It has been an absolute delight to work with the Lewis & Clark National Park Association, which runs the bookstore in Fort Clatsop, the main visitor center of the Lewis and Clark National Historical Parks.  Not only do I love, love, LOVE the park itself, the people that work there are pretty spectacular.

If you’ve not been to the Park in awhile, take the time to make a visit.  Personally, my favorite days are summer, when the Fort Replica fills with the sights and sounds of a turn-of-the-century working camp and, in winter, when trails are quiet and imaginations can run rampant with what it was really like to winter over there in 1805-1806.

Lewis & Clark National Park Association is a private non-profit organization which supports educational activities at Fort Clatsop and offers an incredible depth and breadth of Lewis & Clark memorabilia and educational items in their on-site bookstore, as well as online.  They’re a hard-working lot that always has a smile, a can-do attitude, and a passion for history and the park itself.

Consider using our latest brochure for the group, to join and support the educational activities at Fort Clatsop, which you can pick up at the book store, or here at beachdog.com.  As I type, hundreds of schoolchildren are finishing up ranger-led field trips, a Youth Nature Writing Contest has just concluded, Nature Adventure Camp is about to put smiles on kids’ faces, and these are just a few of the many events and programs in store.  This is top-notch, family-fun, educational entertainment, folks.  And it is right here in our own back yard.

Enjoy!

~Keleigh

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Fort Clatsop Historical Association

Blank on the back for writing notes, measurements, appointments…
Design by John Aylward & Keleigh

Card teasing the adult half of Jake the Alligator Man’s Birthday Bash; Used as a hand-out at similar venues.
Design by Wendy

Birthday Postcard
Design by Keleigh

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4 Creative Card Projects

Mark and Helen are quite smart about their branding and identity development and it has been an absolute joy to work with them on a variety of branding projects as they’ve prepared the restaurant for opening.  Wendy and I can honestly say we’ve never made 8-foot roo patterns before.  Stay tuned; our web hounds will be giving you a peek at the newly designed Lost Roo website any day now.

~Keleigh

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Ri Ruv Roo!

Menus usually pose the challenge of putting a lot of information into a comparatively small amount of space.  Menus should be easy to read by all ages in mood lighting and most restaurant owners want to include a fair number of graphics and images, as well as use an interesting font or two.   As a designer, I want to create lots of space for the eye to rest, and keep consistency of brand.  The challenge compounds when a restaurateur needs to be able to edit the final product themselves, meaning I need to use a tool like Word instead of professional page layout software.  It’s not always an easy puzzle, but it’s usually fun!

Don Shaw of Don’s Portside Cafe and the Loose Kaboose is easy to work with because he gives quite a bit of freedom to design once he dictates the page count and provides the text.    By putting me in charge of more elements of the puzzle, Don saves money because we go through fewer revisions.  His full-size menus came out very readable and engaging this year!  The take-out menu is half the size of what you read in the restaurants, which makes it affordable to get it in the hands of the many visitors to our beach without losing integrity of design.

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Menus: An Interesting Puzzle

The Breakers hotel in Long Beach has been doing a lot of remodeling over the past several years and we were able to give them custom door plates to match their clean look.  Engraved plastic is actually pretty inexpensive, whether you need key fobs, name badges, door plates like these, or larger signs.  We can get most colors of plastic and turnaround is only about a week once you approve the art.  Stop by and browse samples!

The Breakers also ordered some custom pens recently for a special campaign.  They turned out really well, and match the specs we were given about as perfectly as one could hope.  Even better, we found a pen that met the specs at a really great price.

Don’t you just love happy endings?

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Engraved Plastic & Custom Pens

Dennis Oman Realty is under new ownership… complete with modern branding and a fresh website! Keleigh collaborated with owners Angela and Stu Simonson to create a contemporary, surfboard-centric design package. Blair created a clean new website, implementing the latest look and feel. Stop by their new site to browse new listings, calculate your potential mortgage payments, explore local links and more. Angela and Stu know what it takes to be on the cutting-edge of the real estate industry… and we were stoked to make their vision become reality!

~Blair

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A New Era for Dennis Oman Realty!

The mighty group of volunteers who have headed up the event for much of its existence added a certified half marathon last year, which has made it attractive to even more runners.  You can download their brochure and registration form online, or pick up a copy here in our office, or at the Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau.  Artist Don Nisbett made it easy for us to look good designing that one!

~Keleigh

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Beach to Chowder has a home of its own on the web

Randy Dennis
Dennis Company Stores
(Where prices usually beat Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Fred Meyer, and the rest)

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Who says you can’t get big box pricing locally?

Keleigh designed and illustrated the collateral package for the event, from logo to postcard, brochure, posters, entry form and website.  Who do you think was her inspiration?

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Maybe your pooch is more of a woof walker?

She also designed a carbon-less registration form to use on the beach;  it lets the registrant keep a copy as a receipt, which includes the full text of the release they agree to at registration.  We can create custom, affordable carbon-less forms in all the popular sizes.

David is working on giving the Doggie Olympics their very own home on the web: www.doggieolympicgames.com. Check it out!

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A DOGGONE GOOD TIME!