The Charmed Thumb mainly needed a website for her clients to become better acquainted with the members of her team who’d be walking around and across their lawns.
The website of course also showcases some of The Charmed Thumb’s beautiful, Colorado-natives planted flower beds and landscapes.
Anna’s definitely our team’s Trello expert! She always knows the new tricks and keeps us organized!
Angela loves working with animals underneath our Colorado skies. Her website provides information about the types of services she provides for equines & canines. She also utilizes left-behinds– business cards and/or flyers explaining her services & credentials, at logical locations, to increase her business’ exposure to prospective new clients.
McKenna was fun to work with; Shawn had distinct ideas how his branding ought to go– with a literal hole in its logo.
I especially liked the dual use of his business cards. Frustrated with the body-measuring errors so often encountered, Shawn uses the backside of his business card to jot down measurements for shooting outfits– anywhere, wherever, and whenever the opportunity arose.
Measuring people at shooting tournaments, whether they might be ordering a suit or not, allowed prospective customers to have the time to go home and have a think about it, and then later order, by phone or online, with their precisely-taken measurements already ready on the backside of the contact info.
With a business card putting her contact info into people’s hands, an eye-catching logo, a website for more info, flyer announcements, as well as social media memes, and spiffy letterhead for networking . . .
Julie transitioned into a more creditable professional.
Good design and consistent branding made people notice Julie in a more ‘professional’ light and take her seriously.
As Julie’s visible confidence grew, backed by her newly branded self-presentation, she more easily gained many new students, referrals, large clients, and numerous networking opportunities, all of which increased her financial independence.
When the Covid pandemic first hit, I was at a phase where I felt I needed to be ‘bigger’, where I wanted to offer much more to my clients than my confidence felt adequate offering.
I met about then, online, a new friend who had complementary skills to mine, and together, we launched the Deaf Blue Cats. We had so much fun developing and branding ourselves, as well as doing projects for several new clients, that I hardly even noticed the isolating aspects of the pandemic.
Although this partnership did not last post-Covid, I polished my web skills and learned new ones.
A fun logo:
Made so many ‘faces’ to represent the variety of services offered:
Business cards with a QR code on the front sends people directly to the website, with contact information on the back:
Ads that were used on other websites and social media:
And of course, a lot of hours went into the website:
The Deaf Blue Cats blog serves a heavy double-duty as both a portfolio and a blog, with multi-layers of categories and tags…. What can I say? I find information design fun. Nerdy, nerdy me.
Anyhow. The website looks much the same since I left it behind. My ex-partner sits on it now. Check it out for the cheesy iconography I’m capable of.