Economic Development, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
We created a custom brand and website for both the Appalachian Headwaters organization and their sister company, the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective. These small-batch entrepreneurs work with the community to support the economy and restore the forests. A full website, custom packaging, flexible logos, and print collateral were designed to support their mission, highlight the unique operation, and celebrate the tradition and land. appheadwaters.org
Oregon Farmers Markets Association
Community Development, Food and Farm, Tourism
We worked with the Oregan Farmers Market Association (OFMA) to re-brand their look into something fresh, bright, and full of life to match the energy of the farmers and markets they represent. A series of flexible logos were created for various applications across their many outreach platforms and custom illustrations showcasing the bounty of Oregon create playful patterns. The cherry on top is a full-color palette derived from all corners of the state, feeling both vibrant and natural.
ArtPlace America: Creativity Lives Here Campaign
Art & Design, Community Development
#CREATIVITYLIVESHERE is a year-long digital storytelling campaign showcasing the people and places behind creative community development.
Wheeling Heritage: Here To Stay Campaign
Community Development
Here To Stay is a city-wide campaign celebrating the town of Wheeling, West Virginia as a vibrant place to life, work and play to both local and international audiences.
Skin Spa New York
Beauty
All things skin and body care that can fit in the span of your lunch break. That was the key concept in developing a bold, modern, and striking brand identity and campaign for Skin Spa New York. From an updated Website to social media to custom packaging for their brand new skincare line, we worked to push the effortlessly cool and chic appeal of the spa. Utilizing bold images and zoomed-in shots of texture allowed them to communicate with clients a fresh and less-than-standard way. skinspanewyork.com
Hernshaw Farms
Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm
Hernshaw Farms is a mushroom farm in Hernshaw, West Virginia, working to create an economically sustainable market operating on top of a former mountain top removal mine site. We created a custom illustrated logo communicating their moto “Mine Land to Farm Land” and a series of colorful labels for their packaged mushrooms that take a playful approach to a heritage brand.
GLG Social Impact
Advocacy, Community Development, Entrepreneurship
GLG’s Social Impact works to connect organizations with the power of knowledge working to solve society’s most urgent challenges. In the fall of 2019, we worked together with them to bring the impact they help achieve come to life in a beautiful, full-color, and oversized magazine. The magazine showcased the work of their fellows alongside their mission to provide social innovators with free access to their platform.
Citizens Housing & Planning Council
Advocacy
We’ve worked collaboratively with the Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) in New York City to bring a bright and bold approach to addressing housing concerns, answering questions about what’s next for New York’s residents, and showcasing the impact of their research. Together, we’ve created reports, logos, event graphics, illustrations, and marketing materials. Our relationship is just at it’s beginning as we continue to build upon the research work that CHPC is doing and sharing the information with the policy makers, architects, and engineers of NYC. chpcny.org
Love Your Birth Control Campaign
Education, Health
The Love Your Birth Control campaign aims to inform women in West Virginia about their reproductive choices. Historically, advisement on birth control has been subjective—and at times coercive. MESH, in collaboration with WVFREE, created an informational tool and website designed to give patients the power to discuss birth control options with their healthcare providers and make the best choice for their bodies. loveyourbirthcontrol.org
WVFREE
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health, Social Justice
WVFREE is advocating for the lives and autonomy of women all over West Virginia. After over 20 years as a policy changemaker and advocacy group, Studio Mesh rebranded WVFREE with a flexible logo system and gradient package that can be used anywhere from official legislative letters to Pride Month movie screenings and peaceful protests. We also worked with WVFREE to bring awareness to Crisis Pregnancy Centers (“fake pregnancy clinics”) throughout West Virginia, creating billboards and a digital campaign.
Every Mother Counts
Advocacy, Community Development, Economic Development, Education, Health, Social Justice
Every Mother Counts works to advocate for mothers around the world. We worked closely with their team to develop a flexible brand; their logo appearing in several languages spoken in the countries they work in. A series of custom illustrations were created to bring awareness to the sensitive nature of the issues mothers face while bringing in a human touch. To tie it all together, we redesigned their website with the updated brand and a new strategic approach to their vision, their grantee partners, and helping community members find ways to take action. everymothercounts.org
We continually work with Every Mother Counts to develop annual collateral for events and promotional materials.
