Studio66 just completed a series of ads for our local credit union. Focus of ad is their community support and how — with a little planning — your dreams can come true. Color contest winners were awarded a $250 savings account and their art was used in a newspaper ad in their own community.

We sifted through so many cute, wonderfully creative drawings and settled on three: one from Woodland, Davis and West Sacramento. The winner (and a parent) showed up for a photo shoot, and got to play model for the day.

In the end, we coupled their creative art with our creative writing and landed on a stellar new campaign sure to make Yolo County newspaper readers say, “awe.”

Lets be honest, we’ve been slacking on our blogging. You know it. We know it. So here’s the fix: we are starting three new blog series!

Project Spotlight
After we complete a project, we’ll write up a little background on the client, parameters, creative direction and showcase the solution. This will give a sneak peek into how we work with our clients to arrive at a final design, fitting to their needs. We welcome your comments and feedback!

Intern Diaries
There’s a new addition to the 66crew — our oragami-folding, blackberry-eating, summer intern! She will be blogging about her experience as a Studio66 intern, what she is enjoys about design and what she is learning. It will be great to have her perspective.

Ask66
We often tell our clients, “there are no stupid questions.” And we mean it! We spent collectively over ten years in design school, have read countless books, surfed thousands of websites to gain our design and programming knowledge. Want to know what-the-heck SEO means? What makes a good logo? Why its not okay to have your whole website in comic-sans? We’ll be happy to share our knowledge with you! Please email us or leave a comment with your question and we’ll do our best to answer it.

We’ll also continue blogging about our Creative Fridays and Monthly Desktop Wallpapers, so keep checkin’ back to see what’s buzzin’ at Studio66!

On March 19, 2009, the ADDY awards celebrated marketing, design, and PR professionals in the Sacramento Region. This year we came away with gold and silver awards!!

We took home the gold award for Mixed-Media, Local Consumer: Scotts Valley Target Campaign. The community outreach campaign in Scotts Valley gauged community interest in building a Target store. The campaign included branding, newspaper ads, direct mail, outreach letters with variable data, and a website complete with petition and database of supporters. Graphics portrayed the Target logo as leaves on the iconic Scotts Valley redwoods; all materials were printed on 100% Post Consumer Recycled paper. Credits: Rashael Parker, Designer; Peter Anselmo, Web Software Developer.

Winning a silver award for Self-Promotion, Direct: Backends. The tongue-in-cheek campaign, featuring a zebra’s “backend”, highlights our ability to build back-end database features into custom websites, without all the pain in the you-know-what. Credits: Rashael Parker, Designer; Brianne Leymaster, Designer.

We are proud to see the studio continuing its reputation for award winning design and creativity. We’d like to extend a big thank you to John Dewes and the rest of the Target, Corporation team, who gave us creative freedom and the trust to try something unexpected.

 ”Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” — Thomas Edison
 
Fortunately, Studio66 employees aren’t “most people” — we’re rolling up our sleeves and getting down to business!
 
Jen Baker, founder of Studio66, is leaving California and moving to Iowa where her newly built home and extended family reside. We will miss her and always be grateful for the vision and hard work she displayed in helping to build our company.
 
Current employees Peter Anselmo (Programmer Extraordinaire and Savvy Business Man) and Rashael Parker (Creative Director and Marketing Guru) are taking over as the new co-owners of Studio66.

Peter earned his BA from UC Davis, reads programming and finance books for “fun,” and started his first business at the tender age of 21. Rashael, a nine-year veteran of the design industry, holds a BS in Graphic Design from CSU Sacramento and is obsessed with beautiful, purposeful design. Together, it’s the perfect partnership of left and right brain!
 
Brianne Leymaster (Senior Designer and Creative Genius) continues to be part of the Studio66 family, where she has played an integral role for the last eight years. A UC Davis graduate with a BS in Design, Brianne is a constant source of good cheer, great ideas and positive energy.
 
Over the past few months each one of us has expanded our leadership roles for the company, and we expect this transition to be seamless. Our whole team is excited about this opportunity, passionate about design, optimistic about the future, and ready to work! If you have questions or comments, call us at 530.792.0660 or email info@studio66design.com.
 
We look forward to continued success as a company and growing our partnerships with you, our valued clients. Life is still good at Studio66.