La Tropical 

La Tropical

Established in Havana. Now brewed in Miami.

La Tropical is Cuba’s oldest brewery, founded in Havana in 1879. Dormant since the turbulent times of the Cuban Revolution, it has recently been brought back to life by the great-grandson of the original founder with the development of a brewery here in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami. We crafted a comprehensive platform to infuse the new Cerveceria la Tropical with the Cuban/Miami culture, starting with design and including every vernacular influence that makes Miami what it is today.
La Tropical Brewery Tile Mosaic
Miami Brewery Billboard design for La Tropical
Cervezeria La Tropical Beer Can Label Design
Social Posts for La Tropical Miami Brewery
Cervezeria La Tropical Billboard
Cevezeria La Tropical Social Media
La Tropical Merch
La Tropical Brewery Logo Design

Markham Yard Grows Roots with Farm Bureau Bank

Farm Bureau Bank has selected Markham Yard to lead its integrated branding and marketing efforts after a national competitive review among undisclosed participants.

Farm Bureau Bank provides digitally focused banking solutions to Farm Bureau members and their communities in over 44 states. Banking products and services include checking accounts, auto loans, and credit cards, as well as business and commercial services.

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Yellowfin

Yellowfin

Yellowfin

Based on our proven expertise in the Marine Industry, venerated offshore boatbuilder Yellowfin partnered with us in 2021 to help articulate the brand they had organically built for the last 23 years.

Together, we examined every dimension of what they did, from product development and engineering to the ownership engagement and real-world applications, ultimately crafting a brand platform based on their legacy of helping people achieve a deeper level of experiences and connections on the water. This brand platform will impact every possible executional touchpoint, including outward facing marketing messages, boat show presence (design, messaging, events), the brand’s digital/social presence, owner’s events, and internal communications (even Human Resources training).

Yellowfin Marlin 24' advertisement
Yellowfin Boats Print ad
Yellow Marlin 54 Print ad
Yellowfin Print Advertising campaign
Yellowfin Boats social media
Yellowfin boat instagram post

Markham Yard Sweeps 2023 Miami ADDY Awards

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markham-yard-2023-ADDY

Markham Yard Sweeps 2023 Miami ADDY Awards

Agency obtains 16 ADDYs, including three Best of Show awards.

MIAMI, FL, MARCH 24, 2023: The American Advertising Federation hosted its annual Miami ADDY Awards last week at The Anderson, enjoying a three-hour presentation filled with snacks, jazz, and the best of the best in the South Florida advertising community.

As the night progressed, one thing was clear: Markham Yard emerged victorious.

Presented 16 individual awards, including three Best of Show categories, eleven Silver ADDYs, one Honorable Mention and one Special Merit, the Markham Yard team took home more awards (including the most top awards) than anyone else this year.

“So proud of our team, for being recognized by the AAF for our work at the 2023 ADDYS last night. And thank you to the local ad community for coming together once more to remind us what ‘community’ can mean.” said Markham Cronin, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Markham Yard.

“Thank you to our team for your passion and energy. Thank you to our clients and partners who recognize that to do something extraordinary, we need to trust the process and each other, and be open to the unexpected, the unprecedented, the new.

We celebrate this moment. And then we tear off the rearview mirror, because what is behind us, is behind us. The things in front of us are where we are focused.”

Awards include: 

BEST OF SHOW, PUBLIC SERVICE: 

“Save The Slime” Campaign, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust

BEST OF SHOW, PRINT:

“Serious Stories, Chapter 2” Campaign, Invincible Boats

BEST OF SHOW, ONLINE/INTERACTIVE:

“You Don’t Have to Be Good” Campaign, New York Blood Center Enterprise.

HONORABLE MENTION, CROSS PLATFORM:

“Save the Slime” Release Campaign, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust

MERIT IN ILLUSTRATION/PACKAGING:

Don Q Packaging, Don Q Rum

SILVER WINNERS:

“10 Items or Less” Digital Video, NYBCe

“Blood Drop” Digital Video, NYBCe

“Blood Drop” TV, NYBCe

Don Q Cocktail Packaging, Don Q Rum

“Eating In Bed” Digital Video, NYBCe

“Greater Lengths” Spread, Yellowfin
“Save the Slime” Release Campaign (Public Service), Bonefish and Tarpon Trust

“Save the Slime” Release Campaign (Social Media), Bonefish Tarpon and Trust

“Save the Slime” Release Campaign (Integrated Advertising), Bonefish Tarpon and Trust 

“Serious Stories, Chapter Two” Campaign, Invincible Boats

“You Don’t Have To Be Good” Digital Video Campaign, NYBCe

INQUIRIES:

Markham Cronin: mcronin@markhamyard.com

ABOUT MARKHAM YARD, LLC:

Established in 2005, Miami-based, Markham Yard (MarkhamYard.com) is a full service advertising agency offering big brand thinking, strategy, design and creative in a concentrated form for both local and international clients. With eighteen years of experience with global clients across an array of industries, Markham Yard offers the creative power of big agencies in a streamlined and nimble form. Clients include: BurgerFi,  Children’s Hospital of Richmond Foundation, Anna Griffin, Boyne Capital, Liebherr, Captains for Clean Water City National Bank Hell’s Bay Boatworks, IT’SUGAR, The New York Blood Center Enterprise, Invincible Boats , Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, the Miami Herbert Business School, Breakthrough Miami, Herman Lucerne Memorial Foundation, and Yellowfin.

