Hagadone Directories

Hagadone Directories, Inc. was established in 1987 to publish and distribute cost-effective regional telephone directories. The company was founded by Jim Hail and named after Mr. Hail’s partner, Duane Hagadone.

Internal Design

Along with creating the content and aesthetics for the product, the creation of internal branding content is also an extremely important function. Every project has unique challenges.

The Black Book

An average day consists of approving advertisement contracts, designing or updating advertising, preparing for print, implementing for layout, and corrosponding with clientel.

RFTC: The Pink Book

As part of breast cancer awareness month, we teamed up with the Susan B. Koman Orgonization to spread the word. The PinkBook was a special run of the current North Idaho product with pink pages and a logo redesign to show our proud support.

Workflow streamlining with scripting

Early on I started noticing very subtle kinks in workflow. They were adding up, while bogging us down. The Newton Script allowed us to generate dynamic size templates with client info pre-implemented. The Salymander Script allowed us to update things like copyright © and print year for pre-existing proofs with no revisions.