BLACK DOT GROUP


*Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested…* CREATIVE —Black Dot Group can work with you to develop consistent brand messaging and unified design for integration throughout your marketing programs. From smaller projects handled in-house to large project with agency partners, our services include strategy, concept and content development, art direction, copywriting, design, layout, and template creation. Artwork is a critical component to the creative process. Black Dot Group offers illustration; art rendering and redrawing; conventional, digital, studio, and location photography; and photo–art direction.		COLOR RETOUCHING — Whether your company is selling a brand image or a product, flawless color reproduction for each marketing channel is essential. Black Dot Group color specialists work hand in hand with photographers to help ensure that the image captures are of the highest quality and that they conform to best-practice color workflows. Black Dot Group’s staff of highly skilled color experts can match swatches to your merchandise and color correct images to exact specifications. We can create silhouettes and shadows, manipulate and clone artwork, and repurpose images for Internet use. Our processes are completed with the most advanced digital proofing and file delivery systems that you will find anywhere. It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.…

*A picture is worth a thousand words…* PHOTOGRAPHY — Our photography services will engage your audiences. Working with its sister company Clutch Studios, Black Dot Group offers planning services that include set design and construction; prop acquisition; model casting and booking; and stylists for set, hair, and makeup. We work with food stylists for culinary preparation and photo supervision. Black Dot Group can arrange for acquisition and management of product samples. Our photography capabilities and services include studio, on-location, and table top in both digital and conventional formats. With art direction and project management services, our experienced staff takes care of every detail.		PAGE LAYOUT, VERSIONING, AND ASSEMBLY— Black Dot Group helps you clearly convey your message. We create retail ads, catalogs, directories, packaging, direct mail solicitations, and customized publications that speak to end users. We work with in-house creative teams who develop pages and need production services to complete the preparation of files for print or electronic channels. Anything worth doing is worth doing well… Black Dot Group’s production associates process hundreds of thousands of pages per year. We layout new pages and revise existing pages. We enforce customer brand and product specifications. We assemble pages with art and prepare files for the appropriate marketing channel, whether print or electronic. We repurpose data from systems into pages. We extract data from pages for auditing back to systems. We help customers “get it right!”
There is no more noble occupation than to help someone succeed… Black Dot understands the creative process, understands the technology, and understands workflows. Combining that knowledge, Black Dot enables customers to focus on their potential and overcome the problems that create limitations. FACILITIES MANAGEMENT— Black Dot Group can hire, train, and manage staff for multiple shifts and peak times either at your site, near your site, or in our facility. We have helped clients with their publishing needs under all three scenarios. We manage the production resources with years of experience and technical tools to provide the services you need usually at a cost lower than you can do it yourself. Black Dot’s support services enables customers to focus on their core business while having a first-class publishing resources available when needed. CONSULTING — Keeping your company’s workflows up-to-date with the best use of technology, communication tools, and processes can be a full-time job. Black Dot Group can help by providing a team of industry professionals to shadow employees and analyze current production processes and to evaluate marketing programs. In addition, our highly skilled staff will provide advice on marketing strategies, promotional planning, and media planning to help ensure that your resources are used wisely. Black Dot Group assists with tactical execution by providing comprehensive account, project, facility, and print management services.