New blog address

This is our old blog. Our new blog can be found at http://www.cognetixllc.com/blog . Thanks!

Cognetix Marketing & Design in Charleston, SC is a Google Favorite Place!

Cognetix Marketing & Design is a Google Favorite Place in Charleston, SC

Cognetix Marketing and Design has been designated a “Favorite Place” by Google on its search engine and maps network.  We are one of only about 100,000 businesses across the US that was designated as a Favorite Place (Google notes that’s less than 1% of the 28 million businesses in the country). Cognetix received the designation based on the “popularity” of our Local Business Listing on Google.

Support The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center in Chase Community Giving Facebook Program. Voting ends 12/11/09

Vote for The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center and increase its chance of winning a grant from Chase! DNLCC’s mission is to keep children safe from abuse, and when abuse occurs, to work with the community to bring healing to these children and their families. DNLCC provides Lowcountry children and families with the services they need to recover from abuse. Help them treat more children and affected families by voting today!

Bishop Gadsden Photo Shoot

The Bishop Gadsden photo shoot went so well! We got all the shots we needed, and the models and settings looked wonderful. Here is some of the action we captured from the photo shoot.

Dynomite!

Cognetix shined last night at the Charleston AMA Spark Awards held at the historic American Theatre. Katie Kern and Jessica Crouch were awarded the Dynamite Award (excellence for an event) for their work on the 2008 Shopping with Friends event benefiting Lowcountry AIDS Services.

The AMA Spark Awards recognize the most effective marketing campaigns in South Carolina and awards seven companies and one individual that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and programs in the previous calendar year. The entries are judged on the ability to show results through clearly defined objectives strategies and tactics.

Spark! Awards

The whole Cognetix team is excited to go to The Spark! Awards tomorrow night at the American Theater from 6pm – 9pm. You can still get tickets and information for the event at http://tinyurl.com/ygme3bh. It’s going to be a great night with great people. We can’t wait to see other’s submissions and what they’ve accomplished over the past year.

Calling All Interns

Cognetix is currently accepting applications for Spring 2010 Interns. If you, or if you know anyone who is interested, please email us at intern@cognetixllc.com. Deadline is November 18. We look forward to hearing from you!

Cognetix’s work published in Design Annual

Cognetix had two of its logo designs published in Rockport Publisher’s Letterhead and Logo Design 11. One logo, created by Creative Director Dale Lanford, features a penguin head created for Scoolers, a company that manufactures portable coolers with a college sports theme. The other is OnBoard, a logo created for AstenJohnson, which makes paper making equipment.

Rockport publishes an annual series of books that showcase the latest and most innovative work from well-known design leaders. This volume features more than 400 designs from creatives throughout the country.

A New Look for Bishop Gadsden

Bishop Gadsden’s renovations really turned out great. Here are some photos to prove it!

Cognetix gets into the Halloween Spirit

What should you do if you have an extra pumpkin and a few hours to waste. How about brand it with your logo? Dale Lanford did just that. But if you have more than a few extra pumpkins and many spare hours, try and carve a pumpkin like the guys over at the pumpkingutter.These guys are truly masters.

Also Dale’s daughter, Anna, decided she wanted to make her costume this year. She came up with this idea to be the house that fell on the wicked witch of the east.

So they went to work, first gathering cardboard, paint, exacto knife, and lots of hot glue sticks. We worked on cutting, painting and gluing for about 4 hours to get the initial house built.

One thing learned during this project is that Anna can be dangerous with a hot glue gun. She quickly learned that “hot” was to be taken literally and only burned herself once.

We later added the flowers of Munchkin land that really help give it a good base. We had to add shoulder pads to make the costume comfortable to wear.

Here is what the house looked like when we finished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the complete costume along with tornado wig. Notice the poor cow caught in the twister.