To nurture and inspire the imagination of its staff, Studio 2055 regularly schedules field trips to Southern California museums and galleries. The group’s exposure to a wide-ranging variety of art, design and architecture affords an opportunity to move out of the studio environment to recharge their creative desires. Trips to Los Angeles’s Getty …
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San Diego’s Glanz Signing + Graphics Selects Studio 2055 for Rebranding
San Diego’s premiere sign company, Glanz Signing + Graphics, chose Studio 2055 over dozens of competitors to rebrand their operation with a re-imagined logo and a comprehensive renovation of its existing website. Nanette Newbry, Studio 2055’s designer, saw the project as a thrilling, albeit challenging, opportunity.“Glanz has been in business …
Carlsbad’s Jewel: The Cannon Gallery Reaches 10-Year Milestone
Carlsbad’s Cannon Gallery at the Dove Library is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exhibit of paintings by DeLoss McGraw, who was the first artist exhibited in the gallery’s inaugural year. The new show opens November 21st and continues until January 16, 2011. The exhibit will feature McGraw’s new paintings that were influenced by author …
SoCal Design Studio Celebrates 25th Year
Studio 2055, a highly respected marketing, branding and graphic design firm, recently marked a major milestone – a full quarter century in business. The Carlsbad-based company, owned by artist and designer Nanette Newbry, was founded in 1984 when Newbry was still working on her Bachelor’s degree at the University of California in La Jolla. …
Internship Program Mentors Up and Coming Designers
By Richard Dowdy As an ongoing internship program at Studio 2055 enters its 15th year, we are happy to introduce our newest design intern, Leslie Rekettye, who earned a degree in Biology from John Carroll University in Cleveland. After graduation, Leslie moved to San Diego to work for Advance Tissue Sciences, a biotech company located in Torrey …
A Winner at San Diego USGBC’s Christmas Raffle
The San Diego Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council held its Christmas celebration at San Diego's Marina Village on December 2, to introduce the 2010 board members, and to raise money for the USGBC through raffles. Among the winners was Ben Friesen (shown above), who took home an original painting by Nanette Newbry, USGBC member and Creative …
GIA’S Quarterly Magazine Art Directed by Studio 2055’s Nanette Newbry
Nanette Newbry, Studio 2055’s Creative Director, has been named art director for Gems & Gemology, a quarterly publication of the Gemological Institute of America. Studio 2055 has collaborated with GIA on numerous projects for more than eight years, work that has included the GIA website, marketing collateral and holiday cards. Gems & …
Prominent Business Attorney Gets Repositioned With New Branding
The Law Offices of Eric D. Morton recently launched a new Website and rebranding campaign. The new logo colors add "life" to his monogram while the site depicts the airy and clean nature of San Diego North County's coast. The campaign includes logo, stationery, Website, emarketing newsletter and brochures. "The new branding has been a big boost to …
Job Options (JOI) Branding Completed
Comet Creative has completed a fresh branding program for Job Options that included services brochures, case studies and a newly designed website. The company hires disabled employees in meaningful positions with government, military and in the private work sector. The new branding showcased real Job Options employees, photographed by Richard …
Comet Creative Wins Award from the American Association of Museums for the GIA Calendar
The "Happy Holidays" GIA Museum calendar was recently honored for excellence in design. The 27th Annual AAM Publications Design Competition acknowledges excellence in the graphic design of museum publications and is the only national, juried event involving publications produced by museums of all kinds and sizes. Two awards were given under the …
