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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

  Long before reality television took over prime time, we had the "true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house." The Real World casting website ties together the show's devoted community of viewers, blurring the line between cast member, fan, and judge. The site is designed to be an immersive experience, in which members can join the action by submitting "confessional" videos or stay behind the scenes and vote for future cast members. Killswitch guided MTV through a process, with an objective to provide long term stability to this site and was able to use our unique experience in the high traffic site model, to provide invaluable development support once this site launched. The site is a custom Ruby on Rails application that combines unique knowledge of the ROR framework and the objectives of the client, to bring into alignment the overall goals of MTV. Visit the site to see what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real - digital-style.
  MTV :: Real World Casting / web

• Discipline - print

  Two new Vosges catalogs have announced the arrival of Spring. Exotic chocolate bunnies, red velvet party cakes, and flying chocolate pigs are just a few products that fill the pages of this year's Easter and Mother's Day catalogs. The theme was green, so we've adorned the pages with organic shapes that gradually build in complexity as they reach the center spread. Tips and ideas for being more green emerge from the edges of the pages atop multi-layered leaf-like shapes, communicating Vosges' eco-friendly sensibility.
  Vosges Haut-Chocolat :: Spring 2008 / print

• Discipline - multimedia

  As a way to connect American Express card members with PGA professionals, Momentum engaged Killswitch to design and build an online game where players can obtain tips and insight on ways to improve their game, as well as apply their knowledge to redeem American Express Reward points.The game allows users to choose their player, clubs and is an interactive experience that makes you feel while you're pushing a pencil in the office, you're really swinging a club on the fairway.
  American Express :: Online Golf Game / multimedia

• Discipline - web

  MiddleSeatBlues is a website built by Killswitch for Concur with the goal of bringing business travelers together to share their travel stories and help each other out when they’re on a trip and in a jam. The goal of this project was not to simply create a social network for business travelers, but to create a network that offered business travelers tools that they would find indispensable when planning trips and actually traveling. To do this, Killswitch worked with Concur to identify what features MiddleseatBlues would offer that would be unique to the site and how to present information in a way that separated the site from other travel-orientated sites. Our solution was to allow users to rate nearly everything on the site, beyond just the restaurants, hotels and airlines. Users can rate other users, or “heroes” blog articles, “True Travel Stories” and photos. The rating system allows for the highlighting of exceptional content and, eventually, the site itself will be able to make suggestions to users.
  Concur :: Middle Seat Blues / web

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