New York Blood Center Enterprises Teams up with Markham Yard to Teach a New Generation How Easy it is to Give Blood

Things that hurt more than giving blood
Things that hurt more than giving blood

New York Blood Center Enterprises Teams up with Markham Yard to Teach a New Generation How Easy it is to Give Blood

This marketing campaign will run in NYBCe’s regional markets across the country, including New York, Delaware, Missouri and Kansas

NEW YORK June 14, 2021: New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) has selected Markham Yard after a review for a regional campaign to bolster blood donation efforts in the post-COVID era.

The Markham Yard team will craft an integrated campaign to show a new generation of potential donors not only how important it is to adopt good blood donation habits, but how easy it can be. The campaign begins today to coincide with World Blood Donor Day, running regionally in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska.

Andrea Cefarelli, Senior Executive Director, Recruitment and Marketing at NYBCe notes, “The Markham Yard team did a great job of translating the data into a strategic and creative campaign that is unconventional, engaging and impactful. We look forward to collaborating with them to bring this to life in order to augment our critically-needed supply of blood and plasma across the country.”

“There is no substitute for human blood. This life-giving essence is in short supply, partially because the median age of blood donors is rising steadily, and partially because COVID has sharply curtailed the ability to donate. We look forward to working with the NYBCe team to show a new generation how easy it is to help,” said Markham Cronin, Founding Partner at Markham Yard.

Billings are undisclosed, and work will begin to appear in each market in early summer of this year.

For inquiries, please contact Andrea Cefarelli, Senior Executive Director, Recruitment and Marketing at New York Blood Center Enterprises.

ABOUT NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER ENTERPRISES: Founded in 1964, New York Blood Center (NYBC) is a nonprofit organization that is one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the world. NYBC, along with its operating divisions Community Blood Center of Kansas City, Missouri (CBC), Innovative Blood Resources (IBR), Blood Bank of Delmarva (BBD), and Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC), collect approximately 4,000 units of blood products each day and serve local communities of more than 75 million people in the Tri-State area (NY, NJ, CT), Mid Atlantic area (PA, DE, MD, VA), Missouri and Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Southern New England. NYBC and its operating divisions also provide a wide array of transfusion-related medical services to over 500 hospitals nationally.

ABOUT MARKHAM YARD: Markham Yard is an independent Advertising, Branding and Design Agency based in Miami, FL. Founded in 2005, we bring all the power of a full-service agency, in a compact package focused on generating the one competitive advantage any brand, big or small, can enjoy: The ability to create better ideas. It’s the ultimate unfair advantage. We are a workshop where strategists and designers, producers and writers, technologists and thinkers come together to craft elegant solutions to the business challenges we face. We are on a mission to dream, plan, craft and launch better ideas out into the world. INQUIRIES: CONTACT Markham Cronin, Founding Partner, Chief Creative Officer at mcronin@markhamyard.com

Welcome to Markham Yard.

markham yard logo on building
markham yard logo on building

Welcome to Markham Yard.

A yard is where things are dreamt up, planned, designed and built. Where ideas are translated into craftsmanship. Where things are cared for, maintained and upgraded. A defined space of our very own where talents of many kinds intersect to launch great things.

YARD is a reflection of our deeper focus on making great things. In the sausage factory of marketing, a lot of energy is often focused on the process at the expense of what comes out the other end. But the fact is, nothing we do matters unless something that makes a difference gets made. And that’s what happens in the YARD.

As I often tell our team, the one constant in our business is change, and change is opportunity. And today we have in front of us just such an opportunity. We have been on a journey for the last sixteen years on which we have been lucky to work with a broad variety of collaborators, clients, partners and talents. And this journey, at its best, has been one of optimization- Ever striving to be better tomorrow than we were today. So in this, we’d like to share some news: On Monday, April 19, Markham & Stein will become Markham Yard.

Our name has changed. But our heart is still in the same place.

We bring all the power of a full-service agency, in a compact package focused on generating the one competitive advantage any brand, big or small, can enjoy: The ability to create better ideas. It’s the ultimate unfair advantage. We are a workshop where strategists and designers, producers and writers, technologists and thinkers come together to craft elegant solutions to the business challenges we face. 

We are on a mission to dream, plan, craft and launch better ideas out into the world.

– Markham.


Ryder

Markham Yard Ryder Trucks Advertising

Ryder Systems

Special needs. Special delivery.

South-Florida-based Ryder Systems, a 79-year-old, $7 billion global transport and supply chain company tapped Markham Yard in 2017 as its Agency of Record, handling all marketing duties. Bringing this B2B opportunity to life has resulting in a multitude of opportunities to craft unexpected and engaging campaigns for industries ranging from Electric Vehicles and autonomous warehouses to Christmas Tree farm delivery trucks.

Ryder Used Trucks Billboard
Ryder Trucks Billboard Ad Mock up
Ryder Trucks Billboard Ad Mock Up