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Dead Horse Branding offers a      Your work on Tony Brown's book,       From fashion to
             unique 360-degree approach        "Elvis: Strait to Jesus," involved    handcrafted furniture,
             to brand management. How          everything from graphic design to     your design work spans
             do you and Melissa Core           photography. What was the most        multiple mediums. How
             collaborate on projects, and      challenging aspect of this project,   do you stay inspired and
             what sets Dead Horse              and how did it feel to contribute to  continue pushing the
             Branding apart from other         documenting the history of            boundaries between
             creative management               modern country music?                 music, art, fashion, and
             companies?                                                              design?
                                               Tony is a dear friend, and his
             Together, we do all 7 formulas    amazing contribution to history       The trick is to enjoy what
             of branding under one roof.       required a lot of thought and         you do, as we all have
             Nothing goes out without it       respect. The challenge was to make    times when we are
             going past Melissa or me,         sure we didn’t leave any              uninspired, but
             making everything cohesive.       informational stone unturned, as      sometimes you just need
             We cross over; Melissa is very    there are still stories coming to light  to jump in head first and
             business, some creative, and      after the publication. Volume two     do the work to fire up your
             myself very creative and some     on the way…lol. We also had to make   creative engines.
             business; our staff also          sure celebrities like Reba McEntire,  Creativity is floating out
             understand this. Some clients     George Strait, Lionel Richie, and     there for all to take
             come in and just want             others were comfortable with the      advantage of; you just
             publicity, but we make sure the   experience and final result of photo  need to know how to
             foundation is rock solid before   direction. I was lucky to not only    access it. All my creative
             moving ahead. Getting 100         photograph and graphically design     avenues lean on each
             thousand eyes on a client is      the project, I got to co-write the    other for inspiration; I am
             wasted if they can’t capitalize   book, a high school dropout putting   just the vehicle
             immediately on the back end       words together. Melissa also          connecting all of them.
             with merchandise sales, email     photographed a lot of the content
             capture, or future commerce.      with me, which is always great!!
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