Web

A good website gives your audience what it’s looking for. And it tells them what’s important about you. From concept to marketing and visual appeal, we design sites that are user friendly and technically proficient.

  • Project Jewelrymaker’s site
  • Client Roughedged Jewelry
  • Client Since 2012
  • Sector

URL: roughedged.ca

  • Project Advocacy coalition website
  • Client First Call
  • Client Since 2014
  • Sector

URL: firstcallbc.org

  • Project Union website
  • Client International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115
  • Client Since 2014
  • Sector

URL: www.iuoe115.ca/

IUOE 115
  • Project Law firm website
  • Client Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation
  • Client Since 2016
  • Sector

URL: pacificcell.ca

  • Project Business website
  • Client Terra Housing
  • Client Since 2009
  • Sector

A changing business environment was the main impetus for Terra Housing to redevelop its website and rebrand its identity. At the same time the company wanted to update its in house systems to incorporate new tools and technologies. And it wanted to engage clients in a collaborative online project management system through an intranet as part of its online retooling.

URL: terrahousing.ca

Terra Housing
  • Project Ferry service
  • Client The Vancouver Aquabus
  • Client Since 2012
  • Sector

URL: theaquabus.com

  • Project Events venue
  • Client Heritage Hall
  • Client Since 2013
  • Sector

URL: heritagehall.bc.ca

URL: organizedbyjane.ca

  • Project Cultural Tours website
  • Client Barcelona Culture
  • Client Since 2014
  • Sector

URL: www.barcelonaculture.com

  • Project Yoga Workshops
  • Client The Yoga House on Mayne Island
  • Client Since 2007
  • Sector

This mobile-friendly single-page site was a perfect solution for this yoga teacher’s simple, small classes held at a variety of venues.

yoga circles website
  • Project Consulting Group
  • Client Dovetail Consulting
  • Client Since 2014
  • Sector

URL: www.dovetailconsulting.com

  • Project Workingfolio

Workingfolio is a portfolio website template for visual artists developed by Working Design. Its goal is to provide artists with a customizable, affordable and professional website. We set up the site, assist with content development and basic marketing and teach users how to update and maintain by themselves. We used the popular WordPress CMS (Content Management System) to develop Workingfolio.

Go see the demonstration model. www.workingfolio.workingdesign.ca

  • Project Union website
  • Client Heat and Frost Insulators
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

URL: insulators118.org

  • Project Union website
  • Client Federation of Post Secondary Educators of BC
  • Client Since 1997
  • Sector

This educators’ association wanted a redesigned site with stronger visual appeal, and a private area where members could communicate. We simplified and streamlined their content, and added lots of images showing their membership at work. We also set up a login area, based on Open Atrium, where instructors and staff could collaborate and share information.

URL: fpse.ca

URL: housestories.ca

  • Project Union organizing site
  • Client Unifor Local 2000
  • Client Since 1997
  • Sector

Unifor 2000 is reaching out to digital workers in BC with its DigiUnion organizing campaign. This site focuses on attracting new members, focusing on their unique needs, and addressing their concerns.
URL: joinmediaunion.ca

It’s gratifying to work with skilled communicators. In this collaboration with Vancouver editor, writer and theatre critic Colin Thomas, we developed a site showing his writing and editing skills in action. Thomas developed the idea of the visual icons for the main navigation and urged us toward a light and accessible graphic interface.
URL: colinthomas.ca

  • Project Union site
  • Client Unifor Local 2000
  • Client Since 1997
  • Sector

Unifor 2000 is Working Design’s union. It represents about 2500 media workers across BC. In 2014 we redeveloped this site with a contemporary and mobile-responsive theme. We also revised the visual identity to mesh with the look of the newly-formed Unifor national union.

URL: mediaunion.ca

  • Project Union site
  • Client Unifor 333
  • Client Since 2013
  • Sector

URL: unifor333bc.ca

unifor 333 website
  • Project Graphic design portfolio
  • Client WriteDesign
  • Client Since 2011
  • Sector

URL: writedesign.ca

  • Project Journalism website
  • Client Ron Verzuh
  • Client Since 2010

URL: www.ronverzuh.ca

  • Project Realtor website
  • Client Gino Pezzani Realty
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

Lower Mainland realtor Gino Pezzani needed a redeveloped site that he could update easily, something that his old site didn’t allow. Using a readymade WordPress theme, we were able to quickly adapt his existing content into a much more visually accessible site that met his marketing needs. Already web savvy, Pezzani did a lot of the work himself including adapting his banner design, loading content and adding various widgets. Looking to buy or sell some real estate?

