Web

A good website gives your audience what it’s looking for. And it tells them what’s important about you. From concept to marketing and visual appeal, we design sites that are user friendly and technically proficient.

  • Project Commercial construction company
  • Client Diptera Projects
  • Client Since 2006
  • Sector

The Diptera Projects site is based on our own Workingfolio gallery template.
URL: diptera.ca

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  • Project Colin Thomas, Substantive Editor
  • Client Colin Thomas
  • Client Since 2011
  • Sector

It’s gratifying to work with skilled communicators. In this collaboration with Vancouver editor, writer and theatre critic Colin Thomas, we developed a site showing his writing and editing skills in action. Thomas developed the idea of the visual icons for the main navigation and urged us toward a light and accessible graphic interface.
URL: colinthomas.ca

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  • Project Union website
  • Client Heat and Frost Insulators
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

URL: insulators118.com

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  • Project Graphic design portfolio
  • Client WriteDesign
  • Client Since 2011
  • Sector

URL: writedesign.ca

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  • Project Union site
  • Client CEP Media One
  • Client Since 2012
  • Sector

Using a simple custom-made WordPress Content Management System, the Media One site allows CEP staff to update news, post images and manage the site for the union’s 1200 members.
URL: cepmediaone.ca

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  • Project Workingfolio

Workingfolio is a portfolio website template for visual artists developed by Working Design. Its goal is to provide artists with a customizable, affordable and professional website. We set up the site, assist with content development and basic marketing and teach users how to update and maintain by themselves. We used the popular WordPress CMS (Content Management System) to develop Workingfolio.

Go see the demonstration model. www.workingfolio.com

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  • Project Research institute website
  • Client Columbia Institute
  • Client Since 2007

The Columbia Institute focuses on sustainable, inclusive communities and work in Civic Governance. The site is a hub for municipal leaders, researchers, academics, labour and students.
URL: columbiainstitute.ca

Columbia Institute
  • Project Health research site
  • Client BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
  • Client Since 2004
  • Sector

The Phi Women health research site allows groups across Canada to communicate and share information about gender-based health delivery research and practice.
URL: promotinghealthinwomen.ca

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  • Project Campaign website
  • Client Heat and Frost Insulators Local 118
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

BC’s mechanical insulators’ union built this campaign to raise awareness about the environmental benefits and cost savings of properly installed mechanical insulation. Their message is aimed at developers, other mechanical contractors, building owners, architects, engineers, politicians and senior staff at all levels of government, and the public.

URL: www.energyconservationspecialists.org

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  • Project Campaign website
  • Client BC Federation of Labour
  • Client Since 1998
  • Sector

The Coalition to Build a Better BC launched its “Fair Taxes and Good Public Services” campaign to encourage public discussion about the benefits of fairly applied taxation.
URL: bestdealbc.ca

Coalition to Build a Better BC Fair Taxes
  • Project Psychotherapist website
  • Client Kollar Counselling
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

URL: www.kollarcounselling.com

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  • Project Journalism website
  • Client Ron Verzuh
  • Client Since 2010

URL: www.ronverzuh.ca

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  • Project Research organization website
  • Client Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

The Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health at Simon Fraser University is at the forefront of doing research and sharing knowledge on intersections between gender, social inequities and mental health. Working Design developed a site that helps connect researchers within specific study areas, showcases new research, provides a source for news and upcoming events.

URL:  www.socialinequities.ca

Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health website
  • Project Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Client Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Client Since 2005
  • Sector

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House has been serving a diverse east side community since the late 1950′s. The website development was the core piece of an overall rebranding project that Working Design undertook with the organization. Many of Kiwassa’s users speak English as a second language. We emphasized photographs and large display buttons to encourage visitors to self-identify and quickly access the programs designed for them.

URL:  www.kiwassa.ca

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Project History project website
  • Client BC Labour History Centre
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

The BC Labour Heritage Centre site informs readers about the history of work and working people in the province while acting as a hub for gathering stories, photos, videos and more. The frequently updated blog connects visitors to issues and events linking labour’s history to the present.

URL: www.labourheritagecentre.ca

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The Protecting Justice for BC website promotes three separate campaigns. The first makes the case for legislative change on Wrongful Death. The second highlights auto insurance and ICBC-related matters. The third campaign promotes the need to preserve the Civil Jury as a cornerstone of civil law in BC.

URL: www.protectingjusticeforbc.org

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Patricia Viel’s artist portfolio site focuses on the Vancouver painter’s four main marketing themes displayed on the home page slide show. Users can choose from a portfolio subject – portrait, landscape, home portraits– or learn about the classes she offers. The site is based on the Workingfolio WordPress theme developed by Working Design to assist visual artists in meeting their marketing goals.

URL: www.patriciaviel.com

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  • Project Realtor website
  • Client Gino Pezzani Realty
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

Lower Mainland realtor Gino Pezzani needed a redeveloped site that he could update easily, something that his old site didn’t allow. Using a readymade WordPress theme, we were able to quickly adapt his existing content into a much more visually accessible site that met his marketing needs. Already web savvy, Pezzani did a lot of the work himself including adapting his banner design, loading content and adding various widgets. Looking to buy or sell some real estate?

URL: vanhomesales.com

Gino Pezzani Vancouver Home Sales
  • Project Psychotherapist website
  • Client Cheryl Woolstone Counselling
  • Client Since 2009
  • Sector

Since it was launched in 2009, the Cheryl Woolstone Counselling site has allowed her business to “burst at the seams” reports the psychotherapist and Imago Relationship counsellor. Woolstone has used a regular blog and a focused Google adwords and Facebook campaign to refine her site content and significantly  boost her client base.

URL:  www.cherylwoolstonecounselling.com

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  • Project Yoga studio website
  • Client The Yoga House on Mayne Island
  • Client Since 2007
  • Sector

The Yoga House on Mayne Island‘s site offers class and workshop schedules, teacher information, travel and studio rental information. Certified Iyengar yoga instructor Elizabeth Adilman also posts regular columns on yoga-related topics.

URL: www.yogahouse.ca

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  • Project Community services website
  • Client North Shore Community Services
  • Client Since 2008
  • Sector

North Shore Community Services Connect for Kids is an online directory offering information and support for families with young children. It is a directory of comprehensive, searchable links that can be looked at and sorted in a number of ways, including by specific activity and age group. The home page provides news and a spotlight section for upcoming events.

URL: www.connectforkids.ca

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  • Project Union website
  • Client CEP 2000 The Media Union
  • Client Since 1997
  • Sector

CEP 2000 is Working Design’s union. Also known as the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 2000, the union represents about 2500 media workers across BC. This site features two kinds of news on the home page –local union-related issues and union material from elsewhere. Information is updated almost daily. The site also features everything you’d want to know about the union and its members. It presents job listings and complete contracts for most of its bargaining units.

URL: www.mediaunion.ca

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