Howell Creative Group has won an American Graphic Design USA Award for the website they designed for civil contractor, J.S.G. Corporation. The site features custom functionality with an online dirt and fill material quantity calculator. Also included is a video background imbedded on the homepage and an online employment application. The...
Kathy Howell, President & Creative Director of Howell Creative Group, was honored with a 2016 Women in Business Achievement Award by Inside Business Journal. Each year the program recognizes outstanding women for significant contributions as businesswomen, mentors and volunteers across Hampton Roads. A panel of judges...
Marketing and Advertising firm Howell Creative Group was honored with four Website Development Awards. The firm won a 2016 Gold American Advertising Award (Addy) for the Williamsburg restaurant Cochon on 2nd's website development. Howell Creative was one of eight Gold winners out of a total...
Howell Creative Group welcomes Intern Amelia Poole, a rising Junior at Colgate University in New York. Poole will focus on the areas of creative concepting, content development and marketing planning. Howell Creative Group’s competitive eight week summer internship program provides one student each year with a...
In this age of the gluten-free, paleo and clean-eating food trends, big food brands have felt a push to accommodate consumers who respond to these buzzwords. Brands such as Frito-Lay, Kellogg and Kraft are experiencing an increase in competition and a decrease in sales, due...
For those of you who've traveled with me in "Big Willow" my adorable VOLVO XC 90, you know I'm one of those folks who names my car. I loved the design and green color and when I found out the hue happened to be named...
Ron Johnson, JCPenny’s former CEO, wiped the 1200-plus-page catalog from America’s mailbox in 2009. But with new management and direction, their home catalog has been resurrected. 120 glorious pages feature affordable goodies to fill up living rooms, bedrooms and any other room in need of...
We are Millennials, hear us … text. And tweet. And snap. While I still look back nostalgically at a time when cell phones were only “for emergencies” and researching involved opening a book, I know I am the typical, technology dependent Millennial girl. Known as...
The team at Howell Creative Group is sending out dozens of fuzzy otters to brighten the holidays for area children. The stuffed otters, from the Virginia Living Museum (VLM), will find loving homes with the help of Salvation Army Santas. “Delivering toys during the holiday...
Co Branding Does it Work? Kelloggs recently came out with a new peanut butter cereal but ran into the wall when concluding their name alone was not going to be enough to sell their new cereal.What do big brands do in a case like...
It seems these days-literally the last few days-that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been a frequent flyer aboard Facebook’s News Feeds with it’s great awareness building and fundraising tactics for ALS. This frigid challenge has recently surfaced and many have come forward with different...
Remember the old adage, "A picture's worth a thousand words."? I've been a believer in the power of visual brand awareness since the days of Dr. Suess, Tom Terrific and The Captain & Bunny Rabbit entered my life. And how many of you are old...
Kathy presented the Lead Historic Triangle class of '03 scholarship to recipient Jennifer Stout, class of 2015. Kathy helped develop the Sallie Melvin Memorial Scholarship award honoring their LHT classmate who passed away in 2013. What a beautiful gesture and thing to do - great...
The Design Center at New Town was the site of the First Annual Employees Visual Arts Show. The June 20 event included 47 entries, from photographs to paintings to hanging mobiles. “There are some very talented people in this building and it was a treat to see their work,” said Annette Gilbert...
Howell Creative Group has won an American Web Design Award for the website they created for the Foundation at Williamsburg Place.“The new website helps the Foundation get information out to the public about addiction recovery, prevention and awareness. The work they do is so important...