About Beggs Design

We are a multi-disciplined award winning communication design and marketing communications firm developing and implementing integrated marketing solutions for Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer, Fortune 500s to mid-sized corporations, software and cloud software companies, advertising agencies, and design firms. We are responsible for all phases of program development, from concept origination through final implementation, including client presentation, interaction, and relationship building.

We specialize in branding and identity development, user experience and interface design, integrated marketing and messaging solutions, web sites, annual reports, architectural signage, business image systems, collateral, direct mail, exhibit design and management, interactive media, packaging, point of purchase, and print production and management.

Lee Beggs, principal and creative director, started his career as an art director at Regis McKenna Advertising in Palo Alto CA creating collateral for such companies as Apple Computers, Intel, HP, National Semiconductor, Visicorp, TRW, and many others. Lee also served as design manager and co-creative director at Tandem Computers, marcomm manager and creative director for the system division at Adobe Systems, and has taught design with type at San Jose State University. Over the years he has won hundreds of awards for corporate and brand identities, packaging, annual reports, and print collateral. His work has also been published in design magazines and books.

Capabilities

Identity and Branding

The identity and branding systems I create work to embody and express the company’s strategic vision through symbology, typography, color, and positioning. My intent is to create a highly recognizable image that is distinct and individual, no matter where it is used.

• Research
• Identity and Brand Identity
• Strategy
• Brand & Product Naming
• Messaging Strategy
• Tagline & Brand Voice
• Company and Brand Identity

Marketing Communications

Messaging is both visual and verbal. I work to make sure the intersection between these two powerful forces work to my clients advantage delivering clear strategic messages for their specific delivery channel.

• Annual Reports
• Business Systems
• Catalogs
• Collateral
• Direct Mail
• Information Graphics
• Outdoor / Signage Systems
• Packaging
• Promotions
• Publishing
• Tradeshow booth and graphics

User Experience and Interface Design

Common sense, elegance, understanding, organized, consistency, logic, and simplicity all work to make product interfaces and experiences usable for human beings. This is what I do, and feel very strongly that the more intuitive, the better.

• Survey
• Structure
• Experience Design
• Interaction Design
• Interface Design

Digital Media

My digital work, whether it be web sites, product animations, icon systems, all work to deliver a consistent message based on clients strategic needs, position, and market. My belief is that simple and elegant works best to cut through the morass of visual and verbal stimulus that leaves us all scratching our heads.

• Survey
• Information Architecture
• Content Strategy
• Interface Design
• Interaction Design
• Asset and Content Development
• Image Manipulation and Retouching
• Animation & Video
• Web Development
• Email Campaigns
• Kiosk Design
• Usability Testing

Portfolio Overview

Beggs Design portfolio is extensive and touches on many areas. This is because in the world of communication design we work to maintain a global viewpoint with our clients, and to maintain a consistent verbal and visual message across all project categories. To see our complete portfolio please drop me an email or give me a call.

Identities

We have worked with many companies creating award winning corporate and brand identities, which is usually the first step in forming the global image that makes each and every client stand out in their own unique way.

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Websites

Websites are in many ways the new print. This is now the first place you get to experience your companie's messages, products, and general image. We work very hard to bring all our knowledge and experience in communication design to this venue in order to drive our customer's messages and global vision in a very consistent manner.

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User Experience

Working with customers to form their images and messages has grown to include the look, feel and use of products. We have been working in user experience for some years and have taken to using this platform as another avenue to express our client's global vision. After all, if your products don't project a consistent verbal and visual message, you leave your customers wondering, and that's not good.

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Print

Print has traditionally been the place where our clients get to put a face on the verbal and visual image we create. We have enjoyed and excelled at working in print over the years, take a look and judge for yourself.

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Packaging

We like packaging, and see this as another form of expression for our clients. We bring our communication design expertise to this area and have many successes in conveying our client's vision as it relates to the specific market the products were built for.

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Other

Sometimes what we do is hard to categorize, and this might include signage, trade show environments, illustration, t-shirt designs, direct mail, etc. We use these opportunities to take a fresh look, and have a little fun. We know, sounds a little self indulgent, but what the heck.

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Selected Client Experience

Below is a sampling of past and present clients that we have completed design projects and programs for. Many of these clients have been with us for many years – satisfied clients come back for more.

Active Software — Software Tools

Logo refinements, complete image makeover including new brochures, corporate folder, data sheet system, testimonial system, white paper system, trade show signage, website design and implementation, two internal secure websites, partner logo, integration logo, training covers, product catalog, direct response.

Adobe Systems* — Software Tools

Managed all domestic and international promotions for the Systems Division, Corporate and Acrobat groups. Including budgets, product and technology brochures, logo refinements, posters, data sheets, success stories, brochures, product catalog, direct response, trade show graphics and support, special promotions and identities for conferences, press releases, packaging for technologies, posters, newsletters.

