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I wanted to celebrate the height of spook season by taking a look at some of the most bone-chilling horror movie posters of all time. One of the things I have always loved about being a designer [...]

Meet the newest member of the BatesMeron team, Leah Cho! Leah comes to us fresh from Boston University, where she graduated with a BS in Marketing and Strategy & Innovation. She joins our team as [...]

The tagline—it’s the thing that either sticks in people’s minds for the rest of their lives or it immediately floats away, never to be thought of again. Or is it neither? Over the years, the need [...]

We've all heard the cliché a picture’s worth a thousand words, but the saying didn’t just come from nothing. There is real value to using visuals to communicate—especially, as I recently found [...]

If you've driven around Chicago over the past several weeks, you may have spotted a bright blue "Treasure Truck" driving down the road. Thanks to the truck's unique, stand-out design, it's hard [...]

I’ve spent the better part of 2017 working through the arduous process of obtaining a City of Chicago WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) Certification. And it was nothing short of exhausting! I [...]

Over the course of last Thursday and Friday, the whole BMSD team migrated to our conference room for two days of virtual attendance at this year's Brand New Conference. An annual gathering of [...]

At BatesMeron, we’ve spent more than a decade honing our clients’ brands and sharing their stories. So, we felt like it was time to turn our sights to sharing the next installment of our own [...]

One of the great things about our recent move to the South Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago—aside from the new digs themselves—is all the amazing street art and ghost signs that can be found [...]

Everyone in the BatesMeron office knows I'm the resident stickler about recycling. If you want to know what can and can't be thrown into the blue bin, look no further. My passion for homegrown [...]