CLIENT Studio Tupla
Website
Craig and Carol Johnson are two artists sharing a life (and a studio) together. Craig makes some of the most beautiful hand-crafted woodwork we have ever seen, and Carol creates luxurious handwoven textiles. The site was designed to unify these two different media in the mind of the visitor while allowing each artist sufficient room to display and discuss their passions. The result is a restrained, calming site that gets out of your way so you can focus on the amazing art on display. Launch website
CLIENT Teradata
Website
Olive and Company redesigned this Web site to align closely with Teradata’s brand, and at the same time, built an optimized site architecture to provide a diverse audience with quick access to specific topics of interest.
CLIENT Junk Revolution
Website
Junkers go here to get the latest on this wildly popular home-grown design trend. Olive kept the look edgy and relevant, while keeping navigation dead simple. Launch website
CLIENT Jeremiah Program
Website
This Minneapolis-based nonprofit provides safe affordable housing for low-income single mothers and their children. Olive gave the site a dramatic facelift with a personal, intimate mood. Launch website
CLIENT iProduction
Website
We can’t say how quickly this site was designed by Olive and developed by the client, but let’s just say you have had airport layovers that took longer. iProduction grew tired of outdated product information on their previous site, so we put it in high-gear to launch before an important trade show appearance. Launch website
CLIENT I Matter in Park
Website
This prototype site promoting a Minneapolis-metro Youth Service Fair as a part of Global Youth Service Day balanced home-spun appeal with a sleek, youthful interface.
CLIENT Cognos
Online Sales tool
To unify field sales messaging and strategy, Olive designed a rich-media interface with seamless integration of video, documents, and live content.
CLIENT Better Life Media
DVD series
Olive designed the packaging and menu screens for dozens of lifestyle DVD products.
CLIENT Draka
Make the Connection
To generate buzz and leads at a popular trade show, Olive created a kiosk giveaway game for Draka’s marketing partner. The interface was tied to a database allowing tracking and fulfillment once the show was over.
CLIENT Olive and Company
Happy Hours
Pardon us for tooting our own horn, but since we love it and it grabbed a few awards, we wanted to include this fun site we developed for a studio event. Visitors could design their own “Olive” scene and submit it to a live gallery. Check out the creative submissions. Launch website
CLIENT Coloplast
StraightTalk
To integrate content from a number of online sources, Coloplast turned to Olive to build this microsite dedicated to men's and women's health issues. Launch website
CLIENT Operation Smile
World Journey of Smiles
This textured site was built within a blog interface allowing them to do live updating across the globe during a one-month campaign to provide reports from OpSmile mission sites. The program ran in late 2007, but the site is still a key marketing tool for OpSmile as a great example of the breadth of influence they have to help children everywhere.
CLIENT Gitchee Gumee Soap Company
Product site
To give loyal customers a gateway to order handmade soaps, this sole proprietor turned to Olive for a tasteful, economical online presence. Launch website
CLIENT Protomold
2009 Cool Parts Calendar Microsite
Our client wanted to have a little fun with an end of year promotion. This microsite is being updated throughout the year with a new part each month, as they entice visitors to guess the origin of the renderings. Olive designed the print component of this promotion, as well the site. We also rendered all the parts in high-resolution 3D from the CAD files. Launch website
CLIENT General Mills Foodservice
Nature Valley Landing Page
This landing page was the target of an e-mail campaign sent to food service professionals. The campaign included a dual promotion to test offers—we set up two very similar pages to test which offer drew more attention—free case or free case after rebate. The landing page also provided free downloadable content that supported the offer – i.e. it wasn’t just a registration page.
CLIENT MarketWatch
Lazy Portfolio
The turbulent economy served as the storyboard backdrop to this compelling ad promoting a new online service.
CLIENT Select Comfort
Fall Sale ad
Olive took an existing print campaign and adapted it into lively animations to promote the client’s fall retail sale in a variety of online advertising placements.
CLIENT D: All things Digital
RSS module
Following on the heels of a wildly successful program Olive developed for sister site MarketWatch.com, D:ATD adapted the idea to drive live RSS feeds to an ad module for their most popular columnists.
CLIENT MarketWatch
CEO of the Year
Olive designed this email to augment an ad placement we developed for the Wall Street Journal print edition to promote the annual award.
CLIENT Draka
Connections newsletter
Connections is a customer relations and thought-leadership newsletter for a leading marine cable manufacturer.
CLIENT JunkMarket
Email update
This rich and textured brand gets the deluxe treatment in this attractive piece.
CLIENT General Mills
Sustainability Brochure
A small but beautiful brochure supported this F500’s internal sustainability initiative. The piece was designed with conservation in mind with lightened soy-based ink coverage and high-recycled-content paper.
CLIENT Despatch
Corporate Brochure
Despatch Industries, a manufacturer of thermal processing and environmental simulation solutions, turned to Olive and Company for a corporate overview and sales tools to help executives and sales reps inform prospects about the vast array of Despatch products for use in a wide range of industrial processes.
CLIENT Lifeworks
Annual report
Annual report for a nonprofit serving people with disabilities to live full and meaningful lives. Olive has helped to guide the Lifeworks brand for 3 years, supporting them with additional marketing tools, promotions, and interactive design and development.
CLIENT AirClic
Corporate Brochure
AirClic makes software that manages mobile assets — equipment, shipping containers — even people. Their sales materials needed to reinforce their image of managing people and assets in motion. Photography was directed to emphasize speed and economy of process.
CLIENT Micromedics
FibriJet Product Brochure
Micromedics creates the worlds best biomaterial applicators and assemblies. FibriJet is their flagship brand, and Olive updated the materials with a fresh, contemporary, and fluid design in harmony with the product line.
