Most of our clients have gotten used to our begging them to create lots and lots of content  for their sites. Content is good. It builds trust, it engages with viewers and it grows brand awareness. It also helps with search engine ranking.

Recently however, one of our clients took the concept to a whole new level. Dick Termes, the famous spherical artist, took on South Dakota’s state flag. He decided it needed to be redesigned. Well, that’s not exactly right, he redesigned the flag in 1989, the year of South Dakota’s centennial.  Then, as now, great controversy ensued.

This year one of our state legislators, Bernie Hunhoff, along with 80 of our 105 lawmakers introduced HB 1235 – a bill to replace our current state flag that currently displays the state seal with Termes’ design.

Termes’ design is simple and easy to identify. It is a sunburst (akin to our 1909 flag design) with a medicine wheel in the center.

Nice! We all really like it.

Many readers of South Dakota’s online newspapers, magazines and blogs don’t share our sentiment though. Probably the most lively discussion (one Mr. Hunhoff comments on several times) is over at SouthDakotaMagazine.com (a site well worth a bookmark if you are interested in some great South Dakota reads).

What the average South Dakotan seems to be saying is, ‘Don’t mess with my tradition!’

Usually when we speak or preach of content creation we mean blog and social media posts, rich with videos and photos. But Termes has taken it to a whole new level. He has created his content on a proposed, revered piece of cloth.

As with his revolutionary 6-point perspective artwork and his new flag design, he has taken our tried and true notion of interactive marketing and messed with tradition. Way to go Dick!

4 Point Perspective – 55,899 views

Reflecting Back – 55,672 views

Spherical Thinking Web Demo 11,458 views

A Round Town – 10,743 views

Good job Richard!

We’re working on getting the album up on his site soon I’ll keep you posted as soon as we get that done.

It was a fun project. We’ve been Hank fans for a long time. It was fun to design an album for him. The album is a mix of songs, emotions and styles. So far the songs Everybody Like This! and Vacuum are my favorites. Other musicians who play with Hank on the album are:
Jimmy Goings, Mike Miller, Jeremy Hegg, Jon Hegg, Peter Neussmann, Ricky Jacobsen, Kenny Putnam, Matt Berry, Matt Wallace, Tommy Hartig, Jimmy Sanchez, Andrew Reinartz, Genevieve Goings, Tony Baker

The complete track list is:
1. Amanda Lee
2. Everybody Like This
3. Women Choose
4. Typing and Entering
5. Vacuum
6. The Way to Heaven
7. I See Your Face
8. Love Doesn’t Stick
9. Nothing 2 Wear
10. Voodoo Avenue
11. Hope Dies Hard
12. What Am I Gonna Do?
13. Hypnotized
14. After All

This year we went out a little farther into the marketing world and made fun posters and used Facebook and Twitter to try to help promote the event. So far he’s already had a reported 3 visitors to the Gallery BEFORE the event’s even started. I’m taking that as a sign that our extra effort has payed off.

Below are a couple sample graphics of what I created to help spread the word, enjoy:

50 Termespheres are on display at the Dahl. Be sure to take it in – it is mind blowing.

Read a great KELOland article and watch their video here.  And don’t forget to visit Termes’ website here. ]]> http://asiostudio.com/largest-showing-of-termespheres-at-the-dahl-fine-arts-center/feed 0