A completely new brand for Mary’s Harvest Fresh Foods… a new company based on a deeply rooted concept. While creating this brand, we made sure to focus on the reason behind this brand, Mary. Her pioneering spirit and focus on family, served as an inspiration for this company and the overall brand. And 70 years later, her family is going back to its roots and expanding on Mary’s vision of fresh and ready food. Read Mary’s story here. As with most of our branding projects, we spent time researching the past, their story, and how best to tell their story, all the while keeping our sights focused on the future business plans. With their Italian family background strongly a part of this experience, we choose to use this Italian flavor throughout the overall impression of the brand, from the colors to the typefaces, to the overall ‘look and feel.’ For the Mary’s Harvest Fresh Foods brand, we created everything from the logo identity, stationary design (Business Card, Letterhead, and envelope) to a full website that integrates their third party ordering system, a WordPress CMS (Content Management System) and captures the heritage look and feel they were looking for to help firmly establish the family focus of this new brand. We even had a fun produce photo shoot with some of their great fresh food offerings! Be sure to keep your eyes open very soon for some of their fresh food offerings!
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Things are Fresh for Mary’s Harvest
June 13th, 2012www.retroshift.com just launched with the help of Pipe & Tabor
December 20th, 2011Pipe & Tabor recently assisted bike enthusiast Adam Clement with his new product website launch retroshift.com for his RetroShift product. For those in the Cyclo-cross field, this is a huge development in the ease of shifting, while remaining bullet proof in the elements and still being affordable. He’s already getting tons of great press for his products! Check him out at www.retroshift.com
Interior Designer Amy Troute
November 10th, 2011
One of our most recent projects which was for Portland’s most stylish interior designer Amy Troute. We created her business cards and designed and developed her website. See her fine skills at AmyTroute.com
Branding for the Inland NW Rail Museum
July 11th, 2011The Inland NW Rail Museum is devoted to the railroad history of Eastern Washington and are currently building a new museum in Reardan, WA. In building this new museum, they decided they wanted to brand their company. We were ecstatic about this new project, and put our brains together as we searched for the right image to represent their organization. Our goal was to define the logo by its original history. In our research we found that an image of a caboose would best represent the organization and their collection, since all trains used to have cabooses’ at the end of their train. Since cabooses’ are no longer used in trains it gave it a more historic and nostalgic feel and it also reminded us of the book we grew up reading, “The Little Red Caboose”. To finish off this logo with a warm feel, we created the final illustration by hand-drawing it. Check them out at their Facebook page.
Vancouver, WA’s Ice Cream Renaissance gets a new location and brand!
March 18th, 2011Local Vancouver, Washington Dessert favorite Ice Cream Renaissance just got a new location, across the street a block down at 1925 Main Street, right next door to Pop Culture. Pipe & Tabor worked with Seanette Corker of Back Front Door to help ‘polish and refresh’ their existing brand identity, as well as some of the window and other branding treatments. We in the process on working with them on the new menus and a new website landing page. (they do most of their web updates via their Facebook page). Please go check out some of their great homemade ice creams and other wonderful desserts! We are fortunate to have them as our dessert partners! (although I don’t my waistline is as fortunate).
Content is King (or ‘How Lorem Ipsum is killing design’)
March 18th, 2011Jeremy recently found a great blog article on why Lorem Ipsum is killing design. For those that don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is, it’s a pseudo form of Latin for designers to use to fill up content space in Print and Web when they don’t have the content yet from a client. It’s the usual battle of the cart getting out in front of the horse. It’s been valuable to designers to move the project forward (whose deadline is fast approaching) when the client isn’t pushing the project forward. But is it really helping? It seems like it at the time, but this article makes a case that it’s really crippling the final product. Much like buying clothing off the rack at the store might ‘sort of fit’ but is never quite like having something custom tailored to fit your exact body shape. Definitely something to consider. So clients, let’s start prepping your content now to then engage the design/development firm. You can read the article here.
If you need Attorneys at Law in the Battle Ground and Snoqualmie, Washington area that aren’t you typical lawyers: Joner Lindberg Baker
February 28th, 2011One of our best business partners is the law firm of Joner Lindberg Baker. They are attorneys at law in Battle Ground, Washington and Snoqualmie, Washington. Not your typical lawyers, Loren, Jeff and Matt take the time to really listen and to…. well… be human. Practicing law from a real world down to earth perspective, they are a firm that is relational based. We’ve enjoyed working with them on both the client end and vendor end, whether it’s business law, land use, and family law/estate planning (or even civil litigation). We helped them launch their website last year along with the branding, and have just updated their website with a new blog. If legal services are what you looking for in Washington, you have to give them a call. (and now, they have a brand new office at 35332 SE Center St. in Snoqualmie, in between a wine store and a coffee shop. It doesn’t get much better than that!). www.jonerlaw.com
Welcome and Thanks, Geromedical
October 13th, 2010GeroMedical Psychological Services gets an image overhaul.
GeroMedical Psychological Services, LLC. of Vancouver, WA recently hired Pipe & Tabor, LLC. to help overhaul all of their branding (full website in process). Preparing to move into a new space, and continuing to grow, we helped them grow into a more professional image.
We created a new Logo Identity, Stationery, Name Badges, and Outside Signage. They currently have a temporary splash page up with the new brand (and a link to the old website where you can compare the old brand to the new).
They serve the Vancouver, Portland and Southwest Washington area with care and services for the Geriatric Community and those that care for them. Look soon for a complete website for them!
Fancy Footwork
August 31st, 2010We’re head over heels about our work with Evergreen Foot and Ankle Specialists, PLLC.

We completely revamped www.evfas.com for Dr. Kurt Davis DPM.
Dr. Davis is Board Certified in Reconstructive Rearfoot/Ankle Surgery and Foot Surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.
The beautiful logo above, along with new stationary, was carefully designed while keeping the structural intricacies of the foot in mind.
Look them up and get back on the right foot.
They are located at 2415 SE 165th Ave, Suite 104, Vancouver, WA 98683, in the Fisher’s Landing area near Fred Meyer’s. Stop by or call 360-694-3668 for more information.
Fireside Cafe launches in Vancouver, Washington!
June 4th, 2010One of our clients, Fireside Cafe just opened in Vancouver, Washington at 63rd and Andreson. They have a great selection of cafe food and beverages for a very reasonable price. Marc and I ate there yesterday and it was quite tasty! I especially enjoyed the wood fired over pizza I had! The combined forces of M+BG (Pipe & Tabor and Mind Lightning) helped with the branding and signage. Check them out at 6709 NE 63rd St, Vancouver, WA 98661. 360-314-4301. They have a website splash page, with links to their Facebook and Twitter page: www.meetatfireside.com











