Congratulations to everybody involved in the SAIC Boxed & Beautiful student recruitment package! We just won a GOLD MEDAL in the annual CASE Circle
of Excellence awards.

CASE Circle of Excellence Awards recognizes outstanding efforts in institutional advancement. This international awards program provides an opportunity to showcase innovative, exciting, and effective programs and projects.

We received a GOLD MEDAL in the Visual Design in Print category.

This is further recognition of the outstanding work that comes from our creative team in New Zealand.

We have won an EFFIE Award and CASE Award – for different pieces of work – in the space of a month.

GREAT WORK TEAM!

The Blogizadpha – Hamish

The excellent book Value Creation: The Power of Brand Equity by William Neal and Ron Strauss dives deep in to the importance of a brand and makes some very valuable points, especially in the current economic climate – with revenues under pressure a powerful brand offers you additional levels of protection. The book discusses how a brand is a defensible long-term asset a company owns. Competitors can quickly replicate product or service performance; they can meet or beat prices; they can enter channels and markets freely. But your competitors cannot quickly build the confidence of your consumers and clients. And therein lies the value of a brand.

A successful brand reduces uncertainty among buyers, employees, suppliers, investors and other stakeholders. It offers trust and confidence – just what is needed in the current market. So with the economy wobbling a strong brand is a very good asset to have on your side. Speaking of strong brands, we are just updating a beautiful communication piece for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The ‘Roadshow’ brochure (see visual) which was developed last year helps communicate to perspective students the creativity and ethos of the School. It is excellent brand building work like this that has played a big part in growing the enrollment numbers. Congratulations to Maryann and Jonathan at the SAIC for having a strong vision for the SAIC brand and message.

Written by Richard Tattershaw

Today I had a dig through the TZ1 archive to see what we were up to on this day last year. This day last year was a Sunday in New Zealand, so we would’ve been relaxing eating pavlova, but we got back into doing awesome stuff on Monday the 12th. Here’s a snapshot of some of the awesome things we were up to this time last year…

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