Flatbush Caton Market
Community Development, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers, Social Entrepreneurship
Founded in 2000, Flatbush Caton Market (FCM) is New York City’s only Caribbean open marketplace. In 2017, it was announced that the market would transition from Flatbush Ave. to a temporary space while the city renovates their building. Studio Mesh was in charge of their rebranding, signage and marketing materials that would translate from their temporary space to their renovated space. flatbushcatonmarket.com
NYC DCA Office of Financial Empowerment
Community Development, Economic Development, Health, Social Justice
Neighborhood Financial Health Indicators is a series of infographics painting a picture of the economic health of two neighborhoods in New York City. The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) researched Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Harlem for five financial indicators: the ability to access financial services; the ability to access high-quality goods and services; job and income support; the ability to limit the impact of financial shocks, and the opportunity to build assets. Studio Mesh took a look at this raw data and created a strong visual system for DCA to use as they expand their research.
Bronx Bodegas
Advocacy, Education, Health
Bronx, NY is considered the hungriest borough in New York City with the lack of grocery stores. Bodegas have become a staple in the Bronx community. The Fresh Bronx Bodegas campaign highlights simple nutritious options that bodega owners are making accessible in the Bronx. This campaign was co-designed through our participatory design process with the kids of Bronx Health Reach and the young professionals of BronxWorks, who worked with us to brainstorm concepts, write slogans and gave us feedback throughout the process to assure this campaign was made by the Bronx, for the Bronx.
RideLocal Campaign
Transportation
Studio Mesh, in partnership with the Taxi, Limousine & Paratransit Association (TLPA), designed a campaign encouraging the use of local taxi companies. We focused on the positive aspects of using a local taxi, which include having someone who lives in and is familiar with the area, and boosting local economy, as taxi companies tend to give back to the community.
Vandalia Donut Co.
Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
Vandalia Donut Co. is a family-run, Donut-making 1970s restored camper with deep Appalachian roots. They hand-craft all donut recipes from local farms around the area.
Hardy County
Community Development, Tourism
We developed a comprehensive website for Hard County West Virginia to promote tourism in the state. From research to strategy to design to art directing a photoshoot in the region, we did it all. visithardywv.com
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences
Art & Design, Community Development, Education, Sciences
Studio Mesh developed a comprehensive brand identity system for the Clay Center and it’s four branches, a children’s museum, an art museum, a planetarium, and a music hall. We focused on the children’s art and science museum, Avampato Discovery Museum, to re-envision the entire Center’s communication system. Through multi-media design pieces, we maintained the equity of the original Clay Center logo. Every piece of the brand is inspired by play and imagination, for both kids and adults alike.
Green Bank Observatory
Advocacy, Education, Sciences, Tourism
Green Bank Observatory, nestled in the mountains of the only National Quiet Zone, is the home of the trailblazers of radio astronomy. When the observatory broke away from it’s parent organization, NRAO, they worked with Studio Mesh to create a space-inspired brand identity that speaks to the down-to-earth quirkiness of Green Bank. Studio Mesh designed a flexible logo and graphic language, wrote all content, and communicated the brand in multi-media, which included a custom website for their public outreach programs.
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts
Advocacy, Art & Design, Community Development, Economic Development, Education
MESH worked with the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts, the leading Arts Foundation in West Virginia, through renaming, rebranding, a re-design of programming, and a new website design, to reintroduce themselves as the leaders and voice of artists in the creative economy. Their logo is a simple container; their brand is made up of the vibrancy and colors of the artists and creatives they support. tamarackfoundation.org
West Virginia Farmers Market Association
Advocacy, Education, Environmental Justice, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
Studio Mesh designed the West Virginia Farmer’s Market Association brand, brand tools, and marketing toolkit, to be used by the association and all it’s member markets throughout the state. The WFMA works to promote sustainability, farm-to-table culture, community collaboration, and locally sourced foods. This brand is a visual identity that is regional and references the history of agriculture of WV but also can stand alongside bigger grocery stores.
