Photo – Cavale Creative Company

The Gregory Home

I pulled this set out of the archives, we shot this editorial/architectural piece for Lifestyle Magazine back in 2009! Visalia native Cindy invited us and the staff of Lifestyle Magazine up to her Puget Sound getaway on Hat Island just a short boat trip away from Everett Washington. Hat Island is only accessible by private boat or ferry and the island has no paved roads or businesses. What an amazing experience!

CLIENT: DMI Agency

PHOTOGRAPHER: Forrest Cavale

LOCATION: Everett, Washington (Hat Island)

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Aly Youranday

In late 2017, P4H Music invited us to take on the branding, visual identity and media creation for up-and-coming artist Aly Youranday. Our challenge in this project was to create a brand, website, and photo/video content that was fresh, memorable, and matched the high-energy pop style that Aly loved.

CLIENT: Aly Youranday

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Cavale Creative

WEB DESIGN: Cavale Creative

PHOTOGRAPHER: Forrest Cavale

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ryan Brisco

LOGO DESIGNER: Margarita von Niessen (Lavandas Studios)

LAYOUT AND GRAPHIC DESIGN: Cavale Creative

The first step in this project was to create a full visual identity for Aly. After several brainstorm meetings and evaluating client-generated mood boards, we settled on photographing Aly in her hometown: Bakersfield, Calif. While marketing to a broad audience, we knew it was important to start by connecting Aly’s followers with her roots. As the saying goes, “the best place to start is at the beginning.” We spent a day exploring Bakersfield with Aly, shooting in locations that had a unique, urban vibe, while still maintaining the overall feel of local Central Valley.

Once we had strong images as a starting point, we reached out to designer Margarita von Niessen of Lavandas Studios to create Aly’s branding and visual identity. With direction from Cavale Creative and input from Aly herself, Margarita designed a logo package and color scheme that is approachable, modern and high-energy.

During the branding process, we continued to plan innovative and original photo/video shoots that would be used to populate the website we were designing as well as promote Aly on social media and brand her music releases.

The website we designed for Aly Youranday is clean, modern, fully responsive, and relies heavily on our imaginative photo/video assets. From its original design, it has grown to include a full merchandise store as well as a “Listen” page on which visitors can listen to a sample of all Aly’s music and watch several “Behind the Music” videos.

Prior to the decision to record an EP, Aly had an active YouTube channel where she would cover her favorite music and post vlogs of her life. Given her audience and traction on this platform, it was important to Aly’s management team to maintain a strong focus on video content. As the journey to recording her first EP in Nashville began to pick up steam, we made the decision to showcase her story through a short documentary that would be featured on her YouTube account, social media accounts and website. While Aly’s retelling of her own story is the heart-and-soul of the documentary, the film also features interviews with her parents, mentor, and the Nashville based producers of her EP.

In addition to this mini-doc, we filmed “Behind the Music” videos for each track that Aly would be releasing. These short videos targeted Aly’s social media followers and gave viewers insight into Aly’s songwriting motivation and overall message while generating buzz and momentum for the upcoming music.

After months of designing, photographing, filming, and editing, we entered the final phase of the project: designing artwork for each of the five singles and the full, 5-song EP, aptly titled “Never Give Up.” We utilized our most visually stunning images from previous shoots with Aly, and opted for contrasting a common design theme across each of the single covers with a bold, eye-catching cover for the physical EP.

Aly’s journey is far from over! After a strong response to her debut EP, she’s gone back to the studio to record a full-length album in the summer of 2019. Cavale Creative is delighted to continue our partnership with Aly Youranday and P4H Music. Keep an eye out for more work with this talented young musician!

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Forrest’s Grandpa started FCN in 1954 and sold it in 1995 after retiring. Forrest spent many summers working for Financial Credit Network during high-school and, as a result has always considered the FCN team to be family. We were very excited for the chance to help them re-brand, build a new website, update their marketing efforts and photos!

WEB DESIGN: Forrest Cavale

WEB DEVELOPMENT: Digital Rainstorm

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Cavale Creative

PHOTOGRAPHER: Forrest Cavale

The FCN team has a high value for mixing business and fun. The staff is truly great at what they do but are all very approachable and fun to hang out with. They never take themselves too seriously. It was important to them to have branding and marketing assets that reflected their fun-loving corporate culture. So we came up with a plan that was a little bit like a “marketing mullet”, business in the front (photos above) party in the back (photos below)! Every page of their website is all business until you flip the “time travel” switch on the page headers… that’s when the party starts! Try it out!

In addition to building a fresh website from the ground up, we did a complete re-brand for FCN. They have a beautiful, old building with great style and signage that is completely timeless, but their ultra-modern branding clashed horribly! To further complicate matters, separate branding for trade shows and print collateral made it difficult to maintain a consistent brand image. We used their building’s era and style as inspiration and combined it with the quirky FCN personality to come up with a vintage-style, playful brand identity that would be used consistently across all platforms and collateral. We gave them the full monty: a new logo, typography, color scheme, print collateral, trade show displays, everything!

We took a very minimal and to-the-point approach to the website design by keeping the site simple and easy to use, but we also incorporated bold colors and playful “Easter Eggs” hidden throughout. Make sure you flip the “time travel” switch on the page headers and check out the “About” page for some fun headshots with the team!

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The Cast Protector is a premade device to pad a sports cast. It was designed by Lee Piatek, an orthopedic surgeon with 30 years of on-field experience in consultation with certified athletic trainers. He approached us to upgrade his website and e-commerce store. We built him a brand new site, with a great set of new photos.

CLIENT: The Cast Protector

WEB DESIGN: Cavale Creative

PHOTOGRAPHY: Cavale Creative

Special thanks to Exeter High School and the coaches and players from the football and soccer teams for setting us up with players to model the product and access to the practice field!

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Silver City is one of our favorite spots on the planet so we were extremely excited when Amanda Atkins from Digital Rainstorm called and asked us to produce the content for a new website she was building for them. We called many of our friends to come and up and be models and then filmed and photographed our way up and down Mineral King. The final product is one of the finest websites we have ever seen (Great job Amanda!). Enjoy!

CLIENT: Silver City Mountain Resort

WEB DESIGN: Digital Rainstorm

PHOTOGRAPHER: Forrest Cavale

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cavale Creative

We invited some friends to enjoy the weekend at the resort and filmed a “day-in-the-life” header video for the homepage of the Silver City Resort website featuring a beautiful cabin, home-cooked meals at the Resort, hiking in Mineral King Valley, and, of course, s’mores around the campfire!

The site needed to feature full detail images for each of the cabins at the Resort. We carefully captured each of the beautiful cabins and all their accommodations.

To round out the site, Digital Rainstorm asked us to capture some general detail images around the resort and the nearby Mineral King Valley. This is one of our favorite places in California, so we were more than happy to oblige!