THE ESPERANZA CENTER, a community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides SW Montana youth and their families with equine-facilitated education and therapy, announces that its new logo, designed by David Howlett of Bozeman’s Manifest Creative, has been awarded the Logo Of The Day award for February 6, 2009 by the internationally-recognized logo-design website www.logooftheday.com. Manifest Creative, a Bozeman graphic design and web development company, has generously donated its services to help share The Esperanza Center’s alternative education and therapy vision with the community. The Esperanza Center gratefully thanks Manifest Creative and congratulates David Howlett for the well-deserved, professional award.

The community is invited to view, comment, and vote for the new logo design on www.logooftheday.com. For more information about The Esperanza Center visit www.theesperanzacenter.com or call 406.600-4022. Contact Manifest Creative at www.manifestbozeman.com or by calling 406.585.9406.

You can view the logo in use at the Esperanza Center’s temporary website:

http://www.theesperanzacenter.com

You can also view a cool animated progression of the logo development:

http://manifestbozeman.com/blog/2008/12/19/cool-animation-of-the-progression-of-a-logo/

And if you you still want more info, you can read the full story behind the logo progression:

http://manifestbozeman.com/blog/2008/12/17/logo-progression-local-non-profit-gets-a-new-look/

Thanks for stopping by the Manifest Creative marketing blog! Please be sure to vote for the Esperanza Center logo and as always, we would love to hear your comments!

Happy New Year everyone! We here at Manifest Creative would like to extend our most sincere wishes for a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2008 for you and yours.

With the onset of a New Year comes a fresh set of New Year’s resolutions – and the same could be said here at Manifest Creative. In 2008 we look forward to bringing you new and exciting services, as well as providing the highest level of customer service possible. We are resolved to bring you the best creative and design services available in the area!

As we enter into the New Year, it is amazing to look back just twelve months ago and see how far we have come… 2007 marked an especially great and exciting year for Manifest Creative! The company itself experienced a huge amount of growth, and as individuals we had the honor of working on some great projects with simply outstanding customers. We feel it is only fitting to attribute a great deal of our success to the companies and individuals who trusted us with their unique design needs. That being said, we would like to share a sampling of projects that stand out as some of our best work.

The web development side of Manifest Creative really took off in 2007, and is still experiencing an ever increasing level of growth. One of the key websites that we developed was a high-traffic custom site for one the area’s newest and most exciting publications, the Big Sky Sun. Now, thousands of people from all over the world visit www.thebigskysun.com as their source for informative and entertaining news from across Southwest Montana. We admit that developing a website to handle the challenges of a rapidly expanding newspaper was a difficult task, but we are confident that the results speak for themselves.

We also launched yet another noteworthy project in late December 2007 for Rivers To Peaks Real Estate in Big Sky, MT. The new www.riverstopeaks.com is a fine example of how we were able to design a beautiful and well functioning site, while overcoming challenges from not only a development standpoint, but also within an unique time frame to have the job completed. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Martha Johnson and the entire staff at Rivers To Peaks Real Estate, for trusting us to develop one of the most visited realty websites in the region!

While the web development side of Manifest is going strong, we still have our roots planted deeply in the print industry as well. Throughout 2007 we catered to a broad range of customers, and completed a vast array of print products including creative postcards, brochures, family photo letters, wedding invites, and entire business identity packages with logos, business cards and letterhead. We often took projects from the very basics of initial logo concepts, clear through to printing and delivery.

We take extreme pride in every print project we create, as we do with all products we design. Some pieces that stand out from ‘07 include logo and/or identity work for Full Circle Indoor Kart Racing, Jackson Law P.C., Alternative Flooring, Alternative Waterscapes, RainDrain Seamless Gutters, Bozeman Fence, McAllister Contracting and Mail & More Bozeman. We’ve also had the privilege of working on advertisements, flyers, newsletters and a host of other unique products for clients such as American Land Title Co., The American Prairie Foundation, Montana Travel, Montana Tile & Stone and many others.

In closing (and since it is the New Year and all), we’d like to extend an offer to help your company fulfill the resolutions of increasing your brand’s awareness, making more profit, expanding your customer base and client satisfaction.

Call Manifest Creative today, and schedule your complimentary initial consultation. After all, it’s FREE… but the ideas we come up with may be priceless! If you then decide to schedule a project anytime in the first quarter of 2008, we’ll give you a $50.00 CREDIT towards any of our design services.

We look forward to hearing from you, and again wish you all the best in 2008!

Sincerely,

Dave & Phil