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Letterhead, envelope, business card front and back with tagline “Inspired to Help You Suceed”, 9 x 12 folder inside and front cover, and 4 x 5 notecard, front and back.

Carlisle and Gallagher Consulting Group* was a rapidly growing national financial consulting firm, in need of a
brand-revision and refinement. After a few years as a start-up, CG was ready for the next step in streamlining and strengthening their brand voice. Some of the branding projects incuded PowerPoint templates and presentations
used by hundreds of CG consultants, white papers, collateral, and website content.
As CG defined their missions,
goals, and personality, Dabcovich Design (DD) helped support those goals with a strong and consistent visual brand.

Logo

Branding, Logos

CG had already created a logo and used it for their first few years, so it had some traction. However they were running into issues when using it, especially on-line, and it didn't reflect their organization the way they wanted it to. Since they were in the service business, accessibility, friendliness, believeability and professionalism were all important factors.

OLD

The original CG logo was sometimes difficult to use online, with delicate type and a vertical orientation.

CG made a decision to only refer to themselves as "Carlisle and Gallagher Consulting Group" in entirety, or for short: "CG".

The new logo had to be more versatile, and evenly distibute the weight of the words. 

NEW

CG wanted to retain their logo-mark and colors that their audience was familiar with, but they wanted improved readability and flexibility

 

The final logo consisted of a horizontal layout,
and a heavier, rounder more evenly weighted font.

Collateral

Collateral

DD designed and produced several brochures and white papers for CG, from concept through delivery,
including vendor sourcing, estimating, managing, and quality control. Below are a few examples.

PowerPoint 

PowerPoint presentations

One major need for CG was a PowerPoint template to enable their five different offices, with hundreds of employees across the nation, to produce on-brand CG presentations. They used PowerPoint often, with many users showing various styles of clip art, often packing too much information on one slide, and using a plethora of fonts and font treatments. 

 

Dabcovich Design produced a custom PowerPoint template for CG with several master pages and an image library.
The new template provided a
new look and feel for CG, that was clean, clear, friendly, and knowledgeable. 

 

Although templates like this always get morphed along the way when hundreds are using them, a template gives a
solid foundation for a team to start with, and hopefully even within users’ variations, there is a common voice
threaded through. A
custom template can also help a corporation stand apart, and support their brand.
Ask about custom templates.

 

In addition to look and feel requirements, the new CG template needed to work well under three circumstances: 

  1. viewed on a computer screen

  2. projected for a large audience

  3. printed out on office printers, meaning the slides do not use up too much ink!

Font choices, and use of white space were influenced by these requirements.

 

Click through the slides below to see how the template was delivered.

DD designed custom slides for CG that required illustration or info graphics, such as the example below with corresponding printed white paper.

White Paper

Web Content

Web content

DD developed CG’s home page rotating billboard content.

Battlecards

Battlecards

DD created a series of “battlecards”, CG’s competitive marketing tools. These were highly dense one-sided
8.5 x 11 cards explaining the differences between CG’s services and the competition. They are
 color coded so they are easily distinguished from one another, while maintaining a standard template. Colors correspond with competitor brands, again as a method to easily identify the cards. Each card offers key competitor points, strengths and weaknesses, and a “capability map” highlighting areas of expertise. There is an overview and some quick facts, and finally a take away as to why CG is a
better fit.

Employee Recruitment, On-Boarding, Internal Branding

Recruitment, internal brand

An organization’s brand begins developing from within. If employees aren’t clear on the company's brand promise, position, voice, and attributes, then chances are the customers won’t be clear either. Dabcovich Design helped develop CG’s
“Brand House”, a tool to help guide employees. Dabcovich Design also helped CG design a

positioning platform for new hires, defining core values and describing work systems.

DD designed recruitment communication for CG. CG Supplied photos of their employees.

What Happened Next?

After over two years of designing materials for them remotely along with a handful of other creative marketing professionals,
CG was ready to take their defined and developed brand communications in-house in their North Carolina headquarters.
For several months they continued to grow, and eventually they sold to NTT Data Consulting.

Dabcovich Design was thrilled to be a part of the team that helped CG develop their brand and meet their goals.

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