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Madrid is a diverse and complex city which talks to tourists as well as its citizens, a city which encourages creativity and business, a city which embraces talent and diversity, and a city whose identity is the sum of everything and everyone.
The brand becomes the city’s own story, a story which should not be constructed as it already exists. It is Madrid narrated in such a way that everyone is involved, diverse and inclusive, which takes from the past to look to the future. It’s a city which makes you part of it from the very start, and which uses the embrace to represent characteristics which Madrid demonstrates every day.
This embrace becomes a symbol representing a city’s narrative, forming an umbrella system capable of going further than just promotion or communication in order to express Madrid’s essence and its best attributes.
Find out more about this project: https://bit.ly/2yQclin

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Metajive is the exclusive partner for Lyft.com and LyftBusiness.com. Metajive works with teams ranging from internal Creative, Engineering, Product Marketing as well as C-Level Leadership in order to manage OKR’s. We are currently in the process of deploying Lyft’s new design system. 
Metajive is making an impact in multiple business lines with Lyft by implementing a variety of company initiatives. From high-level strategy to production and content population, our needs vary from project to project but our dedication to being great partners never waivers. Lyft is a fast growing organization that is achieving radical growth through innovation and differentiation through design. 
The Metajive partnership has allowed multiple departments to free up resources while delivering a higher level experience to its users. With a fast-paced organization, we are proud to be part of a team making great strides in helping them fulfill their mission of helping cities operate more efficiently through transportation. Solutions Provided:UXDesignSEOServer Configurations On-Site Support 
 
 

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BPM Partners is a financial consulting company that helps growing businesses find performance management software vendors and set up robust solutions when Excel is no longer sufficient.
The existing BPM Partners website was old, and looked it. 3PRIME was commissioned to migrate around 15 years’ worth of content and rebuild the site with a modern look and functionality. The client was extremely happy with the results.

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VIEW THE SITEINTRODUCTION
Mercado Little Spain in the newest venture from renowned chef, entrepreneur, and philanthropist José Andrés, and his first ever in CMYK’s hometown of New York City. Andrés has restaurants all across the globe and is well-known for his charitable work throughout Latin America, Africa, and the United States, and so we made sure to provide him with our warmest of welcomes—that is, a beautifully designed website, of course! Comprised of more than 35,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space in the newly constructed Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan, Mercado Little Spain is a food hall unlike any other, with numerous restaurants, bars, and a sprawling marketplace that all focus on the unique culinary history of Spain, jamón and all.
WHAT WE DID
Andrés’ ThinkFoodGroup came to us with a massive amount of design collateral, including unique logos and brand guidelines for each individual restaurant and bar, stylized design elements reminiscent of Moorish tile, and fonts and typeface, and asked us to coalesce these varied pieces into an approachable and beautiful whole. Partnering with the fabulous team at BentoBox—a new content management system that specializes in restaurant websites and content—CMYK took these patterns, signs, and colors and used them to evoke the style and passion Andrés’ project, so that the digital home for Mercado Little Spain truly becomes an extension of its physical space.Realizing that the website would also serve as a visitors’ guide for the marketplace, we also designed and developed a fully interactive map for people to both plan their trips from home and guide themselves within the hall using their mobile devices. And finally, as with all our web projects, we also made a point of designing and developing in full compliance with ADA rules and regulations, so that the site is user-friendly and accessible to all. 

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This 65-acre new community is one of the largest and most dynamic housing projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and will include retail, housing, and acres of new parkland and marinas. Radiant developed the brand for this community, positioning Brooklyn Basin as a new and contemporary neighborhood that brings the waterfront to life. To support the brand rollout, Radiant also produced a video featuring interview segments describing the project vision and clips showing how this new waterfront community will contribute to Oakland’s future.We also created a video for this project. Click this link to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHuC9juFR4&feature=youtu.be

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Brand development, advertising and tourism materials for a destination Island in Atlantic Canada.

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Platform: Web
Languages/Frameworks: Ruby on Rails 5.0, React, MySQL
The complete digital transformation of the business process for the leading executive coaching company, Acuity Coaching which has coached 432 of Fortune 500 companies till date.
An all-in encompassing system which includes Employee profile management, Coach management, Program module designing, Invoice generation, Inbuilt chat system, etc. This web application for Acuity Coaching is being built to manage not just their future contracts but also to handle their 12 years of legacy data.