URL: vanhomesales.com

Gino Pezzani Vancouver Home Sales
  • Project Union site
  • Client Unifor Media One
  • Client Since 2012
  • Sector

Using a simple custom-made WordPress Content Management System, the Media One site allows CEP staff to update news, post images and manage the site for the union’s 1200 members.
URL: uniformediaone.ca

Unifor Media One
  • Project Environmental Law Centre
  • Client Environmental Law Centre
  • Client Since 2014
  • Sector

URL: elc.uvic.ca

  • Project Health research site
  • Client BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
  • Client Since 2004
  • Sector

We originally developed a site for this project when in began in 2010. Five years later, the project complete, the researchers needed a site that presented tools, online training, and information about gender transformative health promotion, that was easy for them to maintain and update.
URL: promotinghealthinwomen.ca

  • Project Media studies & advocacy
  • Client The Media Democracy Project
  • Client Since 2013

URL: mediademocracyproject.ca

  • Project Media studies conference
  • Client The Media Democracy Project
  • Client Since 2013

We developed this responsive, mobile-friendly single page site for the 2013 Media Democracy Days event.

Media Democracy Days 2013
  • Project Social policy group
  • Client Columbia Institute
  • Client Since 2007
  • Sector

The heart of the Centre for Civic Governance site is its extensive publications library. We developed an easy to use navigation that allows users to browse and search a wide range of topics, and explore the Centre’s deep archive of publications and resources.
URL: www.civicgovernance.ca

Center for Civic Governance
  • Project International Development website
  • Client Alma Foundation
  • Sector

URL: Alma Foundation

  • Project Theatre company
  • Client Solo Collective Theatre
  • Client Since 2013
  • Sector

URL: solocollective.ca

  • Project Research institute website
  • Client Columbia Institute
  • Client Since 2007

The Columbia Institute focuses on sustainable, inclusive communities and work in Civic Governance. The site is a hub for municipal leaders, researchers, academics, labour and students.
URL: columbiainstitute.ca

Columbia Institute
  • Project Research organization website
  • Client Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

The Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health at Simon Fraser University is at the forefront of doing research and sharing knowledge on intersections between gender, social inequities and mental health. Working Design developed a site that helps connect researchers within specific study areas, showcases new research, provides a source for news and upcoming events.

URL:  www.socialinequities.ca

Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health website
  • Project Campaign website
  • Client Heat and Frost Insulators Local 118
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

BC’s mechanical insulators’ union built this campaign to raise awareness about the environmental benefits and cost savings of properly installed mechanical insulation. Their message is aimed at developers, other mechanical contractors, building owners, architects, engineers, politicians and senior staff at all levels of government, and the public.

URL: www.energyconservationspecialists.org

  • Project Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Client Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Client Since 2005
  • Sector

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House has been serving a diverse east side community since the late 1950’s. The website development was the core piece of an overall rebranding project that Working Design undertook with the organization. Many of Kiwassa’s users speak English as a second language. We emphasized photographs and large display buttons to encourage visitors to self-identify and quickly access the programs designed for them.

URL:  www.kiwassa.ca

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
  • Project History project website
  • Client BC Labour History Centre
  • Client Since 2010
  • Sector

The BC Labour Heritage Centre site informs readers about the history of work and working people in the province while acting as a hub for gathering stories, photos, videos and more. The frequently updated blog connects visitors to issues and events linking labour’s history to the present.

URL: www.labourheritagecentre.ca

The Protecting Justice for BC website promotes three separate campaigns. The first makes the case for legislative change on Wrongful Death. The second highlights auto insurance and ICBC-related matters. The third campaign promotes the need to preserve the Civil Jury as a cornerstone of civil law in BC.

URL: www.protectingjusticeforbc.org

Patricia Viel’s artist portfolio site focuses on the Vancouver painter’s four main marketing themes displayed on the home page slide show. Users can choose from a portfolio subject – portrait, landscape, home portraits– or learn about the classes she offers. The site is based on the Workingfolio WordPress theme developed by Working Design to assist visual artists in meeting their marketing goals.

URL: www.patriciaviel.com

  • Project Community services website
  • Client North Shore Community Services
  • Client Since 2008
  • Sector

North Shore Community Services Connect for Kids is an online directory offering information and support for families with young children. It is a directory of comprehensive, searchable links that can be looked at and sorted in a number of ways, including by specific activity and age group. The home page provides news and a spotlight section for upcoming events.

URL: www.connectforkids.ca