Apple Computer* — Personal Computers

Logo refinement, posters, data sheets, brochures, product catalog, direct response, trade show graphics, symbols, newsletters.

AVEO — Business Communication Software

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, trade show signage, data sheet system.

Bridges Architecture — Architect

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, project management forms system.

Computer Curriculum Corp. — Educational Software

Educational multimedia product packaging.

Cromemco — Microcomputer Manufacturer

Product and corporate brochures, data sheet system, trade show signage, sales binder programs, product labels, posters.

dpiX — Flat Panel Displays and Digital Imaging

Business paper system, corporate folder, data sheet system, trade show signage, newsletter, product logo.

Edgenuity — Educational Management Products

Logo refinement, business paper system, website, icon systems, user experience, direct mail promotions.

Fujitsu* — Semiconductors

Brochures

Glimmerglass Networks — High Speed Optical Switches

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, website design and implementation.

GoDigital Networks — Line-Powered Multi-Service Access Platforms

Corporate / product brochure, corporate folder.

IBM* — Well, you know, back in the day they did everything

Event invitations, booklets, program support materials, posters, etc.

Impac Medical Systems — Oncology Management Software

Event invitations, booklets, programs, advertising, direct response, t-shirts, website design, product icons and interface design, building signage, report covers and cover sheets, quick reference card, product startup screen design.

Inventa — Internet Business Applications

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder.

ISC Systems Corp.* — Banking Teller Systems

Logo, business paper system, annual reports, product and corporate brochures, corporate folder, data sheet system, trade show booth design, sales binder programs, product labels, slide template, product packaging, building signage, direct response, advertising.

La Quinta Inns* — Hotel

Identity Manual, Business Paper System, Amenities.

Network Equipment Technology — Networking Equipment

Annual report art direction, corporate identity manual, online forms system, calendar, company newsletter.

Novalux, Inc. — Scalable Laser Platforms for Telecommunications

Tagline, corporate brochure, corporate folder, website design and implementation, data sheet system.

Nuvora, Inc. — Over the Counter Oral Hygiene Products

Packaging, in-store display boxes, advertising, website design and implementation, in-store promotions, html email announcements, web landing pages.

Optima Consulting — Executive and Organizational Consultants

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, website design and implementation, tag-line consulting.

Palo Alto Parenting Solutions — Marriage, Family and Registered Art Therapist

Website, html email newsletters.

ParcPlace Systems — Software Tools

Product icon systems, produce logo, interface design.

Productivity Point Int.* — Business Training

Logo, business paper system.

Prophet Financial Systems — Web Based Investing Tools

Brochure, website design and implementation, icon design, interface design, advertising, CD labels, business paper system.

Presidio Systems — Automated Clinical Trials Software

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, data sheet system, white paper system, website design, building signage, advertising.

Resumix — Automated Resume Systems

Software Interactive startup screen design

ShoppingList.com — Web Site for Sales

Collateral

ShowEvidence — Evaluation and certification software

Logo, business papers, website(s), user experience.

Stanford Jazz Workshop — Nonprofit Music Workshops

Logo, yearly event poster and invitations three years running.

Street Technology* — Business Training

Corporate folder, data sheet system, product packaging.

T3plus — Telecommunications and Networking Equipment

Testimonial system, powerpoint template, slide icons, trade show signage, ATM primer book design.

Teachscape — Educational Management and Testing Software Products

User experience for several products, web based customer logIn page, icons systems, product logos.

TravelNet* — Corporate Travel Management Tools

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder, advertising, trade show signage.

Tricord — Serversr

Annual report, complete image makeover including new brochures, corporate folder, data sheet system, white paper system.

Vantive — Business Management Software

Logo, business paper system, product logos, powerpoint template, trade show signage, white paper system, product catalog, prospectus, t-shirts, corporate folder, seminar invitations.

Verbatim — Data Storage Technology

Sales promotion programs, package design.

WavePath* — Microwave Internet Access Technology

Logo, business paper system, corporate folder.

WWPC — Nonprofit Voice for Computer Groups

Brochure, direct response, forms system, seminar invitations, advertising, trade show signage, newsletter art direction, membership package design.

Xerox New Enterprises — New Business Development

Collateral system

Xetus — Browser Based Mortgage Processing Software

Logo, trade show booth design, trade show schedule and booth management, corporate and product websites, advertising, powerpoint template, icons.

* Employed by or contracted through other Agencies and Design firms

Get in touch

Contact is simple, either call:

SixFiveZero 26nine 5seven19

or email me at:

info at beggsdesign dot com

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