Dave Newman Advertising Poised for Growth

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in DNA news | 5 Comments

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(Burbank, CA)  Dave Newman Advertising, a full-service marketing, advertising, design, and online communications company located in Burbank California, finds itself on an upward business cycle as the first half of 2009 is reached.  In spite of the recession, DNA’s largest clients see the wisdom of communicating aggressively while others are pulling back.

Because of their success, the Business Journal selected Dave Newman Advertising as one of their Top 20 Agencies.  Additionally, Dave Newman recently received the prestigious Chairman’s Award from the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce given to that year’s outstanding business person.

One of DNA’s long time clients, Fulham, a worldwide leader in energy efficient lighting solutions, recently made two important strategic moves.  Braemar, a leading investing company which partners with companies developing emerging energy technologies such as solar and wind power, saw the merit in investing in Fulham due to Fulham’s dedication to developing “green” energy and lighting solutions.  The second move was to partner with Samsung LED to provide state-of-the art LED lighting applications.

Dave Newman Advertising also performs a number of marketing/communication tasks for a growing list of clients.  In addition to traditional advertising, DNA provides new media expertise, online marketing, e-mail marketing, trade show booths, brochure and catalog creation, experiential and engagement marketing, public relations, strategic branding, and packaging.

Additionally, Dave Newman Advertising works with clients to grow their businesses by assisting them in the development of strategic initiatives to help with brand building.  “We want to provide the client with 360 degrees of communications,” says Dave Newman.  “With the move from offline to online advertising, and the explosion of Internet marketing, we need to be flexible and provide the client with what is best for them, not just something that we happen to do.”

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World Fair comes to Light Fair

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Portfolio, Trade Show Booths | 2 Comments

We captured some photos from last years LightFair booth design that we created — and thought we would share the renderings we produced and the finished booth.

The most talked about booth we have ever created. Giant vibrant images of world icons and tall sculptures give the global presence the client was trying to promote.

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Los Angeles Cultural Affairs BookFair Booth Design

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Portfolio, Trade Show Booths | No Comments

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How do you showcase an entire city at a book fair? DNA recently undertook the challenge of designing a complete 12,000 square foot booth for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs display for the Guadalajara BookFair 2009.

Encompasing 2 areas and built for over 100,000 people attending, DNA’s submission encompasses “pop-up” book giant sculptures to relay the vibrant cultural and city icons for Los Angeles.

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DNA named one of top Ad Agencies in valley

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Accolades, Blog, DNA news | 3 Comments

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The Business Journal named Dave Newman Advertising one of the top 20 advertising agencies in their Los Angeles market.

This is the 4th year in a row for DNA being listed on the Journal’s Top Agencies list.

We’re glad to see some growth for our company in advertising and marketing — and the recognition from the Business Journal is icing on the cake.

For more information about the Business Journal, check it out online at: http://www.sfvbj.com/

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Making Brands that Make It

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Portfolio, White Papers on Marketing and Design | No Comments

What makes a brand last? Which elements make a brand work in the first place?

Start with a good product or service. It doesn’t have to be the greatest. Few people need “great.” Few are willing to pay for it, even if they recognize it. The product just can’t be really bad. No amount of clever ads and media bucks can turn a stinkpot into ambrosia. Indeed, the worst thing a new brand can do is to raise expectations with great ads that hype them to the skies. The crash to earth – driven by merciless word-of-mouth – will be ruinous. Everyone knows crap. But since most people can’t tell “pretty good” from “really good” or “great,” a mediocre product can build a solid brand franchise. Corona and Budweiser, Ford, American Airlines (almost all airlines are mediocre except for Southwest, Singapore, SAS and once upon a time, Alaska).

Find or create some point of differentiation or uniqueness. An ESP (emotional selling proposition) is better than a USP – it’s hard to be unique in this age of growing commoditization. Whatever the differentiation is, the brand must remain consistent and clear about it, and stick to its core values.

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Brands and Branding – An Overview

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Portfolio, White Papers on Marketing and Design | 3 Comments
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A brand is more than a symbol cruelly burned into a doggie’s smoking hide.

