THE LATEST NEWS, NEW CLIENTS, NEW PROJECTS

June 2009: New logo design for Beautiful Blooms in California. Beautiful Blooms specializes in flower gardens and creating curb appeal in around-the-house garden areas and window boxes. They needed a new image that instantly communicated what they do and the quality of their work. The result is a profusion of colors and a logo that has 3 different color combinations: one each is used on their letterhead, business cards and envelopes.

May/June 2009: KRC Mining Consultants, Sydney, Australia — 3 new Capabilities Statement brochures and a redesign of their existing Cement Industry brochure. KRC offers productivity, equipment and profitability consultations to mining, cement and aggregate (sand and gravel) companies, and is one of the largest mining consulting groups in Australia. Since hiring us as their design team, they've procured customers as far afield as South America, India, Africa and the Southern Asia. We love to work with them and watch their company grow.

April 2009: Our trip to visit clients in Amsterdam. We really love this design business! Our long-term clients: Vitals, Greenleaves and FoodsEnergy (all health supplement companies) flew us over to visit their headquarters, work with their staff and assist in the design of several new campaigns, including new price lists, data sheet redesign, 2 new product labels, ads and a large-format newsletter. Amsterdam and the Netherlands is absolutely stunning! Our hosts spent 3 days taking us sightseeing and helped us to get the flavor of designing for Dutch companies. A terrific time was had by all, and they want us back in September for more.

March 13, 2009: We unveil a complete redesign of our OWN web site — the first major revision in nearly 5 years! You know the old story about the shoemaker's children who run around barefoot? We've been so busy helping our clients promote their companies that very little has been done to update our own site for ages. But now, everything is brand new and ready for the world to see. Take a look at the various projects we've been working on lately—it's some of our best work. The new site structure allows us to much more easily keep the site current—that is until we get too busy again. : )

By the way, feel free to send us your comments on the site via our Contact page. We'd love to hear from you.

Then give us a call to discuss your next logo, brochure, web site or other design project at (727) 466-6888. Let us help your company put its best face forward.

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February 2009: Nedd Health Center, Clearwater, Florida — Web site makeover/redesign. A client of ours in California recommended us to this Chiropractic Office right here in our own city (only about 10 minutes away from our offices). The only thing the same as the old site is the company logo. We gave the site a complete facelift with a new Testimonials page and an online Newsletter section. We liked the doctor so much that he's become one of our main healthcare specialists. Check out the actual site: www.NeddHealthCenter.com

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February 2009: ACT Construction, Lewisville, Texas — New web site design, brochure redesign. Joe Murray, owner of a retail and commercial construction company near Dallas, found our site on the web and hired us to create a brand new web site to show off his company's retail store and restaurant construction company. We were supplied with excellent photos and created two Flash slideshows focused on ACT's highly professional stores and restaurants. We put the text together from an old brochure and from interviews with the company executives. The site looks great and the owner called to tell me he closed a new account THE NEXT DAY after the site was launched. The job was many times the cost of the web site, so he's already made back his investment in spades! You can see the site here: www.ACTconstruction.com.

A few weeks later, Joe called us up and asked us to redesign ACT's full-color brochure. This has just been completed and is being printed.

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January 2009: Marco's Collision Centers, California — Design of a new series of brochures for their 7 locations. Marco's has been a client of ours for more than 14 years. When they came to us originally they had only one location and had a competitor who was stealing over half of their normal business, and spreading ugly (and untrue) rumors about Marco's quality of work. After some investigative research and a few interviews we came up with the "Get Your Car Fixed Once, Right, the First Time" campaign that they've used for nearly a decade and a half to grow to 7 body shops across Southern California. There will be a series of 5 brochures, followed by a redesign of their web site in the near future.

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April 2008: Logo submissions for the Olympic Games in London 2012. A British web site was asking for submissions for a new logo to replace of the official (and awful) 2012 Olympic games logo. Just for fun we created and sent in these 3 designs. We're not necessarily expecting to hear back from the Olympic committee, as they have thousands of submissions—and they've already chosen a horrible pink and yellow monstrosity that looks like it was designed by a third grader—but it was a fun exercise in creating a logo for the games. Who knows, maybe we'll be getting a call sometime in the next couple of years from Jolly Olde England. Could happen! : )

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