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brand building: five critical things people often overlook

Brand building success. As traditional media is eclipsed by new media, the concept of brand building continues to change in unexpected ways. Speed, adaptability, and collaboration are more important than…

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Categories branding, copywriting, logo design, messaging Tags branding

landing page strategies: making the most of the most valuable real estate in the world

how web design and messaging can strengthen your brand The most valuable piece of property in the world is the seven square inches your prospective client sees when pulling up…

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Categories branding, copywriting, creativity, design, language, marketing, mobile web design, web design Tags messaging, social media, web

all together now – standards and consistency

With so much marketing taking place through a multitude of different mediums and applications, the tendency is for messages to become ever more fragmented — and more easily forgotten. start…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, marketing, messaging, social marketing Tags brand standards, messaging
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experience as message

Framing marketing communications in terms of experience opens up new opportunities for engaging your audience. Our Be in Bellingham campaign is one example of this thinking at work; another is…

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Categories copywriting, design, printing Tags messaging
tourism branding - BE in Bellingham print design by Shew Design

experiences > things

A paradox of destination marketing is that while each destination is unique in its own way, the materials and messages people use for different destinations are often indistinguishable from one…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, messaging Tags messaging, tourism

print intentionally

Despite all predictions to the contrary, print communications still play a crucial role in how organizations reach out to their audience. Print has changed, though. It is now more an…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, messaging, printing Tags print

clean up your navigation through analytics

Most things are more complicated than they need to be. Navigation is no exception. You can fairly easily see what links people use on your website using traffic evaluation tools…

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Categories copywriting, marketing, messaging, web design Tags analytics, website

minimalism, trust, and some really good chocolate

Research plays a crucial part of creating good design, and so a designer’s life is essentially a never ending series of opportunities to learn. The best designers are really the…

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Categories color, copywriting, creativity, design, letterpress, marketing, packaging, printing, typography Tags chocolate, printing, product research 1 Comment

Komen & Planned Parenthood

The public feud between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood is an object lesson in successful strategic thinking. It’s also a sign of what is to come…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, health care, language, marketing, messaging Tags communications, social media

an open love letter to Garamond

Garamond is one of a handful of typefaces that designers of all eras return to again and again. Apple used the condensed form in the late eighties, and it became…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, design, printing, typography Tags typography
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the hidden value of hidden messages

speak friend and enter A fundamental principal about marketing communication relates to making it easy for the audience to understand what you’re trying to say. A message that requires serious…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, design, marketing Tags design, logos

form follows function

  “I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” — Mark Twain The process of developing meaningful content for websites is sometimes a bigger…

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Categories copywriting, creativity, design Tags design, layout

print ad campaign for Chocolate Necessities

We recently completed a print ad campaign for Chocolate Necessities. They not only make some of the finest chocolate you’ll ever taste, but they offer some unique truffle flavor combinations…

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Categories copywriting, design, messaging Tags ad design, campaign, retail marketing

simple ways to keep content and branding fresh

Keeping your website and social media feeds up to date can be time-consuming and complicated, so it’s worth taking a little time to invest in a planning process to ensure you are getting the most…

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Categories branding, copywriting, creativity, marketing, social marketing Tags productivity, social media, website

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