Bureau Blank has complete a full brand identity design and website for Mack & Co.

Founded by Roszell Mack III, a founding Partner of Ascend Venture Group and former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Mack & Co. is an independent global advisory firm offering strategic, financial, and alternative investment solutions for family offices. The firm's Global Family Network allows it to offer its clients a diverse array of specialized knowledge and expertise.

As premium customer service is a critical component of Mack & Co.'s work, we worked closely ith their team to develop a full suite of communications from visual identity and collateral to brand articulation language and a new website to make the firm's value proposition clear and attractive to prospective clients.

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Bureau Blank client ContourGlobal is receiving widespread press as the company continues to develop new energy projects around the world.

In recent weeks, ContourGlobal has been featured in press from across the globe for its new work in Bulgaria and Rwanda.

On November 3, ContourGlobal officially opened Maritsa East 3, a Bulgarian thermal power plant that the company acquired in March 2011 for 230 million EUR. As reported in the Bulgarian Standart News, ContourGlobal will also invest in green technologies compliant with modern EU requirements.

In late October, ContourGlobal announced the selection of BNY Mellon as the corporate trustee for the financing of its KivuWatt project in Rwanda. KivuWatt will produce power from methane gas extracted from Lake Kivu and as Bloomberg reports, reduce the risk of a serious environmental incident from lake explosions.

Learn more about KivuWatt and Maritsa East 3 on the ContourGlobal website

More about our work on the ContourGlobal website

Bureau Blank has launched a brand new website for boutique investment bank Petsky Prunier.

Petsky Prunier is one of the leading investment banks serving the marketing, media, technology, and services industries. As the firm’s primary face to its audience, the previous website needed an overhaul to improve user interface and to make the most valuable content more visible.

We worked with the team at Petsky Prunier to identify their communication goals and the overall impression they wanted to leave with site visitors – that the firm is a true leader based on its track record, expertise, and how it approaches each project. We also streamlined the organization of content, notably their portfolio of transactions and the firm’s research center to bolster their presentation as a thought leader in the space. Additionally, the team can now manage and update content internally to keep the site fresh with deal and event news updates as they happen.

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To mark the 20th anniversary of urban innovator Living Cities, Bureau Blank has designed the publication Dynamic Collaboration: Reflections on Living Cities at 20.

The Dynamic Collaboration monograph advances the traditional annual report to commemorate an important milestone for Living Cities. It features contributions from more than two dozen leading urban thinkers and practitioners (such as the Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz, PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretaries Shaun Donovan and Henry Cisneros) on key issue areas and Living Cities' work over the past two decades. Profiles of each of the contributors can be found in an interactive graphic on the Living Cities homepage: http://www.livingcities.org/

The publication was made available at Living Cities 20th Anniversary celebration on September 27, 2011 and features commissioned illustrations of each contributor by artist Ignacio Hinojosa.

Bureau Blank’s redesign of ContourGlobal’s website has officially launched.

Launched in 2005, ContourGlobal is one of the fastest growing power and energy operating and developing companies in its industry. Its portfolio is robust in both high-growth, underserved markets and innovative niches within developed markets around the world.

Our strategy in the redesign was to update the site’s look and feel from the startup phase to match the company’s impressive track record and growing reputation, ultimately reflecting ContourGlobal’s leadership in the global energy sector.

To quickly and deeply immerse visitors into what makes ContourGlobal unique in its field, we emphasized bold visuals and improved the information architecture to make the site easy to navigate and useful for the company’s key audiences.

Visit the new ContourGlobal website

ContourGlobal awarded Europe, Middle East and Africa Power Portfolio of the Year (article preview)

Bureau Blank has redesigned the website of longtime partner Living Cities to reflect the organization’s growth and achievements in recent years.

Where the first stage of our work with Living Cities in 2009 was to rebrand the organization with an emphasis on its process and point of view, the new website is designed to highlight the results generated by its work and the activities that are currently underway.

Launched in time for the celebration of their 20th anniversary, the new website features a greater depth of content categories and supports a range of media types from video and image galleries to PDFs of reports and publications. We also worked closely with Living Cities to ensure that the site’s architecture was designed to effectively reach key audiences with priority messages. With a robust search tool and social media integration, all of this rich content is easy to access and even easier to share.

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Bureau Blank and the Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program (REEP) have collaborated on a web and strategy project to help boost the program’s brand and visibility as an innovator in education reform.

Based within Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, REEP takes a unique perspective on education by approaching educators and school leaders as entrepreneurs in need of tools and strategic thinking to lead high-performing schools.

Because of this innovative approach, we knew that it was important to use REEP’s web presence to position the program as an outpost for perspectives from Executive Director Andrea Hodge, thought leadership, and important conversations on education. We began the project by working closely with REEP’s marketing team to develop an editorial strategy that outlined the important aspects of building a stronger online voice from the ground-up:

• Editorial tone of voice
• Recommended content types
• Contributions from all key constituents (REEP students, REEP administration, K-12 students and teachers, other education reform advocates)
• Interactivity with audience
• Key performance indicators

Following the editorial strategy, we built the REEP Blog on a Wordpress platform to allow for multiple contributors, easy sharing of posts on social media, and a digest of the most popular content. The blog is showing early signs of success with dialogue between K-12 students, teachers, and advocates happening regularly in comment threads.

Read more on the REEP Blog and learn about the program at the Jones Graduate School of Business.

Earlier work for REEP
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Bureau Blank has created a series of event collateral for The Museum of Chinese in America's (MOCA) Young Professionals Program.

At Bureau Blank, we love being in Chinatown and were proud to work pro bono with an important community cultural institution like MOCA. The Young Professionals Program showcases the next generation of Asian American leaders and incorporates their talents into initiatives for the museum and its members. We created postcards and poster-sized collateral to encourage museum visitors and event attendees to join the program and its committees.

MOCA is located in Soho at 215 Centre Street in a remarkable space designed by award-winning architect Maya Lin. Learn more about the museum and how to become a member here.

Take a video tour of the MOCA space with Maya Lin

Continuing our relationships with the Harvard Kennedy School and Living Cities, Bureau Blank has built a web portal for the Urban Policy Advisory Group.

The Urban Policy Advisory Group (UPAG) is a unique collaboration between chiefs of staff, deputy mayors, and policy directors from some of the country's largest urban centers coming together to discuss emerging issues and craft recommendations to drive innovation. Based at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, UPAG is supported by Living Cities and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The online portal serves as a much-needed central hub of activity for this group whose members are located in all corners of the country. It features:

• login-protected, members-only access
• blog for posting updates as well as shared resources
• real-time discussion feed that memebrs can access online and via mobile
• searchable directory of members and contact information
• email digest and alerts for members to track updates to posts and discussions

The UPAG site joins the Living Cities members portal and A.S. Diamonds mobile inventory site as our latest privileged-access project. Drop us a line at mail@bureaublank.com if you have one in mind for your company!

Bureau Blank now creates 3D renderings of Living Proof products for the company's website and all of its marketing outlets.

To keep our company and our clients on the cutting edge of technology, we are increasingly using 3D renderings in the place of photographs. For Living Proof, using the renderings has a few important benefits:

• The image remains consistent with the look and feel of the physical product
• As products change with updated wording or artwork, modifying images is a snap! No new photoshoots needed.
• Overall presentation of products is improved for maximum appeal to customers

Interested in 3D renderings for your product? Drop us a line at mail@bureaublank.com!