Logo design is one the most important yet most difficult tasks for any business or organization. An organization’s logo is what visually represents them in the world, sort of like a face. What does Nike look like? What does AT&T look like? What does FedEx look like? We don’t get to select our face but we do get to select our logo. Continue reading
Websites are an essential and expected communications tool for all types of businesses and organizations. It’s pretty safe to say that almost every organization or business needs a good website. At a minimum prospective clients and vendors will get an idea of what you do by checking out your website. From there, the sky’s the limit. You can offer document sharing, e-commerce, movies, podcasts, polls, memberships, employee productivity tools and on and on. Continue reading
At trade shows and in exhibit halls you have only an instant to capture the attendee’s attention so keep your display’s message minimal:
Designing information, data and annual reports has been a key component of River Graphics from the start. We have designed hundreds of annual reports and informational reports for clients like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Gallup Organization, the Pew Research Center, the Albert Einstein Medical Center, the Pew Center for the People and the Press, Princeton Survey Research Associates and many more. We cut our design teeth on The Gallup Poll Monthly, rich with charts and interpretive text about everything from the presidential approval rating to Americans’ belief in ghosts. Concurrently, we worked with our friends at TKO Design on many annual report projects for various clients including Snapple and Delaware Investments. Continue reading
NOTE: The following was written for a high school career fair.
Along with writers, clients, and other creative people who decide on what the content or message should be, graphic designers make the content look appealing to the client’s audience. Graphic designers are the people who design the magazines, product labels, shopping bags, websites, cereal boxes, newspapers, logos, stationery, books, movie posters, billboards, and millions of other things that we see many times every day. Continue reading
We’ve been doing quite a few websites lately. Some new ones for new clients and some redos for older clients. Without exception, saving money was a big consideration for everyone who has asked us to help with either a new site or a site overhaul. Naturally, in this crazy economy who isn’t being super careful? Continue reading
Want to host a blog at your own website without redoing your whole site? You’ve come to right place. Here you’ll learn how to add a WordPress 3 blog to your existing website. There are a few conditions: you should be using PHP, CSS and XHTML and, although it isn’t essential, you should be using includes for common parts of your site like the header, menu and footer.
How annoying is it to paste some code or a script into a WordPress post or page only to have WordPress change it, or worse, delete it altogether? Pretty annoying. Maybe you want to paste in a Facebook Like script or some Wufoo form code. Often, WordPress will just remove the code or break it. There’s a clever WordPress plugin that can resolve all of that. Continue reading
There are 100s of lists with the top 10 or 15 or 20 WordPress plugins on the Internet and here’s mine. These are plugins I use on pretty much every WordPress installation. They all work with WordPress 3. You may not need all of them, but you never know. Continue reading
Your brochure is the quintessential leave-behind or direct mail piece. Every business or organization should have some kind of capabilities or image brochure that can be mailed, delivered, emailed or downloaded. And with huge advances in digital printing, full-color brochures are inexpensive and very high quality. Like all of our print work, every brochure is available as a PDF for emailing or your downloading from your website. Continue reading
So it’s finally time to finish that website that’s been ‘coming soon’ for an embarrassingly long time. Or the one you’ve been meaning start when things slow down a bit. Or, how about the one you already have but you can’t edit it yourself, the web guy is nowhere to be found, or it’s so old you prefer to not share your URL. Planning a new or revamped website shouldn’t be difficult or overwhelming. Here are some tips for getting a website you will be proud of and completed in a reasonable amount of time. Continue reading