Find beautiful products for you, your friends and even their babies. Check it out today: Liliblossom.com

Altruism, the 21st century way.

The Cowie and Fox team are proud supporters of Help a Hospital, a charitable organization whose new website is an excellent example of an open-source e-commerce solution to business management. Customized specifically for their needs, Help a Hospital’s site allows partner Hospitals to manage “wish lists” and receive donations more efficiently that ever before.

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Lili Blossom is Vancouver’s newest online natural skin care retailer, and like Cowie and Fox, they love the environment! We love their unique approach to skin care and their efforts to respect the planet by reducing their environmental impact.

So, when they asked us to develop their name, brand strategy, look-and-feel, logo and website the answer was “yes,” naturally.

Visit Lili Blossom website »

One of my favorite lotions is Malie. When you open the bottle it’s like a mini tropical vacation inside, it’s fragrant, but not too strong (i’m one of those people that doesn’t like perfumed products). I was also impressed with how it softens the skin. Definately a must have product!

Mix, match, accessorize! Ricki’s new E-Commerce enabled website allows you to buy that hot new outfit right from the comfort of your own home.

A Canadian clothing giant with over 130 retail locations, Ricki’s is a leader in providing working women with fashion forward clothing at a great price. Not sure what you want? Get great style tips and clothing combinations by clicking your way through the ‘10 items 10 ways’ flash feature or the ‘Wear to Work’ section.

Cowie and Fox collaborated with Elastic Path and Bazaar Voice to create an Enterprise Level shopping E-Commerce solution that lets the consumer rate the products they purchase online or in store. Follow reviews by women who have the same body type as you to ensure that you are getting the clothes that fit you best.  Check out www.rickis.com to see our latest interactive E-Commerce solution.

Online shopping has never been so easy, or looked so good.

When you hear Bootlegger, you probably think ‘jeans’ – if you’re thinking ‘hillbilly moonshine in a darkened Chicago alley’ that’s a different bootlegger all together. Seriously though, with 98 stores across the country, Bootlegger has placed itself as Canada’s jean expert. Finding the right pair of jeans isn’t as easy as it sounds. Different brands fit differently, different denim hugs differently, different cuts will make you look different. One size doesn’t fit all. That’s why at Bootlegger, they offer a lot more than just a good jean selection. Sure they carry the brands that you want, but more importantly they can help guide you into the right pair of jeans. They won’t just sell you the brand because it sounds cool because that’s not nice, and the people are at Bootlegger are very nice, knowledgeable people. That’s why they’re called Jean-e-ologists – they’re experts that care, basically loveable scientists of denim.

So if you’re a company that prides itself on being Jean-e-ologists, your website had better live up to expectations. Cowie and Fox has designed and built the Bootlegger brand website for years, and has made sure that the experience was always a reflection of the ideals that the brand lives by. This year, though, Cowie and Fox has taken it a step further and has launched the Bootlegger brand into the world of e-commerce. Cowie and Fox’s award winning front end design and creative flair has been supplemented by the back end programming genius that is Elastic Path. The seamless partnership between Cowie and Fox, and Elastic Path has allowed for a dynamic and functional site that is easy to navigate, yet, visually stunning. It may sound simple, but co-ordination between front end and back end is something that is often awkward and difficult. When co-ordination and communication is bad you end up with websites that are clunky and incomprehensibly hard to navigate. Ever found yourself feverishly hitting the back button in your browser in effort to get back to where you came from? Not only does the product not come up to par, but in these cases the budget and timeframe also usually gets thrown out the window. That’s probably why the Bootlegger was so chuffed with how smoothly things worked out with their new site:

“The teams at both Elastic Path and Cowie & Fox were great to work with for the development of our e-commerce solution. It was with their hard work and dedication that this project came together on time, and on budget. Thanks for the great work.”
Dustin May :: Director of marketing, Bootlegger

Take a peek at the Jean-e-ologists’ new home ››

Athletic apparel is some of the most comfortable clothing you can wear, yet, it is also some of the most unfashionable clothing you can wear. At some point long, long ago, style and function were decreed incompatible. Somehow, the world has gone on without questioning this for centuries – why do you think the first Olympians raced naked? You just couldn’t wear your running toga in the agora or you’d be laughed at. It was better to run around naked, and then slip on your market-wear when you went into town.

Things didn’t get better over the centuries, especially not for women. You only have to look at a few photos from the birth of the WPGA, and you’ll agree. A man’s argyle sweater-vest thrown in for six hot rinse cycles and a pair of balloon pants isn’t really what you’d call haute couture. Try just thinking back as far as high school, remember girls who played sports? Pretty or not, they weren’t allowed to look good. It was always men’s XL T-shirts and sweatpants with varsity soccer or volleyball plastered across the bum. This is just the way things have always been. Believe it or not, though, fashion and athletics are not as mutually exclusive as we’ve been led to believe.

Enter circa 1997, a brave woman named Linda Hipp decided to take a gamble on the idea that it just might be possible to make an outfit that a woman could wear both on the golf course and in public. And not just wear it, but look good too. Hipp formed a clothing line, now known as Lija, that took its inspiration from fashion, and its functionality from athletics. Unsurprisingly, the universe didn’t implode, and the idea was very well received. Thousands of women began showing up to lunch after a round of golf wearing the same thing, and looking good. Across golf courses, tennis courts, and high streets, jubilant cries could be heard echoing in unison: “We’re all in the bunker, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Hipp’s gamble paid off and Lija is now a well recognized brand that offers a number of different fashionable athletic clothing lines. The brand is growing fast, so in order to accommodate and enable this growth, Lija commissioned Cowie and Fox to develop a web site and internet presence that would not only look beautiful, but also, would be a fully functioning E-Commerce site. It’s clean design and bold images hide the intricate machine that pumps out real time payment and complete inventory integration. It’s basically pretty awesome. Don’t believe us, you heartless skeptics? Listen to what Lija has to say and check out the site for yourself!

“I just wanted to say how much we all appreciate the creative and other work that you have done on our new e-Comm site. [...] Thank you again for pushing us in a more progressive direction on site design, and working so diligently on functionality. I know it has been a lot of work, and probably more than you or I anticipated going in, but it looks great and we are getting a lot of fantastic feedback. [...] I’m super pleased with where we are on it. Thanks again!”
Christine Jakovcic :: Director, Brand Management & Revenue Strategy

Your new wardrobe in only a click away ››