We hired Hagerstown student Kylie Magnis as our new CurlyRed design intern this month. So we decided to grill her with a few questions about her childhood, art, creativity, and women in business. Read Kylie's answers to our burning questions here: 1. Where do you go to school, and when do you expect to graduate? […]

First off, thank you to everyone who submitted their non-profit for consideration for CurlyRed's 2018 First Fruits February! We had several great choices, and two extra-special organizations to stood out to us. We couldn’t choose between them, so we’ve decided on TWO non-profit recipients, one in Baltimore, MD and one in Garrett County, MD. Congratulations […]

Next Wednesday night is going to be an epic time! _________ SHOW US YOUR MASK & CELEBRATE OUR HISTORY DEC 6TH, 7PM AT THE ELEPHANT At the end of this year B'More Creatives will be closing as a networking group for women in the creative profession in Baltimore. Join us for a private celebration on […]

#givingtuesday is a wonderful day of giving back to organizations that desperately need it! Our favorite global non-profit is Compassion International, where you can sponsor a child in need and change his or her life! This upcoming February of 2018, we'd like to donate the full 10% to one Maryland-based non-profit, suggested by you. We've […]

We've had the pleasure of being part of am amazing (and free) networking group called B'More Creatives, since the very beginning. M. Kendall Ludwig, president and principal designer of CurlyRed, was also had the honor of serving on the board of directors for the past 5 or 6 years. But Kendall, along with fellow leader […]

Our dear friend, Bridget Manley, created the Birds in a Tree podcast about parenting. The good, the bad, the hard and the glorious, all from the perspective of different parents each episode. From left: Mark Ludwig, vice-president, CurlyRed; daughter Juliette; daughter Margot; M. Kendall Ludwig, president, CurlyRed She asked M. Kendall Ludwig, president and principal […]

First off, thank you to everyone who submitted their non-profit for consideration for CurlyRed's 2018 First Fruits February! We had several great choices, and two extra-special organizations to stood out to us. We couldn’t choose between them, so we’ve decided on TWO non-profit recipients, one in Baltimore, MD and one in Garrett County, MD. Congratulations […]

From the moment we learned about The Slippery Mermaid Sushi Bar — serving colorful, unexpected and funky sushi rolls in Navarre, Florida and Sewickley, Pennsylvania — we KNEW we could design something really special for them. Our CurlyRed team set out to create a fully custom and responsive WordPress website that would showcase the sushi […]

October is a wonderful month for Western Maryland—especially in Garrett County. Here are a few things we are excited to be a part of: The GOBA 50/50 Go Greater Raffle Oakland, Maryland is being revitalized. And CurlyRed (now located in Mtn. Lake Park, considered Greater Oakland) is very pleased to be on the GOBA Marketing […]

Happy Wednesday, friends! That is the last installment of a three-part series (you can find part one here and part two here). These are some of the most important things I’ve learned since moving our family and my business 200 miles west, from Baltimore to Mountain Lake Park, MD (near the West Virginia line). I hope these […]

Thanks for following along, everyone!Here's some more tidbits I’ve learned over the past year since relocating my life (and CurlyRed) 200 miles west to Garrett County, MD:6. It’s easy to become overcommitted anywhere. As I shared last week, being overcommitted and having little or no margin in my life was a driving force in our move. But […]

written by: M. Kendall Ludwig, president and principal designer, CurlyRed Now that my year-long experiment of positing to Instagram once a day is over, I've had some time to reflect on what I've learned. In both my personal and professional life, some things have changed quite a bit, and some things haven't.I figured I'd start […]

CurlyRed Inc. is a local branding, print and web graphic design company that is looking an intern for Fall 2017. This internship is open to college students working on their degree in website or digital design and/or development. It is an unpaid position, preferably for college credit. The days/hours for this internship are very flexible, […]

A client CurlyRed has enjoyed working with from quite some time is also the best place in Baltimore to go for a facial or massage: Ojas. We wanted to feature them today because they are celebrating the opening of a brand new location in Cockeysville and we've loved watching them grow! We adore the philosophy […]

We’re closing up shop to spend some fun family time down the ocean, hon! Our office will re-open Friday, August 11th. If you have any immediate needs before then, please contact our office assistant Alandra at 410.878.2068 or office@curlyred.com.

We have a special announcement today: In addition to our Certification as a Minority Business Enterprise with the State of Maryland, CurlyRed has now been named an SBA Certified HUBZone Firm! Why does this matter? The Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) program helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal […]

We’ve worked on so many fun projects this year! And this one was no exception, because it combined three things we love: in this case, The Baltimore Ravens, reading and helping children. The Maryland Book Bank is a Baltimore-based non-profit that distributes over 150,000 free books to children, teachers, schools and organizations each year! We […]

A few folks have asked for the notes from my presentation from last Friday for The Baltimore Business Journal. So I've done one better—here are the take-aways from my talk. _____ This is my car, the one my husband found for me last October. It's a red Mini Cooper Countryman, and as I soon found out—it's […]

In CurlyRed's ten years of business, I had a first last week:I attended the funeral of a client. W.C. Bird, passed away unexpectedly on May 22nd, 2017 from heart complications. I had only known him a few short months. We were paired together after he invented and secured a patent for a baseball/softball training tool. W.C. […]

So exciting! CurlyRed had the awesome opportunity to create the branding and print design for this fun event (happening in one week), and here's what our client, Jessica Fike (who's helping organize this event), had to say: “THANKS A MILLION for your participation in this event, Kendall! You’ve been wonderful to work with and I appreciate […]