Cross and Crown Productions

Hey bloggers!

We just finished two ads for some of our favorite artists for our friends at INO Records. Both Disciple and The Afters have new albums coming out, be sure to get them!

Enjoy!

Hello Bloggers!  July seems to have come so fast, it is hard to believe we are in the middle of 2010 already. This past month we finished the Lifest program for this year’s festival, which turned out to be a great one.  In fact, it set attendance records for the festival – congratulations Lifest! Click here to see the program!

Summer is typically the busiest time of the year for apparel designing, printing and ordering, and boy have we ever been busy with that. We designed this year’s shirts for the Chambersburg Project, which has been going on all of this week. If you are looking to get some apparel printed, now is a great time to do it as many specials are running on t-shirt sales. You know how to reach us!

On top of our already slammed summer, we are in the process of many web and print projects for New Franklin Fire Department, Olde Scotland Yard Golf Center, Destiny Image Publishers, Eagle Brook Church and Prison Fellowship Ministries – just to name a few.

Stay tuned for more art updates and news!

After a long awaited winter and spring, we have been able to move our offices!  We are now located only a short distance from where we used to be, and our address officially lies at 9 North Main Street.  We are directly above the delicious Cafe d italia restaurant on the square on the second floor in suite #1.  Come and see for yourselves!

Spring has been hectic and work-filled.  We have launched Hope Ignited and helped code and develop their site, webstore and apparel.  We have been in the process of a lot of t-shirt designing for Epic, LifeLoveMusic, Camp Joy-El and a dozen others, and with many new designs coming within the month.

Prison Fellowship has been a focus for us the past month as we have been developing, testing and designing a LMS System (that would be a Learning Management System for those of you who aren’t familiar with the acronym).  It is basically a virtual campus that organizes courses, classes and students.

We continue to be working on some new and exciting stuff – stay tuned!

This April has been a big, long month for everyone at Cross and Crown as we have put out a lot of work :

BornAwesome – Created by the regional volleyball team “Revolution Volleyball”, BornAwesome was established to “revolutionize the mentality of mediocrity that diminishes each person’s worthiness and replace it with the power and creativity of God’s original design”. They have been selling apparel and have already moved over 500 shirts!

C&C Coffee – We have revamped and simplified the website for C&C Coffee in downtown Chambersburg, with whom we share a building with. Now they have a website that compliments their great coffee, specialty drinks and fresh baked goods. This site has been featured on CSSMania!

10BuckTuesday – Launched alongside the ImpactSouthAfrica campaign, 10BuckTuesday helps remind everyone that even small gifts and donations make a difference. This site has also been featured on CSSMania!

Tuscarora Mountain Winery – Launched just this week, and we are pretty happy with the results. Started by owner Kenneth Hadley, Tuscarora Mountain Winery has already won various awards for their wine, as well as a revitalization award for his restoration work in his downtown store.

In other work,we have been working on some large projects for Hope Ignited, Lifest 2010, and various book covers for Destiny Image, and work for Shippensburg University.  We’ve recently seen a surge in screen printing and apparel design, as people are gearing up for summer. As always, you know where to go for screen printing and apparel!

Keep checking back for the latest!

March has been a very busy month for us, and as we are about to move on to April we’ve completed some new work we’d like to share!

We have released two new websites this week : John F. King Law and Friends Garden Party.

John F. King Law contacted us about redesigning their old website from conception to coding.  A new website worked in perfectly with their latest transition to new offices!  John F. King Law specializes in (but isn’t limited to) family law, such as divorce, child custody, adoption and wills (estates).

Friends Garden Party was also released this week – our great friend Tammy Borden recently started this ministry and had worked with us before on the Lifest website, so choosing us to help her with this new ministry was very easy.  If you love to garden or work outside, it is a great place to learn new tricks and tips in planting, growing and gathering!

As usual, we are busy with new and exciting projects – stay tuned for more coming soon!

Cross and Crown has released a new site, Impact South Africa, for Thrive Africa.  The site has become an initiative for fund-raising and awareness to support the mission of Thrive.  We worked together from the brainstorming stages all the way through today’s launch, playing an intricate part in the branding and delivery of this new campaign.  It’s not every day that we get to work with someone across the world, which we thoroughly enjoy doing – we encourage you to check out great work Thrive Africa is doing – do something.

We are continually entrenched at our desks working diligently on a slew of projects – we look forward to releasing new content this spring.

Stay tuned!

Cross and Crown has officially added another designer to the family : Adam Swisher.

Adam is currently wrapping up his education at Shippensburg University for art & graphic design, and has been working with Cross and Crown the past two months on various projects.  Adam brings a plethora of talent to the design team; he specializes in identity / branding, page layout, and apparel design, bringing even more depth to the talent pool.

Adam is an active member of the Chambersburg First Church of God in Chambersburg, and is looking forward to getting married to his sweetheart in May. When not at work, you can find Adam at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Continue to check back and to see new and exciting projects!

It’s official – we haven’t been very good at updating our blog this year.  In fact, this is the first entry of 2010 that we have done – and it is already the end of February!

Needless to say, we have been working very hard post-Christmas on a lot of projects.  The Lifest, Antietam Realty, and Grace Reformed websites were launched in January and February, along with a whole slew of print projects for DMD Engineers, Reinford Landscaping, CenterPoint Counseling, Destiny Image Publishers, Living Hope Church, Thrive Africa, and many many more. We have been kept busy with apparel projects as well, designing and printing over another 1,500 garments within the last month.

We are continuing to work on a variety of new and exciting projects this year, even a new Cross and Crown website…

Stay tuned…

Today we’ve officially released Shippensburg IT.  The owner happens to be a good friend of ours who was looking for a new website for his company, Shippensburg IT – he came to the right place.  Be sure to check it out!  Even more so, if you have any tech work you need done for your PC, be sure to contact Shippensburg IT.

We’ve been busy processing a lot of merchandise orders this month, just in time for Christmas – over 2,000 shirts! Along with all of the merchandise, we’ve done a few other smaller websites and print orders, and keep processing more.

Stay tuned for more updates and sneak peaks…

Blog readers – where have we been?  We haven’t posted for a while, and it is about time we get back on track with that.  It is quite cliche to say that “We’ve been busy”, but nothing is farther from the truth – we have been at a very high workload the past two months, coming in early and leaving the office late just to get work done and meet deadlines.  In the coming weeks we will be releasing a good bit of that work too!  We’re glad we love what we do.

We just wrapped up a two-logo set for Technivations.  Technivations is a company that works on and develops iPhone apps.  We were excited to work with these guys.

Next week we will be releasing some more sites and projects, so be sure to check back and see!