CREATIVE DESIGN FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
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Our insights and workings with contemporary culture as it relates to design and branding across many mediums and industries.
It’s All About the Real Deal: Value-Added Marketing for Today’s Consumers
Today’s consumers now consider a company's social and environmental impact, which highlights the growing importance of aligning brand values with consumer beliefs. To thrive in our new era, brands must prioritize a customer-centric approach built on a foundation of shared values.
AI Here. AI There. AI, AI Everywhere.
It’s clear that AI can be incredibly helpful. But how do you unlock its full potential? Whether you are using Chat GPT, Bard, or Gemini, the key lies in asking the right AI the right questions to get the best results.
Seven Key Features for Homepage Success
Besides all the regular odds and ends such as usable, well-defined navigation, header, footer, and the likes, there are a few key features you need to consider for your digital front door.
Design Trends for 2024
This year is all about personality and personalization. We’re jumping out of the mundane and designing to engage interest, activate emotion, and ignite the senses. There’s no more time for humdrum. Instead we’re ready for relatable, meaningful, engaged experience that’s right for us..
The High Co$t of Bad Design
Studies show that 52% of consumers will not return to your store if they do not like your aesthetics, and 93% of purchasing decisions are visually-based. Still, a lot of businesses think that design is too expensive, not in the budget, or simply not important.
Consumers, Colors and Dollar$
Color matters and just like words, color delivers messages to our brain and can impact our behaviors and perceptions. Studies show that color is also a factor in our purchasing choices.
Choosing a Website Platform Best for You
When it comes to housing your website, there are an overwhelming number of options to consider. Security, hosting, e-commerce, SEO, speed, function, responsiveness, green computing, and support are only a few you need to weigh.
Need to Know Basics of SEO
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process of fine tuning your website so you can rank higher in the search engines and better drive organic traffic to your website or digital content.
Enter the Power of the Queenager Market
Queenagers, the 45+ years old women control who are behind 95% of all household spending deserve more than just wrinkle cream.
Surviving and Thriving During a Recession
Businesses must support their brands and marketing efforts – especially during a recession because your company’s success depends on it.
Design Trends for 2023
Design trends for 2023 for brands, websites, and graphics include color, futurism, minimalistic packaging, neumorphism, solid ux, typography, pagination, and branding visuals.
Good Website Design Prevents Money Loss
Your website is most important right now because it is your storefront. Here’s a quick checklist so you can inventory your website and avoid costly mistakes.
Why a Big Fart Matters to Your Marketing
Surprised? Of course you are. Why would a company send a fart joke to their target audience? The creative behind surprise marketing that works.
Action Branding: Making Values Legit
In the modern marketplace, consumers are increasingly looking for businesses to practice what they preach by doing, not just saying.
The Shoes You Wear
The reality is – we’ve all been cancelled. Social thought is changing. Enter the new wave of accountability culture. We are obliged to take responsibility for our actions and words. If you put it out there, via social media or other venues, you better have the facts, Jack.
Planet Packaging: How to Move Your Brand to Eco Friendly
If you’re hoping to shrink your brand’s ecological footprint down from King Kong proportions, it’s time to find a better way.
The New(er) You
Is it time to change your personal or business brand? Standing out in a crowd is more than demanding consumer attention, it’s about being you and being an original.
Move Over Digital – Print Is Hitting the Runway Again
With an overstuffed email inbox, it’s harder to garner consumer attention. Now come the days of high design and upscale print that give consumers a moment with business brands.
Busting the Myth of the 1 Hour Website
Big web companies today are selling you a pipe dream. They tell you that you can create a website in only one hour. So why do you need professional web design help? Let’s bust this myth wide open.
10 Tips for Working with Creatives
When working with creatives, finding the balance is essential and it all starts with communication, understanding, and a little common sense.