Last year VOLTAGE designed and helped launch the new UPG brand with Umpqua Feather Merchants. The products were a huge success selling out quickly and receiving “Best New Flybox of 2010″ from Feild & Stream Magazine. Thanks to the die-hard flyfishing mentality and insight of Umpqua’s product design team – the flybox has once again evolved!

This year UPG launches 5 new box designs: The Midge (your compact midge fridge), The Daytripper (designed for the rocky mountain daytrip in mind), and the Double Wide, Flats, and Streamer boxes (for all your Saltwater needs!) VOLTAGE has designed and developed a campaign for the new product launch and micro-site – www.flyboxevolution.com. Check it out as it evolves!

Fresh Produce Clothing is a women’s lifestyle brand known and loved by women ages 6 months to 60-plus for lush colors, year-round sensibility, and simply inspired design.

A $50 million dollar company in it’s third decade – Fresh Produce has retail stores in La Jolla, Beach Haven, Martha’s Vineyard, Santa Barbara and other exclusive seashore resorts in North America and the Caribbean.

VOLTAGE Advertising & Design has developed a new look for Fresh Produce’s 2010/11 campaign – Live Life, Enjoy Color. The new look references the organic feel of homegrown farmers markets and introduces the brand to a younger audience.

Along with SmartClick Adwords the new design and online marketing strategy has garnered tremendous sales results in the digital space for the brand.

VOLTAGE designed the Getaway by Color sweepstakes – that featured four colorful trips facebook followers could win. The contest added 6,000 fans to their fan base and 4,500 entries.

Weekly email marketing blasts that were designed by VOLTAGE have dramatically increased open rates and click through rates.

We have enjoyed working with a brand that focuses on so much positive energy and the coastal lifestyle. It’s definitely rubbed off on the design team – going from predominantly black attire to varying shades of gray, even an army green shirt has popped up around the office.

Thanks Fresh Produce for the good vibe!

VOLTAGE had the opportunity to work with TDA Advertsing & Design in developing a website for the Sir Richards condom brand which has recently been recognized by Commarts magazine – the leading trade journal for visual communications. Good to know we had our own little part in saving the world one condom at a time. TDA is an amazing shop and we enjoyed working with their team on a few projects like this. See the feature here on Commarts website.

Voltage along with the talented folks at Vladimir Jones have launched a variety of rich media banner ads for Xcel’s responsible by nature campaign. We’ve produced a variety of standard flash banner ads, rich media banners, and custom game banners for the Energy company. One in particular launches an energy saving game that gives the user 15 seconds to pull the plug! It’s more challenging than you’d think, and there’s an easy way to win it – but sorry, you’ll get no Cheat Codes from us! Check it out on Meebo’s network.

VOLTAGE would like to wish everyone an Electrifying Christmas and a Positive New Year! Truly – heartfelt thanks go out to all our Clients, Friends, Family & Colleagues. We truly enjoy working with you all and thanks to your trust, support and collaboration – we have a great time doing what we love! Enjoy this mashup playlist from DJ Rico!

VOLTAGE Advertising & Design is thrilled to announce that our agency website : www.voltagead.com has been selected as the Webpick of the day from Communication Arts Magazine – the leading trade journal for visual communications and the largest creative magazine in the world showcasing the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design.

Thanks for the love CommArts!

Cloud 9 Living is based on the philiosophy that life is truly the sum of our experiences. C9 is an experience gift company that has forever changed the world of gift giving by helping people live the fullest life possible. Cloud 9 Living has also secured a spot this year on Inc. Magazine’s top 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S. list.

At www.cloud9living.com boring gifts are no longer an option – rather than trying to select from an array of your typical standard gifts, Cloud 9 Living allows you to choose from thousands of exciting experiences that make unforgettable and sometimes life-changing memories.

The new dilemma with cloud 9 becomes – What to give? There are so many thrilling experiences in every city and state that it’s hard to choose just one. You can give someone a session at an exotic spa, a day in a fighter jet, or thousands of other options. Here’s one of our favorites:

Cloud 9 Living has relied on VOLTAGE from the beginning to do everything from their logo design and branding, to interactive design, Facebook & social media marketing, email marketing, packaging, and traditional advertising and design services.

“We have been working with Eric (VOLTAGE) since 2005. From our initial website design and marketing materials to the recent design of our Corporate website and newsletter templates, it has always amazed me to watch how he listens to and understands our goals then translates that into a finished product far beyond our dreams.” John Augst, President – Cloud 9 Living

Thanks Cloud 9! from the VOLTAGE team.

Yes – we’re giving away a uniform or two. All you need to do is Like Us on Facebook and comment on our wall about where you will wear it. The Genuine Dickies Work Shirt will have a VOLTAGE patch above one pocket and your name embroidered over the other pocket.

Check out some of the other Facebook pages and marketing promos we’ve worked on lately.

VOLTAGE Coded this Promo for TDA Advertising in Boulder. A custom tab that lets you select a template, see it’s preview and download the actual stencil. Check out the sample tab on our VOLTAGE Facebook page by clicking on the image above.

To promote The Rib House restaurant in Boulder and their Center Stage FREE concerts starting this week -  VOLTAGE devised a plan to take the Peace, Love & BBQ message to the streets – Pearl Street in particular.  Pearl St. is downtown Boulder’s outdoor mall and highlight attraction, only two blocks away from The Rib House restaurant. VOLTAGE decided to employ the unemployed panhandlers on pearl to dawn a Rib House T-shirt and mention to passer by’s the restaurant’s live music Venue. With some cash and a Free Tee, all of these down and out souls were more than willing, and just plain grateful to get a good handout for sharing the message. An ad spend that was well worth it for both parties!

To learn more about Boulder’s best BBQ – and upcoming shows on Center Stage, Check out the The Rib House website. While your at it sign up for a Free Brownie!

It’s been a pleasure to work with what is quickly becoming “Every City’s Favorite Burger Place” – SMASHBURGER! Since we started work on their website in the summer they had about 12 stores operating in the greater Denver area! They now have succesfully opened over 30 more and have another 40 or so on the map! So if you haven’t tried a SMASHBURGER yet, or if there isn’t one close to you – just sit tight, because there soon will be and you’ll know what we are so excited to advertise – Great burgers made from 100% certified angus beef, never frozen, fresh and smashed on the grill to seal in smashburger’s savory seasons and carmelize the flavor. They also feature a host of other great items like Haagen Dazs shakes, smash fries, veggie frite’s and smashchicken and salads to make you drool with delight.

VOLTAGE worked closely with Consumer Capital Partners to design and build the smashburger website, create social networks, and design a mobile enabled site which features dynamic functionality.  Because of the rapid growth of SMASHBURGER the site had to be easily updated by the internal marketing team. The smashburger team can easily update page content, post news and press and add new locations to a database driven Locations map!

To drive home the fact that SMASHBURGER is every city’s favorite burger place, the homepage serves up specific quotes unique to each viewers region. If you’re in Kansas on the smashburger website, you’ll most likely see a quote from a kansas facebook fan, or if you’re in Idaho, you might see a great review from the idaho statesman. The buttons are also unique to each region and promote local menu items, or offers. Each region has specific menu items and signature burgers!

VOLTAGE also set up Social networks and provided creative to build fan base and reward fans. If you’re not already a fan – don’t be shy – and check out their facebook page.