J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works
Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
We partnered with the founders of J. Q. Dickinson Salt-Works from their inception, working through a naming, branding, communication strategy and art direction of their organic, locally produced salt and provisions lines. Every aspect of the brand was inspired by their 200-year-old family farm. Each jar is refillable, to maintain the sustainable practices pursued in the hand-harvesting of the salt. The website won a 2016 WV Tourism Gold Star. jqdsalt.com
M7
Transportation
Metro Taxi made the transition to M7 in 2017 with a youthful and fun approach to local transportation. We developed a comprehensive brand system for their logo, typography, and illustrations to allow for flexible use across platforms.
Along with M7 we developed the logo for URide, their sister company focused on helping college students reach their destinations.
Link
Entrepreneurship, Transportation
We created Link, a new, playful transportation model brand for taxi companies nationally. ridewithlink.com
Global Dignity
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Justice
Global Dignity has one goal: unite everyone with the belief that we all deserve to live a life of dignity. Global Dignity was started in 2006 with the hope to teach dignity all over the world. In 2017, over 680,000 young people and civil society leaders, volunteer facilitators, parents, and teachers were engaged with Global Dignity workshops, forums, and assemblies. Studio Mesh collaborated with Global Dignity in early 2018 to design an easy-to-follow, standardized teaching curriculum to be shared all over the world.
Economic Analysis of the Detroit Food System
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Food and Farm, Social Justice
Localizing food systems in our American cities could dramatically grow our economies. We shared a new vision of Detroit’s food economy through our information design, infographics, and layout design work in the Economic Analysis of Detroit’s Food System report, powerpoint presentation, and posters, made with Urbane Development for Detroit Food and Fitness Collaborative with support from Kellogg Foundation. View the full book for download here.
Huairou Commission
Advocacy, Community Development, Economic Development, Education, Environmental Justice, Social Justice
Huairou Commission is empowering grassroots women leaders globally. Studio Mesh re-envisioned Huairou Commission’s communication campaign, launching their new brand at the 2016 UN Habitat World Urban Forum. We concepted, designed, print produced, and supported managing over 30 different print pieces for Huairou Commission, and created a new website, new social media strategy, and new e-newsletter campaign to re-engage Huairou’s patrons with their work.
ACAP: Association for Community Affiliated Plans
Advocacy, Education, Health
Studio Mesh designed and built an entirely new web eco-system for DC-based healthcare association ACAP to make their information more accessible to their membership. We designed a user-centered information architecture through an intensive discovery and content strategy process. In this process we ran content audits, user surveys and interviews, user persona and story development, and user testing, and designed a custom publishing process for ACAP.
Vessel Brooklyn
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Vessel Brooklyn is a custom curated gift and event planning company in Brooklyn, New York. We built an full-scale brand identity, gold-embossed notecard sets, and full scale e-commerce website for this start-up company creating memories and sharing kindness.vesselbrooklyn.com
Big Switch Farm
Community Development, Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm, Social Justice
Big Switch Farm based in Egypt, Kentucky, is run by a young, back-to-the-land family living out their principles. Studio Mesh created a logo and brand identity inspired by nature, traditional Farmers Almanac farming-by-the-moon phases, and Big Switch Farm’s rural hometown.
Nomad
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Nomad is the first off-the-grid, on-the-road truck shop in New York. We hand-illustrated Nomad’s logo to reinforce the nomadic, on-the-road, wandering and wayfaring spirit of the brand. Our work with the brand has since followed suit, and all materials, from labels to business cards, are printed on recycled paper. Her truck bears the brand across its side, and her e-commerce website has the same clean, but organic feel. thenomadtruck.com
Mission Savvy Juices
Environmental Justice, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers, Social Entrepreneurship
Studio Mesh worked with Mission Savvy through eco-clothing company, juice bar, Organic-To-Go pop-up vegan truck, and Food Lab. We developed an illustrated brand system, print materials, truck graphics, and a website. The brand was designed to feel personal and handmade down to its very typography–the hand-illustrated typeface inspired by the fruits and vegetables served daily. The Vegan Alphabet was featured in the 2013 Print Magazine Regional Design Annual.
