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Update August 2008

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:42:15 +1200

Finally we got a few spare seconds to update our website with some of our latest work.

Most importantly, we launched Alpine Epic today, New Zealand's first Mountain Bike Stage Race, check it out!

View Website: www.alpineepic.co.nz

We are hiring a Graphic Designer

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:30:10 +1200

We are looking for an Intermediate Graphic Designer to join our team.

UPDATE:
Our new Intermediate Graphic Designer has been found, thanks to all of the applicants.

New premises for Swordfox Design

Wed, 2 Jan 2008 9:48:10 +1200

We've moved to a new office!

You can find us on Church Street, Queenstown in the Air New Zealand building, view our contacts page for full details.

Destination Organic Web 2.0 Online Shop

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:27:20 +1200

We've just launched Destination Organic's new online shop. It's built using the latest technology (Ajax, xHTML 1.1 & CSS) and features a drag-n-drop shopping cart.

View Website: www.destinationorganic.co.nz
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Top Tourism Site Award

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:46:51 +1200

Our latest website, Sunrise Balloons has received the Top Tourism Site Award for September 2007.

Their comments: "Sunrise Balloons offers a refreshing way to see the dramatic Queenstown landscape, and we found their Web site equally refreshing. The layout is clean and simple, and the navigation is easy to use. The Web site has extensive information and an online-booking facility, and the photo-gallery is simply breathtaking."

View Website: www.ballooningnz.com
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Sunrise Balloons Branding & Website

Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:19:55 +1200

We've been busy working with Sunrise Balloons to create a fresh new look for the 'refreshing' experience that they offer.

With a complete re-brand, right from their logo through to a new website, vehicle & bus signage and new brochures we've achieved a consistent, vibrant new look for them which should see them well into the future.

The website has preformed well since the launch and is steadily climbing up the search engines.

View Website: www.ballooningnz.com
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Life Synergy Website re-design

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:02:07 +1200

Life Synergy was originally set up as a small venture and serves as a collective of healers for people seeking guidance and direction on health & well-being. As the demand for existence of Life Synergy has increased in popularity and with their upcoming expo they really needed to polish their image. We took their existing brand and tweaked it so it now presents itself well at a corporate level.

Following on from the rebrand we extended this further to create a new website and we are currently working on the Spring edition of a brand new health & well-being publication for the public. Watch this space!

View Website: www.lifesynergy.co.nz

Queenstown Paraflights Website & Signage

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:15:23 +1200

Swordox have very recently re-vamped the look of Queenstown Paraflights. Their existing logo itself was fantastic but the surrounding signage and brochures we all agreed it didn't quite do this fantastic logo justice. So, we revamped their stationery line, polished up their wharf signage and created a new website. Now you can really see how this brand is starting to take the form it should.

For the website, we created a highly branded but simple information website for Paraflights to showcase the trip they offer around the Queenstown bay and beyond. The site features an Ajax image slideshow built on the Prototype & script.aculo.us framework.

View Website: www.paraflights.co.nz
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Website hailed by American design critics ODT

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:22:47 +1200

A write up in the ODT about our recent success in America.

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CSS Creative Design Showcase

Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:50:05 +1200

The Swordfox website has recently featured in Japanese puplication, CSS Creative Design which showcases high quality design & development methods worldwide.

The good use of new technology such as CSS, Web 2.0 and xHTML has seen us listed along side websites such as Yahoo, Apple Inc, Lightbox 2, Prototype & script.aculo.us.

CSS Web Directory launch

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:08:37 +1200

We've been developing a web directory for websites that meet a high standard of coding.

We launched CSS Web Directory today. It's just like your ordinary web directory with one key diference - it only excepts websites that have been developed using standards compliant code with table-less layouts.

Standards compliant basically means that a website is developed in a way that is generally future proof where the website's content is separate to the style/design information.

If you have a standards compliant website please add it to the directory.

View Website: www.cssweb.co.nz

Starry Eyed 2007 Programme

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:00:46 +1200

Starry Eyed 2007 was the 10th anniversary of this very successful talent show and this year they wanted to make it extra special.

We were called upon at the last minute to take over the design duties for creating this programme and produced a stunning piece of work with an almost impossible deadline.

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Swordfox Website Review

Fri, 18 May 2007 9:16:08 +1200

Our newly designed website has been reviewed by the members of Mint Pages, a Community for Skilled Developers & Designers.

Acceptance to the forums is based on levels of experience and ability to contribute, so it is definitely a good place to see if your designs measure up.

2 of almost 20 glowing reviews are shown below.

Woolpress Branding

Tue, 15 May 2007 13:10:20 +1200

After more than 20 years in retail with no more than the stenciled word 'Woolpress' above their shop in Arrowtown, it was time to create Woolpress a new brand to take them into the future.

We worked very closely with Bruce Gibbs, Delvine Wallace & Anna Wright from the Woolpress to completely understand their business to create an outstanding new brand.

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Fashion Photography chosen by intute.ac.uk

Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:44:00 +1200

Our latest fashion photography has been chosen for the cover of Fashion and Beauty magazine produced by intute.ac.uk.

Destination Organic Website & Branding

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:18:56 +1200

We've produced Destination Organic's website to accompany the opening of their shop on the corner or Camp & Earl streets in Queenstown.

Destination Organic's online shop is now in production and will be opening later this year to provide the whole of the South Island the ability to order their great products.

View Website: www.destinationorganic.co.nz
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Colloidal Health Solutions Online Shop v2.0

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:23:02 +1200

We've just finished an update to the Colloidal Health Solutions brand and online shop from v1.0 which was originally created by Swordfox Director, Graham Mclellan, over 6 years ago.

View Website: www.4health.co.nz
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