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Niche Photography Website Launch, Branding Package Update & Brochure Design

Posted on January 21, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure recently launched a new website for Niche Photography. Niche Photography is a St. Louis area wedding photographer specializing in portrait, baby and high school senior photography. They are located in Mascoutah, IL and service the entire St. Louis and St. Louis metro east area. In addition to their new website, we updated their identity package and designed a new pricing brochure for them.

The new website was built using a fully custom designed, search engine friendly, responsive WordPress theme with aย multitude of cool effects. The new site features a “sticky” menu that always stays at the top of the page. The logo mark elegantly fades away allowing the menu bar to use less vertical space. Other features include an easily maintainable home page slideshow, a unique rollover-effect for recent post on the home page, and masonry style responsive galleries. Click here to visit Niche’s new website.

We also updated Niche’s visual branding package by switching his logo to all grey (the logo mark was originally a Tiffany’s colored teal blue). Niche felt this switch made the brand more neutral or moreย appealing to the masses.

We wrapped up all these upgrades with an engagement and wedding pricing brochure. They will hand these out to potential bride and grooms at local bridal shows.

Niche Photography Branding & Website

Update: We recently received printed samples of the new brochure and had a chance to photograph them. They turned out fantastic!

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Complete Branding Package for a Pittsburgh Photography Studio

Posted on December 18, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

We recently wrapped up a complete visual branding package for Wright Image Photography, a Pittsburgh area family and wedding photography studio. We actually started with their logo and website last year and just completed the letterhead system, packaging and wedding brochure. The new pieces will utilize specialty printing with the logo being gold foil stamped on the letterhead, paper bags and wedding brochure.

Sticking with the white and gold color theme, we selected a crystal flash drive with a gold cap from photoflashdrive.com and we found brass metal business cards at mymetalbusinesscard.com (that look gold). These will we be used for the labels on their large prints and canvases – which will be wrapped in white craft paper and a white ribbon. As mentioned before, the bag will have a gold foil stamped logo, and patterned or solid metallic gold tissue paper will top it off.

Due to the custom search engine optimized WordPress website we created for them last year, they have more than doubled their weddings for next (all without any additional marketing). This bump in income has allowed them to reinvest in the company and they are now working on creating a solid marketing plan for next year. We are also currently converting their existing website to be responsive to improve traffic, lower the bounce rate and provide a better overall user experience.

It is always a pleasure to work with clients that understand and value the power of good design and cohesive visual branding. If you are one of those people, give us a call today, we would love to help take your business to the next level.

wright photography branding package

Update: Printed samples of the new brochure and identity design package just came in. They printed beautifully!

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Law Firm Website Home Page Design for Marketer’s Pitch

Posted on December 10, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure was recently contracted to design a website home page for a very successful and prominent law firm that has offices throughout Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. We were actually not hired by the firm, but by a marketing company so they could use the design in their initial sales pitch. If they win the contract, the new website will be built in WordPress and feature a responsive design, a custom slideshow, an automated settlements and blog feed, and a dynamic counting numbers widget. The numbersย  widget will start at all zeros, and when the user scrolls down and it come into view, it will start to count up to the final numbers.

Check back soon to see if our clients win the contract.

Indiana law firm web design for pitch

Justen Hong of Visual Lure Featured in December’s Issue of Shutter Magazine

Posted on December 2, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

I am honored to be the featured artist in this month’s Shutter Magazine. Shutter Magazine is just one of the educational tools offered through Salvatore Cincotta’s Behind The Shutter. Behind The Shutter is a noย nonsense educational resource for professional photographers focusing heavily on the business side of the industry. Their other teaching apparatuses include Shutter Network, an educational video based network with topic related episodes, and Shutterfest, an annual professional photographer’s conference held in St. Louis, MO. To date, Behind The Shutter has almost 90,000 active subscribers worldwide, and 2015’s Shutterfest has already been sold out with its maximum capacity of 1,500 attendees.

I was featured in this month’s issue due to the fact that I will be speaking once again at next year’s Shutterfest. I will be teaching three classes. One on building a cohesive visual brand, and two on website design and search engine optimization (SEO). Below are screenshots of this month’s cover and my spreads. If you would like to read the issue, or my article, visit www.behindtheshutter.com/shutter-magazine/. It is FREE! All you need to do is sign up!

Visual Lure featured artist Behind the Shutter

New Logo for a Chicago Glamour/Fashion Photographer

Posted on November 26, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Jeremy Cheshareck is a portrait and glamour photographer located in Joliet, Illinois, just south of Chicago. His photography is edgy with a high-end fashion aesthetic. After meeting with Jeremy, he had just decided to break his current brand into two entities: Jeremy Cheshareck Photography and J. Chez Photography. Jeremy Cheshareck Photography will focus on high school seniors and portraiture, and J. Chez will focus on glamour and fashion. He chose to split the two because he didn’t want to alienate seniors and their parents with his more risque fashion work. We, along with the Salvatore Cincotta team, helped him come up with J. Chez Photography. This name keeps his new brand personal but allows him to market to a completely different audience.

Jeremy didn’t want his new logo to feel like a photography logo and he really wanted to incorporate lions into the design somehow. Below is the new logo along with a sample identity package, including business cards, letterhead and envelopes. The new logo features a J.C. monogram sandwiched between two lions and topped with a crown.

 

J. Chez Photography branding/logo design

Update: Here is the logo with a new steel effect added to it.

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…and the new logo for his sister brand Jeremy Cheshareck Photography:

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Save the Dates, Invitations & Programs for Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s Gala

Posted on November 25, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure, in collaboration with The Hauser Group, had the honor of designing this year’s save the dates, invitations and programs for Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s Gala entitled Sequins, Suits & Sneakers. The event raises money to support the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation & Center, who’s mission is to provide children, adults and families with the resources they need in order to improve their lives and to enhance communities world-wide, with special attention to East St. Louis, Illinois. This years event was held at the Hilton at the Ballpark in Downtown St. Louis.

graphic design for JJK

Branding Package for a North Carolina Photographer

Posted on November 19, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Warren McCormack is a very talented photographer located in Cary, North Carolina. I had the pleasure of meeting Warren at last year’s Shutterfest as he assisted me with setting up my presentations on branding and search engine optimization (SEO). Warren recently contracted me to help him build a cohesive visual branding package.

Not all the branding and identity work we do starts from scratch. That is the case with this project. Before Warren came to us, he had a hodgepodge of branding materials. Much of his marketing andย collaterals used different color logos and overall his pieces did not complement each other as a good visual brand should. That is where we came in.

Warren liked, and wanted to keep his existing icon. He just wanted to upgrade the typography in the logo. He also wanted us to help him tie everything together so that his brand had one cohesive look and feel. Other than that, his only request was to design using a SIMPLE and CLEAN aesthetic.

Below you can see our work to date (right underneath his old logo). The original logo was sometimes used in grey and other times in black. The icon was much too large for the type and the typography didn’t really complement the icon. The new modified logo is better balanced and the new custom designed W and M in his name help tie the icon and type together. In addition to the logo upgrade we helped Warren make sure that his new identity system and packaging all matched (which can all be seen below).

This is an open project, so check back soon for any updates, and contact us today if you need help with your branding, logo or packaging. We would love to help.

Warren McCormack Photography Branding

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