Before Kollar Design | EcoCreative, there was Kollar Design Associates, Inc. (1996-2004)
Candice Kollar: Team Leader, Design Director, Project Manager except where indicated:
✦ CEO and executive-level campaigns for Cisco Systems
Recognized for Excellence by Print Design Annual; Western Art Directors Club, The West Coast Show.
✦ Core member of the original Esprit creative communications team
Responsible for the transformation of several little-known clothing lines into the internationally recognized Esprit brand that brought the company to its peak as a worldwide fashion retail leader. Facilitated the establishment of the on-site Esprit Graphic Design Studio including physical set up and recruiting personnel. Involved in the design and production of all advertising and collateral including a 140-page high-end coffee-table book, The Making of an Image, which became a branding reference. Design of interior and exterior architectural signage for Esprit stores.
✦ Innovative, comprehensive advertising and collateral campaign for Charles Schwab
This was a commissioned new business pitch for a world-wide ad agency. They won this account as well as Sun Microsystems and Roche Bioscience accounts due to our creative team’s innovative pitch presentations.
✦ Annual Reports and Shareholder communications for GAP Stores and Subsidiaries (co-design), Apple Computer (co-design) and Macromedia.
Acknowledged as ”best ever” corporate prospectus by Macromedia’s CEO.
✦ “Highest-priority” company-wide internal communication materials for Union Bank of California.
✦ Groundbreaking, product introduction kit for software dealers for Adobe Systems for their most important product release of the year
Acknowledged by Marcom department director as a “creative breakthrough.”
✦ Brand identity designs for McRae & Company, a San Francisco Design Center interior design showroom and Susan Jane, designer of couture jewelry for Kate Spade
Recognized for Excellence and published in American Corporate Identity’s hardcover design annuals featuring America’s best identity design.
✦ Award-winning advertising campaign for Hill & Co., San Francisco’s long-standing elite residential real estate firm (acquired by Compass).
Recognized for Excellence by Western Art Directors Club, The West Coast Show.