Friend and colleague Phil Thornton of Phindy Studios and www.wedcandy.com called me late Wednesday afternoon with a proposition. He wanted to sponsor a poster for the purpose of selling to raise money for recent Tennessee flood victims, and asked me if I would create it. I was immediately on board. Phil soon came up with the wonderful tagline “You Can’t Keep a Good Town Down.” Which I think most people will agree, sums up the
Work by Familytree has been featured in the 2009 Print Magazine Regional Design Annual. Print Magazine has been featuring the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States since 1981. The winning entry was our 2009 self-promotional poster that was sent out to potential and current clients. Obviously it is not only exciting, but an honor to be featured among such other great work from all over the country.
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Familytree was honored to be asked back on to this project for the second year in a row. Designing an entire magazine is no easy task, and without a centrally located staff, things can get trickier. To combat this problem Familytree set up a collaboration site using Basecamp. This allowed a remote staff of 8 writers, 2 photographers, 2 editors and our publisher to seamlessly share
Saturday night was the first annual Case Awards sponsored by AIGA Nashville. Familytree took home two awards; one for the Make-Out with Violence movie poster, and the other for our 2009 self-promotional poster. It was nice to be able to meet some new local designers and see all the great design that is coming out of Nashville.
Familytree is happy to welcome Thomas Russell aboard as our new web developer. He is going to play a vital role in assisting our clients not only build their websites, but also to effectively market their sites, and in building traffic. Thom is skilled in custom programming solutions, wordpress themes, and web performance analysis. Basically he rocks.
