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Location. Location. Location. Okanagan Bookworks has been active for more than 12 years in the Okanagan, and has worked with a diverse group of local companies, institutions, and groups during that time. We're a member of, and participate in, a number of social and cultural organizations, including the Kelowna and District Arts Council. Click here or on their logo at right for more information.Our Okanagan Clients and Projects Cultural Outreach. We have produced publications for several of the key arts organizations that contibute to the cultural vitality of the Valley.
 Kelowna Museum is the premier historical institution in the Valley. We produced a comprehensive Internet presence for the Museum, presenting its collections, special events, and exhibition. In addition, we revived several of its out-of-print publications as websites, allowing them to continue their life in a new format. For a sample, click here. Alternator Gallery is an artist-run presentation and resource centre for emerging and established artists. We created a unique website for them, to showcase current exhibitions, and present background information on the gallery to the public, and provide links to visual art resources on the Internet. For a sample, click here. Theytus is a native resource and training centre, based in Penticton, with a significant publishing operation. We produced a series of publications celebrating aboriginal culture and life, including stories for children, and profiles of leading native artists and architects. For a sample, click here.Fruits of the Land. The Okanagan is noted for its productive orchards and farms. Companies here produce a wide range of agriculture-based products - and we have contributed our skills to supporting their efforts to grow, and reach new markets. Stonewood Brands produces private label wine and other beverages for companies, licensees and individuals. We provided design services for promotional and packaging purposes. For a sample, click here. Okanagan Wine and Juice Laboratory provides testing services, and specialized tools and chemicals, to wine and juice producers throughout the Valley. We produced their catalog, and created an ecommerce website. Tree Brewing, one of the most progressive microbrewers in western Canada, contracted us to provide branding, packaging, and a range of marketing collatoral to support its existing brands, and help introduce new ones to its growing market. We also produced a series of investor support publications. For a sample, click here.Technology. The Okanagan is home to a number of high-tech enterprises, both software and hardware, as well as companies that provide Internet-based content and ecommerce services. We have supplied design and marketing services to a number of these. BookManager Software produces bookstore ordering management software, used by independent bookstores internationally. We created product packaging, and a promotional website. For a sample, click here. Optizer Technologies developed breakthrough data compression algorithms from which it created Internet server software applications. We created packaging and promotional items, with a complementary website. For a sample, click here.Hybrid Media. Although few in number, the Okanagan is home to some of the most innovative publishing companies in Canada, if not the world. As with much of the publishing world, these innovators are in the process of extending their offerings through the combination of digital products and services with their more traditional ones. Our considerable depth of experience in this type of migration has been put to work by a number of them. Wood Lake Books is one of Canada's largest independent religious publishers, with customers on three continents for its curriculum products and non-fiction books. In addition to book design and art direction, and repositioning their trade publishing program, we worked with them on a wide range of marketing and digital media projects, including their extensive Web properties. For a sample, click here. Bongarde Communications is a major supplier of industrial safety communications and training products. We produced a comprehensive marketing campaign for their Intranet and Internet product lines, including brochures and white papers, direct mail and direct email programs, as well as graphic production support systems. We also developed a set of design and typography standards for their print publications, and an extensive content management system to handle their cross-media requirements for future expansion. For a sample, click here. A Glimpse into Our Colourful Past Before locating our offices in the Okanagan, we plied our trade for more than 15 years in the publishing centres of Toronto and New York, and the new media centres that emerged in Vancouver and San Francisco, with occasional forays in places between. Following are some highlights of our engagements, examples of our clients, and some links to more samples of our work. Traditional Media. Book and magazine publishers have been the source of much of our work, and we have been privileged to work with some of the leading companies and organizations in the world, as well as with numerous smaller, specialized publishers. Through these associations and projects we have built up a portfolio of hundreds of books, periodicals, and support materials. Random House, based in New York, is one of the largest book publishers in the world, with a massive retail presence. We worked with a number of their imprints, producing custom illustrated giftbooks, and designing general-interest trade books. Later, we became involved in a series of smaller-publisher acquisitions in specialized and niche market segments. For a sample, click here. Canadian Periodical Publishers Association was founded to represent the interests of Canada's growing magazine publishing industry in the mid-1970s, headquartered in Toronto. We were actively involved in establishing the association, in designing catalogs, marketing support materials, and training programs, and in conducting co-marketing campaigns to support members across the country.New Media. From the introduction of desktop publishing and CD-ROMs in the early and late 1980s respectively, through the rising - and falling - tide of the Internet and Web, we have worked hard to keep ahead of technology, and put it to appropriate use for our traditional media clients, and integrate it thoughtfully into their products and services. As well, we were actively involved in the growth of the new media sectors, contributing products and services to dozens of companies that emerged to create new sectors of opportunity in software, digital content and services, and telecommunications. Motion Works Group was, in it's time, the most advanced digital media company in Canada, with a growing international business in multimedia products. Based in Vancouver and San Francisco, the company produced educational and consumer multimedia for major international publishers, and graphics tools for new media developers. As senior publishing consultants, we created a number of best-selling brands for the company, and marketed them worldwide through co-publishing and private-label relationships. For a sample, click here. Telit Communications developed one of the first voice-over-Internet applications, which was sold as a stand-alone consumer product, and as an add-in to other telecommunications products. We provided branding, packaging, and promotional materials to support the launch of the company and its flagship products.
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