We’re only a couple days away from New Year’s Eve 2011 is (almost) dead, long live 2012! Well, the year is coming to an end, and it has been an incredible one for Studio Ace of Spade. It has seen, in no particular order: Our first full year in business, and the one year anniversary…

Before We Get Started Hello, dear readers! We’d like to take a minute to do something that we’ve been looking to do for quite some time now – provide you all with a run down of our processes on our projects. Today, we have an opportunity to unveil a case study of our recent project…

Man, was this project a blast! Fletcher Drive is a group of talented individuals who are launching a comedy web series. They came to the Studio through Reddit looking for branding and web presence on a budget. Their requests were to do something that was kind of minimalistic, conveyed information in the easiest ways, and…

A bit of background information We’ve said it before, but we’re absolutely thrilled to tell people that we’re the designers for New World Arts these days. It involves show posters, event programs and other various things here and there. But what’s New World Arts anyway? New World Arts is Goshen’s theater. Not the one were…

David Culp
& Co. LLP

David Culp & Co. LLP is a full-service firm with collective experiences in all forms of taxation, as well as for profit and not-for-profit accounting, compilation, attestation, and business planning and consulting services. They came to the Studio needing a new website.

Live @ the Brew ’09
A compilation

A music compilation created to raise money for The Window, Goshen’s food pantry. The compilation has been recorded by Grant Beachy of Electric Angel Studios, mastered by Nate Butler of Nimblewit Productions, the photos have been taken by Clarissa DuBois of Cyd Galleries.

Kendall Saville needed help coding a WordPress theme. He provided the Studio with three PSDs and a short instruction set. In under a week, the Studio had coded the theme in HTML5 compliant code, as well as some nice shortcode integrations to make the site easier to edit. After the theme was approved, it was…

Frequency Theater
Alternative music for the masses

Frequency Theater hails from the swampy marshes, wetlands, and gray skies of northern Indiana. Described as “a rock band with a robot bass player”, Frequency Theater pulls together the best elements of live rock (influenced by the likes of Muse, King’s X, U2, Foo Fighters), electronica (Paul Oakenfold, Pendulum, Skrillex), post-rock (Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor), and alternative (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab For Cutie, R.E.M, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s) to create a sound all their own.

Hello there, everybody! Today we’re releasing our contract that we use here at Studio Ace of Spade. From those that have seen it, we’ve received a lot of compliments on it. It’s simple, straight to the point, and covers everything that designers and web workers commonly run into during projects. We figured that it was…

Menno
Tea

Menno Tea began as a small, on-campus business venture started by Hans Weaver and Niles Graber Miller, both underclassmen at Goshen College. As their distribution area increased, Menno Tea came to us looking for a new design for their bottle as well as a facelift for their website.