Life. Style. Repeat. This spec presentation for Boulder County's Audi Flatirons met with rave reviews from dealership staff but failed to be approved by corporate leadership. The stunning series was designed to rotate each month on back covers of various lifestyle publications throughout the Front Range. I think it had something to do with European plates. Which so rock!
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Nothing happens until something's sold. Communique creates name, wordmark, tagline, digital and print collateral. Former Professor of Psychology and CEO, Sylvia Wyant, wants to help you make a sale. To yourself. By identifying and analyzing your personal life experiences and elevating all your unique skill sets, Professor Wyant will help you craft your compelling core story and direct the creation of your own personal brand. Think "elevator pitch", on steroids.
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ART+DESIGNkennethgregoryhessaka:kg
Minimalist Modernist Mathematician kg:aka:Kenneth Gregory Hess has won hundreds of design and marketing awards over the past three decades while principal at communiqué—an advertising, marketing, and design consultancy headquartered in Boulder, Colorado serving a wide range of clientele across the country. In early 2022, Ken embarked on a new creative journey as both a contemporary artist and curator of Stone Studio & Gallery. His limited edition print collections including the minimalistic CIRCLES&SQUARES in crisp black and white (Bullseye quadriptych set of four 18x18" prints shown above)—and his powerful giclée series shown below 4LETTERWORDS featuring rich, saturated color printed on magnificent archival 100% cotton Moab Entrada rag. communiqué designed kg's logo and wordmark as well as Stone Studio's website gallery and art showcase.
Check out: stonestudioboulder.com
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Timeless Art and Design that Endures Fine artist Sylvia Lorraine becomes VIA whenever she wishes to express herself creatively. Inspired by her own life experiences, VIA captures moments in time with a variety of sensual, floral, high passion themes with her new series, "The Veil" — her striking pastels on paper are often compared to the early works of Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso.
VIA's Veil collection brings new life to the wondrous colors and quick strokes these two Spanish masters brought forth during the modern art period known for its brash innovations and brave departures from reality — when cubism, surrealism and abstract expressionism made their glorious international debuts. Also featured below are examples of VIA's "Treeple" — to the left of her favorite pastel offering, and "The Egg" — unmistakable on the right. Both truly inspirational creations sculpted from fallen trees brought back to life.
VIA’s new brand is a visual palindrome of sorts, where the word reads the same when flipped a full 180 degrees. This magic trick of typographical symmetry was made possible in part through the study of the ancient alphabets developed by the Phoenicians, Etruscans, the Greeks and the Romans over 2000 years ago.
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Theatre of the Mind This awesome theatrical event already happened — performed at the elegant senior living residences in upland Boulder just down the hill from Chautauqua Park to a sold out room. Bravo! Communiqué created the name for the acting workshop series and then designed the new brand's BrainTheatre wordmark, letterhead suite, and promotional materials including the poster shown above. This movie poster and it's accompanying playbill won the hearts of The Academy's residents and executive staff — and left a lasting impression on everyone in attendance. Brain power. Coming soon: braintheatre.com
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SEXY is a Four Letter Word kg: aka: Kenneth Gregory Hess has won hundreds of design and marketing awards over the past four decades while principal at communiqué — an advertising, marketing, and design consultancy headquartered in Boulder, Colorado serving a wide range of clientele across the country. His new limited edition print collections include his powerful 4LETTERWORDS giclée series featuring rich, saturated color printed on magnificent archival 100% cotton Moab Entrada rag. Ken's design firm communiqué designed kg's logo and wordmark as well as a series of promotional postcards the artist uses to promote upcoming events like his temporary exhibit at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA) just last year. Check out: stonestudioboulder.com
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Forewarned is forearmed and the ordeal of menopause has the potential to span more than twenty years of a woman’s life. Up until now, menopause has been an untold secret affecting tens of millions of women’s lives for centuries. Created by a team of dedicated and caring survivors, the website afterest.com acts as a comprehensive women’s apothecary where East meets West; where the guesswork is all but over — and relief lives every day. Communiqué developed the name, branding, and is busy populating a new website to bring these life-changing methods and modalities to the women of the world.