CLIENT General Mills Foodservice
Breakfast Bars Flyer
We had a little fun with this eye-catching summer promotion from General Mills Foodservice. The brochure was short-folded so the backpack appears to open at the tab and reveal the offer inside. The concept was extended to an HTML e-mail and landing page to fulfill the orders from food service operators.
CLIENT Hocus Pocus Press
Pitchbook
This oversized, one-of-a-kind book served as the prop in a creative pitch to a major Hollywood production group. The leather-bound tome was hand-illustrated and typeset in a fashion consistent with the story contained within.
CLIENT Coloplast
MAP Campaign
This striking system rolled out an initiative to educate hospital staffers about recent federal guidelines. In addition to marketing and sales tools, Olive produced supporting literature and meeting materials.
CLIENT The Bakken Museum of Electricity
Poster series
To help this venerable Minneapolis-based non-profit promote its educational summer programs for kids, Olive and Company provided pro bono design support with these engaging promotional displays.
CLIENT Cognos
Performance Blueprint Kit
Cognos wanted to arm its sales team with a user-friendly, practical tool to help the reps articulate the extensive capabilities and value of the company’s software solutions. In response, Olive and Company designed the Cognos Performance Blueprint Kit—a collateral system which includes brochures, folders, and an interactive CD packaged in a branded binder. We expanded the system with thought-leadership brochures and user group promotions.
CLIENT West Photo
Logo
The focus ring of an SLR camera served as inspiration for this distinctive mark for a popular Minneapolis retailer.
CLIENT iProduction
Logo
The clients product is built around a “three-legged stool” of publishing: editorial management, audience development, and monetization. With each of these being interdependent on one another, this logo seemed a natural way to get the conversation started and reinforce the brand’s primary benefits.
CLIENT Gitchee Gumee Soap Company
Logo
The scenic north woods and shores of Lake Superior set the perfect tone for this artisanal soap manufacturer. With scents like “Rocky Island Romance” and “Moonlight Over the Apostles” the mood is complete.
CLIENT Studio Tupla
Logo
A husband and wife with two different handcraft skills, sharing the same studio. Separate, and yet together — one weaves while the other works wood. The logo tells that story with a single stroke that creates the illusion of two intertwined “studios”.
CLIENT Agile
Logo
The client wanted to avoid obvious visual cliches, but still illustrate the “agility” that is inherent to their mission. Agile offers services that helps companies turn ideas into reality. The logo forms an “A” from a series of diagram arrows–each moving closer to the center of the circle representing the process of refining products and ideas over time.
CLIENT Junk Bonanza
Logo
Full of hand-crafted goodness, this logo captures the essence of Junk Bonanza, a country-themed event featuring over one hundred juried “junk” vendors with all sorts of eye-popping antiques to one-of-a-kind old-timey wares.
CLIENT Coloplast
Coloplast Comes Home Logo
Coloplast Comes Home is a program offered to discharged ostomy patients. Coloplast wanted a logo that was open and welcoming. The bright window with peaceful landscapes keeps the mood light and hints at the previous brandmark.
CLIENT Draka
Draka Connection Logo
This energetic logo was developed for a trade show promotion, complete with kiosk touch-screen fun!
CLIENT Feed My Starving Children
Logo
Simple, hand-drawn figures tell the whole story for this organization that brings food to more than 60 countries around the world.
CLIENT Maxxum
Logo
This asset management company began as a resource for recycling and reselling office machines and furniture. The leaf that was in the original logo was rotated and repurposed as an “M” in the new logo to better represent their diversified services.
CLIENT MNODN: Minnesota Organization Development Network
Logo
Organization development professionals concern themselves with the efficiency and effectiveness of large groups of individuals. Often they work across divisions and management levels to achieve results that elude more conventional efforts. The logo depicts figures creating a stabile, dimensional structure, while retaining their individuality.
CLIENT Northern tool
N-Power Logo
Product logo for a line of premium house-branded equipment intended to leverage nature power sources.
CLIENT Read Naturally
Logo
This company offers a broad set of reading assessment tools and intervention programs. This logo was selected for its eloquent transformation of the existing brand and its clear illustration of the enlightenment achieved through advanced reading and retention skills.
CLIENT Sunny Day Properties
Logo
An optimistic logo for a property management group focused on developing serene and desirable locations.
CLIENT Coloplast
Biatain Challenge
Sales reps needed a way to deliver a self-guided demonstration of this product’s capabilities to busy hospital staffers. Olive created an economical package that protected sensitive materials and cleverly illustrated foolproof instructions to complete the demo in four steps.
CLIENT Mortenson Construction
Fence wrap
Olive designed more than 600 linear feet of fence wrap (50-foot section shown above) to promote a new campaign to build brand image on high-profile construction sites, including company headquarters and the Twins stadium.
CLIENT Better Life Media
Living Well with Montel Williams
In a multi-disc, three-part series, a number of influential speakers covered topics relating to work, health, and family. Olive designed a retail package for each set, including gatefold sleeves, detail pages, and a companion piece displaying dozens of other DVD titles, also designed by Olive.
CLIENT Protomold
Design Kit Packaging
Protomold treated valued customers to a design kit that included samples of many of their materials, techniques, and other informative materials. The package was designed with economy in mind, but with a focus on elevating the brand and reinforcing the innovative company's positioning.
CLIENT Micromedics
Booth Design
A refined brand and refreshed visuals translated easily to this eye-catching display.
Project examples
- Website & Interactive Design
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Banner Ads
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HTML E-mails
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Brochures
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Marketing Materials
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Logo Design
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Packaging/Dimensional
How we do it
We do as much planning, concepting, presenting and refining as the other guys, but we are mindful to not let process impede progress. You can read a bit about our philosophy here.