Letterpress For the Rest of Us

We recently had some custom letterpress work done for a series of ads announcing BlueRidge Bank's new Towson branch. While most consumers think letterpress is reserved for fancy wedding invitations, it has been around for ages and was previously the most common way of producing high volume printing. Ever since more modern methods of printing swept the market, and more recently computers and digital printing, letterpress has taken a back seat in the printing world, but has seen a resurgence in a boutique setting.

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Lax World Team Catalog

The Lax World Team 2012 Catalogs are in and they look great! We produced a 48 page catalog for Lax World's team division in partnership with their vendors which includes a vast product line of customizable lacrosse apparel. Lax World was looking for something "cool" without having to deal with collegiate photo licensing and I think we delivered a home run (or a goal in this case). Each line of type is a "lacrosse saying;" and while they may not be known to us, lacrosse guys know. They also took the opportunity to hide some cheeky lines directed at their co-workers for a bit of fun.

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BlueRidge Bank Celebrates Grand Opening of Full-Service Branch in Towson

TOWSON, MARYLAND (November 2, 2011) – BlueRidge Bank, a commercial bank based in Frederick, held an event today to celebrate the opening of its new full-service branch in downtown Towson serving the Baltimore metropolitan area. The branch, which is located in The Nottingham Centre at 502 Washington Avenue (at Allegheny and Washington Avenues), has been serving customers since September.

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Randy Thompson named Baltimore SmartCEO magazine’s CEO of the Year

Congratulations to our client and friend Randy Thompson for being named Baltimore SmartCEO magazine CEO of the Year.

With more than 350 executives in attendance, the CEO of the Year award was presented to Randy Thompson, CEO of ThompsonGas. Thompson took over the family business in 1996. In just 15 years, Thompson has grown a one-location appliance and propane store in Boonsboro, MD, into a $115 million, 325-person energy supplier with locations in 10 states.

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More than enough power to go around

We recently worked with the team at Ventev to create this ad highlighting their new smart charging capable line of products. We continued the use of Ventev's brand by using the signature orange and black. This ad was created using a mix of studio photography and Photoshop to create the "3D" effect of the backlit ad boards. The accompanying headline is "More than enough power to go around. Power sources as innovative as what they power."

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Best Browser for your IE6 Fix

Web Browser Solutions

In an industry that lives and dies by technology, it’s ironic that IE6 has remained a popular choice for a significant number of clients despite the fact that Google no longer supports it. Since its launch in 2001, it has been derided for its lack of support for modern web standards and its monumental security issues. Here at Visionmark, we’d like to urge all IE6 users out there to make the switch to one of the following top five browsers on the market today, all of which are available for free download.

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Google Doodle!

"Google Doodles" are creative Google logos used to mark special dates or events, and they have been around since 1998. Lately, Google has been doing more frequent and more technically creative logos, including animations. Today's animated logo is honoring Martha Graham and her influence on the world of dance. The animation consists of a series of dancers that move in the shapes of the letters in the logo.

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OMG News

It was a historic moment. Osama bin Laden is dead. All of the pundits talk about how this will be a moment where we will say to future generations, “I remember where I was when I heard the news.” What really stands out, though, is the contrast between the spread of word of bin Laden’s death and that of another significant death more than 30 years ago, that of John Lennon. In an age before social media and news apps on smart phones and computers, people got their news through more conventional means of TV news programs and the newspaper.

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Tax time!

Yes, it’s April and we are in the tax crunch. Bradley R. Hughes and GOOD created this great infographic to showcase a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey ranking the difficulty for businesses to file their taxes in every country in the world.

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Feed Me Seymour

Remember the movie and Broadway show Little Shop of Horrors, about a nerdy florist shop worker Seymour who raises a vicious plant that feeds on human blood? My iPod has become the plant. As it sits on my desk its about 4 ft. tall and bellows down to me to feed it. Not blood, but music. I like to listen to the iPod when I am working out and driving in the car. I make new playlists, go back to older songs backed up on external drives but I need new music. Feed me, it bellows.

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