Like other transcendent ideas, a brand has many definitions; it’s many things. Like fine art, branding is not easy to define, but you know it when you see it.

Brand is more than product or service, more than trademarks and logos or a slogan or a corporation. Almost any human activity designed to interrelate with the public can be branded. Political candidates, sports teams, entertainers are all brands. (Celebrities regularly associate with branded products or services.) By extension, religions, social systems and self-help movements are brands. The Mormons, Islam, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Alcoholic Anonymous are all brands with strong central brand propositions, slogans, logos and vested equities.

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The Importance of Good Design

July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Portfolio, White Papers on Marketing and Design | No Comments
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What is design, anyway?

How do we define the difference between design and plain old drawing? Or design and random lines and colors?

We all know it when we see it, just as we know the difference between writing and typing. Between intelligent speech and mindless babbling.

But there’s even more to design than bringing order out of chaos. There are many apparently orderly things – even orderly graphics – that are not necessarily design, let alone good design.

And music is more than an orderly sequence of scales and notes.

Just because graphic elements are neatly lined up, or symmetrically balanced, or brightly colored, does not make them well designed. Because design is NOT just a pretty picture; logo; geometrical pattern; color combination; shape or packaging concept, although any or all of those elements do contribute to good design.

Design is the entire visual environment in which a brand lives and competes.

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New Packaging Goes from Night to Day

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Packaging, Portfolio | 1 Comment

DNA recently created packaging for a line of industrial, architecture lighting products.

DNA created a box to hold each of the delicate and heavy products. The target marketing was in-channel distribution customers, end-user building contractors, architecture agencies, building retro fitting companies.

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DNA Creates BIG at SEMA Convention

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Marketing, Packaging, Portfolio, Trade Show Booths | 2 Comments

DNA created quite a big splash at the SEMA show in Las Vegas for client Professional Products.

SEMA is the largest tradeshow for automotive aftermarket manufacturers in the nation.

DNA created the design, layout, and engineering for the Professional Products booth. We are becoming a “One Stop Shop” for manufacturers and tradeshows.

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First Class Product Packaging

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs, Identity, Packaging, Portfolio | No Comments

Contrails and cocktails anyone?

Kontainit recently had DNA create identity, marketing materials and in-channel promotions, and product packaging for their latest product.

Tough TSA-compliant container for wine and valuable bottles, the product is geared towards travelers.

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In-Tunnel Advertising Company Identity Examples

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Identity, Portfolio | No Comments

How do you define your start-up company when there is no competition?

DNA was tasked with creating a strong iconic image for an upstart tunnel advertising company.

Above is a series of comprehensive logos and identity created.

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Rebranding of Lighting Company

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Identity, Packaging, Portfolio | No Comments

We were approached by Elite Lighting USA for a complete rebrand of the identity and packaging recently.

By adding some strong punchy graphics, and iconic imagery, DNA refocused the manufacturer’s product to be inline with their customers and in-store displays.

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Go Cougars!

July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Advertising, Identity, Marketing, Portfolio | No Comments

We don’t know how many Troy or Gabriella’s go to The Valley Schools in Van Nuys, but we do know that it is a fantastic private school in the Valley — actually one of the oldest.

We’ve put together marketing and branding campaigns in the past for Valley Schools, here is just a sample of their recent projects.

In the past years, we have worked on for the Valley Schools:

  • TV Ads: Creative, spot media buying
  • Radio Ads: Creative, spot media buying
  • Marketing Plans and Budgets
  • Online SEO and advertising

We enjoy working on some great small stories in the Valley and the school is a shining example.

(Advertisement for a local newspaper insertion and promo campaign above).

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Ready Aim Fire — Net Gun Catalog Captures Audience

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs | No Comments

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Sure you have a product that fires a giant net out of a flashlight size gun — but what about letting your potential customers know about it? DNA arrived on the scene to produce a glossy 6 page catalog for Advance Weapons Technology, a government and law enforcement supplier.

All illustrations, logos, identities, branding and design were handled by top-notch designer Helm Sicat. Helm has been with DNA for over 4 years. Nice job, Helm.