American Civil Liberties Union
Advocacy, Education, Social Justice
American Civil Liberties Union is ensuring every citizen in our country has justice, freedom of speech, and basic rights for all. Studio Mesh worked with the national chapter, in collaboration with PEN American Center, to develop the website for Reckoning With Torture. The website was built to crowdsource user-generated video content for an upcoming documentary film by Doug Liman. reckoningwithtorture.org
Project Code Nodes
Art & Design, Education, Sciences
Project Code Nodes is hosting the first Girls Who Code Clubs in West Virginia. We designed a program logo and mini website to recruit more teen girls to get involved!
Bedstuy Credit Landscape
Community Development, Economic Development, Education
In collaboration with Urbane Development, we designed the infographic poster for the City of New York Office of Financial Empowerment and Urban Development on the “BedStuy Alternative Credit Project.” The poster examines alternate underground forms of credit in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedstuy.
Sprout’s Adventure: The School Gardens Game
Education, Food and Farm, Health
We made Sprout’s Adventure, an in-school interactive healthy food education and assessment tool packaged in the form of a healthy plate game for kids. Sprout was made in collaboration with teachers, data specialists, healthy eating specialists, and user-tested with K-8 students. It includes audio features for younger age groups, and a full backend reporting system for admin to create surveys and run reports. In this project Studio Mesh conceptualized the entire game, the name and narrative, and character illustrations.
America’s Essential Hospitals
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health
We’re helping to raise a new voice in healthcare, supported by a strong brand identity and a dynamic news-based website. Studio Mesh developed the brand strategy and web ecosystem for America’s Essential Hospitals. The brand launched with a documentary photography series in hospitals across the U.S., by Jennifer Judkins. Studio Mesh continually creates guidebooks, annual reports, digital zines, conference materials and online tools. essentialhospitals.org
People Building Better Cities
Community Development
We partnered with Columbia University’s Global Studio to create a 24 poster, modular, open-source exhibition sharing ideas on inclusive urban design and the global problems surrounding informal housing settlements. It has traveled to 13 cities on 5 continents since opening in 2013, and is translated into 6 languages. It’s shown at AIA Center for Architecture in New York and the World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia, and was featured in ArchitectureAU and HOW Design. peoplebuildingbettercities.org
Center for Community Progress
Community Development, Economic Development, Education
Do tax laws contribute to the decay of American houses? The Center for Community Progress (CCP) specializes in nurturing strong leadership and supporting systemic reforms at a national and local level. In collaboration with the WV Hub, another community organization, CCP sought us out to help visualize the detrimental effect property tax laws have on the public.
Center for Social Impact Strategy at UPENN
Advocacy, Education, Social Entrepreneurship
The Center for Social Impact Strategy is a research and action center at UPENN. Studio Mesh worked through a participatory, collaborative design process with the Center to build their online brand identity, devoting substantial time to content auditing, information architecture, and user personas. We worked closely with the Center’s team on content writing and brand imagery to create an online brand focused on engagement and conversion.
Wanda Petunia
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Wanda Petunia is an educational, mental health focused book series and plush toy set company. We built an illustrated, animated, interactive website and e-commerce company to share Wanda’s stories and goods digitally.
The Wild Ones: Adventures on the Gorge
Tourism
Studio Mesh designed and developed a campaign website for Adventures on the Gorge to house stories and gather new contact leads.
Children’s Museum of the Arts New York
Art & Design, Community Development, Education
Children’s Museum of New York is cultivating the creative problem-solvers of tomorrow. CMANY has one of the most amazing new spaces for kids in the city — and they needed a website to match. We redesigned their site to reflect the playful but clean aesthetic of the museum, keeping in mind the need for flexibility of daily in-house updates. We redeveloped the site with these two audiences in mind, and the project remains an ongoing evolution as we continue to improve the site with new features.
