WE DO CREATIVE COMMUNICATIONS
We harness creativity in all its forms to connect you with your audience, so that your brand becomes their brand. As your dedicated creative partner, our relationship is uniquely tailored to your specific goals, needs and resources. In fact, helping you define those factors is often how our work begins.
» See our client portfolio below.
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THE INCREDIBLE EXPANDING HELSINQI TOOLKIT
- Discovery & Analysis
- organizational cultural anthropology
- mission-message alignment
- Branding & Identity
- logos
- naming and tag lines
- mission and vision statements
- brand development and product line extensions
- brand guides
- Creative Concept & Execution
- Messaging and Copywriting
- Websites
- design and content
- development and maintenance
- social media
- Digital/Print Design & Media
- brochures, flyers, posters
- newsletters
- packaging & labels
- business cards
- video, photography, multimedia
- Ad Campaigns
- Events & Experiential
The key intangibles that drive enlightened brand engagement:
CREATIVE is the juice that inspires human beings to love a brand and claim it as their own. It's the face, the attitude: the window to the soul of a brand. Trends come and go, tech pops and fades, but creative is the perpetual energy source that drives it all.
PURPOSE channels all that creative voltage into the focus of success. It's your compass, your raison d'être. Purpose frames strategy, aligns tactics, and transforms energy into results.
INTEGRITY is the linchpin. In an era of transparency and participation, "spray-tan" branding doesn't hold up. We draw out the real story, expressing brand authenticity to full effect. That translates into trust, relevance and a marketing investment with lasting returns.
SELECTED CLIENTS & PROJECTS
The NACF fosters the revitalization, appreciation, and perpetuation of Native arts throughout the USA.More
Willamette Valley winery Carlton Cellars wins awards for their premium Pinots, and HELSINQI is their agency of record.More
This Italian foundation advances research and accessibility of nontoxic and personalized cancer therapies.More
Mid-Century Modern is Joël Belgique's 20th-century viola sonata project, for which we did the retromodern design.More
FearNoMusic 21st-century ensemble performs extraordinary music and we've given them an identity to match.More
The YWCA of Greater Portland refocused their mission in the community, and partnered with HELSINQI to refocus the message.More
We created a showcase website for fine artist Ingrid Lahti, including videos we’ve made, drawing on our own fine arts roots.More
We’ve collaborated with fine artist Harriet Sanderson on video and photographic work, and we designed and maintain her website.More
HELSINQI designed a strategic, user-maintained website to reinforce HiiH's distinctive brand of handmade paper lamps.More
The Alberta Cooperative Grocery in Northeast Portland needed a brand new website as fresh, local and organic as the foods they stock.More
Naylor Building specializes in quality exterior construction, and HELSINQI design a full identity program and user-maintained website.More
hill2 does groundbreaking organizational consultation, and HELSINQI oversees their identity, didactic materials and website.More
With FearNoMusic, we co-curated Parallaxis, a program of avant-garde classical music performed live to original video works.More
We produced a 60-minute, 2-track video for The Theory of Love, a collaborative “traveling, multimedia, lecture-opera.”More
We hosted a series of “secret-restaurant” dinners with international themes, recherché menus and wines, and multimedia.More
After making top-grade leather gloves for industry for many years, Laughlin-Cartrell decided to strategically extend into lifestyle retail.More
Activist-artist-community leader Carole Zoom built Zoomtopia, and came to HELSINQI for a PR kickoff campaign.More
The WSA provides innovative wine education and retail, and HELSINQI designed an identity program and user-maintained website.More
We did the brand ID for the Human Papilloma Virus scientific conference taking place in Seattle in 2014.More
The Alliance Française of Portland came to HELSINQI for a special logo design for their 25th anniversaire.More
The Seattle Parks Department needed a name and logo for a new public arts event series, and arts-savvy HELSINQI obliged.More
Northwest Research provides prospect research to nonprofits and came to us for an identity program and user-maintained website.More
HELSINQI designed a cheery series of school-specific buttons and collateral for a Portland Public Schools outreach campaign.More
Environmental teacher-activist Joanna Macy engaged us to produce a double-DVD video demonstrating her workshop methodology.More
CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
Carlton Cellars artisanal winery
Fondazione Carlo Grandori
Joël Belgique classical viola project
FearNoMusic 21st-Century Ensemble
YWCA of Portland
Ingrid Lahti — fine artist
Harriet Sanderson — fine artist
HiiH handmade lamps
Wine & Spirit Archive — wine education
Alberta Cooperative Grocery
Naylor Building
hill2 Executive Coaching & Consulting
Parallaxis video & music concert
Theory of Love multimedia opera
The Cordial — dinner events
Fields & Lane quality leather gloves
Zoomtopia artist & organization space
HPV2014 — scientific conference
Alliance Française de Portland
Seattle Parks Dept. — ArtSparks
Northwest Research — donor research
Portland Public Schools
Joanna Macy DVD project
LIFE IS GOOD
Our clients are making the good life genuinely good in industries where style and quality are critical, such as food & drink fine wine gourmet locavore restaurants caterers markets clubs cafes design & home green building interiors furniture fixtures fashion & lifestyle designers clothiers retailers salons art & culture museums galleries theatre books music health & wellness spas yoga massage acupuncture travel & hospitality eco-tourism eco-resorts events & beyond…