Artful web copy

Artist, muralist and professional paint colour consultant Lori Klassen already had a beautiful site design (by the talented Holly of Thinkpuppet in Toronto) but she'd added some new services and needed new words to go with them. Pink Elephant wrote all the copy to describe Lori's fine art commissions and paint colour consultations, as well as the meta data (so Google will find her). If you love your home (or want to), check Lori out. http://www.loriklassen.com/

Beautiful bookmarks for a beautiful artist

Bookmarks are one of my favourite ways to promote a worthy client. There is something romantic about traveling around in someone's good read. And there's something generous about giving someone a small gift when you first meet, something practical, something pretty. This is the bookmark Pink Elephant designed for artist and professional paint colour consultant Lori Klassen. If you'd like one of your very own, you can visit her at the Queen West Art Crawl this weekend. She'll also have them on hand at her Distillery District studio. Pop in any time! Or visit her online at www.loriklassen.com or "like" Lori Klassen Studio on Facebook.

We use veggie inks on super-eco paper so there's extra good karma in this friendly, kindly marketing piece.If you'd like a bookmark for your business, just ask: hellothere@pinkelephantcommunications.com

Pink Elephant does e-newsletters - lots of them!

One of Pink Elephant's favourite projects is an e-newsletter. It's fun to add soul and spirit and colour to those drab Constant Contact templates (and the ones by other guys too). Here's the most recent e-newsletter we helped to publish, for the incomparable Yoga Goddess!

If you're in the Toronto area and have been thinking of starting yoga this fall, these are the last classes Zahra will be offering in 2010 so carpe diem and register!

And if you would like a prettied-up e-newsletter template or could use a hand writing the content, get in touch: hellothere@pinkelephantcommunications.com

Red Tent Sisters boutique is a beautiful spot to shop

Red Tent Sisters is pretty special to Pink Elephant - they were one of our very first clients, and we've been in love ever since. Kim (one of the founding sisters) recently redecorated, and the boutique is simply gorgeous. It feels light and quiet and warm and friendly... a very inviting space to browse or buy or ask questions. If you're unfamiliar, Red Tent Sisters carries everything a gal could want for her very best sexual and reproductive health - all-natural lubricants that smell of strawberries, soy massage candles, a wall of books, eco-friendly and body-friendly toys, Fertilitea and PreSeed if you're trying to get pregnant... so much more. Pink Elephant was entirely delighted to see signage we'd designed over the years, hung about the boutique. This one to the left is one of our favourites. They have great fiction and non-fiction for reading under summer sun. If you're in the area, go visit: 810 Danforth Ave (east of Pape), Toronto, www.redtentsisters.com

Shiny new brochure for SHINE!

SHINE! Creative Coaching is one of our favourite clients to work with because principal Christine Berg is totally lovely and because we love her colours - lush green with a hint of watermelon. She asked us for a brochure for their corporate communications coaching services that would be colourful but still office-appropriate. We think this strikes the right note - professional and polished but it still has style.

What's also nice to know is that it was printed on Forest Stewardship Council-approved paper by a member of Ontario's Environmental Leaders and Sustainable Forest Initiative - making it even more green than at first glance.

One dollar, one donor, one child in need

Our feel-good project for July! ONEXONE is an amazing organization, with a mandate of helping children live in health, safety and dignity. They have quietly been going about the important work of funding school breakfast programs in First Nations communities where poverty and hunger rates are higher than anywhere else in our country. They asked if we could help with a little piece that would tell people about the program and let them know how they could help. We were SO happy to be asked.

The school breakfast program is run by a lovely woman named Elisa Levi. I don't know how she does it all. Her goal is to increase the number of students who are getting healthy breakfasts from 2,000 today to 12,000 by 2012. Let's help her!

If you're able to give, you can donate online at http://www.onexone.org/.

Dancers and artists deserve a beautiful site - Pegasus Studios

Pegasus Studios is a family-run dance, art, music and fitness studio with classes for children and adults in the east end of Toronto. Their mission is to add beauty and joy to the lives of their students of all ages through movement and the arts. And when you're in their space, you feel that. It feels special, and fun, and like you're family. And what really made me love them is how much they value the self-esteem of girls. Their classes are about classic form - they take dance seriously - but it's also about a celebration of the body - what it can do, not how it looks. Pink Elephant has really enjoyed our small part in helping them.

Our latest project is pictured here. They have a wonderful volunteer, a father of two dance students, who volunteered to build them a website. Pink Elephant provided the design and now Gerry is going to bring it to life. It's a testament to how wonderful Pegasus Studios is that a kind man like Gerry would offer hours and hours to help them spread the word.

If you or your kids want to take art, dance or fitness classes, Pegasus is a really nice place. And they're just a short walk from Coxwell station so easy to get to if you're anywhere near the Danforth. Here's their current (not yet re-designed by Pink Elephant) site: http://www.pegasusdance.com/testimonials.asp