2012 Capel Catalog

It’s the beginning of a new year, full of promise and opportunity, and that means the Rivers Agency team is busily working on one of our favorite projects – the annual catalog for Capel Rugs. For weeks now, our visual artists have been brainstorming ideas for the 2012 catalog, reviewing photography, design concepts and other details to ensure that this version is the best one ever. Our team h… Read more

Rivers Agency Wins Five Davey Awards

The Davey awards is an international honor given to small firms who exhibit big creativity. They focus exclusively on making sure the size of the agency doesn’t matter when it comes to recognition for hard work, originality and imagination. That’s why it’s not surprising that in the 2011 winners circle is Rivers Agency, taking home five of the prestigious Silver Daveys. The awards are jud… Read more

NC Science Festival Site Launch!

  The North Carolina Science Festival had its first run in September of 2010. It was so successful, they decided to do it again — this time bigger and better. As part of the initiative to make the event the best one yet, NCSF hired us to create an amazing, interactive website promoting the festival. And that’s exactly what we did. The new site is up and running after we launched it… Read more

By Invitation Only.

This summer has been big for huge website launches, such as Google+ and Spotify. With these launches, we’re seeing a growing trend: access by invitation only. But is it successful? We think so. This might just be the smartest marketing move either of these companies could make. Jen Deguay from Compete Pulse compares invitations to this summer’s hottest websites to invitations to parties, and re… Read more

600 Brickell Video Live

We were so happy to work with Cisco and their partners, Venturian Group and Foram Group, to create a video about their newest initiative: 600 Brickell. See our blog post about the video shoot with Cisco here. 600 Brickell is located in the Brickell District of Miami, and it is the most technologically innovative building in the world, with the latest and greatest technologies and communicati… Read more

Building a Mobile Site for Biltmore

Biltmore asked us to design and launch a mobile version of their Virtual Sommelier, it just launched today. The Biltmore is very excited! This will be the first of many mobile sites for them. Hi Lauren, Everything looks great! We’re very excited to launch our first mobile web app! Please thank your team for all their great work on this project. Thanks, Barbara Mobile websites are co… Read more

Biltmore Inspirations Launches New Site

  Biltmore just launched a brand new home party company and a brand new web site to go with it, Biltmore Inspirations. They contacted Rivers Agency to design and develop the web site. The site serves as a new home-based party planning system. The web site allows users to view Biltmore products, register to host parties and join the Biltmore Inspirations team as a consultant. It also… Read more

Rivers Agency Wins the Bid to Create the NC Science Festival Web Site

After the first ever North Carolina Science Festival (NCSF) in September 2010, the NCSF team decided to build on its success. Festival team members have been hard at work planning for an even bigger and better NCSF in April 2012. Part of this plan is to redesign and update the NCSF web site to help build excitement and promote events. Rivers Agency was chosen from many qualified agencies to des… Read more

ASHA’s HPV Counseling Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVRtPA6g4g Human papillomavirus (HPV) affects almost 6 million new people each year. We partnered with ASHA, the American Social Health Association, and Lynn Barclay, President and CEO, to help create a new video about HPV that launched June 1. The video serves as a primer to physicians counseling HPV patients and an educational tool for anyone looking for info… Read more

Interacting with the Media

Public relations professionals handle a lot. One of the things they do most is talk and interact with the media. In his article about interacting with the media, Kevin Sangsland said “When dealing with the media, the quality of your interview is the currency of your reputation.” And it’s true — one bad interview could mean bad news for your company or client. Sangsland offered 6 great tips fo… Read more