Coming soon: afterest.com
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ZEST Gourmet Almond Flour Cakes bound for COSTCO After creating the brand name, trademark and product packaging for ZEST Gourmet Almond Flour Cakes, Communiqué helped their client attract Costco Wholesale Stores. Eight strong years of sales growth in Whole Foods Markets certainly impressed Costco's corporate brokers and buyers—as did this handsome combination point-of-sale display/shipper. This early-stage prototype I designed is the only one in existence today, but someday these babies should command top shelf real estate in Costco super stores across the western United States.
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henryandrosebud
HENRY BROWN AND ROSIE ROSEBUD live on a cute little piece of heaven in Boulder County Colorado. Kitty cat heaven, that is. There's a little red farm house where they can cuddle up and sleep at night. There's tall trees to climb, a quarter acre of thick green grass and a bumpy, dusty, old dirt road out in front where nary a car or truck ever bothers to rumble by. So nice. It's quiet. It's peaceful. And it's just out of town in the middle of nowhere. It's a little piece of heaven — ain't no doubt about it. Kitty cat heaven, that is.
Check out: henryandrosebud.com
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Wildlife | OCTAVIO CHIGO FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY | Landscape
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OCTAVIO CHIGO SHOOTS WILDLIFE AND LANDSCAPE FINE ART Octavio Chigo gets up early in the morning and waits. He waits. And waits. And waits. Initially, he's waiting for the light. Then he waits for his friends to show up. Most importantly, he waits for his friends to do something memorable inside the light he's been waiting for all morning. Click! Coming soon: chigoshoots.com
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CHIGO SHOOTS WILDLIFE AND LANDSCAPE MASTERPIECES Chigo travels to all of nature's great locales, setting up tactical hunter's blinds where waits for the light, and the nature to appear. Octavio's favorite environs include Grand Teton National Park, the Garden of the Gods, Rocky Mountain National Park — and, of course, majestic and atmospheric Yellowstone. The lone wolf above is catching morning rays inside the Garden of the Gods at sunrise. The magical reflection in the mountain lake needs no explanation as to where it lies. Below, a bull elk quenches his thirst while just down stream twin moose calves take a morning bath in the splendor of Rocky Mountain National Park. In between the natives stands the shooter — on a very different day, a much colder one — as he pans the canyon floor before him for many more photographic possibilities. Watch out for Chigo's fine art prints coming soon: chigoshoots.com
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Show Your True Colors and Support the Heroes of Ukraine | Like most civilized, reasonably intelligent, and empathetic people around the world, I am appalled by the situation that has befallen Ukraine. I decided to share my feelings of admiration and compassion for the people of Ukraine by creating a series of artworks as tribute to the millions of Ukrainians facing the demonic Russian army serving the megalomaniacal Vladimir Putin.
Make Art Not War | I am not the first person to express this mindful wish with art. In 1997, British contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith was the first to paint MAKE ART NOT WAR on two battered plywood panels he found in a London dumpster. More recently, the incomparable Shepard Fairey created a brilliant bold and graphic edition of serigraphs with the same title in 2019 — during the Iraq war.
The Ukrainian Flag is made up of two equal bands of color | Azure blue on top and golden yellow on the bottom, representing fields of grain under a bright blue sky. My original CMYKG editions include cyan, the very brightest of blues, and process yellow—life doesn’t get any yellower than process yellow. As soon as I made the color connection, I had to create a way to pay homage to the valiant struggles of the Ukrainian people. Maybe make a difference. Help spread the word. Advocate for their cause—the world's cause—with both financial and moral support.
The UKRKG Collection | I hope you will join me in my heartfelt admiration of the people of Ukraine's fortitude and spirit and will decide to show their nation’s colors upon the walls of your world. For prices and specs please visit: stonestudioboulder.com and just click on your favorite print. You'll be delivered to the UKRKG gallery located under ART in the site menu. I am donating 90% of the retail price for each limited edition print. The remaining 10% will cover the price of custom printing and the shipping of your signed and numbered print. Or just call me direct: 303.819.1022. Leave a message and I'll call you right back.
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Refine your relationships while embracing resilience. Manage your resistance to challenge and change. Communiqué creates name, wordmark, tagline, plus digital and print collateral for a new consulting practice where a former professor of psychology, business coach and corporate change manager brings a new technique to advance an old world sensation: empathy. As it applies to one's own self, as well as with respect to others. Refine. It's quite simple, really. And very much like the unfaltering resilience of a delicate rose blossoming among the ever present thorns it dares to share its life with everyday. Refine. Coming soon to the world wide web at: refineyour.life
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Theatre of the Mind Some years back, Communiqué created the name for this acting workshop series now famous for stimulating the mind through performing the act of acting. Yes, acting. Years of scientific research has proven that nothing stimulates more locations in the cerebral cortex, all at the same time, than acting. The researchers attribute this phenomenon to the fact that while acting, participants must think, feel, and do — all at the same time. Think. Feel. Do.
