Sunday, July 15, 2012

Coming Full Circle

Stephanie & Colton playing with "Make your own story cards"
2nd Spark Consulting: Shockingly Smart Creative 
The intelligence of a management consulting firm combined with the creativity of an advertising agency
                                                                                                                
It all started in Hilton Head - two young girls with a cassette tape and an imagination.  Stephanie and I spent one evening recording songs from the radio so we could be entertained on our long drive back home to Pittsburgh.  In between the songs, we created our own commercials and that is where it all began.  The commercials were for silly and fun products like, "Fart-X," "Poop-n-All," "Wrinkle Twinkle," "Thin Thin," and we even made a PSA about drunk driving. Years later we made these audio versions into video versions - continuing our love of advertising.  20 some years later, we have come full circle.  I work for a consulting firm that offers creative solutions for our clients, and Stephanie is a freelance designer/art director who has worked in the field of advertising/packaging for the past 10 years. We use Stephanie for all our design needs because she is top notch, a thoughtful, creative individual and our clients just love her.  Stephanie created the brain image above for the company I work for and she recently came up to Philadelphia for a client meeting where she presented logos she created for their brand.  Just as we did in Hilton Head, we sat on my couch in Philadelphia the night before the meeting, and put our thoughts together for the presentation.