About Us
Small studio. Big ideas.
For over twenty five years, The Vivere Design Team has been designing smart, creative solutions that tell stories and make an impact.
We’re creative thinkers and coders and solution makers, but beneath it all, we’re nice people to work with. We listen to you - the most valuable part of our team - and we work together to develop solutions that work.
Some of our services include: web design, web development, brand management, corporate identity, environment design, custom programming for digital applications and illustration.
Our office is located near Denver, Colorado, but our clients are all over the globe; including across the United States, the United Kingdom, Asia and Australia.
How We Got Started
I've worked in design studios, ad agencies and corporations. For the past 15 years I've run my own design studio. In 2005 my husband joined the business, adding his wealth of programming and development knowledge. Unlike typical studios, we keep our overhead low by building teams for projects instead of keeping them on staff.
We enjoy the variety of projects that we are able to work with our clients on.
The products and services we offer
Products & Services
We make understandable and engaging experiences in the digital world, from web sites to interactive sales tools and all digital medium in between.
Building highly-functional websites that are attractive, responsive, secure, maintainable, updatable and user-friendly is what we do. We stay curre...
Set the tone. Change the mood. Speak loudly. Whisper. Whatever your message is, make your presence known when people walk through, around or in fro...
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Maury, if you're working with designers whose egos are involved with their work, than you're working with the wrong designers.
A message on a web site can draw sirens from the sea, but only if they're aware of it. Design is like other consultancy/service industry business, it takes some amount...
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Maury, if you're working with designers whose egos are involved with their work, than you're working with the wrong designers.
A message on a web site can draw sirens from the sea, but only if they're aware of it. Design is like other consultancy/service industry business, it takes some amount of hustle to spread the word about your services and to ask for referrals.
Of course, the answer depends on the business. We completed a very custom web site for a client that cost well over 100K. The site was customized to each subscriber once they entered certain parameters. You can see a sample of the site at www.apoegenediet.com (you'll need to pay in order to see...
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Of course, the answer depends on the business. We completed a very custom web site for a client that cost well over 100K. The site was customized to each subscriber once they entered certain parameters. You can see a sample of the site at www.apoegenediet.com (you'll need to pay in order to see the subscription side).
If your web site is a blog-type site, then you might get away with a one-time fee as long as you're willing to enter the content. You might need to hire on an issue-by-issue basis. We don't charge our client's a monthly fee, as we keep their sites updated with the latest software updates for free (or nominal fees if there's a major update that breaks things), and we have yet to come across an instance where the client's money is best spent this way.
Our own site was also a custom site - www.viveredesign.com - As a designer, we thought it important to not have a template solution. The estimated cost of this site was about $10K, which included all of the content creation.
I agree with Wayne Sharer that you can spend a few hundred dollars and on up, but there are plenty of questions to be asked before one can determine an estimated budget.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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We use hubspot. They have a free service and also a fee service. Our needs are minimal, so the free service works great for us. They are incredibly helpful in getting you set up. Good luck.
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We use hubspot. They have a free service and also a fee service. Our needs are minimal, so the free service works great for us. They are incredibly helpful in getting you set up. Good luck.
Hi Judy,
I have sympathy with your plight of good tech skills vs good design. We work with a lot of designers who love to design, but don't have the programming chops. It's unclear what you are asking for when you say a Word Press Assistant. Are you looking to redesign your site and have it...
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Hi Judy,
I have sympathy with your plight of good tech skills vs good design. We work with a lot of designers who love to design, but don't have the programming chops. It's unclear what you are asking for when you say a Word Press Assistant. Are you looking to redesign your site and have it developed in Word Press?
My partner and I have split the tasks of design and development, playing on each other's strengths. She is a designer and I am a developer. We just completed a fairly major site (done in Drupal because of the complexity, not Word Press). You can see a sample at www.apoegenediet.com.
If you'd like to discuss your project, we'd be happy to chat with you and discuss what some of your options might be. 720-248-7320.
Google provides a whole platform of similar products - they're not as powerful with all the bells and whistles, but they're easy to share with my clients.
Beyond being worried about if you're getting the products advertised, it's more than likely software piracy.
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Google provides a whole platform of similar products - they're not as powerful with all the bells and whistles, but they're easy to share with my clients.
Beyond being worried about if you're getting the products advertised, it's more than likely software piracy.
Hi Tamara - We treat branding and creating a new logo as two related, but separate entities. I describe a logo as the face of the brand. You may have a brand strategy in place, but unless it's made clear and communicated both internally and externally, it's not working hard for you. If what you...
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Hi Tamara - We treat branding and creating a new logo as two related, but separate entities. I describe a logo as the face of the brand. You may have a brand strategy in place, but unless it's made clear and communicated both internally and externally, it's not working hard for you. If what you really want is a brand strategy, it takes work and time (3-6 months is a good goal). Minimally, I would ask, what are your values, goals and promises. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses. I would ask you to ask this of each of your employees and of your clients.
Look at your audience who it is today and who you want it to be in the future. How are you going to reach them?
Look at your competition and what is their message?
You should be able to identify words that will set the tone for your key values (I usually make a list of 10 or less). This will help set the tone for your logo. But, again, the logo is only the face. I always recommend making a "manifesto" to remind yourself and your employees what your company stands for.
The tactical aspects of rebranding are consistency, consistency, consistency. Give your identity room to grow and breath. It helps if you gather all of the materials that you currently put your logo on so that you can consider them all in terms of consistency.
Much of this can be done internally - as you said you have a small budget. But setting clear messages for your company always helps.