Mountain State Justice
Advocacy, Law, Social Justice
Mountain State Justice is a non-profit law firm providing legal advocacy and aggressive litigation on behalf of low-income West Virginians. Studio Mesh worked with Mountain State Justice to create a brand that directly echoes the state’s mountainous landscape. Their website uses imagery to showcase the organization’s impact on real people. We created print collateral, including legal letterhead, envelopes and business cards, as well as their website. mountainstatejustice.org
Edward Tucker Architects
Architecture, Art & Design
Studio Mesh designed a fresh, responsive website, to match Edward Tucker Architects innovative, modern architecture.etarch.com
Persinger & Associates
Architecture, Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Studio Mesh worked with the young construction company, Persinger and Associates, to build a website with the same simplicity and structural integrity of Persinger’s buildings. persingerandassociates.com
Rebel Crumbles
Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Justice
We worked with the high-school kids of Rebel Ventures, a Philadelphia healthy snacks company and educational initiative run by kids for kids, to develop and design their latest snack product and packaging, Rebel Crumble cake. Rebel Crumble is a healthy alternative to sugary breakfasts, and was just made free to every Philadelphia public school student for morning breakfasts!
Kanawha County Public Libraries
Advocacy, Community Development, Education
Through an extensive discovery process, Studio Mesh built a new digital brand and website for Kanawha County Public Libraries. This public library system serves a population of nearly 200,000, with 50,000+ web visitors each month. Studio Mesh ran online user surveys, focus groups, and public listening tours to understand the needs of the community. We developed user personas to inform an engaging, fresh and new online experience for these libraries. kanawhalibrary.org
CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Food and Farm, Health, Social Justice
We worked with City University of New York School of Public Health’s Urban Food Policy Institute to design a flexible logo and brand system. We designed the print and interactive pdf report, a micro-website, and an interactive Powerpoint presentation for Eating in East Harlem, to share with the New York neighborhood community members and academics.
White Horse Wines and Spirits
Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm
White Horse Wines and Spirits is a third generation family-run New Jersey beverage and organic food shop. Studio Mesh worked with White Horse to rebuild a custom, modern, responsive e-commerce platform to hold and sell over 5,000 of their wares. We integrated custom shopping options to include online sales and shipping, delivery, or in-store pick-up for the locals. whitehorsewine.com
Better
Education, Entrepreneurship, Health
Studio Mesh worked with career coach Lisa Podel, to create Better, the coaching workshop sessions designed to help entrepreneurs work, live, and learn better. Studio Mesh worked with this start-up through a naming process to develop the entire visual, verbal and experiential brand identity. We designed print materials and a website for Better to help people be their best possible selves at work and in their day-to-day lives. bettersessions.com
Pamela Hanson Photography
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Studio Mesh developed a new, responsive portfolio website for the iconic fashion photography, Pamela Hanson. pamelahanson.com
Bloomfield School of Jewelry Makers
Art & Design, Education, Entrepreneurship
Bloomfield School teaches jewelry and metalsmith classes in Gowanus, Brooklyn, by artists, for artists. Studio Mesh designed a logo, brand identity, and custom typography poster series inspired by their functional & directional mentality, and by their most precious studio items…the tools of their trade.
Appalachian Mountain Speciality Foods
Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
Appalachian Mountain Speciality Foods is carrying on decades of Appalachian Mountain cooking and sauce making. Studio Mesh worked with this family-run business in Spencer, West Virginia to reinvent their online brand. We styled and art-directed their new product with lifestyle photography (shot by Lauren Stonestreet), and designed and developed a custom e-commerce Shopify website to tell their story and sell their goods.
Own It: You Have Options Toolkit
Economic Development, Education, Social Justice
OWN IT: YOU HAVE OPTIONS is an open-source, downloadable toolkit for teachers to educate high school kids on alternatives to college. The toolkit that includes 15 poster set, tiled hallway billboard, stickers, social media image shares, and toolkit guide book. The toolkit was made for Charleston Area Alliance’s Educator Industry Institute and is available to download for teachers anywhere on the Charleston Area Alliance website.