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Where my ladies at? That’s right, we’re loud, proud and care about our freshness. But it sure would be nice if those products didn’t include 78 ingredients that you can’t pronounce. Introducing Simply Summer’s Eve, a line of vaginal cleansing and freshening products that uses simple ingredients, free from harsh chemicals. Holla!Services: Strategy, Positioning, Brand Architecture, Naming, Logo, Brand Design, Packaging Design, Production.

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Rebranding of a Premier IBM Business Partner that wanted to transition from a local IT provider, to a global technology giant.

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Challenges

• Quick competitive response shortened and reduced the impact of premium pricing on new product innovations and introductions


• Majority of the sales team had fallen into the order taker mode and were busy fending off competitive pressure to reduce pricing

Approach

• Completed a sales diagnostic including process, competency assessment, customer interviews, and competitor analysis


• Developed sales and marketing strategies to move behaviors from commodity based mind set and positioning to consultative high value sale with customers


• Created and delivered sales training to communicate new process and positioning in a two day workshop event for the entire sales force


• Provided follow-up consulting to help support reinforcement and performance management

Results

• New sales process and positioning changed the dialogue with customers and focuses on value added


• Sales force focuses on improving customer’s business and becoming a trusted adviser


• Premium pricing on new products had greater staying power and customer insights provided fuel for RFP’s innovation pipeline

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SAM Meeting, Greeting & Patrolling robot application. It allows users to interact and access real-time information directly from your smartphone.SAM is a connected autonomous humanoid robot that allows users to communicate and interact using a mobile app. The user gets real-time notifications about the activities and users can ask SAM to perform tasks through the application or ask questions to get answers instantly. Such as you can locate and call SAM to your desired location, Command SAM through a series of voice commands like Get me coffee, Allow SAM to escort and greet visitors or guests on site, Access all of SAM activities through a seamless feed, Send SAM to a charging station whenever you like.







 

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Food Geek Foods // 360 Degree Brand Creationhttps://foodgeekfoods.com/

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For Deutsche Telekom, we developed two interactive games to highlight two of their products during the international consumer electronics fair (IFA 2018), which took place in Berlin.


As one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom showcased a wide range of their new products over a 3000 m² hall designed by Meiré und Meiré. Users were able to interact with several digital installations in order to experience the latest features and product information in an innovative, fun and interactive way.Find out more: https://demodern.com/projects/telekom-ifa-gamingstations

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When you visit POAM’s Facebook and Twitter pages, you’ll see great engagement from union members who care deeply about the issues that POAM works on every single day. From Michigan legislation threatening to take away public employee pensions and healthcare, to coming together to help a fallen comrade or a friend diagnosed with cancer, the POAM social media presence is nothing short of a community. This needed to continue to grow and flourish as POAM did the same.
While we’d love to tell you that there’s one magic thing that’s given us overnight fame and fortune, we can’t. The truth is that we’ve worked hard and we’ve been consistent. We’ve had a few posts over the years go viral, we’ve promoted a few unicorns (posts that do extraordinarily well organically), and overall we’ve stayed true to the POAM brand in our content creation.
POAM’s membership and social following are also to thank for our overall success. The recent development of an App in Play/iOS has allowed direct communication with members via push messaging and geo-fencing for events.

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Love App Design

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CHALLENGE
Procter & Gamble was preparing to launch a strawberry-flavored line of oral care products and required packaging with a distinct tween-appeal.
 
SOLUTION
We developed a dynamic visual language for use across products, with a juicy, larger-than-life strawberry taking center stage for massive flavor appeal with a distinctly youthful but sophisticated spin.

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We’ve helped NGOs like TheRules.org promote global activism; crafted training materials for UN Peacekeepers; helped hedge funds capitalize on a good idea; contributed dozens of hours of documentary television to the world’s best broadcasters; even worked with publishers like Penguin to get buzz going for new book releases. At the heart of every piece we do is a story: an epic big or small.

