Fresh ID Seeking Candidates for Summer 2010 Web Design Internship

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Posted April 19th, 2010 in Press | 0 Comments

Fresh ID, LLC of Kansas City, MO helps businesses around the world expand their business and reach their goals. By understanding companies from the inside out, Fresh ID designs intelligent solutions and products to help companies do business online and engage with prospects and customers. Brand identity and monitoring, social media consultation and campaigns, web design, site socialization, interactive design, application development and user experience strategy are a few of the services offered by Fresh ID. We have a heavy emphasis on social media marketing and communications.

This position is predominantly design-oriented, and your work will be 80% web-related. Thus, an understanding of web standards and design and typography issues related to web-based design are required. There will be about 20% or less print design. If you can illustrate (by hand or digitally in Illustrator or Freehand) or write clean code, even better! The internship will take place during a 10-week period in the summer of 2010.

Duties:

  • Assisting the Chief Creative Officer with the production and design of all Fresh ID and/or client materials, including but not limited to identities, publications, brochures, announcements, advertisements, posters, promotional materials, websites, e-commerce sites, web-based software, etc.
  • Conducting research on clients, designers, publications, and other design-related topics.
  • Preparation of correspondence, files, and other documents.
  • Communication with clients and prospects directly as needed.

Location:

  • The position will be located in Kansas City, MO, in the popular arts oriented Crossroads district. Relocation fees are not available – area candidates only will be considered.
  • Mostly on-site work – this is not a remote position.

Compensation:

  • The design intern will receive a total payment of $1,200 for the 10-week period of full-time work.  Payments will be received after 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 10 weeks.

Candidate Requirements:

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to be analytical, work well with people, take design instruction to fulfill the art director’s vision as well as work independently and take initiative
  • Proficient use of design programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Great eye for, passion for, and experience with all kinds of design and typography – specifically user interface design and usability of websites
  • Extreme attention to the finest pixel-accurate details of designing for the web
  • Thorough, accurate, organized and efficient work habits
  • Capacity to work under tight deadlines and juggle multiple projects

Huge pluses:

  • You have very strong, or expert (X)HTML / CSS / JavaScript skills
  • You keep up-to-date with web standards and browser issues
  • You have expertise with Flash, either hand animating or Actionscript
  • You are a great illustrator and can create icon sets and other illustrations
  • You are social-media savvy and understand the benefit of popular social networks and how people use them for both personal and business reasons
  • You will graduate soon and will be seeking employment with a company like ours!

If you are interested in this position, please submit a resume and portfolio of related work (attachments or links are sufficient) to Matt Bartlett at matt@freshid.com

Fresh ID to Unveil Custom Chip Foose Tractor Live Online

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Posted March 4th, 2010 in Press, Products, Social Marketing | 0 Comments

The reveal will take place at the 2010 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, CA and shown online live at foose4020liveshow.com

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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (March 3, 2010) – For the past 3 months, legendary automotive designer Chip Foose has been working with John Deere to produce a customized 1972 John Deere 4020 tractor. Thousands of people have been following the design and build process online through video “webisodes” made available at the http://deere.com/bigbuck website and on You Tube. Interest in the unveiling has reached a fever pitch, leading John Deere to produce the event live online in partnership with social media agency, Fresh ID. Anyone with an internet connection can watch the big reveal online at http://foose4020liveshow.com this Thursday, March 4th at 1:00 p.m. PST/4:00 p.m. EST.

The tractor is part of the unique Big Buck Customized 4020 Tractor Giveaway that customers can enter to win at their local John Deere dealer through June 30, 2010. John Deere chose Chip Foose to completely customize the tractor in a way that has never been done before to highlight sales incentives that run through April 30th 2010. The tractor will be on display at the John Deere booth throughout the 2010 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, California March 4-6 with online replays of the unveiling available at the http://foose4020liveshow.com website.

Following the unveiling, the tractor will tour the country as part of the John Deere Drive Green Tractor Experience where rural property owners, agricultural producers and other interested consumers can take advantage of the opportunity to operate and ask questions about the latest models of utility tractors and other equipment available from John Deere. The tractor, along with three gator utility vehicles, will be given away as part of the promotion. Rules for the giveaway as well as a complete schedule of Drive Green events can be found at http://deere.com/drivegreen.

