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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

  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

• Discipline - web

  Maxell is one of the world’s largest providers of media storage, as well as one the leaders in developing holographic imaging and OEM and RFID specialty technologies. The Maxell USA website was designed and developed by Killswitch in conjunction with Experienceitall Productions and Manhattan Marketing Ensemble in New York City. Built completely in Microsoft’s .NET platform, this site is backed by a custom-built content management system that allows navigation and page content to be updated and added by the client. + visit website
  Maxell USA :: Corporate Website / web

• Discipline - print

  The newest of Gen Art's Fashion Programs, The New Garde, is a non-traditional fashion show featuring the fall collections for three emerging designers in live model installations. The shows take place during New York and Los Angeles Fall Fashion Weeks. We created an invite, an html mailer, various web banners and a program to promote the show, but because the event did not feature models strutting down the catwalk, we had to devise a unique concept. Catering to the art installation model (where the models become "the art”), we took a sophisticated, high-fashion approach that provides an illustration of four models (each one a different, bright, bold color) on black covered in splattered paint.
  Gen Art :: New Garde 2007 / print

• 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

Perspectives	Latest News from The Killswitch Collective	Lets Get Social
Mr. Smith Goes to Twitter An amazing story about how a modern day David is fighting Goliath with social media instead of a slingshot. Perspectives Pretty Data, Pretty Code Bring a new level of clarity to your models by using presenter objects to format complex form data. Development DRY Up Forms with Custom Form Builders DRY up the view code in your forms by creating your own custom Form Builder. Development Automatic Admin Interface with ActsAsAdminable Automatically generate an admin interface for all your oddball, non-model site content. 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