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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

  At Killswitch, we like to think we have game. But for those days when our knowledge of typefaces and XML just isn't impressing the opposite sex, there is the Pick Up Artist, a reality show on VH1 dedicated to helping the socially awkward and love in all the right places. Killswitch developed a casting site that allows "Lovable Losers" and "Deserving Dorks" to compete to be star pupils on the next show, in the hopes of learning how to meet and attract beautiful ladies. Like all of our community sites, the site is backed by a custom-built content management system powered by Ruby on Rails and contains features that maintain both traffic flow and the goals of the client. Oh, and by the way, what's your sign?
  VH1 :: The Pickup Artist / web

• Discipline - web

  Wake up, and get to school on time (or work, if you are like us)! Get Schooled is a non-profit organization aimed at engaging young people in activities to improve overall high school graduation rates and college success rates. In order to successfully meet the goal of attracting more students to the website, the Get Schooled and Killswitch teams put their heads together and created a website that had more ways to involve students than ever before. One of the many activities Get Schooled offers is to receive a Wake Up Call from a celebrity to ensure you arrive promptly to school. For every student who signs up, those schools would receive points in the Fall Challenge to compete for a pretty sweet prize—a celebrity appearance at your school. Killswitch created a user interface that made it easy to navigate the site and engaged the students long enough to participate in all of the Challenge activities the site had to offer.
  Get Schooled / web

• Discipline - web

  ArtPower! is the University of California at San Diego's energetic performing arts organization featuring artists of national and international renown in music, dance and spoken word. Killswitch designed and developed the ArtPower! site to meet the digital needs of the organization by providing access to event and organization information in an intuitive and dramatic interface. ArtPower! provides exciting opportunities for the UCSD and San Diego communities to engage in discovery and dialogue with creative innovators in the arts, and the website strengthens this communication. Visit Website +
  UCSD :: ArtPower! Website / web

• 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

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In a Digital World, Long Live Print Striking a balance between the tangible and the digital. Design Breaking Free from Javascript Struggle though tedious Selenium testing for a taste of new possibilities... Development Application States with ActsAsStateMachine Learn how to easily map the flow of a Rails application using the ActsAsStateMachine plugin. Development A Fresh Look at Virtualization Evoke the most flexibility from your hardware by virtualizing applications and operating systems. Development + More From Our Blog	Sunny with a chance of Productivity Finally spring has sprung in Chicagoland! The weather is getting warmer and we're all settled in our new office. Big Changes The Killswitch Collective is gearing up for some big changes this month! Check out February's news for the scoop! + MORE FROM OUR NEWS	Killswitch Tweets via @PSFK Pantone Unveils 336 New Colors: http://t.co/hqdyqmT1 Posted 12:43 PM on 04/24/2012 via @neatorama Hokusai’s The Great Wave Painted Using Coke: http://t.co/LoI1J335 Posted 10:05 AM on 04/24/2012 + Follow us on Twitter + Download our Twitter Skins Interview: Scenes from Behind the Wheel Killswitch had the pleasure of interviewing Artist and former Chicago Cab driverDmitry Samarov. Click here to read more. + Read More