Armistead Arnold Pollard LLC | Land Innovations LLC
SESAC, Inc.
At Cronin Creative, we leverage the power of great design and strategically targeted branding to break through the din and deliver clarity to the lives of our clients, their companies and their customers. We are designers, writers, creatives, and very good listeners. We are a company on a mission. Cronin Creative. Clarity By Design™.
Clarity By Design. For the past several years that phrase has served as both tagline and prime mission statement here at Cronin Creative. We understand the vital role design plays in establishing and differentiating a business in today’s overcrowded, highly competitive marketplace. Thankfully, our clients, having experienced the real difference that carefully considered, expertly executed design can make for their businesses, understand this as well.
It’s accepted wisdom these days that quality design is healthy for, and even integral to, a company’s success. But when Thomas Watson, Jr. took over the reins of IBM from his famously successful father back in the early 1950s, it was something of a revolutionary idea.
The story goes that the younger Watson happened to walk into the Fifth Avenue offices of Olivetti and was blown away by the brightly colored, highly designed typewriters displayed in a modern, brightly lit showroom. Comparing Olivetti’s innovative, design-centric approach to his company’s rather drab, lifeless look, Watson decided then and there to change the face of IBM.
Back in 2007, when we took the big leap and started our own company, we made a promise. Settling on the name Cronin Creative (we do have a thing for alliteration), we vowed to explore and employ all the different facets of our creativity. At the time, we were thinking of things like design, writing, and music. But over the years of running a small business, dealing with realities like accounting, cash flow, and staffing challenges, we’ve found that creativity isn’t limited to the arts.
We’ve also discovered that creativity isn’t limited to “creatives,” our fellow designers, writers, musicians, and practitioners of the fine arts. With an eclectic roster of clients, we’ve witnessed first hand the high level of creativity among those not traditionally tagged with the “C” word. There is a creative spark in all of us. It’s part of being human; one of the really cool parts.
In “The Artists Way,” her landmark book, author Julia Cameron explores creativity from all sides, and finds that, in the end, it’s as natural as breathing.
“Creativity is the natural order of life,” Cameron says. “No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”
“With everything we’ve worked on together, there is a signature, definable Cronin Creative look, and I really identify with it. I consider them a part of the team.” – Shannon Pollard, Partner, Armistead Arnold Pollard Real Estate Services, LLC
“We lean on Cronin Creative to step up quickly. Because they truly understand SESAC, they’re able to turn the work around in a very timely manner. That’s huge for us.” – Ellen Truley, Vice President, Corporate Communications, SESAC, Inc.
“No matter what the assignment might be, whether it’s a last-minute thing or a higher-end project, Cronin Creative meets the deadline and brings an uncommon freshness and energy to the task.” – Steve Horswill-Johnson, Executive Director of Communications & Brand Strategy, Discipleship Ministries, The United Methodist Church
“When it was time to do our television show, Karen Cronin and I had already done a lot of CD packaging and books and side projects together, so I knew that the set for the TV show was just a matter of turning the wheel in yet one more direction. We had one conversation, and I knew Cronin Creative had it covered. I’m spoiled.” – Marty Stuart
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We collaborate with the best and brightest to provide our clients with true brand clarity through exceptional design.
We jumped at the chance to design the commemorative book for Alan Shuptrine: Appalachian Watercolors of the Serpentine Chain, an exhibition currently on view at the Tennessee State Museum. Shuptrine's nationally renowned watercolors and handcrafted frames pay tribute to the land and people found along the Appalachian Trail. Be sure to check out this amazing exhibit (and while you're there, pick up a copy of the Cronin Creative-designed book!)
With the tagline, "Life. Centered.," Cronin Creative's branding and marketing campaign showcased the upscale lifestyle and strategic location of this new apartment complex, located just outside of Nashville in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.