Center for Urban Pedagogy: Pay Dirt (CUP)
Advocacy, Art & Design, Community Development, Education, Social Justice
PAY DIRT explores the gender wage gap through the eyes of a group of high school girls with CUP, the Center for Urban Pedagogy. MESH adapted artwork inspired by America’s gender wage gap from the senior economics class at the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice in Boro Park, Brooklyn. The students’ artwork was utilized to create a print fold-out about the gender wage gap…for high school girls, by high school girls. CUP: Pay Dirt
Center for Urban Pedagogy: Happy Meals (CUP)
Advocacy, Art & Design, Community Development, Education, Food and Farm, Law, Social Justice
CUP, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, looks into workers rights in the fast food industry. Studio Mesh worked with artwork from two ESL classes at the Academy of Urban Planning in Bushwick, Brooklyn on fast food, to create a print fold-out CUP: Happy Meals.
Holly Corey Activewear
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Holly Corey designs fun, fresh gymnastics, dance and activewear inspired by movement and a playful spirit. We created a brand that communicates the Holly Corey spirit with colorful graphic watercolor patterns, and her classic ‘H’ logo, embroidered and bedazzled on all her clothes. Her custom e-commerce website includes a vendor only section who wholesale. hollycorey.com
Vision 2030
Community Development, Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship
Charleston is redefining itself with Vision2030, a strategy bringing people together to improve quality of living in this beautiful southern town.
Center for Urban Pedagogy: Funky Fresh (CUP)
Advocacy, Art & Design, Community Development, Education, Food and Farm
Local Bronx high school kids investigated supermarket access and food security in their neighborhoods with CUP, the Center for Urban Pedagogy. Studio Mesh adapted artwork created by Hostos Community College (an extension of City University of New York) public high school students to create a book about the Bronx food systems: CUP: Funky Fresh.
West Virginia Humanities Council
Advocacy, Community Development, Education
The Humanities Council enables the stories, projects, and gatherings that remind us of the beauty of our Appalachian American past. Studio Mesh built a custom website, with resource platforms, event listing, and third party integrations, to share the stories, programs, and events of the Humanities Council with the engaged public. wvhumanities.org
United Nations University
Advocacy, Architecture, Education, Health
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health is starting human health-centered conversations. Studio Mesh designed the marketing materials for their Global Health and Wellbeing In the Changing Urban Environment events in Xiamen, China.
American Foundation for the Blind
Advocacy, Health
American Foundation for the Blind works with people with vision loss to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives. Studio Mesh worked with AFB to design and illustrate for the Helen Keller Achievement Awards event identity, invitations, donation packet, and catalog. All pieces were gold print embossed for an extra tactile sensibility.
Robin McClintock
Art & Design
Robin McClintock paints her way through textures, terrains, letterforms, and memories. We made her portfolio website simple and structured to contain the organic work within. robinmcclintock.com
Providence CityArts
Art & Design, Community Development, Economic Development, Education
Providence CityArts is a community-based arts center celebrating the arts as a means to youth empowerment.
Love Letter to the West Side
Art & Design, Community Development
Studio Mesh installed a love letter on the side of our studio building during the week of Charleston’s annual art festival, FestivALL. We collaborated with writer Stephanie Busby to tell all the people and small businesses in our neighborhood what we love so much about them; the greatest things about being a part of a community.
Mariem Shoes
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship
Mariem hand-makes footwear in her Brooklyn-based studio, using traditional Italian processes with a modern look and feel. Studio Mesh developed this e-commerce website for Mariem.
Kayi & Wilkes Immigration Attorneys
Advocacy, Law, Social Justice
Kayi and Wilkes Immigration Attorneys are working to secure safety, family, and futures for asylum seekers in Washington, D.C. Studio Mesh designed this start-up firm’s brand, business cards and website to put their first professional foot forward to their client base. kayiandwilkes.com
WV International Film Festival
Art & Design
WV International Film Festival has been encouraging, supporting, and promoting the film arts since 1985. Studio Mesh designed custom typography and a custom website to host the latest and greatest classic and modern films on their rosters.
