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GLEANR

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CLIENT: Crowdtrust Technologies
SERVICES PROVIDED: Branding, UI Design, Visual Design

Internet startup Crowdtrust Technologies needed to revamp their application's visual design and completely rethink the working title of the project [Crowdtrust]. POWERSHiFTER's team recognized that the core feature of the application was its ability to enable the user to easily organize and re-broadcast their valuable content 'gleaned' from the web into their important social channels.

An easy to use interface was designed that would enable the user to quickly parse their content collected from the web and then redistribute it back into their social network.

The name Gleanr was created to better describe the apps functionality and position the application to fit within a more recognizable web 2.0 vernacular. The type treatment is approachable and the green leaves are a nod to the word glean and it's harvesting origins.
 

JENEECE PLACE

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CLIENT: TELUS/Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children
SERVICES PROVIDED: Strategy, Creative Direction, Development, Flash Animation, Social Media Managment

Jeneece Place will be a home-away-from-home for children and their families who must travel for care at Victoria General Hospital. The idea for the house was the dream of Jeneece Edroff, a phenomenal young lady with an inspiring story to tell. Together with Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children and TELUS, it is Jeneece's goal to build this house by the end of 2010. In order to  help create awareness, the project needed an online portal to provide a hub for all Jeneece Place activities and communications.

 

ATB FINANCIAL - MYATB.CA

CLIENT: ATB Financial/NEWAD

SERVICES PROVIDED: Strategy, Design, Programming, Development, Flash, Media Planning & Purchasing

ATB Financial turned to POWERSHiFTER, in partnership with NEWAD, for the 2009 myatb.ca summer campaign. Looking to progress two previous successful summer campaigns, POWERSHiFTER worked to improve the already high volume of visits and site registrations. To achieve this, POWERSHiFTER recommended integration of a street-level sign up process via software-enabled iPod Touches and a targeted web banner campaign. The iPod Touch software facilitated direct connection with the target market via branded emails, resulting in an increased conversion rate.

   

SURF'N BIRD - A TWITTER'S LIFE

CLIENT: Twestival/POWERSHiFTER

SERVICES PROVIDED: Creative Direction, Motion Graphics, Script and Tweets. Music courtesy of The Cramps.

First place winner at the Vancouver 2009 Twestival! Inspired by social media's amazing ability to mobilize for great causes, POWERSHiFTER produced a short 60 second video to promote the international campaign for Charity Water.  Focused on the questions, "How do you use Twitter? Where do you use Twitter? What do you have to say about Twestival?" inspiration struck while I was running on the treadmill and listening to The Cramps. A little iStockphoto and a few after-effects later, I give you "Surf'n Bird - A Twitters Life." The video won 1st place overall and was generally very well received at the #yvrtwestival.

 

BCIT - WHATWOULDYOUCHANGE.CA

CLIENT: BCIT

SERVICES PROVIDED: Flash Strategy, Wireframes, Visual Design, Flash Development

POWERSHiFTER was selected by the BCIT IT department to provide strategy, visual design and Flash application development for the image change component of the social networking site whatwouldyouchange.ca. The site was part of an overall recruitment campaign that utilized a   mix of online and offline creative strategies designed to drive leads to the site through a call to action - "What would you change?"

   

TELUS ANNUAL REPORT

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CLIENT: TELUS, Engine Digital
SERVICES PROVIDED:Content Strategy, Story Direction, Producer, Visual FX

In 2007, Engine Digital hired POWERSHiFTER to produce the branded content piece above for TELUS Communications' 2007 annual report. TELUS consistently wins awards for their annual reports and this year was no exception.

 

ENGINE OIL WINE

CLIENT: Engine Digital

SERVICES PROVIDED: Content Strategy, Branded Content Production, Visual FX, Editorial

While at Engine DigitalI produced the company's promotional piece. My raw material? Some medium-grade French wine, a 1962 GMC, and the ex-bass player from SNFU. The agency partners wanted to create a fully branded self-promotional campaign just in time for Christmas, featuring an  eccentric vintner who used very non-traditional methods. I called in a few favours from my film production days to land a studio, a professional crew of over 25, a stack of old garage props,  and a video camera to record the event.

Many takes, many hours of editing, and even more hours of visual effects later, the story of odd Ed the vintner was born. View the Site View the Video

  • Engine Oil Wine - Best Interactive Microsite Business to Consumer -  Lotus Award [1st Place]
  • Engine Oil WIne -Best Online Single Ad - Merit
  • Engine Oil Wine -Best Online Advertising Campaign - Merit
  • Engine Oil WIne -Best Self Promotion Interactive - Lotus Award [1st Place]
   

TELUS.COM

CLIENT TELUS

SERVICES PROVIDED Content Strategy, Creative Direction

In 2005, TELUS launched a comprehensive overhaul of both front and back end legacy systems. POWERSHiFTER worked with the TELUS Brand Team, Accenture and IBM to redesign all telus.com pages while implementing the sites new usability features. The end result was a fresh and contemporary new look and feel to telus.com that included enhanced functionality to deliver a better user experience.


 

TELUS Future Friendly Home

CLIENT: TELUS

SERVICES PROVIDED: Content Strategy, Creative Direction

POWERSHiFTER was hired by TELUS to create the Future Friendly Home microsite and campaign. The campaign was designed to bring clarity to the term 'Home Networking' and to position TELUS as the leading provider in this area. The problem was that the subject of home networking was a term that just did not interest or resonate with the average consumer. The request was for an online platform that would engage the customer and answer the question "What is home networking and why do I need it?"

   

TELUS TV

CLIENT: TELUS

SERVICES PROVIDED: Content Strategy, Creative Direction, Audio Production

When TELUS decided to venture into the digital television market, their challenge was to roll out a service one city at a time and yet have a comprehensive marketing campaign that would attract new subscribers in only the markets where the new service was launching. The solution was a DM and Interactive campaign that would be geo-targeted as the service was activated neighbourhood by neighbourhood. The microsite designed by POWERSHiFTER demonstrated the uniqueness of the service in a way that quickly communicated the idea to consumers that receiving digital TV from the phone company was indeed real and very exciting. The site received a Merit Lotus Award in the Business to Consumer category.