Utah Web Design Blog

Empower Kids, Inc. is a non-profit organization that helps put safety programs into Utah schools to help protect children against abduction, bullying, and sexual predators.

Red Olive was honored to help further the cause by donating our creative talent on the Empower Kids new logo.

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The Red Olive creative team took advantage of the amazing opportunity to develop a brand for baja racing’s TSA Motorsports. TSA recently migrated over to the baja circuit from competitive rock crawling.  Collecting sponsors is an important part of any racing teams funding.  Our goal was to build an identity around the TSA team that demanded respect from other teams and to wow prospective sponsors.  Perk: Red Olive’s name appears on the race gear and the vinyl wraps for the trucks, a rolling billboard that competes. (Thanks again for that honor).

Below are some samples of the new identity, web design, and some collateral.

PREVIEW OF THE NEW DIGS:

Due next month is the new interactive flash website where you can keep up on the teams standings, events, race photos, and more.

Red Olive, a utah web design firm, is honored for the opportunity to design and develop the brand new website for SportEar which is the company responsible for introducing the first Micro Comfort Canal 100% Digital hearing/protection device to the sportsman.

SportEar’s products are like none else, they protect one’s hearing while maintaining the ability to hear when participating in activities such as hunting, trap/skeet shooting, wing shooting, auto racing, concerts, etc.

The new site is scheduled to be completed in April.

A client of ours, Daniel Ramjoue, will exhibiting his work in the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll starting Sept. 19 through Nov. If have never been this would be a good time to start a new tradition.

The vibrant, dynamic work in Signs of Life is the second series by oil painter Daniel Ramjoué to explore signs familiar in the Salt Lake area. This new series is juxtaposed against pieces from series one, providing a visual history of the artist’s evolution and of the local past.

Artist’s reception & gallery stroll
Friday, September 19, 2008
6:00-9:00 pm
The 814 Gallery
814 East 100 South
Salt Lake City, Utah

Here are the three logos we designed that will be in the newest LogoLounge V book. The book will be published summer 2009.

Heres the letter they sent us.

Subject :       Congrats from LogoLounge

Congratulations Vince, your work has been chosen.

Congratulations on having your work selected for LogoLounge Book 5, the content is exceptional and the judging was extremely competitive.

The judging for LogoLounge Volume 5, has been completed. We are excited with the exceptional quality level of work selected for this fifth volume. This was an incredibly competitive judging session with over 33,000 logos entered for consideration. We are also very pleased to inform you that your work has been chosen for inclusion in the new book by an international panel of judges. This years panel included,  Andreas Karl of Karl Design, Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios, Michelle Sonderegger of Design Ranch, Sarah Moffat of Turner Duckworth, Jamie Koval of VSA Partners, Vince Frost of Frost Design, Bronwen Rautenbach of The Brand Union, and Alex de Janosi of Lippincott.

Congratulations on having your work selected for LogoLounge Book 5, the content is exceptional and the judging was extremely competitive.

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Thanks LogoLounge.  V

The final release of the day that is pretty cool, considering they deal with large metal structures, is our steel fabrication contractor clients — S & S Steel Fabrication. This is a triumph of inventive Flash and graphic design. Very beautifully designed both on the front and back end. The site feel is macho and tough like kick to the eye with a steel toe boot. And yes they really did work with NASA and helped construct the Universal Studios Terminator II ride, and that is awesome.

The portfolio page they have is quite a wower, with a nice automatic photo slide show of some of the steel structures and projects. Anyways I can go on and on, but after all is said and done, I think that this site will help raise their stock in the steel community. Our creative Utah Graphic designers at Red Olive are implementing their ever honed skills in design, whether its a Flash element or behind the scenes. And we have our contacts at S & S to thank for their business — enjoy the new site.

Just like the concept with Craythorne Homes, Red Olive Designers made a unique ‘custom’ looking site that really sets them apart from your typical custom home building site. The site re-design was a little bit of a branding project as well.

First off, what hits you is the woody motif. It’s the organic feel that’s nice, with cool knotted wood surrounding the surreal family scene (Redwood maybe, I dunno). The tag line, created by yours truly, was a little branding effort put into the project (“Coming Home Never Felt So Good”).

From the back end, we’re proud to show a little Google map integration. The homes are mapped out with Google’s mapping API; something you can play around with. I especially like turning on the Google’s street level so you can take a little tour of the neighborhood.

A tip of the hat goes to our contacts at Craythorne and wish them the best of luck with the new site manicure.

Just another reason to head to the web when you are looking for deals – print coupons are big time. Dannon’s line of Light & Fit® products are on sale with a quick link and printout of their online coupon – a generous 1 dollar off coupon that has recently been brushed up by our tenacious gaggle of Utah graphic designers.

We kept it in line with their Light & Fit® look but with an added bit of flash element and cumbersome image positioning. I like the way the sunburst shine emanates while rolling over some of the buttons — although I am easily distracted by shiny things.

We expect to find smaller versions of this placed intermittently throughout the web with fitness sites that Dannon coordinates this promotion with. It’s basically going to be bannered along margins of lucky partners in various web ad campaigns.  

Red Olive® is happy to see their little touches on a national scale.

A lot of people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them “Graphic Design” but few ever really understand what that is, this seams to the case with some clients as well. I don’t know if its the way that I explain it or that people just can’t wrap there head around it, so I thought I’d try to put it writing. I was reading an article on graphic design on the AIGA website by Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl that I thought  explain it very well.  Here is a portion of the article that I thought explained in a simple manner what graphic design is:

“Suppose you want to announce or sell something, amuse or persuade someone, explain a complicated system or demonstrate a process. In other words, you have a message you want to communicate. How do you “send” it? You could tell people one by one or broadcast by radio or loudspeaker. That’s verbal communication. But if you use any visual medium at all—if you make a poster; type a letter; create a business logo, a magazine ad, or an album cover; even make a computer printout—you are using a form of visual communication called graphic design.

Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.”

I thought that explained it well. Below is also a very good description of what a designer role is in the communication process:

“Designers are the link between the client and the audience. On the one hand, a client is often too close to the message to understand various ways in which it can be presented. The audience, on the other hand, is often too broad to have any direct impact on how a communication is presented. What’s more, it is usually difficult to make the audience a part of the creative process. Unlike client and audience, graphic designers learn how to construct a message and how to present it successfully. They work with the client to understand the content and the purpose of the message. They often collaborate with market researchers and other specialists to understand the nature of the audience. Once a design concept is chosen, the designers work with illustrators and photographers as well as with typesetters and printers or other production specialists to create the final design product.” 

So to clients out there who didn’t fully understand what we do I hope that explained in a way that made sense to you.