who’s been at this for more years than he sometimes likes to admit: broadcast training at Brown Institute, record promotion with Miami's Bo Crane and summers with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble’s
Recording Institutes. Television production, first as a tech and editor with Miami
stations, CMX training in Santa Clara on the CBS/Memorex project, then an independent commercial director/editor for studios in Baltimore, DC, Miami, Nashville and Philadelphia...garnering a regional Emmy in the process.
He's also lived - successfully - with HIV for over 16 years. And even though he's known to smoke, drink and cuss, some religious organizations enjoy working with him anyway.
TEN4 CREATIVE is an outgrowth of
DavyCam, now the imaging division of T4C.
For you, the client, you’re not hiring a graphics agency so much as you're hiring an image agency with decades of media marketing experience. Success is giving you a sharp, consistent, accurate and professional image. Your success is our success.
Best Price? Best Value?
Instead of an agency, it might seem smart to hire a recent art school grad to do your work. Many are talented. They're certainly cheap. Whether the end product will have more to do with the grad's portfolio-building or a competitive business image is another question. That's why half our job is research.
Case #1: A client with limited resources actually took our challenge, going the budget route with a student. He discovered a 19-year-old doesn't have the experience or frame of reference to create an upscale logo for an upscale business. In the end we gained a client who trusts our experience.
Case #2: Another client paid us well for a fresh, out-of-house perspective on a national promotion. We produced a nice, edgy campaign on less than a week's deadline and absolutely maintained corporate identity. What they hadn't realized - and that T4C's regular research uncovered - was that their service branding was identical to that of a competitor. With only a few days to deadline, we not only advised them of the conflict, we presented alternative branding that was more succinct and memorable, saving them some considerable embarrassment.
We ferret out problems. And fix 'em. That's the difference between an agency and an artist.
A head's up we're often booked for 1-2 months in advance on larger projects.
Your Best Shot
Product shots? Event promotion? You gonna grab Uncle Bob and his new digicam? Do you hire yet another vendor? Why not use an agency that's already dedicated to integrating your overall image, including, in this case, post-production processing on all your images. We also have Kim, an accomplished studio portrait photographer in her own right.
We make payment easy. Company checks or, via PayPal®, personal checks or credit cards...
T4C and the Community
During any quarter, Ten4 Creative will donate services to a community nonprofit. In the past this has included Pridefest, Stonewall Street Festival and Diverse Minority Pride. Again in 2008, as we did in 2007, we're pleased to be providing marketing and advertising services to AIDS TaskForce of Greater Cleveland.
WHAT THEIR EMAILS ARE SAYING...
"We love the logo!"
-C.F., Deerfield Beach
"You're terrific!"
-M.C., Fort Lauderdale
"Casi tan hermoso como mí!"
-R.G., Hollywood
"A pot of gold in a dung pile!"
-D.F., Cleveland
"I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!"
-S.G., Wilton Manors
