You probably know that as creative people, we draw inspiration from many sources. We are proud of our ability to integrate disparate thoughts into something new. This year for you, we are calling for some help from the animal kingdom to usher in a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year.
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This year, we will explore the things that make us remarkable. This year, we will refine our output as a creative firm. This year, we will be unique.
This fall, we find ourselves with a new burst of life. Kimberly Sullivan joined Birch Studio in October. She comes on with strong sense of aesthetics, a knack for methodical problem solving and high level communication skills.
Her BFA in Fine Arts gives her deep roots into the world of beauty. Her work for previous firms and on side projects show a deep understanding of information and how to make it comprehensible and interesting. Her motivated nature gives her the platform to put it all together into something great. (more…)
One of our favorite campaigns recently happens to be one of favorite types of work – comprehensive branding and communications across a variety of formats.
Print to PDF to web to email to social media, we hit them all in this campaign. (more…)
While we say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ every day of the year, this is the time to give thanks in a more robust fashion. So what better way than to embrace our clients in a sort of “social media group hug” (professionally speaking)? We have moved our testimonials page into the Social Media Century to connect our clients and clients-to-be digitally.
This month’s topic is Hybrid Vehicles. Combining data from the DOE and the Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center, we show just how much better hybrid vehicles are for the planet and for your pocket.
When our favorite non-profit came to us for a makeover of their fundraising materials, we were especially glad to help them look like the professional organization that they are.
Our first concern for the design of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency brochure was that it should balance carefully the need for positive fundraising imagery and respecting the sensitivity of SARA’s clients.
We chose colorful images of people which were happy, but not too happy. Then we blended those into a warm gray background to add a somber undertone. A small flair of the SARA logo on a page or two, and some minor graphics seen in the boxes on the What You Can Do page, give the piece one more small dimension and a quiet bit of hope.
Birch Studio’s primary output is creativity. All of the work that we produce is custom: graphic design, web design, user interface design, data visualization, etc. To keep our wits about us, we needed a process that could be the same each time for us. The following is a summary of the tips David shared at the seminar hosted by the Center for Non-profit Excellence on July 19, 2011. (more…)
I suspect that PDFs are way more versatile than you know. You probably have seen form fields in a PDF. PDFs also include lots of features that are common on web pages – linking between pages, check boxes, pull-down menus and more. They also allow some of the same high-powered functionality that websites do such as dynamic content and logic-based operations.
Combine this digital DNA with the reliability to hold any page design, regardless of whether it’s seen in a browser, as a stand-alone document, by email, or even printed, and you may start to see PDFs have the power to fill the space between digital and printed media. And maybe even take a bite out of both of their markets. (more…)
