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We offer our clients design solutions that span the depths of both the digital and print landscapes. We are: Design, Development & Creative Direction from one of Chicago's most dynamic agencies.

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• Discipline - web

  Total Immersion, one of the industry’s leading Augmented Reality (AR) firms, approached Killswitch for our services in partnering on the development of a microsite for Disney's Halloween Nights. The task was to develop a user experience that served as an interactive “Mirror On The Wall" application. Killswitch designed and built the user module where Villains are selected by the user. After a Villain is selected, Total Immersion's Augmented Reality plug-in appears. An illustrated mask for the selected Villain is transposed onto the users face and their hands are captured and used in real-time on the screen to play a series of games.
  Disney :: Halloween Time / web

• Discipline - multimedia

  Killswitch was hired by Hoffman York and the Wisconsin Lottery to execute the development of the Lottery's newest, online ad campaign. This campaign takes the realm of the online ad campaign to a new level with 3 synched ad units working together to introduce the lottery's Casino Game Book. The top ad unit housed 3 reels and a coin slot from a slot machine. Another unit underneath housed a lever that when pulled, drops chips out of the top coin slot, they tumble down over the web page itself and fall into the lower unit that housed the lever, stacking up in various piles. The Casino Game Book slides up from behind the piles of chips and the advertisement ends with the Wisconsin Lottery logo.
  View the ads in action here.
  Wisconsin Lottery :: Flash Banner Campaign / multimedia

• Discipline - branding

  October 30, 2008 announced the inauguration of Exhibit A, an annual charitable event for the benefit of one of the many non-profit institutions of St. Louis. This year’s Exhibit A event took place in conjunction with the grand opening of architecture firm Cannon Design's new St. Louis offices in a revitalized, historic powerhouse. The concept behind Exhibit A was to auction off original sketches by notable architects around the world and to donate the proceeds to the chosen charity, this year’s selection being De La Salle Middle School in north St. Louis. We worked with Cannon to come up with the name for the event, and once a name was chosen, we developed the Exhibit A logo, along with all postcards, invitations, programs and banners for the event.
  Cannon Design :: Exhibit A / branding

• Discipline - web

  Founded by Nicole Loftus ten years ago, Zorch has been evolving the promotional products industry by streamlining, purchasing and protecting the world's most powerful brands. In an effort to reestablish Zorch as the premier provider of branded merchandise, Killswitch was hired not only for branding the new Zorch but also to design and develop the new zorch.com. We worked side by side with the Zorch team to strengthen their brand through differentiation and creativity and ended up with a product that proves not only its credibility but the essence of who Zorch is as a company. Think you have what it takes to Get Zorched?
  Zorch / web

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