We love beauty. We believe in truth. And so it goes...A few people with crazy skills got together and decided to make things that are beautiful and true. When those things are, they are also powerful for our clients. A multi-disciplinary creative firm, we research and design corporate identities, signage, graphics, websites, e-commerce, user interfaces, information architecture, workflows, visual effects, product packaging and software.
We're currently working with Brainstorm America to design the software and user interface that controls the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square.
Fresh out of the oven - the Jordan River Development website is alive. With a super slick web based CMS that allows full control over all the content.
The newest addition to the HVA family: Gerrit Patterson Brooks
March 3, 2006 @ 11:55 am * 8.5 lbs *21 inches
This past week, HVA had the honor of receiving 2 silver design awards from the Louisville Graphic Design Association at their annual 100 Show. The winners included the
Portsmouth Tea Co. Identity and
Athens Paper Luncheon Invitation.
Our new office is located at 1435A Story Avenue with convenient access from interstate 64 close to downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
Jordan River Development wanted to print special letterpress invitations for their promotion events. Instead of printing a small batch every time, HVA designed an invitation that could be customized for each event while maintaining a high standard of quality.
After completing the Portsmouth Tea website, HVA was asked to design a small
advertising mailer promoting the site to Christmas shoppers.
Athens Paper asked HVA to create an invitation for a luncheon with
International Paper. This was the first time Athens had to decline RSVPs due to the
overwhelming response from the invitation.
Handmade wedding invitations, programs, and direction cards for over 150 guests for Brian and
Brenda's wedding. Many thanks to family and friends and most of all French Paper & Athens Paper who
graciously donated the beautiful muscletone black paper.
Covenant Classical Academy is a small private school in Louisville. For a number of years the academy had been using pre-made template diplomas at graduations. As a school dedicated to excellence in all areas (including typography & design) we felt it was necessary to give the students a beautiful diploma they could really be proud of. The diploma is based on a classical layout which includes the golden ratio for proportions.
This project was completed while Brian was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. The poster was for a reading series by authors reading their own works over the span of a year. Using the concept of "Reading your own work in front of strangers is like going to the doctor" Brian used imagery and typography found at a doctor's office.
Client: Portsmouth Tea Co. Project: T-shirt designs for new product: "Tea-Shirts".
The Portsmouth Tea Co., a New Hampshire start-up, originally contacted us to develop an ecommerce site for them.
As sometimes happens, we were casually consulted about the work on their brand being done by another design firm.
Casual consultation matured into a full contract to develop the brand---its identity, packaging, and website.
Logo design for new loft style condominium development in downtown Louisville Kentucky.
The historic Hindu concept of the "globe" rests on 4 elephants, which, in turn, was on an enormous turtle, which in turn rested on an enormous serpent, which, in turn floated on universal waters. Mixing this vocabulary with a modern visual elements (grid and modern color scheme) The ID and stationery was created for Globe Records.
Two girls and a camera. Their business cards were designed to reflect their personalities
(pink = Brenda, blue = Amy), an area for notes when they meet with clients, and quality
letterpress to give that boutique feel.
Connexium is an IT company that needed a professional looking identity able to compete with the large,
well established IT companies.
The Portsmouth Tea Co., a New Hampshire start-up, originally contacted us to develop
only this ecommerce site for them.
As sometimes happens, we were casually consulted about the work on their brand being done by another design firm.
Casual consultation matured into a full contract to develop the brand---its identity, packaging, and website.
Jordan River Development was looking for a website that would allow them to add content to the website over time. The design of the site was to promote their developments and builders. A simple clean layout effectively allowed the "identity" of their developments to be the focal point and also allowed for the site to have a lot of content but not be overwhelming. A web-based CMS backend was added for even more control from the client.
Client: Focus Development. Location: Chicago, Illinois. Project: An innovative website
that allows the client to add content to the website over time. A web-based CMS backend was
created for even more control from the client. On November 16th, 2005 Focus Development was
featured in the New York Times for "Adding Commercial Pizazz to a Chicago Suburb."
A simple flash website designed to showcase the photography of
Brooks + Polston Photography. A simple backend allows for the photographers to update their own work on the site.
Although cowboys are not indigenous to Kentucky.... this one is. The Bourbon Cowboy specializes in "grass-roots artist development". Doing all the things for musicians that musicians aren't the best at... like business plans, booking and contract negotiations. We were assigned the task to do the things for the Bourbon Cowboy the he isn't the best at.... like identity and website development.
A single wrap that elegantly displays the tea in action while promoting the Portsmouth brand.
A "generic" tea can was produced for online orders, gifts, and other times when a label isn't necessary.
Client: Disney and Mitchell Kriegman's Shadow Projects. Project: Bear in the Big Blue House.
The Book of Pooh.
Client: Mitchell Kriegman's Shadow Projects. Project: Monkey King film test.
Client: Doug Trumbull's Entertainment Design Workshop and Mitchell Kriegman's Shadow Projects.
Project: Zero gravity crane and real-time visualization.
Client: Sony and Shadow Projects. Project: Sizzling Kung Fu Mice film test.
Hans Anderson began his career with Douglas Trumbull, the father of Special Effects,
at Entertainment Design Workshop.
Good times. Hans was taught that you can derive quite a lot about a man from his shoes. He obviously disregarded the lesson. A multi-disciplinary creative firm, we research and design corporate identities, signage, graphics, websites, e-commerce, user interfaces, information architecture, workflows, visual effects, product packaging and software.
Hans Anderson began his career in research and design under Douglas Trumbull, the father of visual effects for film, at Entertainment Design Workshop, north of New York City. Serving as CIO for both EDW and later, Mitchell Kriegman (Saturday Night Live, creator of The Rugrats, Clarissa Explains All, Disney's Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue House, and PBS Kids' It's a Big, Big World) at Shadow Projects in Manhattan, Hans helped to pioneer the integration of experimental real-time graphics with film/television production via his expertise in software, systems and information design.
The first use of the technology created by Trumbull, Kriegman, Lacombe, and Hans was the Emmy award-winning Disney television serial, The Book of Pooh(2001).
Most recently, HVANDERSON continues this work with software design and implementation for Nasdaq on Times Square, NYC and the successful first season of PBS's It's a Big Big World in the spring of 2006. Hans studied English Literature at Wheaton College, undergraduate and graduate work in Literature at the University of Connecticut, with an additional emphasis in Latin. Go figure.
A graduate of
Maryland Institute College of Art, where he studied design under critic/author/curator
Ellen Lupton and
Pentagram Design partner
Abbott Miller. Brian is insufferably clever when it comes to visual communication and infernally skilled in the craftwork of design. He directs the creative output of our firm and looks like it.
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