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    • Architectural Sketches
  • Client Proofs
  • Cowtown Stories
    • Governor's Driver
    • Ghost Town, Nevada
    • Little League Odyssey
    • Rust Belt Kitchen >
      • Pittsburgh Sports Memories
    • Ride or Die - Easter 2022
    • Scenes from a Funeral Day
    • Recipes from a Rancho Cordova Kitchen
    • Action Heroes on Mt. Parnassus
    • August Slipped Away to a Moment in Time
    • The Carter Family Right Down in Your Blood
    • Backwhenism - Mapping the Album Covers of Classic Rock Youth
    • The Gods Speak Thru Emmylou
    • Neverland, Midtown Sacramento 1990s
    • Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
    • Melinda's Magic Pussy
    • Fear & Loathing in Carmichael
    • Airplane Wreck, 1986
    • Avalanche on Mt. Tallac, 2005
    • Lost & Found in the Black Rock
    • Jimmy Bravo's Big Pitch
    • Quiet Wisdom of Miss Betsy
    • Finding Nigel, Part 1
    • Finding Nigel, Part 2
    • Huck Finn Fever Dream
    • A Hungry Dog Goes Farther
    • Hauntings of the Gargoyle
    • Going to the Symphony on Drugs
    • Booze Cruise
    • Double Down Throwdown, Bro!
    • Sages of LA Nightlife
    • Independence Day, 2016
    • Dumb Luck Happenstance
    • Fable of Orson Grisby
    • Rodent Jihad!
    • Little Pink House in Louisville
    • Hung Be the Heavens in Scarlet
    • The Island of California
    • Ichiro, What is the Meaning of Life?
    • Chasing the Ghost Clemente
    • So Long Say Hey Kid
    • Ball Games & Clocks
    • Diary of a Career Path Death Wish
    • The Anti-Epiphany of Raider Fan
    • Atonement Has No Statue of Limitations
    • The Colonel's Epic Round
    • The Hunger Artist
    • Fragments & Memories
    • poems
  • Go Wide
    • Reading Room
    • Desportes
    • Capers, Crimes & Bad Decisions
    • Joker
    • Eccentricities
    • Flavor Town
    • Tipple
    • Flicks
    • Mind Games
    • Artsy
    • Tunes
    • Type Geek
    • Printing Craft
    • Science-y
    • Nooks & Crannies
    • Photog
    • Memory Hole
Good design adds intrinsic value to products, companies and brands, and can be an investment that yields great return. Consider the story of an Amador County vintner who enjoyed a doubling of annual sales after simply redesigning the wine label. Case studies in this vein abound.

This is especially so today—we live in an age and a culture that places a high value on visual communication. Today’s media has an energy, a diversity of style, and a range of what’s commercially acceptable that is unprecedented in any other time in history.

We live in an age and a culture that places a high value on visual communication

According to business author Tom Peters, mistake number one (that he’s seen managers make) is treating design as a veneer issue rather than a soul issue. He says it’s a mistake to view design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding that it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything. I have found the clients who understand this often end up achieving better results.
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