Design is relationships.
Design is only meaningful when it enriches the human experience, so who we worked with and how we worked mattered — clients, colleagues or collaborators. From 1995-2023 Widgets & Stone used design to build brands for companies and organizations of all kinds, from small and local to large and international. The studio was committed to creating this kind of design in a hardworking, collaborative and inventive environment in the heart of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee.
For 28 years, our work was guided by these convictions:
PURPOSE, MISSION, VISION
We believe that design can make the invisible visible.
We seek to create design that makes a difference for individuals and organizations that seek to do the same.
Our goal is to improve communication, to strengthen relationships, to increase value, and to inform and delight.
In the summer of 2023 Widgets & Stone joined forces with Whiteboard, not only continuing to serve clients in Chattanooga and all over the world, but now with expanded expertise in Strategy, Digital and Marketing services.
The 2023 Widgets & Stone Team:
Many thanks to all who served as full time Widgets & Stone partners and employees for the past three decades:
George Bairaktaris, Virginia Brooks, Benjamin Dicks, Brad Dicharry, Grant Dotson, Matt Greenwell, Amy Trumbull Harmon, Travis Hitchcock, Stephanie Fast Jones, John Le, Brian May, Noah Marlowe, Laura Michael, Kerry O’Connor, Zach Plating, Emily Ricks-Tyree, Athene Ruiz, Effie Rustand, Peg Rustand, Joseph Shipp, Mark Slawson, Liz Tapp, Scott Touchstone, D.J. Trischler, Mark Walter, Brian Woodlief.
SERVICES:
Brand audit
Discovery / Competition / Vertical market research report
Developing communications, design and brand direction
Identity design
Expanded visual articulation, integrated across media
Naming, taglines and verbal articulation
Expanded verbal articulation including brand values & promise
Strategic mission, vision, and marketing templates
Creative communications, advertising and marketing
Print, web, e-commerce, environment design
SPECIALTIES:
Branding and identity communications / design
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS:
AIGA
American Ad Federation
The Type Director’s Club
One Show
Graphis Books
Print, Communication Arts, HOW and STEP magazines