Watermark goes to WordPress
Congrats to the AV Company www.theavcompany.net on their slick, new custom designed Website, which uses WordPress as the content management system (CMS). This means they can easily log in and change their own content any time they like, keeping the site nice and fresh for Google (SEO).

 
We love to give back
Just a few of the recent pro bono designs we have done for Boys and Girls Club, the Big Warm Up and the Charlottesville Burn Camp...

Blue Ridge School gets FOCUSED!
We recently got the opportunity to visit the Blue Ridge School - not your typical all boys boarding school. In fact, we wanted to capture the unique atmosphere in these new direct mail pieces and follow up brochure. The campaign was called 'focus' and communicates the importance of education, but also how the supportive environment, outdoor activities, and opportunities unique to this school, mold these boys into men. click here for more collateral.

Site launch for Meadowcreek Golf Course.
We were hired to design a site on a budget that made a beautiful public golf course look like a private country club experience.  click here to view web site. A 'tweed' take on the traditional... 

New site for the Building Management Co.
a new and innovative development firm here in charlottesville- very cool buildings and very cool people- check out the new site! click here for more of our web site designs.

Locallectual iphone app 'ilocavore' graphic design
We took the logo we had developed for locallectual and turned it into the icons needed to put the app on the itunes. We love to take a design across all applications from print to web and even to the iphone! These local ladies have put a lot of love into this project - support them by searching 'ilocavore' on itunes- there is even a free app!

The AV Company Event Invitation
Watermark had the opportunity to design an event invitation for The AV Company this past month following a recent rebranding of their logo, collateral and advertising after their acquisition of Modern Home Systems.

WE WON! "Marketing firms in region score at EMMA awards"
Watermark Design partnered with Magnifire Marketing to win the overall marketing category at the emma marketing awards last night for our old trail village overhaul! Yeah! Thank you to Magnifire for choosing us to do the design and thank you to Old Trail Village for allowing us this opportunity! Click here to read more .

New blood, new ideas.
We would like to welcome Amanda into the watermark family. Amanda joins us from Ohio, previously having worked at the world-class design firm, FITCH. We look forward to introducing her to you and sharing her work as she settles in here.

This makes us smile...
"In case I haven't expressed it enough, I am SO PROUD to be rolling out my new business under your designs.  You have NO idea what a difference it has made.  My competitors were in disbelief that this was "ME".  They thought I had joined some huge company! "Thank you" doesn't say enough!" - Becky Reid, Canopy Insurance

Thank you to all of our clients! We love you!

New Web site Launch! Official Time USA
Official Time USA, selling luxury watch winders, commissioned watermark to create their new web site.

Simple, Elegant and to the point. This was a single page site meant to be used as a sales piece to speak to on a phone call. Enjoy! www.OfficialTimeUSA.com

New site launch! Eye Response Technologies
Thank you to Eye Response for choosing us to redesign your Web site. This was such an amazing project to be involved in. Eye Response Technologies helps people with disabilities regain their everyday lives by using eye gaze technology. We feel so privilaged to have met some of these people and are inspired by their zest for life despite the everyday hardships that come with these horrible diseases like ALS. So thank you for involving us in your business and your passion for helping people. Click here to visit the new site . 

From Our Clients... (thank you!)
"I have been working with Darcey at Watermark Design for over 4 years now, through our businesses, bad to the Bone Endurance Sports and Charlottesville Running Company.  In Watermark Design, I found an invaluable marketing resource.  Our businesses have highly benefited from Watermark Design full service of graphic and website design.  Darcey has also been incredibly helpful in learning how to manage our website, and she has allowed us to take control of it."

In Watermark Design, I found a professional, full service and and extremely talented graphic designer.  I have recommended WD to several friends, and all have been extremely satisfied."

Francesca Conte,
Charlottesville Running Company

"The team at Watermark Design isthe BEST - I cannot give a higher recommendation. Their designs are beautiful, unique, and sensible; their customer service is always attentive and on-time! They make MY business successful!"

click here for more testimonials. 

Surfs Up! The New Wave In ADVERTISING...
Your business's Web site isnt the only place you should advertising on the Web! Social Networking on the Web is the new hot place to be for local buisnesses. Click here to check our our Facebook page:

Call or E-mail us to learn more about using these tools to capture a new audience!

New Years Eve: Red and Bubbly
Watermark just completed the branding for this year's new years eve bash at The X Lounge. To view other work we have done for The X Lounge, visit our print and advertising portfolios .

What's new in December?
We would like to thank Eye Response Technologies for choosing Watermark to rebrand their collateral for ERICA- an eye recognition system used by ALS patients for communication - so far including the brochure and tradeshow booth and soon, the Web site. It is an honor to be involved with a local company that does so much to help others. We will let you know when the site is up!

