The Dickens Opera House in Longmont, Colorado is generously hosting a benefit event for a local teacher who is battling health issues.
We at DistanceWeb were proud to be able to donate our design services to help with the event. In addition to other promotional elements, such as a website to register for the event, the event coordinators also requested “tickets” for the event.
Entry to the event is not a static price – it is a donation per ticket – so for those who register and donate, we wanted a nice piece that we could provide that would be substantive and give the event some “feel”. This is essentially a 4 x 8 inch piece on matte postcard stock.
The below “tickets” are what came to mind.
The design infuses the brand identity directly, through use of the Dickens Opera House logo. As well the background is a variant of the background from their website. The “ticket” was our idea – overall, the effect is a good representation of the event – a nice venue, but not overly formal – live music, good food and entertainment.
We’re always looking for opportunities to help, in-kind or at cost, for those in need, and we’re happy to have contributed a small amount to the community effort to support this benefit event.
Looking for a cool flyer or invitation for your next event? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb had the opportunity to work with a phenomenal startup Vi-Tel Wireless. In addition to helping with general HTML, CSS and other site programming, we’ve also delveloped some graphic design elements for the home page.
Vi-Tel Wireless offers services directly to consumers, so parts of the website are dedicated to allowing consumers to shop and purchase direct.
The other opportunity Vi-Tel offers is a Network Marketing opportunity for sales professionals to re-sell the suite of Vi-Tel products.
The rotating banner illustrations DistanceWeb created are intended for this second audience.
Both of these design elements key on elements of business opportunity and success. Both leverage the logs of Vi-Tel’s approved partnerships, and when placed on the site itself, two call to action buttons are overlayed in the negative space in the left, vertical center area.
Check them out at vitelwireless.com today.
Looking for a graphic or website design work to amp up your website?? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb did the original design and recently updated a promotional poster for Boulder Valley Ice at Superior. The Middle School Hockey League is another one of the continued successful programs put on by the good folks at BVICE.
The primary change for this years version was adding the ice texture background:
Looking for a poster or flyer design that you can get some mileage out of? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb did the original design and once again had the chance to update the Boulder Valley Ice at Superior three-fold brochure. The annual Golf Tournament is in its’ Seventh year – and going strong!
The core design of this brochure is still holding, however we refreshed the look in a few ways. Adding some gradient and texture to the background really helped step up the vibe of the piece – better matching the tempo and excitement that the rink offers it’s skaters and hockey enthusiasts.
We also added a new poster for this years promotion – including a fun photo illustration of a hockey stick hitting a golf ball. This is a fun combination of sports to play with artistically. Next year we have a photo shoot in mind of a geared up player actually addressing a golf shot on the course!
For the outer cover, not much changed other than the mentioned textures and information. On the inside, a new venue for the tournament provided some photos of the course, so on client request we integrated them.
These all went to print, however the poster design also was used on the web site.
Once again looking forward to next year!
Looking for a brochure or flyer design that you can get some mileage out of? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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One of the greatest things about Graphic Design is how easy it is to create a compelling, attractive promotional piece using just the key information about your event. Recently BVICE presented us with a need on very short notice to promote a celebratory banquet the Boulder Hockey Club was hosting.
Fortunately, the important and difficult work of orchestrating the actual banquet has already been taken care of. Now, with the key information and some general direction, DistanceWeb was able to quickly take this:
And present these options to BVICE. given the short time frame, they quickly provided one round of iterative suggestions and we settled on the piece on the right side:
Our sense is that this flyer and poster will attract eyes (and salivary glands?) and help grab attention and spread word of their event.
If you need a quick flyer done, and have all the basic information ready to go – contact us – we’d love to help you promote your event!
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DistanceWeb just completed an updated version of a flyer for the Longmont Tigers Baseball Club. The Tigers are a youth competitive baseball team who operates on funding from player families and community sponsorship. The flyer serves both to provide information to prospective sponsors and as a registration form. The information introduces the Tigers baseball team and talks about how critical sponsorship is for their operation.
Another nice thing about this piece is that it is designed for print, but works great distributed from a website as a PDF file.
The Tigers are not an official non-profit – but for all intents and purposes they are. Youth sports play a significant role in developing talent, skills and character in our children. DistanceWeb is pleased to work with clients such as the Tigers for this reason – it’s nice to know we’re helping an organization hat does good for kids!
