Paul earned his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where he graduated from The School of Design & Visual Arts. He began his career at ABC Broadcasting and then moved to a design agency that created innovative promotions and campaigns that first put ESPN on the map. As an art director at NFL Properties, Paul lended his talents to significantly upgrade the image of that dynamic professional sports league. He created new graphic approaches for Super Bowl and Pro Bowl logos, team identities, national advertising, exhibits, and licensed products, including an innovative trading card concept that helped launch a new industry.

Paul orchestrated and directed many photo shoots while traveling around the nation—from the deserts of Arizona to the lagoons of Hawaii. More recently, Paul was creative director at The McGraw-Hill Companies where he successfully contributed in transforming the corporation into one of the world’s preeminent information providers. He spearheaded projects for its businesses and leading brands including Standard & Poor’s, Platts Energy, J.D. Power, Architectural Record, BusinessWeek, Aviation Week and McGraw-Hill Education.

Paul can be reached at pbiederm@optonline.net

Donovan N. Beery

Donovan oversees all creative development at Eleven19 Communications, Inc.

He received a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication & Design from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.  His background in visual communications, web design, and creative concepts were put to good use when he was the chief web designer at Union Pacific and the corporate identity and web designer at Nexterna. He’s lectured on web design at Creighton University, teaches visual communications at Metropolitan Community College and proudly serves on the Board of Directors for AIGA Nebraska.

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving.

Check out the video at www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture

Sands Creative Group

Tana Goldberg, Director of Communications for Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, worked directly with the design team at Sands Creative Group. “The Annual Report is fabulous, exactly how we envisioned it.” reports Goldberg, “Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this. It’s nice when our efforts are recognized by other professionals.”

Rick Sands, President and Creative Director of Sands Creative Group, stated that “our lead designer, Chris Dwyer, really captured the vibrancy of the school. His bold presentation really accentuated the positive impact the school has on its students and their families.”

The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston is a K-8 co-educational Jewish day school located in Newton, Massachusetts with a student body of 492 students from 36 cities and towns. For more information visit the school’s website at: http://www.ssdsboston.org

Sands Creative Group is a visual marketing company located in Boston, Massachusetts. We are a marketing-driven graphic design firm and specialty printer that helps clients transform their image, explore new design concepts, and craft innovative solutions that make an impact in their marketplace. Sands Creative Group has been listed among the top 25 companies in its field by the Boston Business Journal for three years running. For more information on Sands Creative Group contact: Rick Sands at 617-536-6660 or visit their website at: http://www.sandscreativegroup.com

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“We are anxious to open our doors and expand our services,” says creative director and founder Ben Robinson. Robinson, a native Texan, has lived in Southlake almost as long as his business has flourished. After working as senior art director and creative director for such companies as Shapiro Small Agency, Madden Marketing and Design, Fitz and Floyd and the Nelson Group, Robinson demonstrated great promise and collected many design awards. In fact, several of his clients urged him to form his own company. “My clients followed me and I felt I owed them a more personal approach I couldn’t offer while working for other firms.” It is this dedication to a more individualized attitude that has earned the company long standing clients. Robinson states, “My clients trust me and I personally ensure we handle their account properly. We also have excellent referrals that continue a steady stream of new business.”

With the move to larger offices and the Southlake Town Square location, Robinson Creative is primed to continue with current clients and develop into more varied arenas. The company’s current services cross over into retail, real estate, medical, corporate and entertainment. Clients have included Lane Company- Atlanta, Riverstone Residential (formerly Trammel Crow), Palm Beach Tan (200 stores nationwide), Chicago Title Flood, Berg Productions, Meeks + Partners, Lawrence Films, Western Rim Properties, Medtronic/Midas Rex, Fairfield Residential, CNC Investments and others. The company has earned numerous awards and designations such as The McSam Award, Telly Awards, Houston International Film Festival, Addy Awards and Pillars of the Industry Awards. This month, Robinson Creative is honored to receive a 2007 Silver Telly, the highest honor for Direct Marketing and a 2007 Bronze Telly, for outstanding achievement in Sales, for audiovisual presentation.

One of the reasons the company is so diverse in its services is the fact that its founder’s background is also diverse. Growing up in Houston, Ben Robinson attended the celebrated High School for Performing and Visual Arts and Baylor College of Medicine’s High School for Health Professions. While attending The Art Institute of Dallas he was employed as a phlebotomist at a specialized research hospital. This interesting combination of design and medical professions opened opportunities for future Robinson Creative clients in the medical industry. Robinson’s background also includes fashion illustration freelancing for Chanel and Neiman Marcus. At the young age of 21, fashion led to his first staff position in retail as creative director of a department store chain. He returned to Dallas and advanced to senior art director for Fitz and Floyd, a tabletop giftware company. Robinson continued working in advertising design while being employed as creative director for other advertising agencies. In 1998, after the urging of several clients, Robinson started his own design firm.

Currently, Robinson Creative provides advertising, marketing and promotion services for a variety of industries. The company offers services such as print advertising, radio and television media, in-store audiovisual presentation, web presence, point of purchase, collateral, corporate image, environmental signage and identity.

