Barley & Rye Bistro

Barley & Rye Bistro

ABOUT

Barley & Rye Bistro opened its doors in downtown Moline, Illinois during the spring of 2013. They were one of the top restaurants in the Quad City area, and were best known for their local farm-to-table fare prepared “skillfully & playfully”. It really was an awesome restaurant. The owners decided to close their doors in early 2020, not due to a lack of patrons. I established their brand and handled all things marketing (digital and print) when they were first getting started.

WORK

  • Logo design
  • Website built on a WordPress platform (no longer active)
  • Food menu design
  • Business card design
  • T-shirt design
  • Banners
  • Rack cards
  • Digital ad creation
  • Email setup
  • Social media setup
  • Search Engine Optimization
Salon Breeze

Salon Breeze

ABOUT

Salon Breeze is an Aveda concept salon and spa located in Chapel Hill, NC. Opened in May of 2015, they provide their guests with high end salon products and services. Salon Breeze sports an upscale, inviting environment for anything from haircuts and styles to relaxing massages. I got my haircut there and it was awesome. In 2014 I helped the new business with establishing a brand.

Then, after 8 years, their web hosting expired and the old site was lost for good. So in 2022 I built them a brand new, fairly simple website by request. I think it turned out great, and most importantly, they were very pleased with it.

WORK

  • Logo design
  • Website built on a WordPress platform
CiES Inc

CiES

ABOUT

CiES, Inc. developed a revolutionary fuel sender (fuel measurement device) for Cirrus personal aircrafts and has since patented it for use in a variety of vehicle types. In 2011, the founder employed me to rebrand their young company and build them a new website.

WORK

  • Secondary logo design (2014)
  • Primary logo design (2011)
  • Website built on a WordPress platform (no longer active)
  • Business card design
Work Fitness Solutions

Work Fitness Solutions

ABOUT

Work Fitness Solutions, formerly located in Rock Island, Illinois, offered on-site health care and consulting services to companies and medical providers. This was a friend’s startup company which lasted from 2014-2016. He needed help with establishing a brand for his company and a simple informational website.

WORK

  • Logo design
  • Website built on a WordPress platform
ROUTE 66 RV Network logo

Route 66 RV Network

ROUTE 66 RV Network logo

ABOUT

The Route 66 RV Network is the largest network of independently-owned RV dealers in the US and Canada. RV dealerships that are invited into the Network are able to offer branded travel services and goods to their customers which are backed by the Network’s 140+ locations in North America. This is the company I’ve worked for since 2011.

WORK

  • A decade+ worth of projects

(re)Branding

Around a year into my tenure (2012) I took it upon myself to make some much-needed updates to the company’s semi-undefined branding in any free-time I could find. Since the company’s inception in ’03, customers were being presented with pixelated & stretched logos, red Comic Sans body copy, and any other styles the staff member involved saw fit. I started with the logo…

[IMAGE old logo]

Ugly, but I understood the impact of a complete rebranding, so I brought it into the 21st century by creating a 3D version. Of course there would be situations where a 3D logo would not work well, such as small print or 1-color, so I created a flat alternate which provided an organic, lively option when compared with the original. As the design trend has tended to shift more toward flat/vector layouts in the past few years, we’ve been using the 2D version more frequently.

[IMAGE 3D logo]  [IMAGE flat logo]

After approval of the new logos, I went on to create a branding guideline document to pass on to any third party companies who would be including Route 66 RV Network in their advertising. Once approved, it was spread around the office and put an end to the red Comic Sans and other unsightly creations. This began a previously unseen era of brand recognition, and along with other changes, the company’s B2C membership programs started seeing significantly increased renewal rates.

Seavick Group logo

Seavick Group

ABOUT

Seavick Group developed proprietary tax software tailored for labor unions. This was a startup that sadly did not last, however, its software is still in use by a handful of labor unions in the midwest. In 2011 I established their brand and managed everything marketing.

WORK

  • Logo design
  • Website built on a WordPress platform (no longer active)
  • Brochure design
  • Business card design
Mr. HVAC

Mr. HVAC

ABOUT

Mr. HVAC was a heating & air conditioning company in the Quad Cities (IA/IL border) area, which later relocated to Kansas City. This was one of my first client projects back in 2010

WORK

  • Website built on a WordPress platform (2013 – no longer active)
  • Old school ASP website (2010)
  • Graphics
  • Postcard mailer design