New Client--Distinctive Design Concrete

Vivid City Marketing & Events is excited to announce one of our newest clients, Distinctive Design Concrete, LLC. DDC is a new Seattle contracting company. Owners Mike Jellison & Chris Lyons are specializing in residential and commercial concrete, pavers, hardscaping, outdoor design, water features, and more. Mike and Chris have more than 20 years combined experience and their work is truly beautiful. Congrats on the new business.

This logo is the first of our work with Distinctive Design. More to come, including helping with a website launch, marketing materials, and advertising. Stay tuned. And, if you're interested in sprucing up your home this spring/summer, contact Chris Lyons at christopher.lyons04@gmail.com.

Design at the Olympics

Say what you want about NBC's coverage (or lack thereof) of the Olympics this year, but it's hard to not get sucked into Olympic fever. In fact, I'm watching the Men's Half Pipe Final as I write this.
The Olympics are great not only for the sports, but the fanfare, branding and design, fashion, and the way the host city goes all out with new buildings.
Fast Company has a slideshow about design elements at the Olympics, and is is really interesting. Did you know the Olympics logo was picked as the winner in a contest of 1,600 entries?
The slideshow talks about the interesting new buildings, the US team's uniforms, and even the design of the medals, which are made of recovered gold, silver and bronze from computer motherboards.
What do you think about the 2010 Olympics? Check out the article here.

The Uniform Project

Here at Vivid City Marketing & Events, we're all about creativity. So when a friend sent me the link to this amazing site called The Uniform Project, I had to share it. I love when people combine their passion with community service. In this case, a woman named Sheena is wearing the same dress every day for a year, as an exercise in "sustainable fashion." (Don't worry, she has 7 different copies of the same dress, she's not wearing the very same dress every day!)

The Uniform project is a fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation, which raises money to send underprivileged children in India to school. She is collecting donations online. And, followers from around the world send her accessories to wear each day. She takes a picture of each outfit and posts them online, and all of the accessories will be sold in an auction at the end of her project as a final fundraiser. What a great way to involve people from all over the world. Her year-long experiment continues until May 2010.

Check out the video for the project, and visit the website here.

The Uniform Project Trailer from The Uniform Project on Vimeo.

The Rumors are T-R-U-E!

The myth became the legend this morning when Steve Jobs - Apple CEO unveiled the new Apple iPad. Names, features, costs and size rumors had been circulating for months but now we have real pictures, real features and real prices!

Mashable has done a great job at providing a comprehensive list of all the bells and whistles of the iPad. Jen might be in love, but her hot little hands might have to wait a bit longer – iPads aren’t available until April. Until then, I dare you not to want one by the end of the article. Read on >

I'm in love!

Mashable just posted some clever detective work about the illusive and yet-to-be-confirmed Apple tablet computer. As a creative professional, I've already had a decade-long love affair with the Mac.

Rumors of the Apple tablet have been circulating lately, but you won't believe the detective work done by Flurry to (semi) confirm its existence. I hope it's true, so I can buy one soon. Here's the story.

Special Thanks

We'd like to say thanks to Tim at Eclipse Media Solutions for building our new website. We love everything about it--the design, the simplicity, and the way it fits seamlessly into our branding. Eclipse Media Solutions is a Vivid City partner, and they do amazing work in website building, search engine optimization, and more. Thanks again!

Cherisse & Kelly's Save the Date Cards!

We're so excited to be working with our friends Cherisse & Kelly on their upcoming wedding! The first order of business was their save the date cards--they wanted something simple, classic, and not too flowery. I love the fonts that we chose, and I love that we were able to incorporate an image from their proposal. Congrats, you two!