Mustard Seed Ranch

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator

At Mustard Seed Ranch, troubled children and young adults ages 11-18 come to engage in specially designed animal assisted programs.

The outline of MSR is a lighter screen to give the impression of the depth of an actual brand on leather. Incorporated into the words "Mustard Seed Ranch" is a small heart which ties in with the softer flowing font in the statement "a safe place for Hope & Healing". Finally the whole logo was bordered with sticks to reflect a simple rustic flavor.

African Child Foundation
Safari of Hope

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Founded by Father Henry Simaro in 2005, African Child Foundation has provided the opportunity for sustainable, independent life for orphans, vulnerable children and women in Kenya affected by HIV pandemic. The foundation currently supports over 300 children of need with food, clean water, medical care and educational facilities. FrontGate Creative will be providing the non-profit organization with branding and fundraising strategy and tactical implementation.

American First Credit Union

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator

Our "Better Than 0%" promotion for AFCU resulted in the credit union funding 1018 loans for a total of $18.3 million in loan balances. The promotion was initially scheduled to run for a two month time period, but was so successful that it was extended for an additional month, and landed us a feature story on DM News, the key trade publication for direct marketers.

The campaign's main focus was in the fiercely competitive area of auto loan services. AFCU needed a way to compete with the perceived value of auto manufacturers' "0% Financing" offers. We developed the campaign along with AFCU which included in-branch elements consisting of 4 posters of various sizes, 2 postcards, statement inserts, as well as 2 separate direct mail pieces. The direct mail pieces targeted both current credit union members and served as an introduction to potential members in the community at large.

Renaissance Church

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator

Renaissance's target audience is a deep pockets community of very successful, media savvy professionals based in the Northeast. To appeal to this Great Gatsby audience, we created a very simple, low-hype mark with a Renaissance period theme that wasn't overly dramatic. The final logo design is a beautiful one-color mark that is given additional elegance through an emboss on various elements within the identity system of business cards (the logo was embossed on the blue portion of the card), letterhead, thank you cards, and multiple envelopes. Nice and simple, combining a sense of history an innovation, and not visually communicating that the organization was a church.

Cal Pac Sheet Metal

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Illustrator

The project goal was to create a mark that could stand alone as well as with the company name; to signify Cal Pac. This was accomplished by utilizing the letters "C" and "P" as the primary focus. The resulting mark has several layers of meaning attached including the "C" and "P" created with the look of molded metal, their controlled and smooth flow into the snips, and the more abstract image of a metal worker whose head sits atop the "C". The font flavor is very modern and yet again reinforces the worker's control over the metal with its firmly cut lines combined with angled edges.

Point X Camp

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Illustrator

A start-up business, Point X consisted of two extreme video sports production guys backed by a financier. They came to us with a plan on paper for an extreme sports camp, asking us to jump start their image with the creation of a logo.

Karo Film

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark

In our U.S. ad campaign, we needed to do a “show and tell” about Karo, making sure that the U.S. entertainment industry knows that Karo is the biggest and best in Russia. The client wanted something that was edgy and funny without being too aggressive or offensive.

In the final design for Propaganda, we locked in the Russian version of the logo rather than an Americanized version, and play off American’s Cold War connotations of the Soviet propaganda machine giving the ad a sense of epic scale while turning the perception of propaganda on its head.

American First Credit Union

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator

Krikorian Premiere Theaters

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark

As part of our overhaul to unify the presentation of KPT's web and printed marketing materials, we were tasked with the creation of new tickets and presentation elements. To celebrate the significantly enhanced entertainment experience of a KPT Premiere Theatre, we opted for a very dramatic graphic presentation on their tickets and other presentation materials.

KSBR All-Star Birthday Bash

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

KSBR Jazz FM 88.5's All-Star Birthday Bash takes place each year on the grass at the beautiful Mission San Juan Capistrano. Over twenty five exciting Jazz artists perform to keep jazz alive, benefiting Orange County's listener supported Jazz station. For this project, we collaborated with Bettie Grace Miner, the renowned Polaroid SX-70 artist.

KSBR enlisted us to create the Bash print media campaign including advertisements, sponsorship brochure, event program and event merchandise. The event program is one of our most artistic yet utilitarian creations, a solution created from the result of our initial creative process, the artistic piece is also a perfect size to fit in attendees pockets and yet present all the necessary event, sponsors and artist information.