Another thank you to the Virginia Men's Crew Team for choosing us to redesign their current Web site. It is under construction right now, but visit our portfolio for a preview ! This project was a blast, including a cold morning on the water watching these amazing athletes train

Thank you.
As we head into 2009, we just wanted to say thank you to all of our clients that have made us who we are and have contributed to our success. For those of you that we do not know yet, we look forward to creating this same relationship with you. Happy holidays, the watermark team.

Holiday Wishes...
As the holidays approach, Watermark wishes everyone safe and happy holidays! We love working on the odd invite or HOLIDAY CARD because of the creativity allowed in these fun projects. Last year we had a blast with a custom designed holiday card for The Event Company and invitations to several parties around town. Need a custom designed invite or card? Give us a call and lets do something different!

Helping to Promote Our Neighbors... Wild and Wonderful
We love to promote Charlottesville, our home, but we also like to work with areas that we often visit. As avid outdoors-people, watermark is proud to help a Snowshoe, WV Real Estate company promote their area and their rentals with a new brochure, email templates and more! Keep an eye on our portfolio for these new West Virginia marketing materials!

New Web Site Launch!
Thank you to RoseWood Village for allowing us to create their new Web site with a full Joomla content management system behind it! Watermark has been working with RoseWood to update their branding and on their ad campaigns leading up to the Grand Opening of their new second Charlottesville location at Hollymead Town Center on October 2.

View selected ads from their campaign.

Click here to visit their new site!

Visit our Web portfolio.

Advertising in Charlottesville.
Be on the lookout for new advertising campaigns from Watermark for local real estate developers and developments and check back to our portfolio often to view recent work. We are excited to be able to help shape the way the Charlottesville community and beyond will percieve these businesses. Click here to view our advertising portfolio.

F7 Engineers.com Launches!
Thank you to F Seven Engineering for entrusting us with your new Joomla Web site. F7 needed a content-managed Web site that could promote their new engineering work and secure some warm bodies to fill their quickly growing business. Click here to view our sites.

Watermark Turns One Year Old!
This May Watermark celebrated one year as a fulltime Charlottesville graphic design and Web design firm! Thank you so much to those that supported us, including clients old and new, friends and family. We are also growing! We would like to welcome Josh, our new graphic designer, straight from Hawaii. We know that Josh will add his own spice to the Watermark pot, especially since in his spare time, he loves to cook! We look forward to another successful year of collaboration with our great clients and those we have yet to meet. Happy summer days!

Summertimmmmeeee...
As the weather heats up, so are things at Watermark! We have been working on a lot of advertising design in recent months, as well as logos and Web site designs. Rosewood Village is opening a new location in Charlottesville at Hollymead Town Center, and so they hired Watermark to help with marketing their new location with ad design, a new Web site, help with branding and more. Check back to see their new Web site around August!
 

New launches:
Be on the lookout for new identities that watermark has created, including Locallectual.com. We just completed the logo for this local venture. See 'identity' to view the new logo design. Update: Locallectual is now live. You can catch them at the Earth Day show in NY or just visit them online at Locallectual.com!  Also under 'identity' you will find Greener Oil. Greener Oil Company was looking for a quick Web site to claim their stake on the Web. We created a small HTML site to get them up and running, as well as a new logo design. 

Thank you to these local companies for trusting watermark with your visual reputation.

What's new for spring?
Watermark has been working on a flurry of projects, from media kits for a large corporation to logos for small businesses in Charlottesville. We just finished helping JMK Photography, out of Midlothian, VA (Richmond), launch their Web site at www.JMKphotography.com. To view JMK's new logo, please visit 'identity' in our portfolio. We are in the process of wrapping up several Web sites, collateral packages and logos, so please check back to see what is new in the coming month. We are ready for spring and can't wait until we can leave the cottage door wide open for your visit!

  
Boys and Girls Club BIG GIG
We are honored to be producing the invitation materials for this year's BIG GIG annual fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Charlottesville/Albemarle. Visit 'PRINT' in our portfolio to see the custom invitation and save the date.  

JMK Photography Identity & Web site
This Richmond-based sports photography studio hired Watermark to design their new identity and help them create a new presence on the Web. We actually ended up creating 3 logos to represent the different sports they photograph as well as giving them the versatility of using one or all of the logos together, seperate or anyway they see fit. 

 
Child Alert System.com
Do you have children? Are you prepared if they go missing? You may want to check out this web site. www.ChildAlertSystem.com Watermark was hired to design this Joomla-based Web site from design to development. Once logged in, we created custom applications that allow you to store your child's important information-accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. AND should your child go missing, we have an email and text message alert system with 2 levels. The online version is live and soon to come will be USBs that you can carry with you which will connect to the web site to synchronize your information.

