PROJECTS
ABOUT
communiqué is an advertising, marketing and design consultancy headquartered in Boulder, Colorado serving a wide range of clientele across the country.
The firm has evolved into a multi-disciplinary advisory with expertise in all facets of strategic brand development including company and product identity, integrated brand architecture systems and nomenclature, and comprehensive brand packaging programs from conception through launch.
Within its first ten years of service, communiqué earned over 150 major regional, national, and international design and marketing awards and has been featured in numerous publications including the periodicals Advertising Age, Print Magazine, Packaging Digest and Switzerland's PhotoGraphis quarterly.
The firm's assignments range from serving as a comprehensive full-service advertising agency, to fulfilling discrete projects such as creating a new brand identity, a homogeneous package design system or developing a compelling corporate website.
We place a high premium on process. It's critical to a project's success. Process maintains order and focus, and yields maximum results for our clients. It helps us to zero-in on the attributes that make brands strong, while sustaining a creative environment where the best options are explored, presented, and well received by client stakeholders.
Acting in concert with our client's strategic goals, our process serves to increase revenue stream and profitability, while maximizing market share and enhancing brand equity.
WORKFORCE
Kenneth G. Hess comes to communiqué having managed the successful branding of over 300 companies, products, and services — naming well over one hundred of those brands including Stetson Cologne, Alfalfas Markets, Clarion Hotels, Vim, MINT, Sky Chairs, Unisyn, Lucky's Markets, E Source, Macanta Country Club, ZEST and Millennia Showcase.
Ken’s work has been widely exhibited and featured in major competitions conducted by the New York Art Directors Club, American Institute of Graphic Arts, The International Invitational Poster Exhibitions, the Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education, Strathmore International Paper Awards, the Art Directors Club of Denver, the Denver Advertising Federation, and The National Association of Container Distributors Awards.
He is a past president of the Art Directors Club of Denver and served six years on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers of Metro Denver.
Ken is a former Big Brother, soccer coach and student mentor as well as a published author and a national award winning writer of fiction.
Ken can be reached by phone at 303.819.1022. Or by email at ken@communiquebrands.com
In addition to his leadership role directing the day to day activities of communiqué consulting, Ken's current original artworks and limited edition fine art prints combine photography, geometric design, typography, and gestural illustration, drawing inspiration from his love of the mid-century modern movement, iconic symbolism, emotional realism, minimalism, and a deep-rooted passion for all disciplines of graphic representation and conceptual artistry. Check out: stonestudioboulder.com
Ken's fine art editions are represented in Palm Springs California by:
