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2006 Honors for lemmondsDESIGN include:
W3 Award
December 8, 2006
Entrepreneurs talk about what they do and why they do it...
Charlotte Business Journal
- Position: President & chief creative officer, LemmondsDesign
- Business: Provides creative marketing communications
- website: www.designisapassion.com
- Age: 32
- Education: BFA in graphic design, Winthrop University, 1997
- Experience:
- Graphic designer, Dark III Marketing, 1996-97
- Graphic designer, Winthrop University, 1997
- Assistant art director, Charlotte magazine, 1997-98
- Graphic designer, G. Michael's Inc., 1998-99
- Art director, The Marketing Consortium, 1999
- Creative director, Venturi Partners, 2000-04
- President and chief creative officer, lemmondsDESIGN
- Career advice: Find something you enjoy doing, that gives you fulfillment, and make it your career.
Big Picture
- Essential business philosophy: Make a decision, right or wrong, but keep the ball rolling. If a mistake is made, take the opportunity to learn from it and keep it from happening again.
- Best way to keep a competitive edge: To see what others are doing and always try to be better than you were the day before.
- Guiding principle: Work hard and lead by example. Realize that you are imperfect by plan and cannot do a great job every time. However, always try to.
- How you grew your company: Venti bold coffee at 8PM and working hard for the clients I started out with. Referrals from satisfied clients have been very instrumental in success.
- Biggest accomplishments in the last 18 months: Becoming a father for the third time and tripling the size of my business both in revenue and number of employees.
- How you defined your market: We defined our market by finding clients that want to improve their image within their markets.
- Goals yet to be achieved: To be featured in Communication Arts, to win nationally recognized design awards and to reach the Top 25 list.
Judgment Calls
- Best business decision: To go into business doing something that I truly enjoy and get fulfillment from each day.
- Toughest business decision: To go into business.
- Mentors: My wife and my children. These four teach the most humility and hold me most accountable.
True Confessions
- What gets you up in the morning: The idea of a successful creative solution – a solution for the client that I am proud of and achieves the client's need.
- If you could meet anyone, it would be: Steve Jobs. Look at the empire he has created. I would just enjoy picking his brain and listening to the insights he has.
- Three greatest passions: Time with family, good design, laughing to the point of tears.
Predilections
- Most influential book: Point Man by Steve Farrar.
- Favorite cause: The Bradford Thomas Beattie Memorial Fund and studies to find out more about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
- Favorite status symbol: Dual-processor PowerMac G5.
- Favorite movies: Tombstone, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers and Christmas Vacation.
- Favorite restaurant: The Peach Stand.
September 04, 2006
The Clebourne Building Receives Two New Tenants
Morris Hardwick Schneider and lemmondsDESIGN relocate to new office building
Charlotte Business Journal
The Clebourne Building welcomed two new tenants in August, law firm Morris Hardwick Schneider and creative marketing communications agency lemmondsDESIGN. The upscale professional building is located at 111 Clebourne Street in historic downtown Fort Mill.
Completed this spring, The Clebourne Building was developed by Conservation by Design (CbD) Development, a real estate and resort development company led by Pete Lang, retired attorney and native Fort Mill resident. Conservation by Design was the first company to occupy the building.
“The Clebourne Building is a major step in our revitalization efforts to reconstruct and beautify downtown Fort Mill. We are proud to invite these two businesses to this establishment,” said Pete Lang.
Morris Hardwick Schneider is an acclaimed real estate law firm dedicated to delivering superior customer service and quality legal service in a timely manner.
lemmondsDESIGN is a seasoned creative marketing services agency specializing in print and web communications and advertising strategies for businesses throughout the Charlotte region.
“lemmondsDESIGN is excited and honored to relocate our office to this beautiful facility,” said Chris Lemmonds, president and creative director of lemmondsDESIGN. “We are delighted to have taken this step to move our business forward, and to add to the vibrant businesses emerging in downtown Fort Mill.”
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