Every year the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society raises funds for blood cancer research with a competition called “Man & Women of the Year.” Visual Impact Systems assisted the Michigan Chapter with both of its “Grand Finale Gala” fundraiser events by providing graphic design services for their promotional materials. Specifically, we designed the invitations, posters, flyers, table tents, coordinated tickets, a TV ad, and Internet banner ads. We also coordinated the printing of the items.
Visual Impact Systems has over 25 years of expertise in producing print projects. To make it easy for you to browse the kinds of print projects we have been involved with, we have presented them on our web site in the following categories: Advertising; Annual reports; Books; Brochures; Direct mail; Flyers; Magazines; Merchandising; Newspapers; Posters; and Product manuals. Click on the following link to view: https://visualimpactsystems.com/print-production/
Visual Impact Systems does not only do print production. We are a full-service advertising and marketing firm, with over 25 years of expertise in combining compelling design, a strong marketing strategy, and innovative technologies into a coordinated message—transforming communications with our proven ‘integrated multimedia’ approach, we call “Transformaction.”
Our web site shows our expertise in the following media ‘outlets’: Internet Marketing; Web Site Design; Mobile; Video Production; Trade Shows; Print; Television; Radio; Computers; Photography; Signage; Merchandising; and Multimedia, or you can just contact us directly to determine if we can help you with your marketing needs: 248-548-7000
As we did last year, we spent all last week (August 11-17) in Detroit—specifically in the “Cody-Rouge” area—to help, pro bono, the non-profit “Life Remodeled” with executing their planned “makeover” of Cody High School and the surrounding neighborhood. We were responsible for some of the media relations, the design and production of promotional materials, signage, banners, t-shirt graphics, social media channel headers, the posting TV and radio media coverage, and capturing the project photographically. Most of the graphic work was done before the ‘build week’, and most of the the photography was done during the week-long ‘campaign’ (we will do some photography of the “tour” that will be given after the build week, to show the completion of the new ‘special’ rooms and overall ‘clean-up’ of Cody High School).
Life Remodeled’s goals were to build four “special” rooms at Cody High School, renovate 20 student houses (new roofs, new siding, replacing windows and stairs, etc.), board up 100 vacant houses, and “beautify” 100 city blocks (remove blight, trim trees, cut grass, plant flowers, etc.)—all in SIX DAYS! On the seventh day, Sunday, August 17, 2014, at their celebration, they noted that they exceeded all of their goals: More ‘renovations’ were done inside Cody than planned; they remodeled 25 student houses; boarded up 254 vacant houses; demolished three dangerous houses; and beautified 303 city blocks! This was an unbelievable effort performed by over 10,500 volunteers—the largest volunteer effort in recent Detroit history.
The following are selected photos that represent the over 6,000 photos we and our photographers took to capture all of the activities during the ‘build week’:
CODY HIGH SCHOOL – ENTRANCE (Before/After)
NEW “S.T.E.M.” ROOM AT CODY
NEW MOCK COURTROOM IN CODY
NEW MEDICAL LAB IN CODY
NEW HOME EC ROOM IN CODY
NEW TEACHERS LOUNGE IN CODY
NEW SMART PROJECTORS AT CODY
NEW GARDEN AT CODY
WINDOW REPAIRS AT CODY
ROOF REPAIRS AT CODY
NEW FOOTBALL FIELD AT CODY
THREE DANGEROUS HOUSES DEMOLISHED ACROSS FROM CODY
GRAFFITI REMOVED FROM BUILDINGS AROUND CODY
25 STUDENT HOUSES REMODELED
254 ‘BOARD UPS’ OF VACANT HOUSES
NEW MURAL AT HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
‘CLEAN UP’ AT HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
MANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ‘BEAUTIFIED’
NEW MURAL IN STEIN PLAYGROUND
303 CITY BLOCKS OF ‘BLIGHT’ REMOVED
In addition to coordinating over a dozen professional photographers to capture the ‘build week’, we designed and produced a variety of promotional materials, signage, banners, t-shirt graphics, social media channel headers, and Powerpoint presentations:
The following links are for more information about the Cody-Rouge project in Detroit, Michigan:
If you are also interested in more information, or supporting, this great non-profit, contact Mark Besh at Visual Impact Systems (248-548-7000), or click the link below to be taken to Life Remodeled’s website.
We spent all last week (July 29-Aug 4) in Detroit—specifically in the “New Center North” area—to help, pro bono, the non-profit “Life Remodeled” with executing their planned “makeover” of a 48-block neighborhood. We were responsible for all the media and public relations, the design and production of all the promotional materials and signage, and capturing the week-long ‘project’ photographically. We also helped procure the well-deserved “Spirit of Detroit” award given to an organization being honored for an outstanding achievement in service to the citizens of Detroit.
