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This area is a place to explore design ideas and inspiration, share recent work and testimonials, and let you know about upcoming CurlyRed and art-related events happening in Garrett County, Maryland and beyond.

If you would like to contribute or be featured in this blog, please contact Kendall at kendall@curlyred.com.


Published: January 18, 2017

Next month, CurlyRed is giving back 10% of all of our February sales to two great charities, one here in Garrett County (our new community) and one in Baltimore (our hometown). Today we want to shed a little light on The Dove Center, in Oakland, Maryland. The mission of the Dove Center is to provide […]

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Published: January 11, 2017

The idea of giving one's “first fruits” is not new. In Scripture, the idea was that a farmer would give the first (and best) ten percent of all he harvested back to God as an offering, a way of giving thanks. At CurlyRed, we want to give thanks for being in business for 10 years […]

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Published: January 4, 2017

Happy New Year from Garrett County, Maryland! Well, it may be hard to believe, but on January 31st, 2017, CurlyRed will be turning 10 YEARS OLD! Holy goodness, it’s been a tremendous ride. As I mentioned in a recent blog post, at the end of 2015, things weren't looking so promising for CurlyRed, and we […]

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Published: December 21, 2016

To all of our fantastic clients, family, and friends: we wish you and yours a most happy holiday season, filled with peace and joy. Thank you for making 2016 truly wonderful. In all honesty, this time last year, things weren't looking so promising for CurlyRed. In fact, we had to completely re-examine our business development […]

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Published: December 6, 2016

CurlyRed, a branding, print and web design company, is excited to announce that it has signed its first Garrett County client, Jay Ferguson of Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacation Sales. A successful real estate agent for many years, Mr. Ferguson founded the real estate side of Taylor-Made in April of 2014 with friends Joe and Jodi […]

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Published: November 29, 2016

Happy Giving Tuesday everyone! If you're looking for a worth charity to donate to today, we have a few suggestions for you: CurlyRed has had the great privilege of providing services for many several fantastic non-profits that would greatly benefit from your donation today. These include The Community Crisis Center, Zion Project, and Business Volunteers […]

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Published: November 16, 2016

Since CurlyRed made this move a few months ago, we felt it was important to get plugged in to our local community. We have met with several community leaders, attended events like Oakland Renaissance, and made the decision to join the local chamber. The Garrett County Chamber of Commerce is the largest professional business association […]

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Published: November 7, 2016

If you live in the Baltimore area, and love free food, drinks and music, pay attention! This Saturday night, Nov 12th, from 7-11pm, our friends at Baltimore Volunteers Unlimited are putting on a great event called "Get Down to Do Good," featuring Motown Soul Sounds from the Legendary Winfield Parker and the Wilson Pickett Band! […]

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Published: October 27, 2016

Join Charm City’s Finest Creatives for a Totally Tubular Networking Event!Before CDs and long before Napster, iTunes, and Spotify hit the scene, we all rocked out to our favorite cassette tapes. Although we’re living in the digital age now, let’s never forget how it felt to be an original music curator. Channeling our musical superpowers […]

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Published: October 20, 2016

Goodman, Meagher Enoch, LLP has been serving the legal needs of the people throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan area since 1953. GME was one of CurlyRed's very first web clients, but they were in need of an upgrade—to a fully custom, responsive WordPress website. The new website features all new headshots of the attorneys, taken by […]

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Published: October 12, 2016

CurlyRed was thrilled to work with Rev. Dr. Amy P. McCullough at Grace United Methodist Church in Baltimore. From their website: “we try to hear what God is saying for our everyday lives and for this city. We try our best to serve one another, welcome everyone, grow together in faith, and embrace the Christian […]

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Published: September 28, 2016

...on Instagram, that is. You see, if you've been reading along, CurlyRed has made some changes recently. And we're doing a daily recording to give you a taste of what our new normal is. The point of all of this is the hope that by sharing one shot a day, you'll get a better sense […]

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Published: September 21, 2016

Delegate Sandy Rosenberg has been a Member of Maryland House of Delegates since January 12, 1983, and he's been working with CurlyRed for a few years now for his digital marketing needs. Sandy felt he was ready for a new website, to feature his updated key issues (like Pimlico and the Preakness) and some new […]

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Published: September 14, 2016

Windows. Yes, CurlyRed's office has REAL WINDOWS now. 3 of them to be precise. With the windows open, a light breeze floats in, and there's little sound other than the chirping of crickets. To quote Hamilton (as I so frequently do): “Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now.” […]

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Published: September 6, 2016

Ok, boys and girls, we absolutely ADORE this event! The Un-Company Picnic is a great afternoon of food, drinks, and creatives mixing and mingling. One of the things that makes this event great is that fact that it is family-and-pet friendly, so there's no need to choose between spending a Saturday afternoon with your family, […]

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Published: August 17, 2016

The Delaware Restaurant Association has been a client of CurlyRed for many years, and we've always loved working with them on branding, print and digital projects. This year, we once again created an invitation for their annual Golf Classic and we wanted to share it with you. For this project, we chose a rich color […]

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Published: August 2, 2016

ahhhh....August. The best month of the year. Baseball AND football, pool parties, beach getaways and frozen cocktails. What's not to love? And since we're a fan of month-long birthday celebrations, here's a curated list of birthday wishes by the one and only M. Kendall Ludwig, president and principal designer of CurlyRed (who turns 35 on […]

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Published: July 20, 2016

One of our very oldest and most favorite clients, Robin Snyder-Wiencek at EMC Performing Arts Studio is celebrating 25 YEARS of business this year. Wow—what an amazing accomplishment! Go Robin! To celebrate, we wanted to share some of our favorite designs CurlyRed has done for EMC over the past 10 years. We wish you many […]

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Published: July 6, 2016

written by M. Kendall Ludwig, president and principal designer, CurlyRed Every 90 days or so, I open a PDF that looks much like the one you see above and start writing. You see, my business coach to the stars Susan Katz won me over in the area of goal-setting. And it wasn't an easy battle. […]

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