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To all our clients: thank you for trusting us with your important projects. In return we make this commitment to you: to listen to your goals, your feedback and concerns and work with you to achieve the best possible solution. I take that responsibility seriously and I receive great satisfaction from producing work that I and, more importantly, you are happy with — work that delivers a genuine benefit to your organisation or business through effective marketing and communications.

Kal Starkis
Managing Partner

Testimonials

We've had a great response to your posters and flyers (both internally and externally). …

Thanks to the new look/branding we actually doubled our number of applications! The applications were of a very high standard as well.

Thanks for your help.

Mark
Department of Defence HR

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During 2005 we engaged Starkis Design to redesign our course prospectus and advertising material, the result was a quadrupling of the number of enquires from our annual advertising campaign and a significant increase in the number of applicants. …

I highly recommend Starkis Design.

David Nielsen
Australian Institute of Family Counselling

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I have seen hundreds of promotions over the years and written dozens. BBC has the best kit for members I have ever seen bar none! Congratulations to your team who produced them.

Gordon Moyes
Superintendent
Wesley Mission, Sydney

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A big thank you to all of you for your involvement in, contribution to, and support of the Positive Stories website. … As of a few minutes ago [one day after the website launch] the website has received just over 3,300 visits and we have already received 7 [new] stories for inclusion on the site. Based on the feedback I have received so far via phone and email the website is definitely making a positive impression on individuals and families who are working through their own issues related to substance use.

Thanks again

Neill Taylor
Project Officer
Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD)

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I want to thank you on behalf of the committee of Peter Pan Canberra for your very generous gift of designing the invitations for the Ladies Lunch and Christmas Drinks Party. The committee was absolutely delighted with both invitations and felt they were some of our best. We feel that we have got a good response to both events because of the quality of the invitation.

The committee is very committed to the task of raising funds for Barnardos, as we truly believe that they fill an invaluable role of supporting families that are struggling. Barnardos works to keep children with their families in an environment were they are not abused or neglected, and they have an enormous challenge to help all those in need in the Canberra and Queanbeyan area.

The committee would like to once again thank you for your support.

Kind regards

Anna Hyles
Peter Pan Canberra

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Starkis Design helped establish a new style which we are very happy with, and applied it consistently across our different promotional material, including: the website (www.canturf.com.au), brochures, lawn care booklets, Yellow Pages advertising, print media advertising and billboard signage. The style is fresh and modern, but most importantly it works with, and not against, the established Canturf name and logo which we've invested so much into. We have a brand which we are really all very proud to be associate with and now we have a family of promotional products which we are equally proud of.

Recent feedback from our customers has been very positive, with several complimenting our new advertising and marketing approach.

I highly recommend Starkis Design to any organisation seeking to improve their corporate image.

Damian Robinson
Canturf

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Our Open Art program won the Mental Health Certificate of Excellence as well as the Overall Award of Excellence at the recent ACT Health Promotion Awards. … I believe that the booklet was instrumental in the judging of these awards as we sent it along with the application. It is proving to be a very useful tool for promoting all of our programs.

Sally Paterson
Mental Health Unit
Belconnen Community Service

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All of us at the Centre would like to thank you immensely for all of your hard work and skill in creating our website. It is very exciting for our work to be brought into the modern world with such a cool layout and we could not have done this without you. Thanks especially for always replying so cheerfully to my many emails!!

Michelle Burgis
National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, ANU

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I wanted to thank you for all your help with our promotion. The book looks fab and the packs have been really well received by the health librarians who were lucky enough to get them in the mail for Library and Information Week. … I appreciate you pulling out the stops for us and getting everything ready on time.

Jane Shelling
Manager
ADCA National Resource Centre

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I was very pleased with the report you produced for ADCA ... I appreciate your attention to detail, you are timely and responsive and you are the only person I know who applies the Style Guide as slavishly as I do! (This is a compliment!)

Anne Rosenzweig
Policy/Project Officer
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia

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Once again the team at Starkis Design has delivered another top quality product for the Australian National Council on Drugs. This product had its challenges but all of them were handled extremely professionally and efficiently, which ensured that the research paper was ready for release at a major Australian drug and alcohol conference. Thank you for all your efforts!

Neill Taylor
Project Officer
Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD)

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The conference went off very well and we had many comments about the very professional 'look' of our registration brochure and conference booklet.

Thanks again for your help.

