True marketing success only happens when a deeply emotional and memorable connection is made so that the potential customer visualizes the product and brand as contributing to their personal well-being and positive self image.
David Willson has served as Art Director and Creative Director for several South Florida advertising agencies as well as operating his own studio in Jupiter, Florida.
David Willson has served as Art Director and Creative Director for several South Florida advertising agencies as well as operating his own studio in Jupiter, Florida.
Royce Hotels was a luxury suite hotel brand of Servico Corporation geared toward the high end business traveler. David Willson designed travel trade, collateral, display and consumer advertising for the brand.
Large backlit airport display, used for multiple Royce Hotel properties.
Photographer: Steve Sanacore
Photographer: Steve Sanacore
Servico updated the luxury airport hotel concept with high energy lounges at many locations. The examples, above, are from Mimes Nightclub in Houston and Cheers nightclub in West Palm Beach, FL. The Mimes photoshoot actually took place in Cheers.
Mimes Photographer, Nick Melillo.
Mimes Photographer, Nick Melillo.
A series of table tent cards for weekly specials at various Servico Hotel onsite restaurants.
Photographer: Greg Allikas
Photographer: Greg Allikas
Newspaper ads for the long running Sunday Brunch and Seafood Extravaganza buffet specials at Royce Hotels.
Photographer: Greg Allikas
Photographer: Greg Allikas
Collateral material designs for the adolescent behavioral treatment program at Glenbeigh Hospital in Palm Beach.
Photography: Greg Allikas
Photography: Greg Allikas
A different approach was taken for the adolescent behavioral treatment program in Fr. Lauderdale Florida because the program was administered in an inpatient medical center. Illustrations were used to soften the initial message to parents who would face committing their child to an institutional hospital ward.
Design and illustrations by David Willson
Design and illustrations by David Willson
Collateral pieces for various outpatient programs at Glenbeigh Hospitals.
Photography: Greg Allikas
Photography: Greg Allikas
MedX Inc. of Miami was a medical waste disposal company with a unique set of marketing problems. While the actual product was not very glamorous, their market was physicians and hospital administrators who were accustomed to slick pharmaceutical and medical technology advertising. The company also had to overcome an initial negative disposition from physicians who were not happy about new federal regulations making them fully responsible for the documented proper disposal of biomedical wastes generated in their offices.
MedX, Inc. rapidly rolled-out a variety of hands-off systems for the disposal of biomedical and cytotoxic wastes in doctors offices and hospitals. All of the marketing materials were designed specifically to address niche markets through specific sales campaigns, while at the same time maintaining brand continuity.
Photography: Greg Allikas
Photography: Greg Allikas
A variety of MedX, Inc. collateral mailers.
Photography: Greg Allikas
Photography: Greg Allikas
A commercial airline industry and trade sales brochure for the TCAS II air traffic control system, Allied Signal Aerospace/Bendix King, client.
Design and Cover illustration by David Willson
Design and Cover illustration by David Willson
Course Catalog for the Institute for Corporate Real Estate, a corporate real estate continuing education curriculum and designation.
Photography by Greg Allikas
Photography by Greg Allikas
The Institute for Corporate Real Estate logo was designed so that it could also be used to symbolically illustrate the Proven Performance Model. The logo, as well as this illustration were done by David Willson using digital techniques.
An index tabbed membership benefits brochure for the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives.
One of several promotional mailers and program books prepared for the annual symposium of the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives. David produced all of the marketing materials for the association and its Institute for Corporate Real Estate subsidiary from 1993 to 2000.
The Genspring Wealth Map was designed and illustrated for a book, seminars and hanging displays about family wealth management for Genspring Family Services. Each section of the map represents a resource, challenge or process that families must negotiate to successfully manage generational wealth.
The various titled segments of the Genspring Wealth Map were used to illustrate chapters in the book and seminar leading the participant through a journey to successful generational wealth management.
Two ads from the first place Addy Award winning magazine campaign for First National Bank in Palm Beach.
Photography by Steve Sanacore
Photography by Steve Sanacore
Customer brochure for the Trust Division of First National Bank in Palm Beach. The design primarily relied on fine papers and artfully subdued photography to give an impression of conservative solidity.
Photography: Greg Allikas
Photography: Greg Allikas
The Palm Beach Opera needed outstanding mail campaign response for season subscriptions on a budget. David designed and illustrated a series of mailing brochures that used a combination of metallic and run-of-press inks to create an opulent metallic sheen that would stand out in anyone's mail stack.
Though the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre offered outstanding professional theater, often with well known stars, the Burt Reynolds name and local institutional status of the theater was its most important marketing asset. The theater was a client of David Willson's design studio in Jupiter, FL from 1986 through 1991 and this art appeared on program book covers and posters for eight years.
