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Jun

Design Pick of the Week: Mission Impawsible Dog Training

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: design pick of the week, dog training, Mission Impawsible

This playful logo for Mission Impawsible Dog Training in Brentwood is super-cute – and very effective at inviting me, as the consumer, to want to take my own dog through the Mission Impawsible training program. First, the color scheme. Yellow and red are primary colors, clean and crisp. Red has many connotations, and in this case, it makes me think …

Jun

Design Pick of the Week: Surf Seafood Restaurant

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: chef, Michael Buckley, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Surf Seafood Restaurant

No doubt what sort of fare is served up at Surf, whose fun logo caught my eye online recently. In fact, chef/owner Michael Buckley’s establishment has won Best Seafood Restaurant in the state by New Hampshire Magazine numerous times. A basic design color wise – blue for water and black, with the tan background – the logo for Surf is …

May

Design Pick of the Week: The Cottages of Wolfeboro

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: design pick of the week, The Cottages of Wolfeboro

Logo design is all about telling a story. And while driving through Wolfeboro the other day, I came across a “story” I want to write myself into! Simple and elegant, the logo for The Cottages of Wolfeboro immediately drew me in. The graphic designer cleverly embedded the emblem (the tree) inside a green bounded box. Yet the box does not …

Mar

Design Pick of the Week: Thirsty Moose Taphouse

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: design pick of the week, logo, logo design, Thirsty Moose Taphouse

No mistaking what services are offered at the establishment whose logo is my fourth Design Pick of the Week! Even if you can’t make out the logo’s text on your smartphone screen, the beer pint you see here can’t represent anything other than a good ol’ boys brewpub. Throw in the antlers, and you know for sure that the Thirsty Moose Taphouse …

Mar

Design Pick of the Week: The White Apron

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: chef, design, Jay Curcio, logo, logo design, The White Apron

“Really elegant and mouth-watering” was what one team member said when viewing the home page for this week’s Design Pick. “Yum!” were the words of another. The logo for Dover-based catering company The White Apron is set against a full-screen close-up photo of asparagus on the website – as effective a design treatment as crisp white linen napkins against a …

Mar

Design Pick of the Week: Windblown Cross Country Skiing and Snowshoeing

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: Al Jenks, cross country skiing, design, design pick of the week, logo, logo design, Monadnock, skiing, snowshoeing, Windblown Cross Country Skiing

For my third Design Pick of the Week, I’ve selected the logo for Windblown Cross Country Skiing and Snowshoeing in New Ipswich. Owner Al Jenks purchased the land in 1963 for $15,000 borrowed from his grandfather. He was just 16 at the time, and pursuing his dream would have to wait for college and time in the Army Corps of …

Mar

Design Pick of the Week: LaBelle Winery

By: Heather Clifford Category: Design Tags: Amy LaBelle, Cesar Arboleda, design, design pick of the week, LaBelle Winery, logo design, New Hampshire, wine, winemaker, winemaking

I started the Design Pick of the Week last Monday – and everyone on the Infusion Studio team has been having a great time sending suggestions my way. Some are website banners, some are corporate logos, some are store signs seen while out running errands. But they all have one thing in common: They are all New Hampshire businesses. And …