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Marketing Materials to Grow Your Business

Marketing Materials to Grow Your Business

January 12, 2012 No Comments

If you own or are part of a business, then you should know how important brochures are to a company. They are meant to present the key aspects of your business while still staying within the confines of 2-3 panels of space. Between the look of the brochure and the contents within, a well-designed brochure ...

Our Logo is For You

Our Logo is For You

December 19, 2011 No Comments

Target is the second largest retail company in the United States. They opened their first store in 1962 in Minnesota. Every American knows their pure red color logo and sees it everywhere. The reason it holds people’s eyes is this logo is simple, fun and graphic. The fun part of this logo is the two ...

Guess that Logo (Part I)

Guess that Logo (Part I)

October 13, 2011 1 Comment

You know how you can tell if a company has been successful in marketing itself? If you are able to recognize their identity when you come across it in everyday life. For example, I was watching football the other day, and the players, coaches and cheerleaders were all wearing pink, and without even having to be told why ...

How Designers can Help the Construction/Contractor Industry

How Designers can Help the Construction/Contractor Industry

October 6, 2011 No Comments

The success of your business really depends on your company’s image. In my opinion, there are two main aspects that can shape that image. The first is obviously the quality of the services you provide. If people are happy with your construction or contractor work, they are more likely to use your services again and/or spread the word. ...

Design Feature: Ackmann & Dickenson Business Card

Design Feature: Ackmann & Dickenson Business Card

September 15, 2011 No Comments

Last month I wrote a blog analyzing the design of the John Betjeman book cover, so this month I decided I’d go in a little bit of a different direction and discuss a great business card I found online. Ackmann & Dickenson is a web development and design company based in Minneapolis. They designed their ...

What Makes a Logo Great

What Makes a Logo Great

August 9, 2011 No Comments

Although logos are smaller and sometimes less detailed than other design projects, their importance and the thought that must go into creating one does not mirror their size. When a designer sits down to create a logo, they have to come up with one single graphic that encapsulates the identity of an entire company. On ...

Parents turning to tattoos for help

  Parents are turning to “SafetyTat” for help. Kids wonder off and don’t always pay attention to their surroundings....

Get with it! Apps you should download

  If you are anything like me, you constantly look for ways that you can fully utilize your smart...

The Eco.. err I mean Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is considered arguably the most highly anticipated sporting event of the year. Even more so for...

Society6 – You make the art, they do the rest!

  Do you have tons of art that you would love to sell but you have no time or...

Green Logos: Simple Design, Complex Meaning

  Recently, I was working for an eco friendly logo design company. I feel that I have little difficultly...

Client Showcase: JH Exteriors

  Recently we have had the pleasure of working with a new up and coming construction company called JH...

Getting Under the Skin

  There has been talk about future technology and what it will being us: robots, cars driving themselves, phones...

How to Sell Great Creative

  How to sell great creative First off, you have to be able to develop great creative. And what...

Green Diners Unite!

Let it be known to the local restaurants that a challenge has been issued. This challenge is a challenge...

Teefury: Tee Today, Gone Tomorrow

If you’ve surfed the internet at least once in your life, then you’ve probably stumbled across one of the...