Remodeling contractor Hamish Murray Construction, Inc. needed a show display for the Oregon Fall Home and Garden Show that walked the line between modern and craftsman, two of their largest markets. It also needed to be clean, bright, and orderly to give a sense of what a homeowner could expect from working with the company.

The center of the display holds a television display with a slide show. Quoin designed scale drawings from which a cabinet maker built the custom show display. Files were provided to a sign company for the header sign and vinyl lettering. We specified standard IKEA frames to show accreditations and work images, to hold down cost and give extra flexibility.

Molly’s Fund Fighting Lupus needed an convention show display that would support their Voices of Lupus campaign, which tells the stories of people suffering from lupus. We consulted with the client and sign company to determine the best solution. Then, we created the convention show design and worked with the printer to ensure accurate color.

Portland market strategist Rich Bruer asked us what Quoin could do to help improve his site’s legibility and update its look. We extended his existing brand and incorporated the font Futura Light as a web font. This improved the web site design’s faithfulness to the brand, while maintaining excellent search engine optimization.

Quoin installed a brand new custom theme over his existing WordPress site, which meant no search engine results were harmed in the making of this design. New features included custom menus, thumbnail images and clear calls to action that improve conversions (that’s sales, folks). Quoin also carefully considered his social media strategy throughout the design process.

Launch the site

Lechman-Su and Quach, P.C. asked Quoin to create a web site with the twin goals of garnering new local business for their family law practice while increasing and extending their reputation as guardians of minors from overseas. We needed to give the site an open, friendly feeling that helped users see how good they were with helping children and understanding their needs. We also worked to show how they partnered with attorneys in other countries to navigate complex adoption and family law.

This site is in development.

Town Center eSuites asked Quoin to extend the brand we had created to let new tenants know about the central Wilsonville location of their Class A office space. We performed graphic design of the site’s visuals that carried the brand forward and made dynamic use of their images.

This site is still in development.

Related projects include logo.

Town Center eSuites began leasing executive suites and needed to let people know about its professional image and high level of service. They brought Quoin on to create a new logo design. In the logo’s mark, we referenced the building in which it the e-suites are located to create this two-color logo that alludes to the scalability of the suites.

Wilsonville Town Center Offices needed a logo that would represent the building as they began the process of attracting long term lessors. We created a stylized line drawing that captured the principal architectural lines of the building. The colors were chosen to work with existing colors in the building’s interior design.

Molly’s Fund Fighting Lupus needed to drive participation in their annual interior design benefit at the Portland Fall Home and Garden Show. Audiences included interior designers, vendors and others who will contribute to the show. We utilized the Molly’s Fund butterfly motif in a way that communicated the level of design participants can expect.

To hold down production costs, we modified the typical 11 x 17 inch format by adding a fold which created an overleaf. This provided more areas to organize event information and photos and gave the piece a narrative that nevertheless kept important event specifics front and center.

Non-profits need to constantly promote themselves and their events to drive donations, and Quoin is always excited to be a part of their success.

Fifth Season Landscape Design is spearheaded by Chauncey Freeman. A recent graduate of the University of Oregon, he has been making ripples in Oregon’s landscape since he was 12.

We created a custom web site design that is simple, easy to navigate and gives a spectacular showcase for his work. It’s also easy to maintain: Text pages are managed through the WordPress dashboard. Photos are managed on Flickr. We pull them through via the Flickr API, along with photo sets, titles, descriptions and other data.

Launch Web Site

We’re shameless bocce fans here at Quoin Central, and have been playing in the Portland Bocce League since 2009 (and our team silver-medaled in 2010!).

The league has reached an important stage of its development. It is becoming more competitive and wants to expand and project a strong, professional image.

The bocce ball looked like a rose to us, the symbol of Portland, so we added leaves and set it on an oyster-shell court. Red, green and white are the colors of Italy, the motherland of the sport. We also choose to believe that somewhere in the logo is the inspiration of the Modernist posters of 1920′s Italy.

In the coming months, the logo will be adapted and applied to the team web site, t-shirts, ball bags, announcements and posters.