I just finished this new wordmark utilizing the handsome and apropos type face, American Typewriter. Created in the early nineteen-seventies by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan, the versatile font is based on the slab serif style of traditional typewriters. However, unlike most true typewriter faces, the individual characters enjoy variable spacing — where letter width varies among the 26 characters. So special.
Coming soon: braintheatre.com
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Some 80 Rockers you won't soon forget! Joe Biden 81 Jane Fonda 83 Mick Jagger 80 E. Jean Carroll 80 Willie Nelson 87 Rita Moreno 89 Dolores Huerta 90 Harry Belafonte 93 George Soros 90 Dionne Warwick 80 John Williams 88 Maxine Waters 82 Nancy Pelosi 80 Anthony Fauci 83 Paul McCartney 81 Bob Dylan 82 Billie Jean King 80 Dustin Hoffman 86 Barbra Streisand 81 Pope Francis 87 Ringo Starr 83 Sophia Loren 89 Christopher Walken 80 Al Pacino 83 Alan Alda 88 Linda Evans 81 Patrick Stewart 83 Jack Nicholson 86 Chuck Norris 83 Harrison Ford 81 Robert De Niro 80 Neil Diamond 83 Julie Andrews 88 Anthony Hopkins 86 Tenzin Gyatso 88 Faye Dunaway 83 Robert Redford 87 Chubby Checker 82 Martin Scorsese 81 Carole King 81 Joe Pesci 80 Morgan Freeman 86 Warren Beatty 86 Joan Baez 83 Billy Dee Williams 86 Judd Hirsch 88 Shirley MacLaine 89 Lech Walesa 80 Richard Chamberlain 89 Mario Andretti 83 Judi Dench 89 Joe Namath 80 Martin Sheen 83 Bernie Sanders 82 Michael Palin 80 Carl Yastrzemski 84 Jean Shrimpton 84 Brian Wilson 81 Ian McKellen 84 Roberta Flack 86 Placido Domingo 83 Sally Jessy Raphael 88 Jimmy Page 80 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 85 Doris Kerns Goodwin 81 George Takei 86 Maggie Smith 89 Shirley Bassey 87 Ralph Lauren 84 Chi-Chi Rodriguez 88 Julie Christie 83 Smokey Robinson 83 Ben Kingsley 80 Bob Woodward 80 Giorgio Armani 89 Dionne Warwick 83 Calvin Klein 81 John Kerry 80 Margret Atwood 84 Gloria Steinem 89 Tom Brokaw 83 Isabel Allende 81 David Hockney 86 Ridley Scott 86 Herb Alpert 88 Joseph Stiglitz 80 Steve Miller 80 Christopher Llyod 85 Vanessa Redgrave 87 Michael Caine 90 Geraldo Riviera 80 Jane Goodall 89
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Wisdom is the quality of being wise. Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment — all at the same time. So why not start listening to these words of wisdom and stop holding those who stand the test of time with grace in question. The late great Charles Dickens only lived to be 58 years old. And before he moved on he wrote these famous words: "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Joe Biden has one. So does E. Jean Carroll. As does Keith Richards. And Margret Atwood, too. How about you?
Coming soon: eightyrocks.com
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Proud Makers of Plush Toys and Fond Memories The CHARM toy company plans to bring out dozens of new toys and accessories to scores and scores of retail outlets — along with an online toy store featuring free shipping and gift wrapping services. The new toy enterprise is also in the process of negotiating multiple book deals with leading children's book publishers to be offered in 5 languages plus English. CHARM expects these beautifully illustrated children’s books will help sell oodles of toys — and the gorgeous plush toys will help sell the new line of innovative and interactive books. Communiqué created the brandname, wordmark, and tagline, plus digital and print collateral including an assortment of keepsake-quality hang tags, gift wrapping papers and greeting cards that cover all the bases — and more. CHARM. Coming soon to the world wide web just in time for Christmas at: charm.toys
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