One of my favorite clients is Opera Vivente (OV) of Baltimore. A growing opera company with big, original, inspiring ideas and fantastic talent headed by director John Bowen. John and I are similarly-minded when it comes to creative. For the 2009/10 season I hired the very talented Linda Olliver to illustrate elaborate, fairy tale inspired [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
One part fact. One part fiction.
Humor plays a very big role in life. It certainly does in mine. So why not use humor in your advertising? By their nature, small business owners are risk takers. But when it comes to their advertising and marketing needs these same risk-takers tend to lean toward the safe. The staid. The just plain boring. [...]
Who says accounting has to be a dry affair?
When I met with Kathy Kahler Lambrow about re-branding her company, we decided that we could add some color—and birds—to her accounting brand. You may be asking yourself: Self? What do birds have to do with accounting? The answer? Not a thing. But in our kick-off meeting, Kathy told me that she is an avid [...]
Concentric Circles
A colleague from the good ‘ol days at the Silverdocs documentary festival approached me to brand her new endeavor, PR Collaborative. The brand is a simple, clean one so that it does not overshadow those of its clients. The concentric circles theme was one of my first thoughts when I sat down to begin the [...]
