What's new?
Denver Energy
November 11, 2011
See Saw just finished a web project for the Denver Energy Challenge—a city sponsored effort to connect the community to energy outreach, education, and assistance programs available in the City and County of Denver, in order to encourage and recognize energy saving actions.
We worked closely with The Geek Gene, a local Drupal development company, to help create this site. This is our first forray into Drupal, a robust but easy to use content management system. A huge shout out to Arthur at The Geek Gene for all of the guidance. You can take a look at the site at the Denver Energy Challenge website.
Greener Hosting.
July 12, 2011
Web servers and data centers use a lot of energy. Servers are becoming more efficient of course, but still, on average, a server can have the same impact on the climate as a 15mpg truck...not good. Around 3-4 percent of electricity consumption goes to data centers. In line with our focus on sustainability in design, See Saw has switched to a green hosting company that uses it's local energy credits to buy wind energy. The company we use currently boasts an impact equivalent to:
• Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
• Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or
• Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
• Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year
First Steps.
June 10, 2011
See Saw clients JHL Constructors recruited a great group of companies and people to help put together a new park for Warren Village, a program dedicated to helping low-income, single-parent families realize their full potential. From the Warren Village website:
"Warren Village helps motivated low-income, previously homeless single parent families move from public assistance to personal and economic self-sufficiency through subsidized housing, on-site nationally accredited child care, intensive case management, education guidance and career development. In a word, it’s all about potential. Realizing it, promoting it, achieving it."
See Saw did a small part by helping them put together a sign for First Step Park. Thanks to JHL for taking on this project and all of the people who donated their time, materials and expertise.
See Saw...in Green Spaces.
May 4, 2011
In keeping with a desire to have as little environmental impact as possible, See Saw is now using Green Spaces in the RiNo/Ballpark district of Denver as an office space. If you're not familiar with Green Spaces, it's a shared office space that caters to social entrepreneurs. It's housed in a large, mostly unfinished warehouse and will soon be 100% solar powered. It's truly unique and the people I've met so far have been great. As always, call and we'll set up some time so you can stop by! Here's a link to the Green Spaces website.
Totally Board.
March 7, 2011
I've recently landed on the board of directors of the Mile High Business Alliance (MHBA) here in Denver, and had a first big meeting this past Friday and Saturday. If you aren't familiar with the MHBA, they are an organization of passionate people working together to develop a strong and sustainable local economy with programs like Colorado Local First, Local Flavor Guides and Colorado Business Week. In addition, they offer assistance to local small business owners on matters ranging from financing and taxes to marketing and promotion and have recently worked with Representative Su Ryden on introducing House Bill 1142 to require the State to consider local economic impact when considering competing bids.
They're doing a lot, with a little, and I'm excited to help them any way I can. Visit MHBA on the web and become a member, or visit Colorado Local First on Facebook.
~ Jeff
Office Party!
February 21, 2011
See Saw Creative and the rest of the Creative Farm had an open house on Friday and it turned out to be an all out party! Lot's of people, lots of food and drinks and live music. Thanks to everyone who came, I'll upload some videos and we hope to do it again soon.
Cheers!
New Office Space
October 15, 2010
Ok, See Saw has a new office in the Creative Farm building on 29th and Xavier in the West Highland/Sloan's Lake area of Denver. Different location, same great design. Make a note of it and stop by sometime.—2900 W. 29th Avenue, Denver 80211. We'd love to see you!
September Already!
September 2, 2010
What a crazy year this has been! A lot of great projects and new clients. Pinche Tacos rolled out with amazing success. There has been a lot of buzz about the design See Saw did for the trailer wraps and the overall identity which was a great collaborative effort with the owner, Kevin Morrison.
Five Star Glass has had tremendous success with their new website design, completed in July, including a lot of inquiries through the contact form. The ability to track traffic with the new analytics has been a great help in allowing them to identify traffic and set goals—from Five Star Glass, "This website is not only a great marketing tool, but it also represents the identity of Five Star Glass." That's all we can ask for!
Alot more work on the horizon, and we will try to keep you updated.
Search Engine Ready!
April 20, 2010
I have been working recently on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for the See Saw web site. Up to this point it has largely been an excercise in making it easier to find my site by making it better organized and actually USING the words that I want people to find me with ON MY SITE. It sounds like a no brainer, but it took me a while to figure this out. Also critical to this endeavor was finding ways for external sites to link back to me using relevant keywords. I'll let you know how this pans out as far as business development is concerned.
Colorado First
February 5, 2010
See Saw Creative has joined the Mile High Business Alliance and Colorado First! In times like these it's even more important to be a loyal local consumer and business. Whether it's buying local produce, buying that bike from a local shop or supporting a local service company, there's just not much of a downside to it. The modest price difference, if there is any, is more than made up for in the boost in the local economy, which in turns boosts everyone's pocket book. Not to mention the tremendous ecological benefits from buying locally—less energy used, healthier products, and less pollution just to name a few.
So the next time you need something (say, a brochure, web site or a logo), look no further than your local neighborhood supplier. You'll be happy you did, and so will your community.
Here's See Saw Creative on the Colorado First website. If you're a previous client and you've had a good experience, please rate us! If not, stop by anyway, it's a great site to browse around.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 4, 2010
Well, 2009 has come and gone. We're all very excited to see what the new year hold in store. We will continue to spread the gospel of good design and hope to expand our already fantastic client roster and offer existing clients even better service. To that end we will be offering occasional promotions to entice people to poke around and have some fun on our site while earning a chance at great prizes and the odd discount or two. The "What's New" section of our site will soon be a thing of the past, so sign up for our newsletter HERE to keep updated!
Newsletter anyone?
December 10, 2009
The year is coming to an end and we're thinking of ways to stay in touch. There's something about giving people opinions and insights, that they neither asked for nor want, that really brings the holiday season home. So what better way to ring in the new year than a new NEWSLETTER. It will be fun, insightful and packed with quality information and entertainment. We promise...or we won't do it. Please sign up here.
Success...whew!
November 17, 2009
Food, drink and friends...what more could you ask for? The Fall open studios were well attended despite mother nature's snowy interference. People from all over town crowded the hallways and studios taking in the art and atmosphere. New friends were made, old friends maintained and, hopefully, some people left with a new understanding of what graphic design is...and can be! Stay tuned for the next event, or sign up for my newsletter here.
Open Studios.
October 27, 2009
Arts on 7th, that's where See Saw Creative is, will have an open studio on Saturday, November 14th, 2009. Snacks and drinks, art and entertainment—how can you go wrong? Join us from 5-9 pm, See Saw is on the second floor.
New See Saw website.
September 21, 2009
New digs...and a new website!?!? Yes it's true, See Saw Creative has been busy. So it's out with the old, and in with the new. Look through the site and let us know what you think.
New digs!
July 1, 2009
See Saw Creative has moved to a new office. We are now located at 220 East 7th Avenue Suite #11, Denver, Colorado 80203. That's in the 7th Ave Arts building at 7th and Grant near downtown, Benny's restaurant (yum!), Mizuna (double yum!) and a whole host of other cool things. Give us a call and hopefully you can stop by for a beer or a Diet Coke—720.371.6741.