If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are your brand’s photos saying on your behalf? Photos are used as a visual representation of your brand, your community, and your product. But more often than not, hiring a professional photographer to build a photo library is seen as another line item on the expense […]
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A Look at Silver Ring’s Lookbook
The Silver Ring Splint LookBook took 2 years, 11 months and 14 days to create. The project proves that for many, design is a labor of love. Enjoy viewing the fruits of our efforts.
Continue Reading >Charting a Year
To some, it might seem a little early to begin the conversation about annual reports, the year in review. But as we’ve discovered while working with the Greek community and higher education institutions, fiscal calendars do not always coincide with the holidays, December 31st and ringing in a new year. In early September, we had […]
Continue Reading >Visit our website design, visit their town, visitgeorgetown.org
Last week I talked at length about designing and writing a brochure for the City of Georgetown, TX. Now there is truly something wonderful about holding a tangible piece of marketing collateral in your hand, but what is often more mesmerizing to me is watching a website come to life. Between the Visitor’s Guide brochure […]
Continue Reading >How to find the perfect Valentine’s Card… Make it yourself…
I love cards. I buy them for holidays, for birthdays, for congratulations, for get wells and just for fun. I love how a $3.99 piece of folded cardstock can make someone laugh out loud, grin from ear to ear or fill a tissue full of tears. Yet, I am a bit of a card snob. […]
Continue Reading >Good old-fashioned snail mail
There are a lot of changes afoot for the United States Postal Service, however I’d be lying if I said that I wouldn’t care if I didn’t receive snail mail anymore. Ok maybe not bills and credit card gimmicks, but a good old-fashioned Hallmark card is worth its weight in postage stamps. In fact, I’ve […]
Continue Reading >2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,600 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s. […]
Continue Reading >Travel, tango and typography
Aside from a love of design, our clients and the competitive edge that exists in our tech-filled industry, the ladies of R&R share another common love: TRAVEL. This past year we’ve packed our bags (sometimes virtually) a couple times. We headed to Chicago for Alpha Sigma Alpha’s sorority photo shoot, we shaped up on our […]
Continue Reading >4 Tips to Build Buzz
In growing a business, one of the main objectives sited in marketing and communications plans is to increase awareness. With the Internet, social media, traditional and non-traditional marketing, the ability to increase company awareness among a specific target market is vast. The real problem lies in taking action and finding the right avenues. Below are […]
Continue Reading >Facebook Ads: Targeting your market
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve most likely heard it a million times, but I’m going to say it again for good measure – Facebook is revolutionizing the world. I mean these guys are smart and they have created a platform that continues to excite every demographic section of the population. Hard to believe a […]
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