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The Family Tree Marylandwebsite redesign. A 2019 GDUSA Health & Wellness Award winner.
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2019 Health and Wellness Design Awards Winners

2019 Graphic Design USA Health + Wellness Design Awards Hersick + Webster is proud to announce that we’ve taken home two 2019 Health+Wellness GDUSA Design Awards. Thank you to our clients that trusted us to make their award-winning work. We love working with you! Website Redesign for The Family Tree We’re super proud that Family

Level Up drawing
Community Impact

For your business to succeed, you need to stop doubting your talents

It’s time to silence the voices of doubt inside you so you can level up your business. This isn’t a matter of fake it until you make it. Nope. We’re all somewhere along the path of who we want to be, and who we are right now. What I’m talking about here are those ignored

Martinsburg Farmers Market Eggs and Shopping bag
Community Impact

Creative Partner named Mainstreet Martinsburg Volunteer of the Year

Main Street Martinsburg recognizes James Hersick as the Volunteer of the Year award for 2018! For the last six years, our creative director and founding partner, James has worked tirelessly with multiple non-profits throughout the county to make what seemed impossible possible – from helping to expand the Promise Neighborhood Initiative’s impact, developing the Martinsburg

Coffee with heart
Studio News

For the love of it!

Hallmark holiday or not, Valentine’s day represents the season of passion, sharing and expressing your love to those you love. Well, if it isn’t obvious already, James and I love what we do as designers. We’re also extremely intentional when it comes to exploring our interests and hobbies. In a world filled with soooooooo much

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Getting Through the Holidays

Cue Europe’s “The Final Countdown.” We’re already there–the last 17 days of 2018 is out the door, and even closer,  barely a week till Christmas–yikes! My brain is already tackling multiple things at once, but during this time of year, I’m running in hyperdrive. To be honest, in the past, there’s been years where I’d

Gopher Tortoise interpretive at Rosemary Dunes Pause Place
Case Study

Meaningful Moments of Connection.

The 6+ Cs for creating successful communication. In the last post on the Gulf State Park interpretive project, we talked about what WE did to create the strategy for successful communication. The winning strategy is talking with people and not at them. In that spirit, this post will be less about what we did and

Farm 2 Fork Dinner table setting
Community Impact

2018 Farm 2 Fork Fundraiser

Despite the rain, our 2018 Farm 2 Fork Dinner was another big success. On a rainy Sunday evening in September, 70+ folks gathered inside the Downtown Martinsburg Public Library for the second annual Farm 2 Fork Dinner – a locally-sourced and prepared 4-course dinner. Last year’s 50 seat dinner sold out so fast that we

2018 American Graphic Design Awards Certificate
Studio News

NEWS: H+W receives Six American Graphic Design Awards

We’re excited to announce that Hersick + Webster has been awarded six American Graphic Design Awards. We’d like to say a super-big thanks to our clients for partnering with us on these award-winning projects. We’re thankful for the recognition, but we’re even more grateful for the relationships that allow us to do great things together.

Collection of sketches, notes and research items
Case Study

Helping 6,150 Acres Find Its Voice

The Alabama Gulf State Park Project Interpretive Design Strategy. Creating and implementing the interpretive design experience for Alabama’s Gulf State Park not only brought out the best in our project management skills, but it also allowed our team an opportunity to utilize everything we’ve learned in our careers–design, research, writing, illustration, and photography–on a very

Studio News

Hello, Fall… Quarter 4… Only 90 Days Left?!

There’s a lot to look forward to when Fall, our Autumn Equinox, rolls around. Albeit, the cool weather came a couple weeks late, but the real Autumn kicked into gear these last few days. We can’t wait to get out and hike under all those colorful leaves. Crisp air in the mornings with gentle breezes

Go Gold for children with Cancer, with Special Love for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Special Love

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Cancer doesn’t discriminate, and it’s hard to fathom that every day, 43 families will hear the word, “your child has cancer.”* Special Love, a nonprofit organization that provides cancer families a community of support, made up of other patients and families who know and understand the trials of the

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