Their goals were to build a brand-new house, renovate 24 other houses (new roofs, new siding, replacing windows and stairs, etc.), board up 150 vacant houses, and “beautify” 48 city blocks (remove blight, trim trees, cut grass, plant flowers, etc.)—all in SIX DAYS! On the seventh day, Sunday, August 4, 2013, at their celebration, they noted that they exceeded all of their goals: The house received the “certificate of occupancy”; they renovated 36 houses; boarded up over 200 houses; and beautified 65 blocks!—an unbelievable effort performed by over 5,300 volunteers.
The following are a representation of the over 4,000 photos we took to capture all of the activities:
COMPLETED HOUSE:
RENOVATION (New Roof):
BOARD UPS:
BEAUTIFICATION:
Life Remodeled is similar to “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” where the house is built in six days—but, they take a more ‘holistic’ approach. What good is a free new home if you can’t maintain the lifestyle necessary to keep it? So, Life Remodeled counsels all families in personal money management, careers, spiritual guidance, and psychological issues for a period of three years—after which, if the family has paid their property taxes and utilities on time, and has kept the house in good repair, they are allowed to purchase the house for just one dollar!
In addition to the house, volunteers ‘extend’ the makeover concept by helping the surrounding neighbors with needs they have—general house repairs, painting, roofing, building wheelchair ramps and repairing stairs, tree trimming, debris removal, landscaping, gardening, and general beautification to ‘remodel’ the entire neighborhood! In the past two years, Life Remodeled has successfully completed five other brand new houses, and given them to deserving families.
If you are also interested in more information, or supporting, this great non-profit, click one of the links below, or contact Mark Besh at Visual Impact Systems [ 248-548-7000 ].
We think the non-profit “Life Remodeled” is absolutely fabulous, and have done some pro bono work for their Detroit “build” this summer (as well as for the previous five ‘builds’ they did). We created an overview flyer, Powerpoint presentation, t-shirt artwork, a press release, signage, and helped video the “reveal” telling the family they were selected to receive the house.
Similar to “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” houses are built in six days—but, they take a more ‘holistic’ approach. What good is a free new home if you can’t maintain the lifestyle necessary to keep it? So, Life Remodeled counsels all families in personal money management, careers, spiritual guidance, and psychological issues for a period of three years—after which, if the family has paid their property taxes and utilities on time, and has kept the house in good repair, they are allowed to purchase the house for just one dollar!
In addition to the house, volunteers ‘extend’ the makeover concept by helping the surrounding neighbors with needs they have—general house repairs, painting, roofing, building wheelchair ramps and repairing stairs, tree trimming, debris removal, landscaping, gardening, and general beautification to ‘remodel’ the entire neighborhood! In the past two years, Life Remodeled has successfully completed five other brand new houses, and given them to deserving families.
Many metro Detroit area organizations have committed volunteers, materials, and finances to this project. Business like Quicken Loans, GM, Ford, Allied Building Products, Barton Malow, Carrier Air Conditioning, DTE Energy, The Tapco Group, and others have partnered with Life Remodeled to support the effort. In addition to businesses, non-profits like Central Detroit Christian, Vanguard Development, Arise Detroit!, Detroit Rescue Mission, E.A.C.H., Wayne State, World Vision and others have also joined in. Metro area churches like Evangel Ministries, Inner City Ministries, Life Changers International, Northridge, Oak Pointe, Second Ebenezer, Ward, Woodside and others have also committed finances and volunteers to the project. [ They all want to show the nation that the “Spirit of Detroit” is not only a statue downtown, but a passion in all ‘Detroiters’ for helping people in need, and reclaiming the ‘glory’ this city once experienced ].
This summer’s project will be the largest in Life Remodeled’s history, and is expected to have over 5,000 volunteers transform a Detroit neighborhood, building a brand new house, renovating 24 others, boarding up at least 150 vacant houses, and “beautifying” 48 city blocks—all in six days!All this will be happening NEXT WEEK from JULY 29th – AUGUST 4th, 24×7.
If you are also interested in more information, supporting, or volunteering for this great non-profit and their project, click on the image below, or contact Mark Besh at Visual Impact Systems [ 248-548-7000 ].
“PECHA-KUCHA” PRESENTATION – LIFE REMODELED In addition to the work we recently completed for the “Detroit 2013” build, our President, Mark Besh, gave a “20 x 20″ presentation at the Volume #13 Pecha-Kucha Night in Detroit. It was about the previous five ‘builds’ we helped “Life Remodeled” with, pro bono (i.e. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 2.0″).
[ Note: The format for Pecha-Kucha is 20 slides automatically changing every 20 seconds! (no ‘do-overs’ or ‘dawdling’ allowed!) ]. Click on the image below to see the presentation.
Visual Impact Systems has expertise in the following media ‘outlets’: Internet; Mobile; Video; Trade shows; Print; Television’ Radio; Computers; Photography; Signage; Merchandising; and Multimedia. You can visit our web site, or just contact us directly to determine if we can help you with your marketing needs:248-548-7000
Visual Impact Systems is a full-service advertising and marketing firm, with over 23 years of expertise in combining compelling design, a strong marketing strategy, and innovative technologies into a coordinated message—transforming communications with our proven ‘integrated multimedia‘ approach, we call “Transformaction.”
