When you came to the homepage were you a little thrown by the image of ice cream? What did you think? Did you think for a second that you were on the wrong page? Did you double check to make sure? Did you read the title and subtitle to find out?

Odds are that if you are reading this that you did in fact have some of these questions. If you are reading this, mission accomplished.

The average new visitor will spend 5 seconds on your website before clicking off. That is just 5 seconds to get your point across and deliver any information about you that you want them to have. You have a choice to either make sure that they get the message in that short time, or more ideally, keep them longer.

At Quirk Visual, we are always looking for new ways to keep your visitors longer while giving them what they want. Not only that, what WE want them to see.

We also know that associations are very powerful tools for motivation. You know what we are talking about here. That smell that instantly takes you back to a fond childhood memory or that song that makes you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing at a certain period in time? For most people, ice cream is a very positive association. Without knowing it, feelings of pleasure come into your consciousness just from the visual. We know that this is a fact of psychological conditioning, but Abraham Maslow (A Theory of Human Motivation, 1943), would take it a step further saying that conditioning transcends the psychological into the physiological. This would double the effect offering two distinct motivational pulls.

So lets make this easy:

Because you like ice cream and because we use ice cream, you will like Quirk Visual.

We'll stop there before you regret asking the question, "Why Ice Cream?" We won't go into the psychological uses of color, texture or scale. Not right now anyway.

Quirk Visual has a simple mission to create affordably amazing design. This is the foundation and inspiration for creating Quirk years ago. We work with real people who have modest budgets and want to create or solidify their brand. We prefer to partner with our clients to create long lasting relationships rather than quick, in-and-out design.

Ask yourself the following questions to see if you are a Quirk type client. Are you:

-A small to medium size business
-have no existing marketing collateral (logo, print, web)
-have some existing marketing collateral
-have all existing marketing collateral but need more
-have existing marketing collateral and hate some of it, most of it, all of it
-have an idea for what you are able to spend for a project
-have no idea how much design costs or should cost
-fear that you don't have enough to spend on a project
-dont know what in the world you are doing
-have some idea of what you are doing
-are open to receiving help
-are willing to take a risk
-are open to creating a partnership with a design firm that cares about your business and your bottom line

Take a look at our mission and action statement and decide for yourself.

Quirk Visual creates affordably amazing design.

We do this by:
-being open and honest at all times.
-designing with intention and research.
-being knowledgeable and respectful of others' resources.
-critically managing time.
-under promising and over producing.
-creating partnerships instead of clients.
-being grateful.
-giving back to our community.
-knowing our limits and communicating them without fear.