Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Guilford County Schools


Middle College is a great program in the Guilford County School System. High school students can attend both high school and college level classes while completing their high school program. The classes are located on the college campus of NC A&T, Bennett College, and GTCC's High Point and Greensboro campuses. If they elect to attend college and get college level credit hours - the class tuition is free! These programs offer incentive to students who might choose not to finish high school simply because they do not fit into the traditional high school environment.

I have designed a series of banners for these programs.

Monday, July 2, 2007

PCMH

Pitt County Memorial Hospital Pharmacy Support Services required three Ultra Banner_One banner stands to help in recruiting new candidates for their two year residency program. I designed this set of banner stands with some very nice stock photography. The set communicates the assets of the hospital system, the residency program and the benefits of living in Greenville NC.

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Lifetime Paint

This is a good example of a customer taking advantage of the Ultra Banner_Design program I offer. LifePaint and ECoat teamed together to develop a merchandising and marketing program exclusive to Do It Centers in Southern California. The program included a dozen UltraBanners_One banner stands, floor displays and 200,000 of these tri-fold mailers and follow up cards distributed at the stores.

Friday, June 29, 2007

A guide to Banner Stands


I recently was asked to write a Guide to Banner Stands for work.com. In case you dont know, work.com is a website that asks what you know and to share it with others. They have a sister website called business.com which a very focused b2b search engine kind of like a google for business to business only.

Here is an excerpt from the guide: "Banner Stands are a very popular and affordable tool for the marketing and sales professional. They are lightweight, portable and setup quickly. Banner stands come in all shapes and sizes - having a basic knowledge of the various types available is going to save you time and money. Have your graphics designer create a banner stand with the following three principles in mind: Fast, Friendly and Free (Read the Tips & Tactics below). Plan your banner stand product selection and purchase based on your organization's future growth needs.".

Check out these websites - they are very broad and yet contain very focused content.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

It looks back at you!

Here is a bit of creativity - I was excited about this project. The customer loved the design.

He currently runs his own Mortgage firm and is starting a new Real Estate Company in a very competitive market. I thought he was crazy, but he is a cash paying customer, Olympic Gold Medalist, Retired Airline Executive and former Gold Cup Captain - some guys have all the luck in the world.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Banner Design to Trade Advertising


Its always great to see a customer get some downstream value from the design work I do. Greenfield Software decided to use the same design I created for their UltraBanner in some trade advertising they purchased. I reformatted the files to a high resolution for 4/c process printing and changed the proportions of the design to fit the 1/3 page ads.

Greenfield manufactures software for the Temp Labor Industry and had me include three different sub-headlines in three different ads.

This type of work falls into to $99.00 Ultra banner_Design services I offer.