Guerrilla Marketing—Getting the Mind Out of Forced Indifference

Posted by: admin @ 11:00 pm | Date: April 8, 2011 | Comments (0)
Filed under: Design, Environmental Signage, New Work

Guerrilla marketing can be very effective because it snaps the mind out of the state of forced indifference – a state that we’ve developed in response to daily advertising.

The campaign that we did for Art X Detroit was part guerrilla and part creative sign making. It consisted of window decals, lawn signs, x’s on dowels for people to pick and take with them, building projections, side walk chalk art signage and X’s on the sides of lamp posts. The best part of this exercise was the response from people when they did see something different and wanted to know more. It becomes a pull and not a push when you can engage people with your message by using other means to get your message in the hands of your target audience.

Just Recycle It!

Posted by: admin @ 4:16 pm | Date: August 7, 2009 | Comments (2)
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Volunteers Help Decorate Bins for the Green City Committee of Rochester (Craig Bouchard, Andrew Waterhouse of Great Technologies and Michael Johns from Trent Design

Volunteers Help Decorate Bins for the Green City Committee of Rochester (Craig Bouchard, Andrew Waterhouse of Great Technologies and Michael Johns from Trent Design

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Just Recycle It (Logotype)

Trent Design has just completed work on a new initiative for the Green City Committee of Rochester to encourage residents to recycle. Appliqués were designed and applied to the sides of 18 recyclable containers throughout the city as part of a new program developed by Marilyn Trent, the Green City Committee of Rochester and the Downtown Development Authority of Rochester.

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Graphics (Top of the bin)

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Graphics (Front)

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Graphics (Top-side directions indicate acceptable uses of the bins).

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Window decals stick to storefronts,letting their customers know that they participate in the program.

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2 sided rack cards tell residents about the recycling program.

Creative Director: Marilyn Trent
Designers: Michael Johns, Chantal Oudin, & Kate Zelinski

VisionIT’s New Lobby Signage Gets ‘The Wow Factor’

Posted by: admin @ 8:43 pm | Date: June 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
Filed under: Environmental Signage

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Trent Design was hired to create a contemporary and high tech look for VisionIT’s lobby entrance in their corporate headquarters in Detroit’s New Center One Building.

VisionIT has become one of the IT industry’s fastest-growing firms and has earned the distinction of being on the fastest growing list for Inc Magazine for three years.

Posted by: admin @ 8:39 pm | Date: June 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
Filed under: Environmental Signage

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This signage was designed to reinforce the acronym F.A.S.T. (Focused, Agile, Streamlined, Talented). The graphics, color and art were chosen to represent the titles and the text. They are dynamic, powerful, layered and utilize highly saturated bright colors to convey VisionIT’s core message and values.