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Historical Programs
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Your story.
Your community.
Share it with your team, clients and the world.
The history of your community or organization is a
valuable asset that reinforces your "tradition of excellence"
and the integrity of your brands. Historical content
related to your community or organization supports
strategic marketing, community relations, and has
lasting cultural and educational value.
For two decades, we have integrated historical content with
our clients' facilities, strategic marketing and human resources objectives. We use history for art programs, exhibits,
publications, promotional merchandise, and on the web.
We would like to show you how this many benefit
your organization.
Does Your Company Have History?
Companies with a history have a high value asset that can
benefit both marketing and cultivating the human resources objectives. History expresses a tradition of excellence.
Your history is also unique to your company, and valuable for enhancing your positioning.
History also communicates your companies longevity and endurance. It solidifies your organizations place in the community.
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Public Space Exhibits
Case Studies: Palace Hotel, Century Plaza
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Historical Themes for Facility Branding
Case Study: Ronald Reagan Suite
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Restaurants and Bars
Case Study: Omni Hotel, Momos, Pied Piper Bar
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Memorabilia Displays and Collections
Case Study: Palace Hotel
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Educational Exhibits
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Murals
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Publications
learn more about publishing
See: Ronald Reagan Suite, Palace Hotel
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Custom Books
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Media and Community Relations
See examples: St. Regis
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Company History - Your Story
Your tradition of excellence is to be celebrated.
Were the founders notable in your local community or the creation of an industry?
Tell your story with exhibits, guest room artwork, timelines,
brochures even collectable books. History is powerful, brand building, and a priceless asset.
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Architectural or Property History
Does your real estate, hotel or restaurant have history? Have celebrity visitors added to your legacy? Does your building tell a story? If so, this historical asset may be valuable and can become an important visual element of your branding and facility design program.
Case Studies: St. Regis, Century Plaza, Palace Hotel, Post Ranch Inn
Learn more about using historical content
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Community History
Your communities story shared in pictures in your facilities connects you with your local area, your team and customers
Case Studies:
Post Ranch Inn, Hyatt Monterrey, Omni Hotel, Momos
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History as a Brand Marketing Strategy
New companies can also profit from their history, by preserving and publicizing the history they are creating today. Involving your team in the process, can fuel passion and enhanced recognition of their combined purpose.
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Industry History
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Visual Timelines
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Signage
• Historical Markers
• Recognition Plaques
• Donor walls |
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Research and Acquisition
Research is important to identifying and planning historical programs. This is undertaken both within your organization and public archives, to obtain a range of content suitable for your programs' objectives.
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Scanning Archival images
Scanning historical material requires special care and method to ensure preservation of valuable originals and to enable them to be properly restored.
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Image Restoration
Faded historical pictures are brought back to life through a restoration process that removes scratches, cracks and image defects, and restores the contrast to create high-quality output. Even faded historical pictures that may have previously been unusable can now be restored for publication or exhibit. |
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Hand-tinting Historical Images
One of our speciality services is converting black and white historical images to color using digital or hand-applied color. The style varies from subtle to postcard style to modern color, depending on your project's design intent. Notably this allows the use of historical content in modern design if color is required by the design program. |
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Editorial Services
Captions and narrative stories are important to historical images, providing educational information and relevancy. We create caption card, integrate copy in image borders, or produce sign plaques and graphic depending on your design requirements.
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Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Content management database software is used to manage the selection and content development of historical programs. this allows us to track information, rights, credits, placement and other details about the images, and for you and your team to review the content on-line as the selection process is conducted.
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Rights Management
The use of content for commercial projects is often governed by the source of the images, such as an public archive. We negotiate rights governing your intended use of content to ensure proper access and use of the content from outside sources as well as photographers or artist with whom you may have had past relationships.
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Copyright © 2009 Business Image Group
All rights reserved
415-434-8745
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We have been involved in publishing projects for
over twenty years.
Our projects have included books, posters, brochures, catalogs, album covers, training manuals, scientific journals, magazines, calendars and note cards.
Our services include strategic development,
art direction, graphic design, photography, copy writing, editing, research, licensing, cross-media publishing,
and digital asset management, and print management.
Our specialty is helping you with publish in multiple formats, integrating print publishing, point-of-purchase, exhibits in facilities, and web or electronic distribution.
Multilingual translation services available
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Promotional Catalog
PROJECT: Ronald Reagan Suite
CLIENT: Westin -Century Plaza Hotel
Promotional Catalog for dedication of the
Ronald Reagan Suite
Project was produced in conjunction with the redesign of the quite and installation of extensive exhibit on Ronald Reagan's Presidency and relationship with the Hotel
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Custom Books
CLIENT: Washington Hospital
PROJECT: History of Fremont Area
160 Page coffee table book
Book created in conjunction with exhibit program for West Wing of the hospital
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Copyright © 2009 Business Image Group
All rights reserved
415-434-8745
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