In 2007, Brown Bear Creative designed and developed a site for High View Modulars, a southeastern CT modular home builder.  The design and colors were based on their logo at the time which featured a set of mountains in a forest green and white palette.

High View Modulars wanted to modernize their brand, redo the logo, and update the site colors accordingly.  To achieve this goal, Brown Bear designed a fresh logo concept that updated the mountain imagery, incorporated architectural detail, and brightened the color scheme.

Brown Bear then integrated the new logo into the site and changed the colors to reflect the new palette.  In addition, Brown Bear upgraded the set of three static images on the homepage to a sleek Javascript slideshow.  The photos rotate through a loop independently of each other, creating a pleasing, dynamic effect.

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Professional Endodontics, LLC, a dental practice dedicated to root canal treatment, wanted to revamp their site and showcase photos of their staff and offices in New London and Westerly.

Brown Bear Creative designed a bright, clean layout with a blue and yellow color scheme.  New and existing patients can easily navigate through the site to learn about the practice and the field of endodontics, as well as download forms before their appointments.

A sleek, fast-loading, and search engine-friendly slideshow on the homepage highlights professional photos taken of the staff and facilities.  Because the slideshow uses Javascript instead of Flash, it is compatible with mobile devices (including iPads and iPhones) as well as all modern browsers.

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Protecting Your Wealth Law, PC, a law firm based in Newton, MA, approached Brown Bear Creative for a fresh logo design.  Because the firm had evolved recently to encompass more than just wealth law, they wanted to rebrand themselves using their initials, PYWL.

For their new look, the firm wished to incorporate a recognizable symbol to help distinguish their brand. They decided on a penguin, as it would represent qualities important to the firm such as strength, solidarity, and family. Brown Bear designed a sleek, contemporary logo featuring an emperor penguin in a red, grey, and white color palette.

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The Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG) provides a wide array of services for its twelve member towns.  To highlight services, such as animal control, transit admin, GIS, land use, revaluation, and more, NECCOG contracted with Brown Bear Creative to design and develop an all-encompassing website.

One requirement for the site was to showcase dogs and cats available for adoption through NECCOG’s Animal Control department.  Brown Bear developed a WordPress-powered Content Management System (CMS) so NECCOG staff could easily update the site to provide the latest information and photos using an intuitive, browser-based admin panel.

The site also provides access to NECCOG’s GIS Viewer, an invaluable tool for site visitors to locate parcels and examine various environmental elements of the region.

According to John Filchak, NECCOG Executive Director, “This web site will enable NECCOG to better communicate with the public in northeastern Connecticut – allowing them more informed opportunities to comment on our activities and the future of the region.”

Brown Bear has also designed and developed a standalone site and logo for NECCOG’s bus system, the Northeastern Connecticut Transit District (NECTD), which provides schedules, maps, fare information, and more.

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Mystic Bodyworks, a fitness studio in Mystic, CT, needed to overhaul its branding and web presence. Brown Bear Creative provided a fresh take on the studio’s logo and designed/developed a new WordPress-powered website.

For the logo graphic, Brown Bear changed the colors of the existing meditation man image and added petals around the circle.  This new shape alludes to a chakra, which is a wheel-like vortex commonly associated with yogic tradition.  For the logo lettering, Brown Bear created a custom typeface based on the handwriting of studio owner Rodolfo Mari.  Each letterform was adjusted for smoothness, consistency, and balance while retaining its unique charm.

The website’s vivid color scheme reflects vitality and exuberance. This falls in line with Mari’s goal to help clients become as holistically fit as possible. Color-coded icons in the navigation symbolize qualities like strength, flow, and balance, which relate to the different areas of fitness and nutrition.

The site is powered by WordPress, which means an administrator can update all the content in the site using an intuitive, browser-based admin panel.

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Brown Bear Creative was approached by Boston Online Marketing to redesign the website of their client, the Law Offices of Joshua F. Pompilus, P.C.

The client’s wishlist included a bright, clean layout with more of a “social media” feel.  To accomplish this look, Brown Bear created a contemporary design with bold blues, greens, and yellows.

Brown Bear also developed the templates for the site, including the sleek dropdown menus in the navigation.

Boston Online Marketing incorporated the templates into their content management system, which allows the client to update the content of the website themselves.

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When Peter Goselin, a Hartford-based attorney specializing in employment law, decided to start a solo practice, he contacted Brown Bear Creative for a logo and website. He wanted his identity materials to reflect the values and nature of his practice: professional, yet down-to-earth.

Brown Bear developed a simple, yet elegant logo, and a clean, straight-forward website to match. Drawing upon the focus of Attorney Goselin’s law practice – defending civil rights and helping workers collect unpaid wages – a historical photo of Connecticut railroad workers captures visitors’ attention on the homepage. His four main areas of employment law practice, his contact information, and his biography are also highlighted, quickly leading visitors to the information they need.

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Brown Bear Creative designed a cohesive series of print materials that allows Oncology & Hematology Associates of New London to better serve their patients. Based around a soothing color palette and Oncology & Hematology’s logo (also designed by Brown Bear), all the print materials reflect the comforting, yet professional atmosphere of the medical office.

The materials include an informational brochure given by primary care physicians to patients in need of specialist care, a patient survey, appointment cards (with the providers’ information on the front), letterheads, and envelopes.

The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library offers a multitude of services including books/e-books, movies, periodicals, museum passes, genealogy/local history materials, passport renewals, community programs, and more.

The staff needed a website that would display all the services in an easily accessible manner.  Brown Bear Creative designed a site that streamlines the user’s experience with intuitive navigation menus and a clean, consistent layout.  The homepage calls attention to recent news and upcoming events, along with a search form to the library’s entire catalog.

Because the site is backed by the powerful WordPress platform, all the librarians can easily update their own department pages without using any special web-editing software.  The Children’s, Teens’, and Adults’ sections also feature their own blogs to share news about  department-specific programs and events.

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The Northeastern Connecticut Transit District (NECTD) offers bus services to the northeastern CT towns of Brooklyn, Killingly, Putnam, Thompson, Eastford, Plainfield, Pomfret, Woodstock, and Union.  They approached Brown Bear Creative to rebrand their organization and to produce a website that would house pertinent information about their services.

To reflect NECTD’s diverse service area comprising of both quiet countryside and bustling town centers, Brown Bear incorporated both farm and downtown imagery into a cohesive logo.

Like the logo, the website follows suit with a clean, straightforward look. Visitors to the site can easily access the information they need, including bus route maps, schedules, fares, and other details about riding the bus.  Using the latest coding practices, Brown Bear ensured that the website is fast-to-load, search-engine-friendly, and accessible.

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