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Its been quite the race over the past 24-hours. Despite holding this event in the past, each event comes with it's own set of challenges and rewards. There were definitely times some of our team members felt that they weren't going to make it, but we pulled through and are happy to announce we have completed what we set out to deliver.

Here's a look at what we were able to accomplish:

• A full website visual redesign
• Rewrote website and print messaging
• A logo update
• Newsletter template
• Brochures, Thank You Cards, and Posters
• Stickers and Invitations for the One Millionth Child campaign
• Two new t-shirt designs
• Social Media images and strategy

In addition to the project pieces, we were also able to document the entire process:

• 8 Videos (real-time editing and posting)
• Over 400 Photos
• 37 Blog Posts

Here is a screenshot of the final designed website:

Here is a screenshot of the old website before we spent the last 24 hours redesigning and launching the new website:

We'd like to thank everyone who was a part of this amazing event, whether you were here or sending us happy thoughts. We would especially like to thank Family Giving Tree for joining us for our fifth ZURBwired!

Wow, it's all coming together- every one of our printed pieces arrived on time. They turned our really good. A big thanks to our friends at PrintHQ.com for a stellar job turning these pieces around in our 24 hour time constraint.

Here are the print pieces:

Thanks to our friends over at Zazzle, we were able to get our posters and stickers completed by 7AM. In less than 24 hours we created the concept, creative direction and finished the implementation. Amazing!

Here's a peek of what came through our door:

We're in the home stretch to wrap up ZURBwired- it's been an exhausting 23 hours so far... We're going to hit our project goal and it's great to know we also had a little fun during our event.

Arthur is actually happy deep inside, but in this photo, he's just a little tired. :)

It's not easy staying awake for 24 hours, let alone, working the entire time to complete a task. Luckily our neighbors in the community have been a great help along the way.

Meet our lovely Starbucks Baristas!

They were amazing in accommodating quite a large order just before closing time and even extended a few of there staff a little past there quitting time. We were very appreciative!

Later in the evening, we made a run to Taco Bravo. Arriving just after they finished cleaning up for the night, they were still willing to make us 10 super tacos, 7 regular tacos, 3 soft tacos 2 chicken tacos, 3 bean and cheese burritos and still served them with a smile!

We couldn't have made it through this event without our community! We express out sincere gratitude to these businesses who gave us our caffeine and taco fix.

The website is coming along nicely. With most of the assets in place, we are gearing up for QA testing and final touches.

We're ZURBians, so of course a photo session was completely necessary. But wait, this isn't any typical photo booth, there are props... lots of them!

While many of our ZURBwired team members posed with typical props you would find around our office, such as boxing gloves or giant polka dot clown tie, we were also encouraged to bring a wacky item from home! Take a look at some of the more eccentric props in this video!

About nine or so hours ago, we were first putting the skeleton of Family Giving Tree's new website together. Here's what it looked like:

That's the homepage, by the way, the first page that vistors will see when they go to the site. But the Design Team has been cranking on the scaffolding, dressing it up and making it look pretty. Here's a sneak peek, just for you all:

And here's what the Design Team is working toward:

Jonathan, whose been overseeing all of the work, says it's coming together well.

We're working to integrate visual design into the scaffold that we completed earlier. We're also working through the mobile component and most likely moving into QA in about another hour and a half.

It may be a little late in the night, or early in the morning depending on how you look at it. But the designers aren't letting a little lack of sleep slow them down. As Jackie, one of our designers put it:

I crashed a little bit around 11 but now I'm getting my second wind. Also, I'm really excited for the "Soldier Boy" dance off.

Well, we'll see if that dance off happens. In any case, Caleb has tapped into his own super powers.

I feel so strong right now. I feel pretty much invincible.

All of us have tapped into our super power reserve so we can race toward the finish line.

Our team didn't slow down just because the sun went down. We were only getting started.

Jocelyn, a Design volunteer, has furiously been working on putting together a new t-shirt designs for Family Giving Tree.

As usual we started out with a couple low-fi sketches to present ideas to the Family Giving Tree team.

After a couple of iterations, Jocelyn was able to finalize the design for the shirts.

Before finalizing these designs, the location of many of the elements of the tee had changed. Originally there was a front image on the purple tee along with a large logo on the back. However, due to concerns that while working in there donation warehouse, the elves (as the Family Giving Tree team members call themselves), wear vests that may cover up the design.

To circumvent this issue, we moved the logo to the sleeve so that it will always be visible. Expect to see a Family Giving Tree team wearing some new dapper gear in the near future!

We would like to thank Jocelyn and all of our volunteers for their hard work!