Recent Work
After School U
After School U is a source for all things extra-curricular for kids from sports, performing and fine arts, to academic, or other active enrichment activities. Serving parents of school age children who want to expand their kid’s experience beyond school, After School U is an online directory that provides a large, searchable database of local growth activities that truly knows the neighborhood.
Leucadia Custom Knives
Leucadia Custom Knives is crushing it on Instagram but they wanted to have a place to show off the full array of their knives, organized into logical categories. A simple portfolio site highlights their stunning work while building out a website in WordPress gives them the control to add and edit the contents as they dream up new creations.
Eco-Stream Sustainability Consulting
Eco-Stream is a Carlsbad-based sustainability consulting company for business. They provide strategy and direction for companies that not only want to do right by the environment and their community, but help their bottom line in the process. Eco-Stream needed a WordPress site that could incorporate their already active blog and create a unique look that appropriately presented their brand.
SchoolWave.org
SchoolWave.org has a mission to strengthen schools by connecting school communities with the business community to the benefit of all. A site was needed to convey the human element and to highlight the three constituencies that all benefit from the work that SchoolWave does.
Pacific Flyer
Pacific Flyer newspaper has been a source of current news, entertaining articles, political commentary and great photography for aviation enthusiasts for decades. The long-time editor wanted to remove the space constraints of his printed version and bring his passion to an even wider audience. He also needed the capability to add articles as they broke and to engage his readers through a website that would publish their views. This plus online special sections, photo galleries, subscription ordering, classified ads, sponsorship opportunities and more are now part of his highly trafficed website at PacificFlyer.com.
Law Offices of Randal B. Hopwood
Family Law Attorney Randal B. Hopwood needed an online presence to support his networking communications. He wanted to avoid the conventional images of leather bound legal books and gavels to achieve something more attractive and personal. The resulting site with a beautiful blue color palette and ocean images creates a simple yet professional design that matches his his extensive legal experience and win-win philosophy.
Partnerships
Flywheel Studios collaborates with other marketing and advertising companies to help them extend their online capabilities. When a company's resources are stretched or it is looking for expertise that may not be available in-house, we contribute project management, strategy, design, coding, and email campaign services to help them get the job done.
Copper Blue Creative
Flywheel Studios collaborates with the Carlsbad ad agency Copper Blue Creative to deliver websites that increase their clients’ visibility and establish their brands online. Building upon Copper Blue’s brand identity and creative vision, Flywheel Studios provides technical feedback on design, recommends specific web strategies, and develops a functional site that is built for speed, search, and compatibility.
Euro Style Advertising
Flywheel Studios assists the La Jolla design agency Euro Style Advertising deliver websites, blogs, and emails that round out the portfolio of services provided by the company. Flywheel Studios translates Euro Style's contemporary designs into clean websites that extend their carefully designed brands online.
Green Businesses
Pickering International
PickNatural.com, the aptly named site of Pickering International, needed to be redesigned to make it easier to use and to show off their latest collection of natural and organic fabrics and products. In an effort to broaden their market, the new design presents their product in an elegant and professional light.
Pazzo di Terra
Pazzo di Terra is a green building consultancy that wanted to get serious about their website. They sought to blend their unique artistic sensibility and passion for sustainable building with extensive down to earth information. The resulting site is an informative and attractive destination that shows them off as a unique solution for building professionals and residential renovator interested in a more sustainable way of life.
Art Mode Solutions
Art Mode Solutions needed to bring their temporary site to a level that reflected the professionalism and the philosophy of their business. With a growing consciousness of drought conditions in Southern California, the site shows the beauty that can be found through avenues other than lawns. An email newsletter as well as a news section provide fresh and relevant content for the site's visitors. And calls to action on all pages make it easy and compelling to reach out to the company.
Non-Profit Work
Flywheel Studios donates time to local non-profits involved in sustainable and environmental work. This includes website revisions, email marketing and other work for the Carlsbad Chamber of Commmerce Sustainability Committee and the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation.
Alternative Medicine
North County Wellness
When revamping its acupuncture business, North County Wellness wanted a site that provided the information important to prospective acupuncture patients without the bamboo leaves and Chinese characters that had become a cliche. This treatment was ready to welcome Western patients with a scientific as well as holistic approach. A theme capturing the beauty of the company's namesake home served to capture the mood of good health.
Simplicity Wellness
Simplicity Wellness wanted to launch its presence on the web in a way that conveyed the philosophy of the owner Patricia DeBont as well as provide a genuine educational resource for her current and prospective clients. Working closely with the owner, we developed a site that drew upon images from nature that related directly to homeopathic remedies. These not only provided a connection with the natural source of the profession but helped create a site of nurturing and beauty.
Local Carlsbad Businesses
Option D Graphics
Option D needed to get their business online in a way that really showed off their beautiful products and capabilities. A flashy and updateable banner on the home page did just the trick. They also wanted to assist all their customers by providing easy upload services through their website. Done!
Brubaker & Associates
Local independent insurance agency Brubaker and Associates wanted to redesign their existing website to bring out more of their personality and to focus on their specialties versus simply a generic grab bag of insurance products. The site provides multiple forms of contact and insurance quote requests, a resources page to serve their ongoing clients, and a look at the friendly team, front and center on the home page. B&A are truly a trustworthy and service-oriented partner in helping navigate the all too confusing waters of insurance coverage.
Arts & Leisure
Serah
The recording artist Serah came to Flywheel Studios to have her web site changed from just an online presence to something that truly reflected her inspirational music and artistic vision. Working closely with her, Flywheel designed a new look for her site, incorporating a Flash musical introduction, streaming video, playable music samples from all her releases, and e-commerce capability to order her CDs online.
Maison Constant
The restaurant Le Violon d'Ingres initially needed to develop a web site to try to bring it to a level of elegance that compared to the culinary talent of it's owner/chef, Christian Constant. In delivering a bilingual site, Flywheel was able to target the restaurant's local audience in France as well as clients across Europe and the United States. As Chef Constant's ambitions grew, Flywheel extended the site to include his latest ventures in fine dining including Café Constant, Les Cocottes, and Les Fables de la Fontaine.
Pickering Winery Supply
Pickering Winery Supply, a family-owned and operated business founded in 1982, needed a web presence to promote their products to vintners from all over the world. Flywheel responded with a simple yet elegant site showing off their merchandise with detailed technical specifications and high-quality photos.
Testimonial
I am getting a lot of positive feedback on my website. I am very proud of it and am very happy with the entire creative process. You are a talented professional with a great technical knowledge on website design and maintenance. Thanks to your patience and management skills, this project was a real pleasure and fun experience for me.
Kasia,
Art Mode Solutions
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