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Overview
G&L Trophies & Gifts is a store founded by a retired firefighter and a retired police officer. With over 30 years in existence, they have been serving the community by providing quality fire and police gifts at affordable through their physical store in Chicago, and their ecommerce website for fire and cop fans all over the world.
Problem
Even though the Chicago Fire & Cop Shop built a solid reputation and are well known in the Chicago area, their online store and online reputation was a completely different story. Their leadership grew tired of an outdated website which became difficult to manage and it affected their revenue directly. After getting to know the client’s challenges and goals on a deeper level we identified the culprits:

• Online store was powered by an outdated software


• Online store didn't run on SSL which was a reputation issue


• Website had an outdated design and was confusing


• Backend administration wasn't user friendly

Solution
After rigorous discovery meetings, we immersed ourselves with the client’s situation and provided a detailed plan that will take major weight of the client’s shoulder and prove a solid foundation for growth. After 3 months of development and testing, Xtreme produced a unique eCommerce website that:

• Allows clients to quickly find what they're looking for and purchase easily


• Showcases the client’s rich history in the community in an interactive way


• User friendly design and interactive tools allow clients to connect with the brand


• Merges the client’s large social media following for cross-platform promos


• Automates client order, client support and follow-up process


• Increases positive online reputation and search engine rankings

Their new online store is the company’s foundation in today’s demanding digital world. Xtreme Websites will continue to help their long-term growth via hand-held consulting and strategic digital marketing campaigns.
View The Website
www.chicagofireandcopshop.com

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Since 2015 LaviniaNext is the full-services communication agency for Almond Breeze in Spain.
Almond Breeze, brand of almond milk that belongs to the American cooperative Blue Diamond, contacted LaviniaNext with the idea of generating a long-term relationship in its introduction of the brand in the Spanish market. The first step was the realization of a blind tasting where the product was chosen as the best almond milk in terms of taste. From that moment on, a strategy was carried out with a positioning based on taste.
LaviniaNext conceptualizes and develops the entire communication of the brand in all its channels, including the creation and management of its website, social networks and annual campaigns.
The result is that the demand for the product currently far exceeds the supply.
The SoMe monitoring demonstrates a great eagerness to find product and the creation of a lot of content related to the brand by consumers.

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Avista Pharma Solutions — an investor-backed CDMO — came to BAERING with three key needs:

• A strong brand message to unify three legacy businesses


• A significant increase in brand awareness that would match increased capacity resulting from capital investment


• A need to meet and surpass aggressive business-growth targets

 
With more than 200,000 square feet of space and several hundred employees, company-wide employee engagement and a cohesive external brand were imperative to business success.
 
Working alongside the CEO and the executive leadership teams, we guided the company through its realignment — providing them with a brand position and go-to-market strategy that supported the company’s overall vision for growth.
 
Key Services:

• Strategic Brand Positioning


• Advertising


• Content Creation


• Public Relations

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ABOUT THE CLIENT
Almost 60 years ago, a small workshop in Puglia started producing furniture, only to grow to become a large company that now exports worldwide.
It is world's best known furniture brand, designing sofas, chairs, tables, beds and more to create harmony throughout the home.
Working with such world-renowned brand is quite an honor, but also fun and interesting challenge.
MAIN TASKS
Our main task was to bring brand awareness to Natuzzi in Croatia through social media and Google advertising. We wanted to reach a target audience and bring to their attention tradition, quality and long-lasting harmony that Natuzzi furniture can create in their home, office or even vacation houses.
By communicating with them on social media and showcasing everything Natuzzi has to offer with created content, it was our goal to impress people with ideal home interior they can create by picking Natuzzi products.
CHALLENGE
Being a luxury brand that it is, we knew from the beginning we’ll have to face a certain amount of criticism.
That’s why right from the start we had to find a way to tackle those who had prejudice or would leave negative comments because of the price.
ADVERTISING




Since Natuzzi has a different campaign each month, depending on the product they want to advertise and achieve bigger sale numbers, we focus our attention toward that.
Each month we plan ahead and decide which furniture pieces will be our prime focus. Then we would come up with creative ways to advertise it through Google Search and Google Display ads, but also Facebook advertising and remarketing campaigns.
See the full case at: https://kontra.agency/work/natuzzi/




 




 

