Wagner Design Associates Blog

National Enclosure Company (NEC), a national leader in design, manufacturing and installation of sophisticated building facades, recently chose Wagner Design Associates to design and produce their new corporate capabilities brochure. It is the focal point of NEC’s presentation kit, and will be used to showcase the firm’s exceptional products and services.

The brochure features a translucent overlay for the cover, a unique design element introduced by Wagner Design to simulate NEC’s innovative glass facades. Inside the brochure readers find a portfolio of featured projects, with imagery that showcases NEC’s capabilities.  An external pocket accommodates technical data sheets, allowing NEC to customize information for potential clients.

National Enclosure Company is a nationally-ranked curtainwall and advanced facade contractor with proven expertise in monumental and highrise curtainwall projects. NEC’s primary focus is to address the elements that create successful results: budgets, design, scheduling, materials, construction and cost-saving alternatives.

Wagner Design provides a full range of creative design and advertising solutions for a wide spectrum of industries including high technology, retail, health care, financial, and academic sectors. The firm has won recognition and awards for its work in print collateral, direct mail, electronic communications, and web design, and has been featured in various design publications.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – Wagner Design Associates, an Ann Arbor advertising and graphic design firm, received a Silver ADDY® in the Ann Arbor Ad Club’s 2010 ADDY Awards competition.

The ADDY was awarded to Wagner Design for Ann Arbor SPARK’s 2009 Annual Report. The brochure style annual report features the tagline “fast. forward.” on the cover and throughout, and describes SPARK’s ongoing contribution to accelerating the pace of business growth in the Ann Arbor area. Motion blurred graphics evoke the feeling of speed, complementing the theme.

Sponsored nationally by the American Advertising Federation and locally by the Ann Arbor Ad Club, the ADDY Awards Competition recognizes and rewards creative excellence in the art of advertising. Beginning at the local level, in 200 markets nationwide, the ADDY’s three-tiered competition is the largest and most representative advertising awards program in the industry.

Ann Arbor SPARK’s mission is to be the driving force in establishing the Ann Arbor Region as a desired place for business expansion and location by identifying and meeting the needs of business at every stage, from those that are established to those working to successfully commercialize innovations.

Wagner Design provides a full range of creative design and advertising services to organizations in the high technology, retail, health care, financial, and academic sectors. The firm has won recognition and awards for its work in print collateral, direct mail, electronic communications, and web design, and has been featured in various design publications.

Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wagner Design Associates has developed several key marketing pieces for the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) Office of Research and its Business Development team. The graphic design firm designed the Business Development logo using compass imagery to signify the team’s role as collaboration navigators for faculty, and created a pocket folder and flyers that give a comprehensive view of how the team facilitates interactions between faculty and industry partners. Wagner also designed complementary pieces for conference use, including a retractable banner, table drape and giveaways. In addition to the work for the Business Development team, Wagner also enhanced the Office of Research web site with new graphic elements.

With expertise in both the academic and business realms, the U-M Medical School Business Development team connects faculty with new collaborators and helps them navigate the most efficient path to accelerate research from “bench to bedside.”

Wagner Design provides a full range of creative design and advertising services to organizations in the high technology, retail, health care, financial, and academic sectors. The firm has won recognition and awards for its work in print collateral, direct mail, electronic communications, and web design, and has been featured in various design publications.

Contact:
Kathy Roeser-Nordling
Wagner Design Associates LLC
T: 734.662.9500
F: 734.662.6590
E: kathy@wagdesign.com

Ann Curtis
University of Michigan Medical School
Business Development, Office of Research
T: 734.615.9147
F: 734.763.4936
E: accurtis@med.umich.edu

Ann Arbor, Michigan – Wagner Design Associates has completed several new marketing initiatives for the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). The creative firm developed and coordinated branding for posters, presentations, social media graphics and e-mail marketing campaigns. Wagner Design, in conjunction with Barclay Consulting, also redesigned MICHR’s web site creating a clear, accessible interface that highlights resources available to U-M researchers through all stages of study.

MICHR’s mission is to enable and enhance clinical and translational research. It was created by the Regents of the University of Michigan in 2006, and received a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2007, making them part of a national consortium of 55 research institutions sharing a common vision. Today, MICHR is moving medicine forward to improve health treatments and find cures by offering 360º support for U-M research teams conducting clinical studies.

Wagner Design provides a full range of creative graphic design and advertising services to organizations in the high technology, retail, health care, financial, and academic sectors. The firm has won recognition and awards for its work in print collateral, direct mail, electronic communications, and web design, and has been featured in various design publications.

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Every year Wagner Design creates a digital holiday card. It’s always one of our favorite projects because we get to work with animation. Here’s our spirited and award-winning  2008 holiday card.  Our 2009 holiday card had more of a tender feel. Design and copy this year was reflective of a calendar we helped design for Safehouse.  Local area artists donated images of their work to be included in a calendar that, when purchased, helps offset the drastic funding cuts at Safehouse, an organization dedicated to fighting domestic violence and sexual assault. Our graphic design firm in Ann Arbor was pleased to contribute to the design and production of that calendar and that great cause. Because it’s our wish to offer hope to those who need a Safe House here in Michigan, we then purchased many of these calendars as gifts for clients, friends, and family.  This year home is where our heart is. Happy Holidays from Wagner Design Associates!

Wagner Design Associates has been in the graphic design business for over twenty years. Our reputation for excellent customer service and high-quality creative work has attracted clients from virtually every industry. In fact, our clients’ recommendations are our greatest endorsement. Over the years we’ve done work for economic development organizations like Ann Arbor SPARK and Lenawee Economic Development Corporation (LEDC). We’ve created websites for Bioscience companies like Michbio and the University of Michigan Life Science Institute. We work with consulting companies like Dataspace and we also have clients in the Arts, including The Faber Piano Institute and the Cecchetti Council of America. Our client base is pretty diverse and we rather like it that way.

But we also enjoy doing a pro bono work for selected local organizations. We feel strongly that part of being a community is giving back. So, each partner here at Wagner has chosen to do design work for a non-profit organization that is close to her heart. Laura works with Leslie Science Center to improve nature education. Kathy helps fight breast cancer with the 60 Mile Men.  And Jill is committed to fighting domestic violence and sexual assault through her work with Safehouse Center. This year, we encouraged local area artists to donate images of their work to be included in a calendar that, when purchased, will help offset the drastic funding cuts at Safehouse.

Our graphic design firm in Ann Arbor was pleased to contribute to the design and production of that calendar and that great cause. Please contact us if you would be willing to donate $15 for one calendar or $40 for three. Your generosity would make a difference in the lives of thousands of women and children in Washtenaw county.