Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
For Melissa’s spring bridal shower, Brown Bear created invitations, thank you cards, and recipe cards with a garden party flavor. The cards all featured a tranquil illustration of daisies set amidst a palette of blue, gold, and white.
Sister-of-the-bride Michelle embellished the invitation design by mounting the front and inside panels on peacock blue cards.
Role: Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer
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.
Role: Graphic Designer
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.
Role: Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer
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.
Role: Graphic Designer
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.
Role: Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Web Developer
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.
Role: Graphic Designer
When world cyclocross champion and cycling enthusiast Kathy Sarvary opened Blue Steel Bicycle Company, a full-service bike shop in Sunderland, MA, she asked Brown Bear Creative to develop a brand that was cutting-edge and current.
The result was a bold, contemporary logo that distinguishes the shop from competitors.
Role: Graphic Designer
GumDrops & Lollipops, a cute candy shop located on Niantic’s Main Street, needed a brochure/menu to showcase its wide selection of candy, chocolates, pies, fudge, and ice cream.
Brown Bear worked with the store’s motto of “Old Fashioned Seaside Charm” to bring together a vibrant, vintage-inspired piece. The brochure’s colorful panels bring you back to the days of ice cream parlors and drive-in movie theaters, while tempting you to indulge in the shop’s sweet treats.
Role: Graphic Designer / Web Designer
The Great Animal Rescue Chase is focused on bringing together a worldwide community of animal rescuers, sharing rescue stories, and inspiring more people to get involved in animal welfare.
Founder Laura Simpson approached Brown Bear Creative to design logos, business cards, and a website for the Great Animal Rescue Chase and its charity partner, the Harmony Fund. All the materials feature bright, vivid colors and inspirational animal imagery.
Although most of the website development was handled by Inorikunimi.com and Can 9 Software, Brown Bear contributed to the front-end HTML/CSS template development for the site.
Role: Web Designer / Web Developer / Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Lyme Shores Tennis and Conditioning Center in East Lyme needed a website that showcased their tennis and fitness services to the general public while providing the latest news and upcoming events to their current members.
Brown Bear designed a custom WordPress theme that captures the fun and friendly atmosphere at Lyme Shores. Customizing the WordPress platform to function as a Content Management System (CMS), Brown Bear developed the site so the general manager could easily update the information and photos sitewide. In this way, the content on the website will remain accurate and up-to-date.
To help visitors navigate through the site, Brown Bear organized the club’s offerings into four main categories: tennis, fitness, pool/swimming, and general club information. The right sidebar highlights featured events, latest news, and other tidbits of information for easy access.
Brown Bear Creative also designed posters to publicize various events hosted and organized by Lyme Shores.
