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Klena Reed

An archive of selected decks and project work by Matthew Reed for Klena Reed, Doubleday & Cartwright and Naismith Labs.

STUDIO CAPABILITIES & SELECT WORKS

Klena Reed  Boulder, CO

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WHO ARE OUR CLIENTS?

Our clients are visionary businesses and entrepreneurs who need top-notch digital solutions. They seek to create stunning marketing websites, ecommerce experiences, or wish to bring new digital product ideas and features to life. Our clients are focused on a broader spectrum of business goals and need a reliable partner to handle digital execution with minimal stress. A partner that guarantees guidance, strategic insight and project success.

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your full service digital atelier

Research & Discovery

User-Experience Design

Content Production

Development & QA

Launch & Support

Maintenance & Operations

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OUR PROMISE

Klena Reed, with over 20 years of experience in digital design and execution, serves as your expert guide. We bring high-end creative sensibility and a strategic approach to each project, ensuring that every detail is meticulously planned and executed.By partnering with us, clients not only experience a seamless, stress-free path to digital project completion. They gain an ongoing ally in digital execution.

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USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN & PROTOTYPING

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Research & Development

Exploring the Future of Commerce

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Project. In a groundbreaking year-long project, we partnered with a high-profile celebrity to redefine e-commerce. We developed innovative interfaces incorporating WebGL and custom software to animate models showcasing every possible clothing combination. This immersive experience extended to mobile applications controlled by hand gestures and experimental point-of-sale systems using NFC technology at digital mirrors, allowing users to view products on themselves and make purchases seamlessly.

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Celebrity commerce R&D: a model on a pale blue backdrop with her height and size overlaid in large type, from the animated try-on interface.
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Celebrity commerce R&D: laptop showing a grid of dozens of animated models in neutral basics, one for every clothing combination.
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CONTENT MARKETING & BRANDING

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budweiser x biggie

Reviving an Icon

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Project. We linked up with Budweiser to bring back an updated version of the iconic rap mag referenced in the song, dedicated to celebrating Biggie’s life through the lens of Hip-Hop 50, Bringing together iconic words and images from hip-hop luminaries past and present,the microsite helped Budweiser celebrate Biggie’s exceptional impact on hip-hop and immerse his fans in a small slice of his life and music.

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Budweiser × Biggie: laptop showing the campaign site, a red-framed grid of Notorious B.I.G. imagery with “Heavy is the Crown” artwork.
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Budweiser × Biggie: three phones showing the mobile campaign site with Biggie photography and collage artwork.
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fans have more friends

Bringing fans to the web

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Project. After Doubleday & Cartwright designed the physical Fans Have More Friends book with Dave Sikorjak and Ben Valenta, we translated the look and feel of the book into a marketing site. We created a simple but unique user experience to introduce potential customers to the book and authors and capture their e-mail to build community, with seamless links to partner retailers who sell the book. Our solution immediately provided global scalability for sales and awareness of a book filled with intriguing fan-driven insights.

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Fans Have More Friends: laptop showing the interactive research site, with a dot-matrix data visualisation, quote cards and a printed report.
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FOX FAN MOSAIC

Outfoxing Boredom in Sports Insights

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Project. The Head of Fox Sports Insights partnered with D&C to create a secure platform that enhanced the entertainment value of presentations across various sports and shows. By employing a cross-functional team of creatives, we transformed insights into engaging rich media content, exploring topics like modern gambling and audience demographics. This innovative approach led to a significant increase in engagement from our client's core audience and requests for module segments in sales presentations, demonstrating that attention greatly complements influence.

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Fox Fan Mosaic: laptop playing the Fox Sports Insights interactive “More Than a Game” documentary.
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Fox Fan Mosaic: laptop playing the second Fox Sports Insights interactive chapter.
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WHOOP

Unlocking Potential

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Project. D&C collaborated with Whoop during a major transition towards a subscription model, enhancing its brand through a new website, lifestyle photography, and clearer product explanations. We staged a multi-sport photo shoot, redesigned the website, and refined the narrative to emphasize a new "unlock yourself" theme, blending visuals with app data. Ultimately making analytics relatable, appealing to both dedicated and casual users, and setting a direction for Whoop's content strategy that would contribute to Whoop's significant growth, now valued at over $3 billion.

