The 100th anniversary of the ending of WWI is widely celebrated and recognized today. Marketing for various charity organizations’ coffers, the United Kingdom had a giant 900,000-strong ceramic poppy sale and display, for the climactic day of remembrance. NPR (and a few Brit Facebook friends) informed me about this amazing effort to both encourage charitable giving AND to recognize the ultimate sacrifice so many made and provide closure and legacy-building in families who lost their loved ones.

We're really happy to announce the addition of Beth North as our new director of business development. Beth has been a long time friend and client, and we're very pleased to have her on our team!

As a creative agency we are always investigating new ways of doing things and because we deal regularly with "bleeding edge" technology in those creative endeavors, it is more important than ever to stay one step ahead. One of these new ideas is the use of "style tiles" in the web design process. You start with the most important step - LISTENING, thankfully that will never go out of style! Asking the client about their visual preference for the site - clean, modern, cool, etc. and then taking into account their brand, and the story they want to tell you create style tile options.

Heartland Small Animal Rescue

2012 Force 4 Good Award Winner Project

As the winner of the 2012 Force 4 Good contest, Heartland was entitled to 50 hours of marketing effort. But first, we needed to determine where to focus our efforts. Force 5 met with Heartland to discuss current needs and marketing obstacles within the organization. As a result, Force 5 developed a logo and web site to assist with how they conducted their efforts.