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8 November 2013 RaeAnn Gardner City of Elk River Master City -wide Gateway and Wayfinding Proposal Primary Consultant Visual Communications Project Manager Richard Lang " 7fit 4 Company Profile Visual Communications (VCI), celebrating its 22nd year, is a professional sign design and project management group with extensive experience in identification and wayfinding systems. As designers and specifiers for over a hundred combined years, the principals of the company include in their personal resumes, multiple national design awards. As professional members of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) for the past twenty (25) years the principals, Cheryl Long O'Donnell and Richard Lang have participated in establishing industry standards during the development of a Technical Sourcebook and have participated on Government Relations and Research Committees. Visual Communications offers a powerful combination of creative design, project management expertise, and technical knowledge. This combination provides our clients with a distinct advantage. We are able to blend and implement aesthetic and image design goals with identification and wayfinding theory and the technical specifications necessary to provide signage that is effective, and successful. Our design team possesses exceptional experience and abilities in the areas of sign specification and organized project management. We have handled many diverse projects from the conceptual stage through the design, programming, prototyping, construction and implementation phases. Through our many years in the sign industry we have developed excellent working relationships with design firms, sign industry product vendors, fabricators, and installers. We have also gained considerable knowledge through prototyping, experimentation with state -of- the -art signage products, shop inspections, and on -site supervision of installations. Visual Communications is a Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) consisting of three partners: Cheryl Long O'Donnell, Constance Carlson and Richard Lang and are certified in the Central Certification Program (CERT) sponsored by the City of Saint Paul, Ramsey County, City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County. In addition, VISUAL Communications is also certified with the MN Unified Certification Program and members of the Mississippi Headwaters Chapter of the US Green Building Council to support our current focus on sustainable, eco- friendly signage solutions. VISUAL Communications is also a member of the Preservation Alliance, the Twin West Chamber of Commerce, St. Paul Chamber of Commerce and the Midway Chamber of Commerce (Cheryl Long O'Donnell is a Board of Directors member). Visual Communications' clients feel confident that their project will receive superior sign design and project management resulting in an appropriate and effective identification and wayfinding system that is true to their image and mission. Company Structure The three principals, Cheryl Long O'Donnell, Richard Lang, and Constance Carlson share in key management decisions of the company while providing professional signage design, wayfinding, specification, and bid procurement services. Jesse Yungner and Noah Vetsch provide specialized graphic design and wayfinding services; while Kim Coyle provides daily office management and accounting services. History During its 22 year history, Visual Communications has enjoyed participating in many high profile projects including signage master plans for Downtown St. Paul, the City of Eden Prairie Major Center Area 25 Year Wayfinding Master Plan, the City of Duluth - Skyline Parkway, and the City of Mound, Mound Harbor District.