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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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  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 - web

  Through drawing, sculpture, video, performance, & installation, New York-based artist Monika Weiss creates work that combines the qualities of endurance and duration with symbolic form reminiscent of medieval paintings and with the formal simplicity of Minimalism. A few months after we designed a catalogue for her exhibition, Vessels, the artist approached us to create her website, which would act as an online catalogue for all of her works, recent exhibitions, interviews, essays, and artist writings. Because of the significant amount of content and complexity of her work, we chose a clean and minimal approach to highlight her rich, layered works and texts. Visit Website +
  Monika Weiss :: Website / web

• Discipline - multimedia

  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 power house. 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. Along with the Exhibit A logo and all print collateral we created for the event, we also designed and developed a flash movie, illustrating the history of the power house, which played on a large screen at the event.
  Cannon Design :: Historical Presentation / multimedia

• Discipline - web

  Jenner & Block is a national law firm (headquartered right here in Chicago) of approximately 450 attorneys and widely recognized for producing outstanding results. Not only do their outstanding results reflect in their work, but in their website, as well. In a collaborative effort with Faust Ltd, the design firm on the project, and Jenner & Block, all three teams came together and created an exceptional website. The result is a fresh and inspiring vision of what the future of online law could be. A brand new feature that Killswitch implemented to give the site its uniqueness is what we call a "Virtual File." This allows users to assemble and package certain pages from the website (such as attorney biographies, practice areas, news items, etc.) and then download those pages into one PDF that they can keep on hand.
  Jenner & Block / web

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