News & Interesting bits.
June 2011 We launched a wonderful new website for Freedom's Wings International as part of our Giving Back program. Please check out the vibrant new online enviroment we created Pro Bono for this worthy organization.
May 2011 Wetherbee Creative & Web LLC launches a highly interactive website for Upper Valley Lakes Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, which highlights their incredible work for the communities they serve, the site features an interactive project search feature that allows the commission to highlight the vast array projects and programs that they do. UVLSRPC now.
May 2011 Wetherbee Creative & Web LLC launches a new website for Lakewood Products Inc out of Minnesota. Maufacturers of high quality products for critical medical applications. Visit Lakewood Products now.
May 2011 Wendy Wetherbee is selected as a judge in the 17th Annual Communicator Awards and the 2011 Creativity Media Awards.
April 2011 Wetherbee Creative & Web LLC is engaged with NH Fish & Game to create an integrated marketing campaign to highlight a wonderful set of outdoor spaces that string together to create the Merrimack River Wildlife & Heritage Trail. More info come.
April 2011 Wendy Wetherbee is selected as a judge for the 2011 Internet Advertising Competition - Amazing entries in this competition.
November 2010 Wetherbee Creative & Web LLC launches a new website for Hutzler Manufacturing - this Connecticut based company has been manufacturing utensils and household goods for decades and their colorful line of melamine is legendary. This catalog website is going to be used as a sales tool for their Reps in the field, a reference for retailers who want to carry their products and a friendly inviting website for consumers to explore more about all of the incredible products they make. Click here to visit Hutzler Manufacturing now.
September 2010 We are honored by the American Graphic Design Awards 4 times for our print and web work. We couldnt be happier and more flattered. Check out our awards list over there to the right to see the winning work. >>
August 2010 Brand New look and feel for Errol-Motel.com is launched. We refreshed the website to match their glorious new motel rennovation, and new customer focus. In addition we installed and customized a content management system at the same time, should they want to take over the site updates themselves, they now have the tools to do it. See the new site here.
August 2010 Discovery process has begun with a fabulous New Hampshire NonProfit on a website redesign with custom web-based applications to help them manage and highlight their great work. This one is a complex project -we are attacking it with a mulitphase approach, and are looking at a late 2010 / early 2011 launch.
July 2010 We embark on a great redesign project for Hutzler Manufaturing. A complete soup to nuts redesign which will include a comprehensive online product catalog that will be used by consumers and by the Hutzler team as a sales tool. This is a biggie, and we will need some time to discover, design, build and polish, but we are exacited and can't wait to share the results with you. More to Come soon! Looking to lauch in October 2010.
July 2010 Creation of a new identity and professional stationary for New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions. For the first time in their 40 year history, this non-profit has business cards and matching stationary to better enable them to converse with their funders, board, and members of the public. Working with a sketch provided by an NHACC board member proved to be a challenge but worth it as the little owl really is a charmer. Like many non-profits we needed to create a solution that could be reproduced with a budget minded approach and the sustainable goals of NHACC warranted seeking out FSC certified paper stock and other green options. See the Results.
July 2010 Wetherbee Creative & Web launches a spiffy new website for 809 Design Online. This new website is powered by a content management system allowing the client to update the content areas of the site and refresh the site with new photos at their leisure. The site brings current, professional look to their online space and highlights their fabulous work in retail and collegiate interior and enviromental spaces. Visit the site at 809DesignOnline.com
June 2010 Wetherbee Creative & Web launched a custom web based workshop registration application for New Hampshire Project Learning Tree. Now workshop attendees can register online and pay for their workshop tuition via paypal. Web based registration makes things easier for the workshop attendees and for NH Project Learning Tree Administration. Contact management, and record keeping is now much more streamlined and efficient, as the registrant data is now collected into a database and downloadable into the clients contact management system.nhplt.org.
May 2010 Wetherbee Creative & Web awarded an Honorable Mention Award in the Creativity International Awards - Media 40 Competition for The More Than Words Website. We are honored to be recognized again by the judges. Please visit the website at mtwyouth.org.
April 2010 Wendy Wetherbee Accepted as a member of the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The IAVA is an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. IAVISARTS.org
March 2010 Launched a website redesign for New Hampshire Artist and Naturalist, Rosemary Conroy. Her website, studiobuteo.com needed to showcase her artwork at its center, and give her collectors and fans an intuitive way to browse her art, which is organized into categories. In order to handle and display the work to suit her needs, we built a custom gallery application that allows her to easily keep her galleries updated. Please visit the new site. And read what she has to say about working with us.