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Professional Products 64 Page B2B Catalog

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs | No Comments

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Key in ignition, foot on pedal, crank on the design.

DNA recently completed for the 10th year in a row, Professional Products 2009 catalog.

64 pages of high performance products with 92 octane grade graphics, the Professional Products catalog was designed for B2B, channel distribution and retailers.

Full of charts, diagrams and illustrations, the 2009 catalog was premiered at the national SEMA convention in Las Vegas.

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Electronic Ballasts and Lamps

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs | No Comments

fulhamOEM and custom products for the lighting industry, this 56 page catalog was created by the in-house team of designers and photographers in 2009.

Recently translated into Mandarin, Spanish and German versions.

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4 Alarm Catalog for Building Products

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs | No Comments

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We are used to working on rush projects, but our latest catalog for building fixtures and lighting was an all-hands-on-deck affair.

Pulling all of the DNA resources together meant writing technical copy, photographing over 70 products, designing and laying out 48 pages — and with a looming trade show deadline to boot!

One fire extinguished, on to the next project for team DNA.

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Rich & Famous Automotive Tops

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs | No Comments

richWhen Rich & Famous Auto Tops, a global supplier of high-end automotive interiors and tops, contacted us about managing and creating their latest catalog — we had no idea that there were so many choices in custom accessories for cars.

The finished catalog: 196 pages of illustrations, product photos, color accurate samples of materials and a complete listing of the 2000 products.

DNA’s proprietary color accurate workflow ensured an accurate finished catalog — for their discriminating customers.

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WDI Catalog for Energy Efficient Products

July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Catalogs, Identity, Marketing, Portfolio, Print Work | No Comments

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DNA was tasked with creating the design look and layout, copy writing and research, illustrations and product photography.

This catalog was used in channel distribution, government distribution and for their in-field reps.

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Dave Newman Advertising Adds to Marketing Experience

July 9th, 2009 | Posted in DNA news | No Comments

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Dave Newman Advertising today announced that 38 year marketing veteran Tom Cavanagh would be joining the company as Director of Marketing.  In the announcement, Dave Newman said, “We are very glad Tom decided to join us as he brings with him a wealth of experience that crosses many marketing disciplines.”

In addition to managing many national brands while working for ad agencies, Cavanagh has also worked on the client side, developing new media, direct response, CRM, interactive, and public relation initiatives. Most recently, he worked in experiential and event marketing. Cavanagh added, “What attracted me to Dave Newman Advertising is their passionate attention to client service, their state-of-the-art computer graphics capabilities, and understanding of consumer motivators and engagement marketing.”

Newman noted, “Tom’s experience with new media will be extremely helpful as we develop online marketing opportunities for our clients.  We also plan on expanding the capabilities of our proprietary DNA Orange e-mail marketing service.  With clients now using blogs and social networking to market their products, it is important for us to keep abreast of evolving communication technologies.  Many of our clients have asked us to help them develop green technologies.  To do that, we must help them to manage change and advise them on emerging consumer demands and perceptions.”

Dave Newman Advertising is a marketing company offering communication and marketing solutions using both traditional and new media.  Their services include brand development, logo design, packaging, event marketing, strategic planning, tradeshow booth design, public relations,  brochures and collateral materials, and business communications.

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DNA: Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, RIP

July 8th, 2009 | Posted in Advertising, Identity, Marketing, Portfolio, Print Work | No Comments

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DNA had worked on the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles — but now, with the economic conditions, the museum has had to shut its doors.

DNA was tasked with creating advertising, identity creation, advertisements and marketing plans.

Perhaps the museum will come back in the near future. The kids are missing out on a great experience.

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Radio Buzz

July 8th, 2009 | Posted in Identity | No Comments

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It’s always tough to cut through the background noise — but with some minor tweaks, your signal can come through loud and clear.

We recently did some projects for Santa Barbara and Thousand Oaks radio stations KCLU and KRUZ for identity and promotional pieces — both great stations if you are ever in the area.

Illustration of a car window label and design for identity.

We have also created materials for Premiere Radio Networks — soon to come.

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