About:
John Deere (Deere & Company — NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services for agriculture, forestry, construction, lawn and turf care, landscaping and irrigation. John Deere also provides financial services worldwide and manufactures and markets engines used in heavy equipment. Since it was founded in 1837, the company has extended its heritage of integrity, quality, commitment and innovation around the globe.

Chip Foose is an internationally recognized automotive designer and fabricator best known for his work on custom hot rods. He starred in five seasons of Overhaulin’ on TLC. Foose’s unique style has earned him numerous industry awards, including the Ridler Award and Best of Show at SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association), as well as recognition in the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. Foose owns and operates a custom shop in Huntington Beach, California.

Fresh ID, LLC helps businesses around the world expand their business and reach their goals. By understanding companies from the inside out, Fresh ID designs intelligent solutions and products that help clients do business and engage with prospects and customers. Brand identity and monitoring, social media consultation and campaigns, web design, site socialization, interactive design, application development and user experience strategy are a few of the services offered by Fresh ID. More information about the company and the Twitterface application is available athttp://freshid.com and at http://twitterface.com.

Lisa Qualls Named New Fresh ID CEO

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Posted February 12th, 2010 in Press | 0 Comments

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (February 10, 2010) – Lisa Qualls, an 18-year technology and business management veteran, joins Fresh ID, LLC, based in Kansas City, as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Qualls will assume 50% ownership of the company while building upon the solid foundation and momentum achieved by ownership partner and Chief Creative Officer Kristi Colvin. Fresh ID will continue to focus on experience design and helping businesses integrate technology to improve operational processes and customer communications. The appointment is effective immediately.

“I’m very excited about this new position,” explains Qualls. “Fresh ID has a long history of success in creating positive user experience and brand images for companies all over the country. This is a great opportunity for me to add my skills and experiences to an already fantastic leadership and team.”

Qualls was previously co-founder and Chief Development Officer for the successful start-up company LightThread, LLC. Responsible for business development, Qualls was instrumental in helping the company achieve profitability within their first year. Prior to LightThread, she held a variety of leadership positions in sales, program management, product development, business integration and executive management. She has successfully built, managed, and consulted on teams with global companies such as Cisco, Sprint, General Electric and John Deere. In addition to her new role at Fresh ID, she is the current President for the Social Media Club of Kansas City and serves as an at-large member on the Blue Springs Officials Association executive board.

Qualls joins founder and current Chief Creative Officer, Kristi Colvin, at Fresh ID, who has run the company as a sole proprietor since leaving PentaSafe Security Technologies in 2002.

“Many experienced business consultants reach a crossroads of deciding between remaining independent, or changing and growing into a larger company in order to achieve more. After working with Lisa Qualls at LightThread on various projects the past year, the synergy and complementing skills between us were too obvious to ignore. I knew she was the right person to take the helm and help Fresh ID grow into the future, so asking her to join me as a partner and take the CEO position made perfect sense. I have seen firsthand how dedicated Lisa is to our clients success and growth… she continually goes the extra mile for our customers, partners, staff and contractors.”

Colvin has created business communications since 1995 for leading software organizations and small-to-medium size start-up companies and worked for many Fortune 500 organizations as a consultant in addition to leading teams at PentaSafe and SigmFlow Software as User Experience Manager. From a foundation in print design and retail visual merchandising, she added web site design, user interface design and human factors research to her creative skill set. She specializes in applying design thinking and intuitive insight to branded online and offline experiences and emerging technologies.

Fresh ID also announces a change of location. The company’s new offices will be located in the Meers Advertising building at 1815 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64108. Fresh ID will officially move to the location on Monday, February 15.

Fresh ID helps businesses around the world expand their business and reach their goals. By understanding companies from the inside out, Fresh ID designs intelligent solutions and products specific to what clients need in order to do business and engage with prospects and customers. Brand identity and monitoring, social media consultation and campaigns, web design, site socialization, interactive design, application development and user experience strategy are a few of the services offered by Fresh ID. More information about the company is available at http://freshid.com.

Contact:         Matt Bartlett
Phone:            877-785-3737
E-mail            matt@freshid.com