Built for government & utility districts
Custom CreativeBuilt from scratch.
Custom Creative is the work we design only for you — publications, campaigns, branding, maps, video, and more, drawn from a blank page around your goals, your brand, and your residents.
Every custom project starts the same way: a conversation. You bring the goal — fewer wipes in the pipes, a rate increase residents actually understand, a campaign that changes behavior — and we bring two decades of making outreach work for agencies like yours.
A dedicated project manager scopes the work with you. Our copywriters and designers draft. You react at the creative reveal, and nothing ships until you’ve approved it. Then we follow up to make sure it worked — because we prefer to create with a purpose, not just to look pretty.
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Five studios’ worth of work, one in-house team — strategy, copy, design, and production under one roof in Bend, Oregon.
Publications
Annual reports, newsletters, and print your residents keep.
The documents that carry your story all year. Designed to be opened, read, and remembered — and we print and mail what we design, end to end.
- Annual Reports → Your year, made readable — comprehensive yet visually pleasing.
- Newsletters → Print, digital, and email newsletters residents actually open.
- Print Collateral → Posters, postcards, door hangers, and brochures that keep impressing after you've left.
- Bill Inserts → Inexpensive attention grabbers for bill mailers, e-bills, and newsletters.
- Printing & Mailing → We print and mail what we design — into every mailbox.
Campaigns & Outreach
The big, multi-channel projects.
Rate increases residents understand, welcome packets that win over new customers, messages that follow your community from the mailbox to the highway. These are the projects that pull together print, digital, and everything between.
- Rate Increase Campaigns → Engaging materials that help consumers understand your reasoning.
- Welcome Packets → Educate and inspire your newest customers through cohesive design.
- Billboards → Print and electronic — a 21st-century way to reach your community at scale.
- Truck Stickers → Custom fleet wraps that turn every route into outreach. Guaranteed seven years.
- Event Booth Displays → Table covers, banners, canopies, and flags that stand out at any event.
- Online Media Buying → Ad design, audience lists, and buying strategy across social and video.
Video & Digital
From script to delivery.
PSAs, explainers, custom 2D animation, and social shorts — we run script to delivery. Plus the digital pieces that round out a campaign, from presentations to flipbooks.
- Custom Videos → Animation, interviews, and full editing — script to delivery.
- Public Service Announcements → PSA copy crafted for radio, print, and television.
- PowerPoint Slides → Custom, reusable templates that retire the dull presets.
- Digital Flipbooks → Your PDF as a branded, page-flipping experience on any device.
Logos & Branding
An identity your district owns.
Logo refreshes, full identity systems, and brand guidelines built for public agencies — an identity that works on a water tower, a truck door, and a bill insert alike.
Maps, Illustrations & Infographics
Your system, drawn to be understood.
Over 90% of what the brain processes is visual. Illustrated watersheds, 3D system maps, cartoon characters, and infographics that turn technical data into something residents actually absorb.
- Maps → Illustrated watersheds, 3D system maps, and custom city maps.
- Illustrations → Photo illustrations, technical drawings, characters, and icons.
- Infographics → An engaging way to look at boring but important data.
- Kids Activities → Activity books and classroom materials that start education early.
Translations
Connecting every community you serve.
Many of the agencies we work with are focused on reaching residents across language and cultural barriers — and we put a high value on helping them do it. Any of the work above can be translated and typeset in the languages your community speaks. Newberg’s 2025 water quality report shipped as a complete 13-page Spanish edition, cover to cover, not a translated summary.
Two specialties live on their own pages: Water Quality Reports and Community-Based Social Marketing.
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Every custom project is one of a kind — here’s a taste. Hundreds more live in the Store, where our whole portfolio is headed.
Consult, design, deliver.
We have a proven process to reach the goals of your outreach — and if you’re on a tight schedule, ask about fast-tracking.
Project Scoping
Determine project goals, deliverables, and budget.
Kickoff Call
Introduce the team and have a shared understanding on scope and project timeline.
Content Drafts
Copy is client-provided or drafted by our copywriters.
Creative Reveal
Our team presents the design for your review and feedback.
Wrap Up
Final, approved version is delivered on time and within budget.
Analyze Results
We follow up to make sure the goals of the outreach performed as expected.
Get in touch about your project
Tell us what you're working on and a person responds within 1 business day. Or call 866.742.8287 and talk to your project manager.
Rather talk it through? Schedule a 30-minute call with John.