Custom flyers like this are great since they can be designed to both provide information, but to also be persuasive and serve a purpose.
If you are interested in a custom flyer for your business, club, or cause, let us know - we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb did the original design and recently updated the Boulder Valley Ice at Superior three-fold brochure. The annual Golf Tournament is in its’ Sixth year – yet another one of the many successful programs put on by the good folks at BVICE.
The look and feel on these still work, though we opted for some different photography on the back side of the three fold. As well, we replaced the normal golf flag stick with a hockey stick! Duh – why didn’t we think of that before? This gives it a bit more of a tie in to hockey, that is fun, but not too extreme.
Looking forward to next year – we’ll see what kind of changes are in store then!
Looking for a brochure or flyer design that you can get some mileage out of? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb just completed a print invitation project for a local non-profit – the Hygiene Elementary Family Foundation. As we’ve said before one of the things we love about design work is drafting composite options for our clients to review, based upon their creative input, and see if we can hit on something that completely satisfies their desires.
In this case the event is a social with wine and cheese – and live entertainment – a jazz ensemble. Here are a few quck comps we presented:
Those didn’t quite hit th emark for our clients, but this one did:
There are lots of pre-made, generic invitations available in stores and online, however a custom invite can add great value to your branding and presence.
If you are interested in a custom invitation for an event, let us know - we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb just developed a new concept poster for the Boulder Hockey Club and Boulder Bison through Boulder Valley Ice at Superior. The Boulder Hockey Club offers some great camps for youth – BVICE wanted a new eye-catching poster to promote these camps.
We stuck largely with the deep blues that makeup the primary identity color pallette for all of these organizations. The only exception is the blood red – gotta have some blood on the ice with hockey, eh? 
Looking for a poster design with teeth that gets attention and promotes well? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb has developed a blog-based website fo the Longmont Tigers, a local youth competitive baseball club.
With the website, the Tigers can keep their parents, families, team sponsors, and the local communitiy up to date on the teams progress and success through the season.
The site is based upon WordPress – using template modified from Balance of Blue
by Brandon Cox. Basing the site upon Word Press allows for ease of updating the information by the client. They can post news stories, edit player profiles and update other information with ease.
View the site
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DistanceWeb did the original design and recently updated the Boulder Valley Ice at Superior three-fold brochure. The Middle School Hockey League is another one of the many successful programs put on by the good folks at BVICE.
The outer portion features the updated BVICE logo and the inner is largely unchanged, save for basic text edits regarding details for this 2009 Spring season:
Looking for a brochure or flyer design that you can get some mileage out of? Contact us, we’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb has developed a blog-based website for Full Court Development, a coaching and training foundation and business operated by Chase Graves of Boulder, Colorado.
The site is based upon WordPress – using template modified from the Slidingdoor theme by Wayne. Basing the site upon Word Press allows for ease of updating the information by the client.
View the Site
If you are interested in a quick, easy to use WordPress blog or website, contact us right away. We’re happy to work with you to build your site!
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DistanceWeb has developed an updated brochure for Boulder Valley Ice at Superior and their annual Golf Tournament.
As you can see, this is just variation of the design from the Middle School Hockey League brochure. It’s a nice benefit to develop a style and design that you can use troughout your print communications.
If you are in need of a brochure or flyer design, let us know! We’d love to help!
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DistanceWeb developed a corporate logo for the Kids Sports youth foundation. One of the best parts of the logo design process is the preliminary sketching and the preliminary computer illustration work.
In this project, we had a lot of rough concept comps in play, you can see some here: 
After presenting concepts to the client and going through interations based upon feedback, the process results in a great logo that the client is extremely happy with:
Need a logo? Contact us – we’d love to work on bringing the vision and mission of your organization to life!
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During the 2007 and 2008 school year, DistanceWeb worked with the PTO and Staff of Hygiene Elementary to renovate their existing website.
Working as an external vendor was a bit challenging – as we had no direct access to the web servers hosting the site. That said, we accomplished a lot with this project for Hygiene Elementary:
- Updated look and feel – incorporating the current school colors, tagline, and updated photos of the school
- PHP driven site pages, allowing for universal menu includes for easier site navigation management
- Use of external tools – including Google Maps and Google Calendar
- Clean CSS usage and PHP HTML templates allowing for easy maintenance by school staff
This was a fun project and we really enjoyed working with the folks at Hygiene Elementary!
Need a renovation for your site? Contact Us – We’d love to help!
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