represents just a fraction of the projects done for a sampling of businesses with various mixed media needs.

Interactive Design

Wherever they go, there you are

A well-executed interactive piece can help promote a strong relationship with your client base. The more interesting the interaction, the more likely your clients will return to your site. With the interactive services we provide, we help you look more interesting on the web.

The world wide web is the first place people turn to for more information about your product or service. This is why it’s essential for you to take charge of your online identity. AT WORK, we keep you up to date and informed through statistics so you can clearly see your ROI.

Services

• HTML5/CSS3
• custom Wordpress themes
• web design
• online marketing
• social media marketing
• e-commerce
• microsites
• e-mail marketing
• UI design
• web analytics
• sweepstakes
• geo-targeting

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Print Design

Great things come in great packaging

Print design covers a wide range of tangibles. Print collateral helps enliven a client or customer’s hands-on brand experience for which there truly is no substitute.

Our broad repertoire of print services includes everything from brochure and book design to large scale car wraps and trade show banners. We work with only the best printers to get the richest color and paper quality to ensure your print pieces reflect the superiority of your product. Our printers are green friendly, FSC certified and use soy-based inks. We will personally go to press checks so that your job comes out in the right color, cut, and placement for your project.

We have created award-winning print design and identity standards for our clients. Although we do not position ourselves as a print shop first and foremost, our print skills stack up with many of the finer traditional design firms.

Services

• marketing
• promotional swag
• information graphics
• lithographics
• signage
• direct mail
• brochures
• car wraps
• personalized mail
• magazine ads
• tradeshow graphics
• sales folders
• sell sheets
• text books
• media guides

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ESPN X Games Event Media

A Case Study on the Summer & Winter X Games

If you have ever visited our Santa Monica office, you might have noticed the BMX bikes hanging upside-down from a pulley system on our ceiling or the surfboard leaning against the wall, still wet from a morning surf. "Cough, cough," we might hear on the phone from an opportunistic employee after a good snowfall. At WORK, there is no lack of enthusiasm for action sports so when ESPN Event Media approached us in 2006 to create a Media Guide for the Summer X Games, we pounced on the project. Having a limited budget but a high standard for design quality, our client sought to restore some glory to the guides they distributed to members of the media at their Summer and Winter games. They also wanted guides that adhere to green standards so it was crucial to work with printers that could produce books on recycled paper using soy-based inks.

While budgets run small for the X Games Media Guides, WORK has been granted almost full creative license. This allows us the opportunity to experiment with various formats, paper stocks, printing techniques, and design themes. Given our passion and familiarity with the subject matter, we have turned out some impressive and ambitious pieces. Our approach to the design and execution of the media guides has evolved since first taking on the project in 2006. Then, we created 52-paged black and white spiral bound booklets with full-color cover designs. While our client was more than happy with the results, we personally outgrew this formula and began to experiment.

X Games Moto X World Championships - San Diego - Media Guide Design

Given a slightly larger budget to create a special media guide for the Moto X Games in 2008, we created full-color, saddle-stitched books. For the cover, we simulated the effect of a mud-splattered tire tread mark using emboss with black foil on black card stock.

Summer X Games 14 - Winner of LACP Platinum Award for Press/Media Guide

Later that year, we decided to up the ante a bit further, using silver foil to stamp out a pattern of technical line art of the various mechanical tidbits that make up the Summer X Games sporting equipment. The interior pages, while not in color, carry out the highly illustrative motif of the cover. Fortunately, we don't have to toot our own horn on this one. The League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) did us that honor by awarding us with Platinum for excellence in the Media Guide category.

The X Games Media Guide project continues to engage and challenge us as we creatively push ourselves to take each new book to a new level. We try to push the envelope as far as we can, delivering to the members of the media something they can enjoy and remember from their experience covering the X Games. With them in mind, we are always thinking about what suits their needs best.

Winter X Games 13 - Media Guide Cover and Competition Schedule

Winter X Games 13 - Media Guide Interior Illustration and Pages

In Winter 2009, this meant creating a narrow, top-spiral bound book that could be clipped to ones lanyard for those in the snow who needed to keep their guides close but their hands free. In the future, we will continue to experiment with book formats and printing techniques, using feedback from those who read it to drive us towards our next solution.

Winter X Games 11 - Media Guide Design

Winter X Games 13 - Media Guide Alternate Design

Summer X Games 15 - Media Guide Interior Page Design

Agency Collaboration

Hello agencies! Room for one more at your table?

In a perfect world, you have a team of competent designers right next door to you at all times. Realistically in today’s economy, in-house production teams are a rarity and when they do exist, their capabilities are often limited. Our diverse range of services make us the desirable third party when it comes to outsourcing your production work. We keep our overhead low so our rates remain competitive without detracting from the quality of our output. But most importantly, we (A) take our client relationships very seriously so that our client (B) remains solidly in control so that they (B) keep their clients (C) happy and their product, whether it be in the medium of print (A1) or web (A2) fulfills their expectation. (See figure 1 to the left.)

Warner Bros. Television (C) via the advertising agency (B) >> WORK (A)

Our working relationship with Warner Bros. Television developed through collaboration with our direct client, an advertising agency. Late in 2007, budget restraints forced Warner Bros. to seek help from the outside to complete a large run of animated web banners. They sought out the help of the advertising agency who immediately reached out to their trusted production team from down the street: us!

TMZ on TV Online Web Marketing - Design and Flash Build

TMZ on TV Online Web Marketing - Design and Expandable Flash Build

Success on the banner ad campaign kept us on board through amajor rich media banner ad campaign for The Ellen Degeneres Show and then TMZ on TV for whom we created expandable animated flash banners in an array of sizes.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie Sweepstakes Minisite

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie Sweepstakes - Sample Entry Form

In early 2008, we worked on a major sweepstakes campaign movie tie-in to promote the release of HP6 in conjunction with Warner Bros. daytime television line-up. We built a geo-targed sweepstakes micro-site that allowed user daily contest entries.

WB Natpe Minisite

WB Natpe Online Web Marketing

King’s Hawaiian (C) via Brand 33 (B) >> WORK (A)

Brand 33 is a successful advertising agency with an in-house staff of designers specializing in print. They’re also long-time fans of the production services we have been providing over the last several years. Hence, it was a no-brainer when this print-savvy agency picked up King’s Hawaiian as a client that they would approach us with all of their web-based production requirements.

Newly Relaunched King's Hawaiian website designed by brand thirty-three, built by WORK

King's Hawaiian website features video recipes

King's Hawaiian website features downloadable recipes

In our two years working with Brand 33 on the King’s Hawaiian account, we have assisted them in completing several projects including web banners as well as a complete website overhaul. We also helped them run a national recipe contest, building a table-heavy database and providing detailed contest reports.

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