Rick Muchow CD Box Set

Medium: Print
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark

This was a particularly innovative project! From the use of Rick's shirt as the background to provide texture behind the album images, to the unique need for an ad inside the product that would drive the customer to additional resources available via download on the web site, this package design needed to hold 9 CDs and list every single song on each project.

The Black Flamingo

Medium: Interactive, Web
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Flash, ActionScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

Black Flamingo is a new fashion line based out of Newport Beach California and is the official stylist for MTV’s The Real Laguna Beach program. Black Flamingo came to FrontGate Creative to respond to the growing demand for Black Flamingo products throughout the country. Phase One of the project is to develop an online presence for Black Flamingo, which was launched in March of 2007. Phase 2 will be the release of their first behind the scene video from a recent fashion shoot, followed by the launch of their ecommerce offerings in mid to late 2007.

Visit www.blackflamingo.com

African Child Foundation
Safari of Hope

Medium: Interactive, Web
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, PHP, HTML, CSS

Visit www.safariofhope.org

Harveys - The Original Seatbelt Bag

Medium: Interactive, Web
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, ColdFusion 7, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, AbleCommerce

Since 1997 Harveys Industries has been manufacturing their trademark seatbelt bags and selling them on seatbeltbags.com. In July of 2006, the Harveys came to FrontGate Creative to start the planning and development of their upgraded ecommerce store. Working extensively over many months, the FrontGate and Harveys team worked out what would become the new seatbeltbags.com, with more new functions for both the Harveys team, as well as for their loyal customers.

Initium

Medium: Interactive, Web
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

An international opticcult has formed in Southern California around eyewear and lifestyle firm Initium. For over 5 years, FrontGate Creative and Initum Eyewear have worked together to promote the online image for this hip eyewear designer. In 2006 they came back again, and it was time to completely redo the site from the ground up, and this time – it was time to push it to a new level. More interactivity for customers, online buying experiences, video, music, eyewear, more stars, and a few new toys in the back of the house for the employees, all to make the experience even better.

IHOP

Medium: Interactive, Web, eNewsletters
Technologies Utilized: Joomla, Photoshop, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

Started in 1958 IHOP Restaurants is a leader in its field. With over 1000 locations nationwide, IHOP was looking to grow its online presence, and chose to stay with FrontGate Creative to lead them in their latest endeavor.

With and aggressive timeline and a lot of work to do, IHOP’s marketing team and FrontGate creative set out to not only redefine the company’s online branding, but to aggressively tackle a completely new technology back end that will enable the site to continue to grow into the future, with almost no outside assistance from technology vendors. FrontGate Creative and IHOP have partnered to ensure that the site not only looks fantastic, but, like their food, is always fresh and ready to delight each and every visitor.

Gloria Jean's Coffees

Medium: Interactive, Web
Technologies Utilized: .Net, ASPDOTNET Commerce, CSS, HTML, Photoshop

Established in 1979 and with currently more than 500 franchise locations, Gloria Jean’s Coffees is a leader in the coffee house industry. Gloria Jean’s team came to FrontGate Creative looking for thought leadership on brining new life to their existing web site. This was more than just a corporate marketing site, but drives significant revenue through their consumer direct sales of not just coffee, but everything you need to create the ‘ultimate coffee experience’ right from your home or office. Gloria Jean’s Coffee is part of the Diedrich’s Coffee family which also includes Coffee People.

FrontGate Creative is creating a brand new and exciting design to the site, working with their internal team to make use of current branding strategies and up to date retail design elements.

Lantronix

Medium: Interactive, Online Banners
Technologies Utilized: Photoshop, Flash, ActionScript

Since 1989 Lantronix motto has been: "Network anything! Network everything!" As a successful Southern California network appliance manufacturer with a serious presence in Internet related hardware, they are no stranger to Internet marketing. Lantronix has been coming to FrontGate Creative for nearly 5 years now, looking to our team for web support. We handle anything they can throw at us – and it has to be fast. Email marketing, banner advertising, internal company newsletters, partner communications…. You name it, they’ve thrown it at us, and we love every moment of it.