The (inverse) power of 3

Spend even a small amount of time watching TV and you’ll run into commercials in which an advertiser uses three actors to portray the range of diversity in the population that uses its products or services. One after another, each of the three “characters” looks into the camera and intones the same line of dialog. … Continued …

Indiana Dental Association thematic images

Indiana Dental Association

The Indiana Dental Association’s Annual Session brings together practitioners from around the state for continuing education and fellowship. When the Association used a thematic tag line (“Beyond Tomorrow, Beyond Ourselves”) to tie together one year’s activities, B Plus C Communications created a signature image for use on printed pieces that signed up exhibitors, registered participants, … Continued …

Unexpected places for critical and creative thought

You’ve got a deadline staring you in the face, and the ideas you need to finish a proposal or project have vacated your conscious mind. The more desperately you need to finish something, the more your ability to brainstorm can seem to dry up. And then you hop in the shower, onto the treadmill, or … Continued …

Thurston Springer

Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak

Financial consultants Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak wanted a brochure for use in presentations to prospective clients. B Plus C Communications created a piece that met our client’s visual requirements: Incorporate the look of the frosted-glass wall of their conference room, and show the view from the windows of their north-suburban Indianapolis location. Using … Continued …

B Plus C Communications capabilities

B Plus C Communications

How do you set yourself apart in a crowded field? At B Plus C Communications, we wrestled with that question until the day we realized that a cat’s successful bids for attention achieved the same results as a successful marketing campaign. Solution to the capabilities brochure problem: Showcase the cat and tell his authentic story. … Continued …

Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences

For a technology-oriented company that specialized in providing computer systems and services for the graphic arts, B Plus C Communications created a typographic logo that matched up precisely geometric letter forms with a swirling, graceful ampersand. The combination of hard-edged and curved shapes echoed the focus of the client’s business, aptly named for its products … Continued …

Tomorrow’s Canopy campaign

Crown Hill Heritage Foundation

The emerald ash borer first reached the United States in the 1990s, stowing away in wooden shipping crates bound for Michigan from China. In the insect’s native habitat, many trees display natural immunity to it, but in the U.S., thousands fall prey to its devastating effects every year. At historic Crown Hill Cemetery, this invasive … Continued …