Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

is your business card up to snuff?

As marketing professionals, we see a TON of really, really bad business cards.  You know the ones:  they have VistaPrint logos all over them.  They list 20 phone numbers and no actual contact information.  Weird, mangled, or outdated imagery abounds.
We’re going to get a chance to evaluate business cards next week, both at the Boulder […]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

stencil-y goodness

I’m not the design brains of this operation, but I love the stencil-y goodness that seems to be pervading design du jour.
I’m talking the clever vinyl stick-ons available at places like Apple Pie Design and the amazing artwork of Sarah Cihat, whose artwork I featured in the Denver/Boulder Onion (the article got picked up in […]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Juli’s Favs

Kohler.
They make you forget they are selling faucets, but rather investing in a work of art. All of the sudden it is a must have, high-end seeming product.
Never do they mention affordable art, because at that point it cheapens the product. Instead, they pull it off as high-end, but the sheer number of ads […]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

What Works Monday: Nintendo Wii

Every once in a while a product comes along that baffles, confounds, and makes branding folk salivate. The beyond-hot, beyond-prized, beyond-fun Nintendo Wii is one such product, and it definitely makes the grade for What Works Mondays here at Voco Creative.
First of all, as someone whose video game mojo never seemed to transcend the […]