Hidden River is a property development near Hayesville, located in the Southwest corner of North Carolina. The town of Hayesville is located on a knoll overlooking the Hiawassee River and has a view of the Tusquittee Mountains. Lying in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Clay County offers breathtaking scenery.

The developer, Harrison Properties, was in need of an small, informational booklet and powerpoint presentation showcasing the natural beauty of this unspoiled paradise.

The primary push of these pieces was to promote a first showing opportunity for potential buyer, giving them a sneak peak at the 10 home sites on the Hiwassee near the 7,000-acre Lake Chatuge. With views like this, who wants to go back to the city?

Wood Products International is now offering Honduras Pitch Pine. The beauty of Pitch Pine is that as a building material it is renewable, grows faster than other woods, is 3 times tougher than Eastern Pine and takes stain and color well. The company harvests Honduras Pitch Pine from sustainable growth forests resulting in minimal environmental impact.

The aim was to position Honduras Pitch Pine as a sustainable and eco-conscience building material. As a wholesaler of select woods and wood products on a global scale, it was important to develop a site that was user friendly yet had a universal visual appeal in order to translate well internationally. The website developed as a hybrid Flash/html site giving it optimum web searchability without sacrificing any visual appeal.  We also put together a 10″x 7″, 16 page product brochure and various supplemental print pieces such as flyers and price sheets.

Visit www.honduraspitchpine.com and give us some feedback.

Our experience with restaurant branding and restaurant consulting services goes way back. When Gilkey Restaurant Consulting contacted us about creating their logo, stationary and website, we were confident we could develop the right look to help them stand out in this competitive industry. The brand needed to be simple, contemporary and sophisticated.

Starting with an appetizing PMS orange as the primary color contrasted with a reserved cool gray, we developed a very simple and recognizable logo and impactful stationary. Business cards, letterhead and envelopes were printed on an ultra white smooth stock to achieve a clean, high contrast finished product. The Web site design echoes this simplicity and sophistication through its color pallette, alignment, contrast, and flash images. We are especially fond of the nifty little 360 degree flash viewer. Take a look at www.gilkeyrestaurantconsulting.com

Bighouse graphix along with Savannah Tech has won two Gold Awards for its marketing and recruitment efforts in the 23^rd Annual Admissions Advertising Awards, a national competition for college and university marketing professionals. The Hire Education ad series won in the category of Newspaper Advertising; Program Summary brochures won in the Brochure category.

For both projects, Gail Eubanks served as creative director; Steve Mousourakis, owner of bighouse graphix, was the designer. This is the fifth consecutive year the college has earned one or more national marketing awards. A copy of this article can be found here.

Savannah Technical College serves just over 4,000 students each quarter with locations in Savannah, Effingham and Liberty counties.