MANVIL

A few years back MANVIL built a logo for DownForceMotoring. The client loved it, and ran with it. We liked it, they liked it, we all won, held hands and have downed a few cold ones over it.

Subsequently, the client changed their focus, and in doing so asked that the image be changed to suit DownForce Media without hacking up the previous logo that they liked so much.

OK, we’re game. We promised not to futz with the image too much. We promised to make the image something strong, and honest… of course without mussing it up.

To know the staff at DownForce, you can read into the image what you will. There aren’t any cowboys, there aren’t any eagles with talons full of arrows, but neither is the flag upside down or tattered.

We kinda like this addition to an already proud image. Go get em DownForceMedia. (Still on downforcemotoring.com)

A long while back we saw a video with Jeremy Irons acting in the persona of Klaus Von Bulow. In the clip he says, in a tone well studied and decidedly vainglorious, “Fashion should be fun”.

For best effects in mimicking the proper enunciation, keep your lower pre-molars attached to your upper canines. (It never hurts to raise your eyebrows and look down your nose either.)

What we’re getting at here is that if Fashion should be fun, so should everything else. So today, we take a shot at old school branding. Branding put together as an homage to a bygone era, a time when manufacturing was a big time grit and nasty. No clean suits, no goggles, no rubber gloves and sure as hell no oxygen tanks.

This is a tip of the hat to a time when stacks belched, workers carried tools to work with their hands and a three tonne era-specific super-car had a blisteringly fast 90HP motor… that got them all the way to 90 MPH.

MANVIL has a special love for the huge industrial. We love machines, we love tools and we’re kinda falling for this graphic.

If you want great graphics to be placed on your car, truck, boat or even your fine kids racing cart, give the boys t KolorWerx a call. We’re pretty sure they make beautiful stuff.

That said, and with real sadness that we can’t back Green Bay. Go Pats.

When busy clients have needs we at MANVIL like to try and help out whichever way possible, and when a favorite client (They’re all favorites really) needed a newsletter there is little question that we want to see them succeed.

The success of our clients not only allows them to use our services more, but our strong relationship allows for MANVIL’s growth as the proverbial word gets out. When atomic auto, Portland’s premier Saab service facility, and Swedish Auto Body chose to put out a quarterly mailer we’re glad the felt comfortable turning to us.

So how do you represent a staff of 7 commited technicians and 6 support staff who have the passion to service anything with four wheels? You throw your voice to their customers in a targetted e-mail, specifically, a program called constant contact. There is no mass-mailing waste of paper, no postman lugging half an hectare of former trees around the neighborhood in paper form, and if a customer isn’t interested in knowing about the goings on of the company they can simply opt out. Driven through the interwebs, there are coupons included for the e-mail savvy to impress upon customers the wants of atomic auto: try to be as green as possible, do paperwork on the screen.

At MANVIL, we’re proud of the work that we’ve done for atomic auto and Swedish Auto Body, and we’re glad to be a part of their continued success.

Those who know MANVIL know that for the last six or seven years (Maybe eight… OK it’s kind of a blur) we have been involved in one way or another with Portland Adult Soapbox. This year the powers that run the race turned to MANVIL for a little creative aid, and we were very happy to oblige.

Soapbox this year is on August 13th, and the MANVIL car may be a little more prepared for the race than in years past, but that’s no fault of ours. The beer will flow the race will run and the winner, whomever they are, will enjoy a grand spectacle.

MANVIL, well, we’re in it for the fun of being a part of something delightfully PDX. (And of course the full pic-i-nic basket and cooler of refreshments) Let the freak flags fly and enjoy Mt. Tabor!

A special thanks goes out to the good folks who support PDX Soapbox… the Portland and Soapbox racing public at large, and especially Pete Wilson Stoneworks, Jens Edwards Electric, Ecoheat, Infinity Tattoo, Bakery Bar, Bipartisan Cafe, Pine State Biscuits, Laurelhurst Theater,  Migration Brewing, Cheese Bar, New Deal Distillery, Beulahland, MEAT, Adams Law, New Deal Cafe, IMI, Lompoc, Flying Pie Pizzaria, Oregon Sports Action and Kolorwerx.

Here’s to Soapbox!