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We have been working with Prism Media Group since mid-2017, assisting with their website development needs for their content marketing clients. In October we had the pleasure of working with them on a full-scale custom website redesign. Check out the before & after pictures.
This was our first Content Marketing Agency client, and it was such a perfect fit because we work with the importance of good content every day – it was like we were on the same page all the time, and the product of the redesign is something both we and the client are ecstatic about. It’s unique, modern, simple, elegant, communicative, and engaging.
The focus of the visual aesthetics of the site was to represent the idea of a prism in having various colors of the rainbow, while not sticking with the same old ‘ROY G BIV’ colors we grew up seeing in a color wheel (shoutout to Jerry at Andocia did an incredible job with the logo redesign and branding update for Prism). Without getting too literal, you’ll see ‘the rainbow’ represented throughout the site in color blocks that give you angles reminiscent of triangles or prisms.
An important concern we had to keep in mind during the design of the website was to avoid having the branding of Prism be too strong on the website, because there was a concern a potential client might not see a fit between that branding and their own. Prism’s job (which they are very good at) is to create content that fits and expresses their clients’ brands and then help broadcast to their target audience. So, having too overwhelming of a brand themselves might pigeonhole them into only winning clients with similar branding, which would be a disservice to both their company and to all the potential clients who would miss out on their great services.
This was a challenge, for sure. But oh man, are we in love with the result.

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Origin Eight developed a completely new website for HelpSystems, a corporation trusted by some of the world's most respected companies. The project included a redesign of information architecture that centralized all the company's brands and services together seamlessly into one site. Another primary goal was to structure the site for ease of use for content admins.

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Cantina partnered with Elm, an innovative air monitoring service for smart cities and sustainable communities, to deliver a new brand as well as a visual direction and responsive web interface to promote a groundbreaking IoT solution.
Cantina provided strategic enterprise-grade technical design architecture to support the sensor data at a global scale.
We helped PerkinElmer, an enterprise manufacturing company, pivot into the IoT space.

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Toy museum is the first Toys’ museum in Lithuania. It was opened at the very end of 2012 by one young family. Museum represents the history of Lithuanian toys. It’s the place where all the known information about historical toys of Lithuania are kept. Along with that, there you can play with the toys that your great-grandfather used to play with. The museum seeks to be innovative and constantly upgrading one. Because of that, they thought it would be a great idea to propose some interactive games to be played with for a museum visitors.








Project goal








The main goal of the project was to create 10 interactive games which would be fun to play with. Games must be simple, support multi-language and be smoothly playable on tablets. One of the biggest requests was – the games must serve an educational purpose and each of them should represent different historical eras.
















Solution




We cooperated with UAB Elektronynės Leidybos Namai in this project. They were responsible for all the game ideas and designs while the toughlex team had to make their ideas come true. All the graphic designs and proposals were static and before the implementation phase, we didn’t know how the final product will really look like. Some of the ideas were changing various times until we with the client came up with a consensus in every area.

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Murder in the Hotel Lisbon is a videogame inspired by the classic point and click adventures from the 80’s and 90’s. It adopts these eras distinctive design and it is built using only the pixel art technique. The game itself runs at a native resolution of 256x192, the same resolution used by the old ZX Spectrum 48k and most recently by the Nintendo DS.A strange murder has occurred in the Hotel Lisbon, a man committed suicide with 14 stabs to the back while at the same time he peacefully drank his coffee.This case with contradictory facts was too complex for Policeman Garcia to solve, so he decided to hire the only detective duo in town capable of solving it: the mythical Detective Case and the unmistakable Clown Bot.Together, they will solve a network of love relations so complex and so intricate, that it would take at least 14 clairvoyants, 5 apocalyptic sect prophets who can predict the end of the world and 3 of those gypsies that can read the palm of your hand just to guess the final outcome.
Buy it on:
Steam – http://store.steampowered.com/app/297290Humble Store – https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/murderinthehotellisbon_storefront

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Watch store — adaptive website design (desktop, tablet, mobile versions).

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Great Tone. Long Life. Bright Sound. Smooth Feel. 
Our charge was to infuse these attributes into new packaging that immediately projects Elixir's leadership position. Our goal was to do so while improving both Stop-Ability and Shop-Ability, both at retail and online.
The results and impact exceeded our clients expectations and sales projections - while also saving costs and time in manufacturing - and elevating the brand to its rightful category leadership position.