More than an apparel company
The Challenge
All The Way started with apparel. Everything after that grew out of necessity.
After his medical release from special operations, Gordon Hurley began making apparel to support himself. While trying to find help for a fellow veteran, he saw how little support was actually available in Canada.
That gap became the reason ATW kept growing. Apparel led to documentary work, a nonprofit foundation, the Full Circle veteran-support program, and advocacy for better access to emerging therapies.
Each part was created for a reason, but together they were difficult to explain. ATW needed a website that could show how all of the work connected without reducing it to just a clothing brand, a foundation, or a health care program.
Different people needed different ways in
The Structure
There wasn’t one obvious path through All The Way. A veteran looking for support needed something different from a donor, clinician, government official, or someone who first discovered ATW through its apparel.
The project originally started as a landing page, but as we mapped the content and user paths in the wireframe it became clear that one page couldn’t give every part of ATW enough room.
It grew into a five-page website, with dedicated pages for the Foundation, Full Circle program, services, and media.
The wireframe helped us work out what belonged on the homepage and what needed somewhere of its own. The homepage starts with the larger ATW story, then moves through why the work matters, how the mission comes to life, the support available to veterans, the credibility behind it, and the different ways someone can get involved.
Serious work without a typical institutional website
The Website
The subject matter behind ATW is heavy. Veteran suicide, trauma, medical treatment, research, and public policy all needed to be handled carefully. But Gordo also didn’t want a website that felt clinical, corporate, or softened to the point that it no longer sounded like him.
We built the site around direct language and strong imagery, using data and evidence where the story needed support.
We paired the heavier information with documentary imagery and short, direct sections that give each idea room to land. Statistics, research, government work, and media coverage build credibility, while Gordo’s voice keeps the website grounded in lived experience.
There’s a lot there, but it no longer feels like a lot to figure out.
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A website that does the explaining
The Outcome
The finished website gives All The Way a home for work that had previously lived in separate places.
Gordo can now send a veteran, clinician, government official, potential partner, donor, or customer to the same website without explaining the entire organization first. Each person can enter through the part that matters to them and still understand what everything else is doing there.
ATW no longer has to be explained as a list of separate projects. The connection is there on the page, and each part has enough room to keep growing.