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WHOOP: desktop web pages for the “Unlock Yourself” campaign, with athlete photography and product sections.
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WHOOP: three mobile screens from the “Unlock Yourself” site, including a recovery score dial at 50%.
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WHOOP: subway station posters reading “WHOOP” and “Recover, Strain, Sleep” as a commuter walks past.
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POSTMATES

DELIVERING Not Just Another Newsletter

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Project. Our team came up with a newsletter design system and implemented it into HTML development for their Email Growth team. In addition to the new design system we also put together a series of story concepts ranging from new restaurant reviews, latest food trends or areas and even underground music scenes in LA. Each story was accompanied by a visuals that our team developed or commissioned to well known artists.

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Postmates: three newsletter designs on an orange background, featuring Los Angeles jazz and food stories with bold illustration.
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Postmates: colourful newsletter illustrations of city scenes, a map marked “Downtown” and food close-ups.
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Postmates: bold patterned illustration beside a newsletter screen asking “Where can you experience sour beers made from a coolship?”
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Postmates: close-up of a bold, colourful newsletter illustration of two stylised faces.
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activision

Celebrating a Culture Champions

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Project. For Activision, embodying company values isn't just talk—it's the cornerstone of their community. In a vibrant internal campaign, we spotlighted those who live and breathe Activision's ethos, using visually striking posters and a bespoke newsletter format. Highlighting values like inclusivity, innovation, and fun, we transformed everyday heroes into icons of Activision's vision. Nominated by their peers for exemplifying these ideals, featured team members became the face of a movement, inspiring a wave of pride and unity across the company.

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Activision Culture Champions: editorial pages profiling Activision employees, each with a portrait and headline.
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Activision Culture Champions: a set of colourful illustrations created for the employee stories.
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E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS

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UNITY

Visualizing Premium Sound

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Project. Unity is a company that realizes that great sound is a crucial part of our lives, which is why they created wireless headphones that can play lossless audio. The challenge for us was figuring out how we could show what good quality audio sounded like. We created a website with an animated 3D rendering, showing not just the headphones, but the way they interacted with sound in the world, demonstrating aesthetic and aural appeal simultaneously.

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Unity: laptop showing the dark product site for premium headphones, with a glowing purple “Limitless” hero.
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Unity: product page section “The one you’ve been waiting for” with headphones rendered in purple particles.
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Unity: “True Lossless” section with a ring of purple particles and the Full-Fi logo.
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Unity: e-commerce product page with colour options, $1,199 price and a “Proceed to checkout” button.
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Unity: “Premium Headphone Functionality” section with translucent pink and blue headphones.
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Unity: “Bring Unity Home” section listing warranty, shipping and payment benefits beside blue headphones.
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2pac legacy

Merging art, commerce for an immortal

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Project. For the 2PAC estate, our mission was to intertwine the artist's enduring legacy with a unique online shopping experience, creating a space where editorial content and commerce coexist beautifully. Adopting a minimalist design approach, we crafted an uncluttered platform that invites fans into 2PAC's world, making every discovery a tribute. By merging rich narrative content with the ease of commerce, we've offered fans a meaningful way to connect with 2PAC's legacy, ensuring his story continues to resonate through each item.

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2PAC Legacy: laptop showing the estate store homepage, a black-and-white photo of Tupac with the line “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
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2PAC Legacy: store pages with archival Tupac photography, a black T-shirt and the official biography.
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2PAC Legacy: grid of store pages for merchandise and the official “2Pacalypse Now” biography.
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2PAC Legacy: product page for a limited-edition black 2PAC T-shirt.
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2PAC Legacy: two tablets showing a long-sleeve shirt product page and detail view.
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2PAC Legacy: three mobile screens with a Tupac quote, a portrait and the merchandise store.
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TALKING TERPS

A Cultivated Commerce Makeover

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Project. For Talking Terps, a unique cannabis culture brand, we embarked on a journey to modernize their online shopping experience. The project centered around a sleek, minimalist redesign that highlights the brand's distinctive products and ethos. A captivating, scrollable landing page featuring engaging pulp visuals seamlessly blends aesthetic appeal with product discovery. Additionally, a custom-developed "speed shop" feature allows customers to effortlessly browse the full catalog, check availability, and add products to their cart, setting a new standard for user-friendly ecommerce in the cannabis industry.