Flash Work Showcased on Sears.com We are proud to showoff our Flash work for Timberland PRO Line. Our banner is runinng on Sears.com Visit the site.
February 2010 Launched a site redesign / revamp and a custom inventory system with e-commerce tie-in for Sutton Strings in Sutton NH. The client wanted to do as much as possible to elevate his site to compete with some of the larger online music retailers, but his budget made us explore some unique options. We decided to preserve some of his original design but enhance it greatly on all levels. Our solution delivered what he needed in a flexible format to allow his site to grow with him in the future. Visit the site.
January 2010 GDUSA's American Package Design Awards have honored us with an American Package Design Award for our work on Dreamchild's 4th CD package. The design for the 8 panel digipak is a direct reflection of the bands music and subject matter. Their audience and critics have raved about the package since its release in 2009.
November 2009 For the second year in a row, Dixon Hughes PLLC has chosen Wetherbee Creative & Web LLC to design their corporate Holiday Card. The successful change to a more creative approach in 2008, let us to take one step further this year, and really illustrate their "Positively Unique" message - pulling from the humor and sense of the unexpected found in their firm's branding. Click here to check it out!
October 2009 We have won a Silver Davey Award for our work on the Dixon Hughes Career Brochure! Thank you Davey Judges for honoring us once again!
October 2009 The 39th Annual Creativity Awards has honored us with an Honorable Mention Award for the redesign of the MacDowell Colony Website!
October 2009 We launch a great new Website Redesign for New Hampshire Project Learning Tree! Client is thrilled with the results, a fresh freindly design powered by a content management system to give them control over their site updates. See for yourself!
August 2009 Now complete! The Dixon Hughes Recruiting Brand has been totally refreshed and we designed the key pieces of the campaign. Both the website and its coordinating 12 page 8.5 x 11 brochure, play off of the firm branding but give the recruiting materials a fresh and youthful twist. With a bright color palette, humor and fresh imagery the pieces work together to welcome young interns into their extensive mentoring program. The client is thrilled and we are especially happy with the results.
July 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web launches a new release of the online application for The MacDowell Colony. Visual artists who apply to become residents at the Colony can now complete their entire application online including the uploading of their work samples. This version of the application also included a stringent editing go through by MacDowell's editor, to finesse and voice the instructions and prompts throughout the application flow.
July 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web designs a half page ad for Freedom's Wings to run in Soaring Magazine - the ad targeted to donors is an appeal for funding sources and to generally increase awareness. The ad was provided pro bono as part of our "Giving Back" program. Click here to view the ad that will run in the August Edition of Soaring.
June 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web kicks off a website redesign for New Hampshire Project Learning Tree.
June 2009 We dive back into the website redesign project for More Than Words of Waltham, MA. At the clients request the project had been on hold since 2008 - we are thrilled to get the ball rolling again.
June 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web launches the newly redesigned website for The Errol Motel in picturesque Errol NH. The new site uses a nostalgic feel to highlight the motels rich history in the North country, and the friendly, warm atmosphere.
May 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web is honored twice in the Eighth Annual Horizon Interactive Awards. We were given a Bronze Award for our own Site - creativeandweb.com, and for UcrossFoundation.org
April 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web accepts a new Project into our "Giving Back" program. New Hampshire Public Radio, enlists us to help them create a look and feel for a new feature site about today's economy and how it effects New Hampshire residents. Working It Out launches in June of 2009. Click here to visit the site.
April 2009 Wetherbee Creative & Web launches brand new site for The MacDowell Colony - in Peterborough NH. After years of maintaining their existing website we engaged in a 9 month project to rebuild the site from architecture to look and feel. The Client is thrilled with the results. See for yourself by clicking here!
April 2009 - Graphic-Design.com features Wendy Wetherbee in their "Designing Women" column. Click here to read the article. ( Apologies ahead of time for the uncharacteristically smiley photo! )
March 2009 - Wetherbee Creative & Web delivers a set of 3 display graphics for window shade type trade show banners to new client EnviroSense. This three banner set is transportable and flexible, and allows the client to use the whole set or only one - depending on the configuration of each trade show booth. Russ at EnviroSense says: "They look great!".
