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Kotuku Spring Water is a bottled water business seeking to market water with a uniquely New Zealand indentity.

To float to the top of a crowded water market, something special was required—a Special Operation in branding and design.

The kotuku or white heron is a special bird in New Zealand Maori culture, and together with a subtle, contemporary typography, a two-colour bottle label was designed with an image of the kotuku in full flight as centre-piece.

Bottle label complete and branding mission accomplished, another happy client received the Special Operations special treatment.

Big Love: Love Your Life, Love Your Planet is a bottled water business seeking to market New Zealand water to an already saturated South East Asian market.

With the design of existing brands in the marketplace unsophisticated at best, something special was required for a new brand to float to the top—a Special Operation.

The logo designed represents the core mission of the company—selling superior quality, environmentally aware New Zealand water—with the message of loving the environment infused with the iconic “Chinglish” phrase “Big Love.”

Branding complete and mission accomplished, another happy client received the Special Operations special treatment.

YOU Life and Performance Coaching offers a range of coaching scenarios to stretch and challenge you, and to take your thinking and performance to higher levels.

That’s a special business offer, and one which requires a very special website. Enter the website specialists, Special Operations.

With battle plans drafted and an outstanding design meticulously crafted by Wellington, New Zealand based designers The Penningtons, a special operative was needed to bring everything to online life, with perfectly scripted code.

Although on the face a simple brochure site, great care was taken to ensure that every aspect of the site matched to the pixel the excellent design.

The result? All mission targets were met, and with a very special website launched into battle, the Special Operations special treatment was delivered once more.

Website designed by The Penningtons.

Brother and sister designers Michael and Nicola Pennington are special, and so is the Wellington, New Zealand design company they run—The Penningtons.

A special company requires a special website, and when it came time for The Penningtons to update their existing static site to something a little more, well… special—Special Operations got the call.

The brief required every single aspect of the site—slideshow, client list, portfolio and case studies—to be able to be updated, and so possibly the world’s easiest to use Content Management System—WordPress—was deployed—with a considerable degree of custom coding behind the scenes.

The result: all mission targets were met, and with a very special website launched into battle, the special treatment was delivered once more.

A musical concert tour through Europe requested a special t-shirt to commemorate a series of performances in ten cities in ten days, a special operation for a branding and design specialist.

As the tour was without a coherent brand, typography, symbols and imagery were created to match the lofty aspirations of a concert series entitled Songs of the Soul—a bird, a floating balloon, an intricately patterned heart.

T-shirts designed and mission complete, another happy client received the Special Operations special treatment.

KiwiPhil is a New Zealand water company which gives all of its profits to water aid charities around the globe. The KiwiPhil message is simple—buying a bottle of water in New Zealand helps give water to someone in the world who needs it.

A business with a special motive requires a very special website, and having already delivered the brand, Special Operations was in a perfect position to deploy the website as well.

The website designed communicates the core mission of the company—giving New Zealand water to the world—and special features of the build include the use of sIFR generated custom fonts.

Website built and mission accomplished, a very worthy client receives the special treatment.

KiwiPhil is a New Zealand water company which gives all of its profits to water aid charities around the globe. The KiwiPhil message is simple—buying a bottle of water in New Zealand helps give water to someone in the world who needs it.

A business with a special motive requires a very special logo, and Special Operations was drafted into service to deliver just that.

The logo designed represents the core mission of the company—giving New Zealand water to the world—and the logo was then applied to a bottle label and a website.

Branding complete and mission accomplished, another happy client receives the special treatment.

The Cavit Group are a special family of injury rehabilitation companies, including New Zealand’s most comprehensive provider of brain injury rehabilitation services, Cavit ABI.

A special business requires a special website, and Special Operations was drafted into service to deliver just that, based upon a special design provided by Davenport Design.

The website produced is a family of three websites, each with a distinctive design reflecting the unique branding of the businesses within the Group.

Websites built and mission accomplished, the Special Operations special treatment was delivered yet again.

Economics Help, is a website of special economics advice written by English economics teacher and cycling champion Tejvan Pettinger. The site aims to offer help to students of economics and those interested in understanding the complexities of economics.

A special mission statement indeed, and when web design company Pure Web Designs was given the brief of redesigning Economics Help, Special Operations was drafted in to deliver a very special logo. Pure Web Designs then expertly adapted the resulting site design from the logo supplied.

The Special Operations special treatment was delivered yet again, in tightly kerned, pixel-perfect form.

Economics Help website designed and built by Pure Web Designs.