Posted on 1/02/11 • Troy McQuillen (Comments Off)
We were pleased to award Michelle Scwiedop of Wessington Springs High School with a check for $500 for her winning entry in the 2010 Big Idea Business competition. Each year the Small Business Development Center hosts this competition open to Northeast South Dakota high school students. The objective is to get kids thinking about how Read the full story…
Posted on 12/13/10 • Troy McQuillen (Comments Off)
As we all know, the newspaper industry struggles for a variety of reasons. Obviously ad revenue makes or breaks a daily/weekly paper. Years ago, newspapers were only printed in one color, black. To upsell advertisers, color was offered to make their ads stand out. So now you could combine black with one other color…red, green, Read the full story…
Posted on 12/08/10 • Troy McQuillen (Comments Off)
This was one of the coolest projects I’ve had the privilege of designing. I was approached by the Aberdeen Police Department to design their new shoulder patch for their uniforms. They had originally wanted typical Aberdeen things, pheasants, wheat, South Dakota state shape, etc. After a few attempts we agreed on some more iconic, Aberdeen-specific Read the full story…
Posted on 12/08/10 • Troy McQuillen (0)
I really like this ad we designed for Webb Shoes. Webb’s just celebrated their 100th year anniversary in 2009. They’ve been selling quality shoes on Aberdeen’s Main Street for decades. They are an institution and are just about the only place left on earth to have repairs done to your shoes. We did this ad Read the full story…
Posted on 10/19/10 • Troy McQuillen (Comments Off)
We’ve never really tooted our horn for being in business for over 15 years. I suppose we could have done lots of pomp and parties to celebrate, but we just never seemed to make that happen. During the last 15 years our company has gone through a lot of changes. From our humble beginnings in Read the full story…