January 2009 - Wetherbee Creative & Web accepts a new Pro Bono "Giving Back" assignment - to update, maintain and ultimately improve the website for Freedom's Wings [Coopersburg, PA]- a volunteer group of pilots and others who provide soaring lessons and flights to the disabled. Visit the site often to see the changes!
November 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches a beautiful new website for The Ucross Foundation, a spectacular artist's retreat in the High Plains of Wyoming. The site uses large photographic images in a panorama-like format to communicate the grand space of land and sky to be found on their 20,000 acre cattle ranch setting. Also used throughout the site are small flash movies to show a variety of wildlife, alumni, and historical changes that the ranch has gone through. UcrossFoundation.org.
October 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is awarded a Gold Davey for its pro-bono project - derrymuseum.org.
October 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches a new website!!! Much awaited new site features samples of work in marketing, branding, web design and development.
September 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches a site redesign for Humane Farm Animal Care - Certified Humane Raised & Handled Program. The project creates a new look and feel, reorganizes the information to make it clearer and more intuitive for the audience. Some aspects of the old site were kept as is to adhere to the Non-profits budget restrictions and will be phased in over time throughout the next year.
August 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches new brand for start-up Alpaca's Finest. Cohesive brand strategy was established to give an elegant feel to the new line of products. In addition to consulting, logo creation, packaging, and trade show graphics were created.
August 2008 - More Than Words New Brand begins its roll out. New Logo is approved and Stationary System has been delivered. Signage is in the works that will change their brick and mortar store in Waltham MA, from outdated to hip and happening!
July 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches LenderSentinel.com along with integrated software and secure interface for the Lender Sentinel product.
July 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web launches website for the Derry History Museum This website is an online tool to entice the residents of Derry NH and surrounding communities to visit the History Museum and learn about the town. Photography of exhibits and objects combine with brief text and basic contact information.
June 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web hired to create online and offline branding package for Lender Sentinel - a new to the market software analysis product for the banking and financial industry.
March 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is engaged to refresh the recruiting efforts of Insight Technology, [Londonderry NH] create buzz about their ongoing growth and the consequential continuing need for great new employees. New brochures, Trade Show graphics, Ad Campaigns and other materials will be designed and delivered throughout the year.
January 2008 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is contracted to promote and market the Dixon Hughes PLLC [North and South Carolina] 2008 Annual Physicians Conference. Utilizing a direct mail campaign, client gifts, and signage this conference is geared to double the attendance of the previous year.
December 2007 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is asked to design The Winter '07 Newsletter for The MacDowell Colony , Peterborough NH. This tabloid size newsletter is mailed to a veritable who's who of artists, MacDowell Fellows, and others in the Art community world-wide.
Awards and Peer Recognition
| 2011 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is awarded a Gold Horizon Interactive Award for our work on the Hutzler Manufacturing Website |
| 2010 - Wetherbee Creative & Web is awarded a Silver Davey for our work on the NHACC Forum Mailer! |
| 2010 - 4 AGDA's (American Graphic Design Awards) for our work in Print and Web for: Dixon Hughes Career Brochure, Phare View Concepts Logo, More Than Words Website, NH Project Learning Tree Website. |
| 2010 - 5 Awards in including Best in Show SC PRSA's Mercury Awards Dixon Hughes Careers Marketing Campain |
| 2010 - Honorable Mention Creativity Awards MTWYouth.org - Website for More Than Words |
| 2010 - Package Design Excellence American Package Design Award Dreamchild - CD Packaging |
| 2009 - Silver Davey Award Dixon Hughes Career Brochure |
| 2009 - Honorable Mention 30th Annual Creativity Award MacDowellColony.org |
| 2009 - Bronze Horizon Interactive Award creativeandweb.com |
| 2009 - Bronze Horizon Interactive Award UcrossFoundation.org |
| 2008 - Gold Davey Award derrymuseum.org |
| 2007 - Platinum / Best in Category Creativity Awards daydreamtoy.com |
| 2007 - Silver Davey Award daydreamtoy.com |
| 2007 - Bronze Horizon Interactive Award gsloud-architect.com |
| 2007 - 1st Place New Hampshire Internet Awards paradisepointcottages.com |
| 2006 - 1st Place New Hampshire Internet Awards af-studios.com |
