Recently J H I designed not one, but TWO (dare we say gorgeous) new websites for Better Housing Coalition. To make it easier for different users to find the information they need, we split the vast amount of content that was previously on one site into two: betterhousingcoalition.org (above) and bhchomes.org (below). The first site will tell you everything you want to know about Better Housing Coalition, an award-winning non-profit organization that changes lives and transforms communities through high quality affordable housing. (Please consider making a donation while you’re on their site.) The second is where to go for details on buying or renting one of their beautiful, eco-friendly apartments and homes.
BHC is remarkable, smart and really good at what they do, and it’s been an honor to work with them and to make our own small contribution to improving affordable housing right here in RVA.
Here at JHI, we are big fans of billboards: they are quick to the point and they reach your customers where they are – being in their car and seeing billboards about cars is not lost on me in this instance! We’ve done quite a few in our time for clients, and although we’d like to take the credit for this one by a BMW dealer – this stroke of genius is entirely theirs. Not only does it directly respond to a competitor in a tongue-in-cheek way, it has also caught the attention of the blogosphere and the twitterverse – thanks to a blog post on the BMWBlog. Interestingly enough, BMWBlog isn’t owned by BMW AG, and I would bet their marketing and PR people are having a good day given all of the positive goodwill spreading around the net since the post on Monday. Well played indeed.
At the recent biennial Richmond AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) design awards ceremony known as GRADE 5, Carter took first place in a category very important to us: Collateral Materials.
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Our hard-working project for the Visual Arts Center does it again! “The Richmond Show“, the annual Richmond Ad Club awards ceremony, bestowed a Silver Award for the piece. That brochure is now demanding its own drawer in the sample cabinet…jeeeesh! Congratulations again Carter.
The internet is great for so many things, but just try and find a mailbox that you are in love with and…forget it! Especially if you want one with your company identity on it…nada.
So, wanting a heavily-branded J H I mailbox that was also a comfortable visual fit with our midcentury modern building, we decided to “gulp” have it custom made. We went to Old Dominion Metal Products, which has made all of our galvanized aluminum work surfaces and they said: “sure”. They can do anything, and I mean ANYTHING with metal. But what about the cost? 100% pure, last longer than any of us, hand-made, stainless steel, mounting holes and rubber cushions for the lid so it closes nicely…surprisingly LESS than we expected and less than many, many of the mailboxes we decided were better off left out in internet land.
When we have mail for pickup, we just hang one of our J H I rings over the side to let the postman know that he’s got mail. Anyone have any ideas about how we can get even more J H I symbols on our mailbox??? If you want a beautiful powder-coated J H I ring, just stop by.
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Differentia is an oversized tabloid created on an irregular basis by J H I. Our purpose is two-fold: to produce a publication that reflects our unique sensibility as a design firm, and to connect with the local creative community. Previous issues have won numerous design awards (very gratifying). In the past, we’ve picked a theme and built differentia around that idea, basically creating all the content ourselves. For the next issue, we would like to design differentia around work submitted by local amateur and/or professional writers. We will let the submissions dictate the theme, and the writing will be the primary focus. We believe there are a lot of good writers skulking around this town. Got something you’d like to submit? We’d love to read it! Submission guidelines follow…
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