Masters in strategic, creative and technical design
Branding & Corporate Identity
Your logo is where it all begins. The look of your company and corporate brand is important to how you are perceived by prospects, media and the public at large. HGID will improve the quality of your corporate identity, differentiate you from the competition and give you a versatile design system to extend across your products and services. We’ve designed and refreshed the brands of scores of companies as a first step into redesigning their websites and collateral, web applications and more.
Web Design & Development
Our approach sets us apart – combining the imagination and efficiency of a boutique design agency with the goal-oriented process of a large professional services firm. From Discovery, to Information Architecture, to User Experience Design to Development and Quality Assurance, we’ll work closely with you to create a unique and effective web experience. Our web design will enliven your messaging, be highly visible to search engines and vastly improve the perception of your company. It's in our nature to create an individual aesthetic for your brand for both the user interface and the content.
Print Design & Production
Horn Group’s designers and copywriters break through the clutter to bring your story to life visually and verbally. Our team has written and designed for companies including GE, Intel, HP, Schwab, Lilly and Visa. By understanding market and audience segments, we help clients deliver messages and collateral free of hyperbole and jargon that speak directly to the needs of your buyer.
Video & Motion Graphics
Today's Internet consumer is far savvier and less compartmentalized than ever before. The line between consumers and business users is blurry at best, with people collecting information from a variety of sources, be they press releases, websites, industry periodicals and more. That's why there's nothing more important for your product or service than to provide a clear, simple and engaging presentation explaining what it is, how it works and what it can do for your bottom line. Horn Group creates beautifully designed and animated high-end motion graphics, Flash animation and video with voiceover to play a primary or supporting role in demystifying your offering. This provides your customers and influencers with the tools to make faster better decisions about working with you.
Mobile Apps
Our in-house expertise in designing and developing for the iPhone and iPad (and other mobile devices) allows us to extend your reach to today’s fastest growing platform. Whether your strategy is to create multiple style sheets tailor made for specific devices, or to create unique experiences for each, we'll help you plot a course to a professional mobile presence and handle the entire process from concept to distribution.
Social Apps & Integration
As avid users of social media and networking tools, we have always been champions of creating a presence for our clients wherever your customers interact online. We've created Facebook applications, Community Forum implementations and customizations. Our line of work keeps us dialed-in to all the latest web technologies necessary to integrate with a social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook via their APIs, or work directly within the platform to create an experience for those users.
CMS Development & Integration
Our experience with popular open-source content management software allows us to provide a CMS for nearly every website and interactive piece we create, empowering our clients to take content management back in-house. And we're always adding special features or modifying these CMS systems to fit the specific needs of our clients.
Advertising
Custom advertisements for the web, such as animated ads and interactive Flash banners or html5 ads, as well as print ads for newspaper, magazine, billboard.