UPDATE: Since completing this Web site, we have also begun development on Phase 2 of this site..the custom software development so that a local user with a USB keychain can choose how much information they want to store online. This web application will sync up to the web site and back down locally. We are very excited to launch this product in late March! 

Charlottesville Graphic Design in late February...
It has been a month of mixed projects, from ad design for a vacation rental agency to PowerPoint template design for Pharmaceutical companies. We have just started a logo design for a very exciting Web site that will launch in Charlottesville & nationwide around late March in it's beta version...stay tuned for more information on that! We are wrapping up several Web sites and logos and will list them in our portfolio soon. Thanks for reading! Check out our forums for discussion on Charlottesville Web Design and Graphic Design!

HELLLLOOOOO Puerto Rico!
Allen Design is one of our well-respected partners in the Web-design industy. Once a Charlottesville firm, they are now serving all those tan people in Puerto Rico. Should you reside in Puerto Rico and need top notch design, give them a call! One of their recent projects seems to be taking off - a guide to their area. Click here to take a look !

Get MOVING Charlottesville!
Hey Charlottesville- check out Gill & Francesca's (Charlottesville Running Co.) new project with 106.1 the corner. Get Moving Charlottesville is the new radio program to get all of us off the couch and out into our beautiful area. Watermark was lucky enough to create the logo for this cool new program. Click 'Portfolio' to see the new old rock poster-inspired logo!

Happy Holidays!
We hope that you are enjoying a safe & fun holiday. We have been busy creating new identies, sites and more. The latest projects include the new logo and web site headers for Bad to the Bone Endurance Sports, part of Charlottesville Running Company. Thank you to Gill and Francesca. Visit 'view results' to see the new logo! We have also created a new logo for their Canine Run Series!

Don't forget to send a holiday card! We recently completed several custom designed holiday party invitations and cards. We love creating unique cards that say something special about our clients.

Search Engine Optimization.
What have we been up to? Lots of new directions. Recent projects include Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for existing web sites, designing the front end of sites to be built out by partners in development, and several Joomla sites including content management systems. If you already have a great Web site, but are just looking to improve upon the ranking, give us a call!

Watermark was awarded the opportunity to design a new identity system for MicroAire's Plastic Surgery division. So far, we have created their logo, tradeshow signage and their new folder, to hold redesigned marketing materials. We look forward to presenting this new identity at an upcoming tradeshow. To take a sneek peek, go to 'view results' above.

Logos galore.
Check out 'view results' to see our latest creations. High Meadows Vineyard Inn is a unique B&B located in Scottsville. From the moment you pull up to the pink front door, you know this is going to be a different experience. Visit them here . Their wine is even for sale in Harris Teeter, look for the pinot noir. Canopy Insurance also entrusted Watermark with their identity. Canopy was looking for a '2.0' look to differentiate them from other insurance agencies. We will also be doing their Web site redesign.

NEW SITE LAUNCHES!
A big thank you to The Event Company and David Jones Photography for entrusting their site redesign to Watermark. We really enjoyed creating a visual experience for brides, planners and party hosts alike with their galleries.

The Event Company is your local resource for imaginative food, creative cocktails, meticulous planning and seamless execution. David Jones provides Charlottesville with top of the line, beautiful photography at reasonable cost to local brides, families and anyone else looking to capture the moment.

Congratulations to the Dinsmore House Bed & Breakfast, celebrating their anniversary with the launch of their new Web site, www.DinsmoreHouse.com. Dinsmore is a boutique bed and breakfast with unique furnishings and a true historic Charlottesville past, located right in the heart of the city, next to UVA. Thank you to the innkeepers, Ryan and Denise, for choosing watermark.

Watermark recently had the opportunity design a logo for the new plastic surgery division of Microaire. Stay tuned for this and other designs for Microaire.

RealCentralVA.com has just revealed their new logo, designed by Watermark. Check out Jim Duncan's real estate blog, discussing our current market here in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas. Thanks Jim!

We are excited to announce the launch of Corner House Gallery's new Web site! Corner House Gallery was looking for a classy web design to match their historic home and original paintings in time for their feature article in the June/July issue of Albemarle Magazine. Congratulations to Corner House and thank you for including Watermark Design in the process.

Check out our 'results' to view two new logos for First Tracts Real Estate on Snowshoe Mountain, WV, and We Got Greens, a new eatery coming to Charlottesville's corner area soon!

Watermark is excited to announce that we are redesigning Orange County, VA's tourism Web site. The new web design will be launched near the end of the month. Visit the new landing page at www.VisitOrangeVirginia.com .

Watermark Design's new location is NOW OPEN! We are located in the Glass Building on Second St., Charlottesville, VA. We look forward to serving Charlottesville's graphic design needs.