Dr Martin van Bueren
Centre for International Economics

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You haven't heard from me on this one as john is 'taking the lead' ... but I'd just like to thank you (again) for the good work!!

Prof Jeff Bennett
National Centre for Development Studies

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Our computer technician asked me to pass on his praises to you for the work you did on the maps. He was involved in trying to sort out the problems we were having with them all that time ago and so he knows how much work you had to do to get them to the state they are now.

Anyway, its made his job easier and he would like to pass on his thanks to you and your staff.

Brooke Sputore
National Drug Research Institute

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I am writing on behalf of Belconnen Community Services to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for your Sponsorship of the 2008 Belconnen Community Festival, ‘Your Dream Party’ on November 15th.

Your generous contribution as a Supporting Sponsor is extremely valuable for festival development and was integral to the success of the festival. The wonderful graphics you prepared gave us the identity and marketing material we needed and were very popular. We appreciate all the time and effort you put in to create the suite of graphics and items for print and know the event wouldn’t be the same with out it.

Phil Nizette
Festival Coordinator
Belconnen Community Festival

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On behalf of the Church Board and the Influencing the Capital Campaign Committee I wish to thank you very sincerely for the great amount of time you gave in design and artwork. We are indeed grateful for all your advice and delighted with the final outcome.

Thanking you once again.

Brenda Wishart
Secretary
Belconnen Baptist Church

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[Kal] has worked from an initial brief, offered suggestions and provided drafts for comment, all promptly and within expected time frames. He has listened to our views and made appropriate changes as we have needed them.

Belconnen Community Service has valued Kal's expertise and expects to use Starkis Design for design work in the future.

Margo Mitchell
Executive Director
Belconnen Community Service

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I have always been delighted with the quality of Kal's work. ...

Most importantly, I find that he listens carefully to my briefing and is able to add his own ideas whilst still providing the desired results. ...

Louise Elliott
Director, Marketing
National Mapping Division, Geoscience Australia

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[Starkis Design] understands our needs and delivers them, with no fuss, in a friendly professional manner.

Peter Gordon, Something Ventured / Canberra Business Advisory Service

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Efficient, reliable and friendly.

Jenny Bush
Hollands and Partners

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... always upfront, honest and helpful.

Jeanette Medley
Shepparton 4 Wheel Drive Centre

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All work undertaken by Starkis Design has been of a very good standard, delivered on time (often before deadline). The proprietor Mr Kal Starkis combines the very rare talents of good design ability, fast accurate working practices, a very flexible mind and work attitude and excellent interpersonal skills. The Centre's clients who have worked with Kal, have often commented on what a pleasure it was to work with him and have without fail, been happy with the final result.

Nigel Pearson
Manager, Centre for Media Resources
UNSW@ADFA

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I cannot recommend Kal Starkis and Starkis Design highly enough. ... [Kal] developed an excellent understanding of our business. ... sought our feedback and input at regular intervals and ensured that we had a common understanding at each stage. ...

The Council is delighted with the outcome of each of these projects ...

Mr Gino Vumbaca
Executive Officer
Australian National Council on Drugs Secretariat

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On behalf of the ANCD, I would like to sincerely thank you for your high quality work, your consistently pleasant manner and your unlimited patience throughout this process. We are really pleased with the outcome.

Karen Price
Research/Project Officer
Australian National Council on Drugs Secretariat

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I think the [TailorMade] site looks fantastic. The feedback from others has been great also. You've done a really wonderful job with it.

Joanna Gallagher
Graphics Outside the Square

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Re: Your Alternative to Aqua

... it is a testament to your well thought out presentation and absolutely super-human abilities with Flash that motivated me to write at all. ...

P.S. are you giving Flash lessons?

Anonymous feedback

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I really respect good work and these [Canturf ads] are really good!

Simon
Yellow Pages

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We are receiving excellent comments on the updated website!

Dan Etherington
Kokonut Pacific

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All went really well!

The pamphlet and posters look good.

Thank you for a professional job and all your running around to help us meet our deadlines.

Felicity White
Trips ACT

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Everyone loves the new website …

The structure works really well and I'm finding it pretty straightforward to get the stuff up. So thanks for doing such a great job with all that. I like the CSS.

Linda Gosnell
Centre for Tax System Integrity
The Australian National University

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Put another box above 'excellent'!

Nick Abel
CSIRO