Ruckus Creations

Coming Soon: Ruckus Creations Design Studio

These flyers are in the process of going up around South Minneapolis. Feels good doing street-level promo again--a nice walk around the various neighbourhoods and interacting with local business owners and workers.

Thumbnail sketches for possible illustrated design elements for one page flyers, with special focus on the EZ-Print designs that are designed to be easily printed on a desktop printer.

A lot of basic structural things happening in the last little bit--lots of writing in notebooks and sketching in sketchbooks--to literally visualise the company brand promise and locate the customer identity of South Minneapolis. Some possibly tantalizing tidbits from the week: "vintage UFO" and "horses are rock'n'roll."

I will leave you with this: another victory celebration from long ago and far away that is a bouquet of sentient beings from across the galaxy.

Tag Yourself: I'm that Ewok having a Moment on the far left.

Spring cleaning. Updating all the things.

Here's all my sample flyers, edited to say "Ruckus Creations."

Here's another creation for sale: two pieces of refinished antique furniture. They are both classic ladies' furniture and therefore make a nice set together: a vanity with a hideaway top and side drawer with the original burled oak veneer lovingly hand-restored, and a solid cherry pedestal knitting/sewing caddy. I'm asking for $200 for the caddy and $500 for the vanity but will knock $100 off the price for those who are willing to pick up the items themselves.

Right now there are some beautiful unique high-quality pieces out there in the marketplace that are 80 to 100 years old that, with a little TLC in the form of expert refinishing, could well last another 100 years. This is a quality of hardwood that just isn't available anywhere else--there are so few old growth trees left in the world and they are better left growing than turned into furniture. Far better from a sustainability standpoint to keep heritage pieces like these available in the marketplace and in use in people's homes.

Ruckus is only about a week old and we're rebranding already! Well, okay, just slightly changing the name to account for all the other things besides marketing I/we can, will, and currently do: upcycled/redesigned/ furniture and jewelry, all-purpose creative repurposing, illustration, murals, et cetera and so forth.

For Lo, the Lady of the Lake held her magic saber aloft and decreed that on this day, your once and future creative Agency, Ruckus, shall henceforth be known as Ruckus Creations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSDrT_eDhk

Spinal Tap - Rock 'n' Roll Creation (live 1984) HD Description

Who is Ruckus Creations? Well, we are a brand new sole proprietorship of Sarah Marie Nicolosi with technical and moral support from Mr. Nicolosi and our two cats, Thoth (the gray one) and Kira (the fluffy one). I am a differently abled creative professional with ambitions of one day being able to not only have a special savings account just for auto repair (I'm weird like that), but also have enough business to be able to hire more differently-abled designers who either share my quirky sense of humour or are at least patient enough to put up with it.

Ah, the classic letter-size flyer--perfect for community billboards, community newspaper stuffers and other places in your neighbourhood where people post info about their local business. This is an EZ-Print flyer design, and therefore has a white background, contains a combination of hand-drawn and photographic elements and costs a flat rate of $290. Nothing says "local" like a hand-drawn flyer AND a local zip code, so when someone asks you "Are you local?"--have no fear, the answer is "yes!"

"Hi, I'm Thoth, and I'm distractingly cute. Now that I have your attention....why not get a FREE email consultation TODAY to answer your burning questions about how Ruckus Creations can help YOUR small business reach more customers?"

Ruckus Creations updated their business hours.

Ruckus Creations updated their phone number.

"Ruckus" means "thingamajig" in Norwegian and is the perfect name for a company whose goal is to do different types of creative work depending on what type of work needs doing. Right now there's a need for affordable marketing solutions for small businesses, but who knows what creative needs the local market will have tomorrow?

One of my original promotional ideas is a 3"x8" bookmark flyer--it fits inside a standard letter size mailing envelope and makes a great free thank-you gift to customers and supporters. Standard design is $140 and EZ-Print design is $180.

Here's something I'm calling an EZ-Print postcard flyer. I set it up for you to easily print on your own printer at home, in the office, in your home office or anywhere else you like. I charge a little extra for the extra page setup work (a flat rate of $100) but then you'll never have to pay commercial printing rates for this flyer design unless you really really want to. For more info about this or any of my other EZ-Print flyer designs, PM me or check out my website, https://www.sarahmwash.com/ruckus-creative

Hate doing marketing for your small business? What a coincidence; I don't! in fact it's one of the things I love doing most and I'll be happy to help you with it for a modest fee.

Here's an example of what a postcard flyer design for a flat rate of $60 looks like.

For an extra $20 plus whatever the printing company charges I'll do the bidding process for you and have the printed postcards shipped right to your door.

What a breeze!

Ruckus Creations updated their website address.