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Talking Terps: e-commerce pages showing colourful merchandise, collectibles and psychedelic artwork.
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Talking Terps: product list page for the store’s catalogue on a green background.
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Talking Terps: lush collage of flowers, mushrooms and fruit used as the brand’s visual world.
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1XRUN

Running the Drops

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Project. For 1XRUN, a Detroit-based leader in fine art publishing, our journey involved transitioning from a decade-old, custom-built ecommerce solution to a contemporary, streamlined Shopify theme. This transformation was aimed at enhancing the digital presence of a company that has passionately delivered over 3,000 editions to collectors worldwide. Our focus was on preserving the essence of 1XRUN’s curated collections while offering a refined, user-friendly shopping experience, setting a new standard for art commerce.

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1XRUN: desktop pages for fine-art print drops, including a homepage, a countdown timer and a print detail page.
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1XRUN: three mobile screens showing a drop countdown, a print set and an artist page for Denial.
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gamma. Doggystyle 30th anniversary

Celebrating 30 Years of Doggystyle

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Project. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Snoop Dogg‘s Doggystyle, a legitimate game changer for rap as a whole, D&C teamed up with the gamma. to design a deluxe edition of the album, including a fifteen page original Joe Cool singles artwork booklet, which features rarely-seen artwork expanding on the story on the album’s cover. We’re proud to have contributed to the definitive edition of the album that helped define the sound of Los Angeles and turned @snoopdogg into a household name.

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Doggystyle 30th Anniversary: dark Gamma landing page with long-form copy and a launch countdown.
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Doggystyle 30th Anniversary: product page for “Doggystyle: The 4/20 Vinyl Box Set” by Snoop Dogg.
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Doggystyle 30th Anniversary: the limited-edition box set with marbled vinyl and album artwork.
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VICTORY JOURNAL

Expanding the Playfield of Digital Commerce

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Project. At Victory Journal, we revitalized our website to embrace a commerce-forward approach, enhancing our dedication to the intersection of sport and culture. The new site features a model where readers can access a selection of free articles monthly, with the option to unlock an extensive archive through a Victory membership. This strategy aims to enrich our community engagement by offering exclusive content while maintaining the spirit of unapologetically enthusiastic and human-centric storytelling that defines our publication.

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Victory Journal: journals page with a grid of magazine covers featuring sports photography.
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Victory Journal: product page for a single issue with a basketball dunk on the cover, $24.
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Victory Journal: merch page for a black Victory logo T-shirt, $24.
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Victory Journal: editions page with fine-art prints and framed pieces.
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Victory Journal: three mobile screens showing journals, the blue navigation menu and reading list.
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Trophy

DRIP, DRIP, DROPPING CULTURE

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Project. For Trophy, a client dedicated to exclusive, high-profile collaborations, we've crafted unique digital experiences to celebrate iconic figures and moments in entertainment. From Dr. Dre's 30th anniversary of "The Chronic," featuring limited-edition merchandise and artwork of master tapes, to Travis Barker's rapid release of autographed drumheads and tour-worn apparel, our campaigns resonate deeply with fans. Additionally, our innovative "Ape Editions" drop, a web3 token-gated project for Bored Ape members including Eminem and Snoop Dogg, pushed the boundaries of fan engagement and digital exclusivity. Each project not only heightened brand visibility but also set new standards in merging digital artistry with fan experiences.

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Trophy: “Ape Editions” banner for certified fine-art prints with two framed ape portraits.
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Trophy: product cards for a photo print, comic concept art and an animation print, each with a buy button.
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Trophy: The Chronic Masters collection artwork featuring Dr. Dre.
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Trophy: 3D animated “Chronic Masters” scene with a lowrider cityscape.
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Trophy: collection page with a tattooed portrait and the gold title “Trophy Collection”.
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Trophy: three mobile screens showing the Trophy Collection, a product page and the shop menu.
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let's get started

Avoid the costly pitfalls of delayed timelines and subpar execution that plague many digital projects. With Klena Reed, time and money are invested wisely, ensuring only the highest level of design and functional excellence.

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We'll work together to create a brief for your project.

We'll draft a proposal with detailed costs and timeline.

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