Close up teaser image of hand holding membership brochure, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc. for the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society

Historical Society Membership Brochure

Collage of pages from White Bear Lake Historical Society's membership brochure, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc.

When the executive director of the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society expressed interest in creating a membership brochure, Carolyn jumped at the opportunity to help. Carolyn was given carte blanche to propose a design solution that articulated their mission, engaged the community, and encouraged membership. 

When Carolyn presented the proposed design, she included three paragraphs of text she drafted to show tone and content. The client loved Carolyn’s copy so much the draft was used with only a few small revisions.

The Historical Society provided century-old images from the archive. The design includes an innovative roll-fold self-mailer that included a few surprises, including a perf-off reply card and a postcard members could use to send a hand-written note.

The brochure was a Silver Award winner in Neenah Paper’s Text and Cover competition.

Learn more about the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society.

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Close up teaser image of cover of ImageReady iPad App, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc. for Boston Scientific

ImageReady iPad App

Eight sample pages from Boston Scientific's ImageReady iPad App, designed by graphic designer Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc.

When Boston Scientific wanted to develop a tool sales reps could use to educate physicians about the ImageReady line of MR-compatible devices they called on Carolyn to help.

The ImageReady™ iPad app was designed to help Boston Scientific sales reps tell the story of the Ingevity™ pacing lead and the Accolade™ and Essentio™ pacemakers. These pacemakers safely tolerate full-body 1.5T and 3T MRI environments—a solution that offers remarkable flexibility for patients, cardiologists and radiologists.

An additional goal of this app was to tell the story of features beyond MRI compatibility, including automatic daily performance monitoring and respiration-based pacing. The pages outlining those features incorporated animation to help the reader engage with content. A series of videos highlighted options for implant: stylet selection, lead introducer selection, and lead positioning.

Click to see another iPad app Carolyn designed for Boston Scientific.

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Close up teaser image of someone holding an iPad showing the WATCHMAN product, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc. for Boston Scientific

WATCHMAN iPad App

Six sample pages from Boston Scientific's Watchman iPad App, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc.

When Boston Scientific wanted to develop an iPad app sales reps could use to educate physicians about their life-saving left atrial appendage closure device, they called on Carolyn to help.

This WATCHMAN™ iPad app included six sections:

The introduction addressed the question: Why WATCHMAN” (Answer: the one-time procedure reduces the risk of stroke by 5x!)

The product overview section outlined features of the WATCHMAN, and provided information on the access and delivery sheaths used during the implant.

The product specifications section included information on materials, device size options, indications for use, and ordering information.

The clinical data section included information on implant success rate, along with safety and efficacy data.

The video section included play-on-demand videos designed for implanting physicians, patient testimonials, and information on the left atrial appendage.

The tools for patients section included a video designed for patients, brochures, patient guides, and links to online resources (brochures designed by in-house Boston Scientific design team).

Click to see a brochure Carolyn designed for the WATCHMAN team.

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Close up teaser image showing a large "30" created for Ideal Printers to celebrate their 30th anniversary, designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc.

Anniversary Identity

Image showing Ideal Printers original logo, and the 30 Year anniversary logo designed by Carolyn Porter of Porterfolio, Inc.

When Ideal Printers, Inc. wanted a variation of their logo they could use to celebrate and promote their 30th year of providing high-quality commercial printing, they called on Carolyn to help. 

As Carolyn assessed the typography in Ideal’s decades-old logo, she pointed out technical inconsistencies in weight and scale. She also tactfully pointed out that shapes in the original logo — the letter a in particular — gave the logo a dated look. The end result? Both the refreshed corporate logo and the 30th anniversary logo respect the heritage of the original logo yet offer a decidedly updated look.

In addition to providing vector files of the logos, Carolyn created a two-page cheat sheet for Ideal’s on-staff designers to reference when using the new artwork.

Click to see another logo Carolyn designed.

Click to see one of the many projects Ideal Printers printed for Carolyn.

“We appreciate all of the options and your professional presentation… I knew we wouldn’t go wrong with Porterfolio!”

– OWNER, IDEAL PRINTERS, INC.

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