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.
Thanks to your support, we’re Best of C-ville material! It’s an honor to be the first winners of this new category, Best Graphic & Web Design. Thanks everyone!
Below are a few of the ads we’re running in the C-vile to celebrate the win. We hope you like them!
Here’s what they said about us, “With a small but capable team, Birch Studio founders Jenny and Dave Robinson conquer the local design world in this new category. The Robinsons are responsible for the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport and nTelos websites, plus a lot of branding for local organizations like SNL and Darden School of Business.”
Check out the rest of the winners here.
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. Read 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. Read more »
Thanks to your support, Birch Studio has been nominated for Best of C-ville! Voting ends July 5th. So if you haven’t voted for us yet, please take a minute to do so right now.
We need all of you (and your friends, family, colleagues) to follow this link and vote for Birch Studio now for the “Best Graphic and Web Designer” category in section 5, #20 under Services. www.surveymonkey.com/s/BOC2011
**Bonus Alert**
We did a fun little side project to promote ourselves for Best of C-ville. Check out why we’re the best here: www.birchstudio.com/bestof
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Two things that food and information have in common: the more attractive and richer it is, the more we want it.
When you’re really hungry, almost anything tastes good. Eat too much, and it has detrimental effects. The same is true with information. Most of us have more than enough, and it starts to slow us down. But when information must be consumed, it is very helpful to present it in a way that is appetizing, and not just more of the same.
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