Tag Archives: design

11 Mar

Catching Eyes and Turning Heads: 5 Tips to Create an Effective Informational Display

By Amy Clay March 2025 When you spend as much time planning and executing public meetings and open houses as the Rasor team does, you start to think in terms of how best to impart a lot of information to a diverse audience in a short time. While informational boards are often the tool of […]

29 Jul

No Fail Tips for Presenting Ad Concepts

By Libby Esterle, Senior Account Executive As a marketing and communications professional, most of my time is spent on work that ranges from drafting copy to proofing and editing team member’s work (always important to have a second set of eyes on things) and developing strategic marketing plans. And while I love working with words, […]

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14 Jun

Your Data Needs a Facelift, and Design Can Help

I’ve never been a numbers person. I know folks who are, and I respect and admire them. I groan at the thought of dealing with taxes (I know I’m not alone here) and I still have nightmares about being in high school math class. Luckily, Rasor is the perfect mixture of right-brained and left-brained gurus, […]

31 May

Map Design Tips to Clearly Communicate Your Improvement Project

A well-designed project map is a beautiful thing – it can help explain a project and reinforce your brand. When you’re using maps to help communicate your project to the public, you want to make sure they’re uncluttered, clearly branded and clearly labeled. Below are a few examples of maps the Rasor Public Involvement Team […]

17 Aug

Design Do’s and Don’ts

By Abby Brown, Creative Associate As the Creative Associate at Rasor, I handle all things design-related. I work with some wonderful and creative marketers who all place value on design, as do many other professionals in the marketing world. Marketing and design are intertwined, whether you want to admit it or not. Need some convincing? […]

15 Oct

The Complications of Simple Design

By Abby Brown, Creative Associate  Unless you’ve been seriously avoiding computer usage lately, you’ve most likely noticed there’s something different about one of our favorite search engines. Google recently revealed its new logo, the biggest change to the brand since 1999. The wordmark now features a bold sans serif typeface (to spruce up your designer […]