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5 Years of Using Our Melons

5 Years of Using Our Melons

This month we celebrate our 5th anniversary! I couldn’t be more proud of how things are going at Creative Mellen. We’ve assembled a great core creative team and have talented…

Author Icon Kevin Mellen
Date Icon 1/4/18
Von Maur Book In Stores

Von Maur Book In Stores

Von Maur: How an American Department Store Dared to Do Things Differently—by author Melinda Pradarelli. This was an exciting book design for Creative Mellen. Working with the von Maur…

Author Icon Jill Fishbaugh
Date Icon 12/1/17
Dimensional Group’s New Site Measures Up

Dimensional Group’s New Site Measures Up

We are excited to share one of our latest website redesign projects—The Dimensional Group. Our strategy was to take their online presence to a new level by creating a…

Author Icon Kevin Mellen
Date Icon 10/5/17
A Bright Future

A Bright Future

With two and a half years at Creative Mellen behind me, I have had the opportunity to gain an unimaginable amount of experience in such a short amount of…

Author Icon Chance Morgan
Date Icon 9/22/17
GDUSA Web Design Award

GDUSA Web Design Award

Creative Mellen’s work for D. C. Taylor’s website redesign was awarded at this year’s American Web Design Awards competition. The accolade is published in Graphic Design USA’s (GDUSA) print and…

Author Icon Jill Fishbaugh
Date Icon 5/5/17
Movin’ on Up!

Movin’ on Up!

We are delighted to announce the opening of our new office at 24 1/2 South Clinton Street, Suite 2, in downtown Iowa City — just 23 steps above our…

Author Icon Kevin Mellen
Date Icon 11/1/16
Bringing Focus to Discerning Eye’s New Line of Glasses

Bringing Focus to Discerning Eye’s New Line of Glasses

We are proud to have provided branding and design for Discerning Eye’s new line of glasses—Focus. We developed point-of-purchase displays, retail signage, and interior wall and window graphics. Now…

Author Icon Kevin Mellen
Date Icon 9/29/16
And the winner is…

And the winner is…

It’s another season of award competitions and once again Creative Mellen received some good old hardware for web design! We took home an AdFed Gold for the Law Office…

Author Icon Kevin Mellen
Date Icon 3/16/15
I don’t know everything.

I don’t know everything.

I remember it as if it were yesterday. It was 9:05 am on a Thursday, and I was cranky, cold, and attempting to muster up enough courage to get…

Author Icon Chance Morgan
Date Icon 2/27/15