The new location for Robinson Creative positions the design firm in the center of the Dallas Metroplex, allowing the company a location that accesses the entire Dallas/Ft. Worth area as well as servicing clients outside the state. Robinson Creative also maintains a satellite office in Los Angeles and its growing staff includes graphic artists, web experts, real estate professionals and audiovisual personnel.

Ema, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art/Design, established Ema Design in 1982. The company creates identity, print, signage, public art and new media designs for a wide variety of clients. Past clients have included the Adolph Coors Company, Hewlett-Packard, Swedish Medical Center and the Downtown Denver Partnership. His recent work includes extensive signage and wayfinding projects for the Denver Pavilions, Maggiano’s Little Italy, the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield and others.

In response to Ema Design’s milestone achievement, internationally renowned Swiss designer Fritz Gottschalk, proclaimed, “Wow. Twenty five years of practicing design. Practicing design at the highest possible level.” Fritz continued, “As the world is becoming more and more inundated with clutter, firms like yours are deservingly sticking out and are being noticed more and more for the quality of work.”

“Having grown up in Williamsburg, Virginia, I have a deep appreciation for history and enduring quality,” states Thomas Ema. Ema believes the secret to creating great work is, “You have to listen to your clients needs with one ear. With the other ear you have to listen to your own heart.”

About Thomas Ema:
Thomas Ema’s work has been selected for inclusion in more than thirty juried design shows, exhibitions and publications, including the national books: Graphic Design: America, Graphic Design America Two and Hot Graphics USA. He’s lectured nationally and taught in the Communication Design Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver. In 1985, he helped found the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and became the chapter’s first vice-president. He serves on Denver’s Union Station Advisory Committee and for the past five years as representative for the TREX/SE corridor.

London (PRWEB) June 12, 2007 — Pod1, the London and New York based web design agency, has been ranked number 61 in this year’s Design Week Top 100, up from number 100 last year.

Pod1 was also named the second most bullish agency, following on from last years over all number one and is still the most bullish of all the UK digital agencies.

There’s a huge demand at the moment for quality, design led, online services. Pod1 has always been passionate about the quality of the work we produce and this is now being reflected in our current growth.
The category of “Most bullish Top 100 groups” is ranked according to the companies’ percentage projected annual growth.

Pod1 was also number two in the Leapfrogger’s chart; That’s to say Pod1 generated such significant growth it moved 39 places up the charts compared with last year, from 100 to 61st, making this the second largest increase in ranking of any design agency.

This success has also had financial implications, in terms of fee income Pod1 has demonstrated the third largest growth of all the companies polled.

The Top 100 Design Consultancy Survey is an annual league table of companies from across all design disciplines. The data is compiled from figures for the 12 months from January to December 2006, independently audited.

Within the Most Bullish sector 11 of the top 15 companies specialised in digital media. This reinforces the general industry trend reported by digital media specialists and mirrored at Pod1, where specialising in Web Design & Development, Online Strategy and Online Marketing, has led to an exponential growth since the company opened for business in 2001.

For Fadi Shuman, Pod1 Co-founder, it’s all about turning out great work:
“There’s a huge demand at the moment for quality, design led, online services. Pod1 has always been passionate about the quality of the work we produce and this is now being reflected in our current growth.”

An independent agency, with offices in London and New York, Pod1 has recently been appointed to design and develop e-commerce websites for a selection of top flight design-led brands including Whistles, REISS, Kurt Geiger and UNIQLO.

Ryan Graphics is honored to receive a Bronze Award for it’s “Hawaiian Historical Print Society” logo and two Merit Awards for it’s “Moose and Monkey” and “Skyward Merchants” logos. The Hawaiian Historical Print Society logo was completed for a local client located in Vancouver, WA. This logo was for an artist with a collection of reproduced, antique Hawaiian paintings. The Moose and Monkey logo was completed for a client in California with plans to launch an online retail website selling whimsical home decor. The third logo, Skyward Merchants, was completed for a client in North Carolina. This client is a full-time pilot that also had an online retail website selling aviation supplies. Ryan Graphics goes above and beyond to develop unique identities for each client. “I am so pleased with this news and to actually receive multiple awards from one competition was beyond my expectations,” said Laurie Ryan-Day, owner of Ryan Graphics. See designer’s website for work samples.

Logo development has become the focus for this designer. She has already received numerous awards for her logo work. In early 2007, the designer received notice that her work would be published in the upcoming “Big Book of Logos #5″, and then in March www.DesignFirms.org awarded Ryan Graphics for her Huggy Toys logo. In 2006, last June the 3rd annual www.Portfolios.com competition granted her the Merit Award in the logo category. And then www.DesignFirms.org awarded the designer during their September and November competition. Ms. Ryan-Day is hoping to build her client base and share her skills with business owners that appreciate good design. Her tagline, “Big Tricks for Small Budgets”, says it all.

About Ryan Graphics:
Ryan Graphics was founded by Laurie Ryan-Day in 2001 shortly after finishing her graphic design degree. She is a freelance graphic designer that has shared her skills with freelance clients and various staffing agencies. Ryan Graphics is an award-winning graphic design firm that provides creative identity solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Other design services include identity package design, marketing collateral, packaging, illustration and production. For more information about Ryan Graphics, visit www.ryangraphics.com.