Center for Hearing and Communication: New York
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health
The New York Center for Hearing and Communication is transforming accessibility for the hearing impaired. Studio Mesh designed and developed a new website to communicate the organization’s variety of services, programs, and facilities available to people across New York. chchearing.com
Two Moon Shortbreads
Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers, Social Entrepreneurship
Two Moon Shortbreads are lovingly hand-made in Brooklyn, New York and sold fresh throughout the city! Studio Mesh designed their logo, menus, and packaging to have the light, hand-crafted touch of a writer. The colors of their branding are inspired by the different lavender, thyme, and other herbal ingredients in their shortbreads.
Smooth Ambler Distillery
Entrepreneurship, Food and Farm, Small Batch Makers
Smooth Ambler are small-batch spirits distilled in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Studio Mesh worked with Smooth Ambler to redesign their website, build a Store Locator online tool, and run a social campaign. The social campaign targeted six major cities they wanted to grow their market share in, reaching 320K people. After the web launch, the website saw a dramatic increase in user engagement, with page views up 65%. The Store Locator became the highest trafficked page on the website (other than the homepage) leading to sales for Smooth Ambler.
West Virginia Head Start
Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health, Social Justice
Headstart believes every child deserves a healthy life, access to care, and a strong education. Studio Mesh worked with Headstart to develop a digital brand and web platform packed with impact stories and resources for families considering the extra help they need.
Friends of the Cheat
Advocacy, Environmental Justice, Health, Sciences, Social Justice
Friends of the Cheat, a river conservation organization for the Cheat River, needed to update their aesthetic and redesign their online information architecture. We celebrated their collection of artist photography of the river from over the years to feature on their website and their e-newsletter, paired with graphics inspired by their staff’s field notebooks.
Capitol Business Interiors
Architecture, Art & Design
The purest form — a cube — a project perimeter. Capitol Business Interiors dissects space by considering our relationships with the objects around us and looking at everything from multiple perspectives. Studio Mesh designed a flexible, shifting logo to represent the heart of CBI’s design methodology. Alongside the logo and brand identity, we designed and developed a website and various promotional materials. cbiwv.com
Public Art GuideBook: Arts Council of Kanawha Valley
Art & Design, Community Development, Economic Development
Studio Mesh designed and art directed the 80 page Public Art: Charleston guidebook, given out free during the annual city arts festival. Studio Mesh also design the communication campaign for the Arts Council of Kanawha Valley to expand perceptions on what art really can mean to different people. The campaign included a pop-up gallery, an online poster generator, and a print series using crowd-sourced definitions of art and portraits of locals. The campaign exhibited at the AIGA Pittsburgh Context Exhibition.
Ogonek Custom Hardwoods
Art & Design, Entrepreneurship, Small Batch Makers
Ogonek is a third generation family business building A-frame houses in the woods of Ohio. Ogonek wanted a flexible mark that could work to represent both the timber side of their company as well as the building side. They asked for a seal reminiscent of their strong family history in the Boy Scouts. The final marks were inspired by Boy Scout badges, simple enough to brand into wood, and drawn based on the pine trees in their local forest and their favorite mallet.
TechConnect connects new, innovative industries to the West Virginia economy. Studio Mesh designed the brand and website based around ideas of interconnectivity. techconnectwv.org
West Side Main Street
Community Development, Economic Development
West Side Main Street asked us to reinvent their brand to reflect the vibrant livelihood of their community. Studio Mesh worked with the local community to illustrate the neighborhood. We created a brand and website that pays homage to the rich history of the place but still feels current, to reflect the diversity of the neighborhood and appeal to all ages.
Sustainability Institute
Advocacy, Education, Environmental Justice
Sustainability Institute at BridgeValley works to connect our notion of sustainability with living more simply, introducing sustainability in the heart of Coal Country. Studio Mesh designed the brand, print booklets, website, and online resource library.
