Persuasive messaging and compelling creative
Our Story
CSS offers a comprehensive range of expertise that supports small endeavors as well as large-scale, more complex marketing efforts. We know the importance of having a clear and consistent branding message in the marketplace and believe that your marketing is as crucial to your success as choosing competent staff.
The team at CSS is energetic, resourceful and driven by the creative, solution-seeking process. We pride ourselves on unparalleled swift execution and bend-over backwards service that ensures the development process will be just as rewarding as the final deliverable.
Meet Our Team
Frank Cymbala
President & Account Director
Stephen Smith
Project & Production Manager
Aimee Mercer
Art Director
Faith Foyil
Senior Copywriter
Frank Cymbala, President & Account Director
Frank is a graduate of Drexel University, where he received a BS in Accounting and an appreciation for the spirit of entrepreneurship. Utilizing his unique combination of left-brain creativity and right-brain analytics, Frank founded CSS with the vision of a firm that would generate dramatic design with real world applications.
In his role as President and Account Director, Frank strives to ensure CSS remains unlike other creative providers. He guides our work, encouraging team members to develop tactics that utilize CSS’s in-depth knowledge of the production process, and make financial sense when it comes time to implement.
With significant experience within the senior and non-profit worlds, Frank is always brainstorming innovative and effective methods to connect with client’s target audience and achieve their goals. Frank’s business philosophy can be summarized by his favorite quote from Winston Churchill, “You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give”.
Stephen Smith, Project & Production Manager
A graduate of Drexel University, Stephen studied Marketing and Project Management, before graduating with magna cum laude honors. Passionate about perfection, Stephen learned the importance of project management at a young age, founding and managing a landscaping agency with five employees throughout high school and college.
Having worked as an Associate Brand Manager for Johnson and Johnson’s consumer products division, Stephen understands the client’s perspective and needs, and strives to anticipate them at every turn. Stephen leverages his unique experience on both the client and agency side of advertising in his role as Account Manager at CSS.
Known for his color-coordinated highlighting and strategically-placed post-it notes around the office, Stephen is passionate about ensuring every detail is tended to. Clear communication, strict adherence to timelines and budgets, and service with a smile are his guiding principles. His personal mission is to search for the best and most cost effective solution for every marketing challenge.
Aimee Mercer, Art Director
Aimee fell in love with graphic design before she even knew what the term meant. She discovered her passion as the layout editor of her high school yearbook. Following high school, she turned her newfound love into a career, studying graphic design at Drexel University, where she graduated with magna cum laude honors.
With over 25 years of extensive knowledge and expertise in branding, marketing, print, and multimedia design, Aimee is well suited for her role as CSS’s Art Director. In her position, Aimee sets the direction for, and oversees, the design of all print and multimedia projects. Some of her areas of expertise include (but are not limited to) bi-monthly newsletters, quarterly magazines, annual reports, direct mail campaigns, magazine ads, website development, and corporate identity development.
As a member of the CSS team, Aimee is accustomed to multitasking in a fast paced deadline-driven environment. She brings strong conceptual skills to her work and translates ideas into realities. It is her personal mission statement to go the extra step to make every piece unique and special for our clients.
Faith Foyil, Senior Copywriter
A seasoned business writer and humorist, Faith brings more than 25 years of experience to the CSS team. The author of two books and a former columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times’, Faith crafts versatile, results-oriented marketing collateral.
By blending her interest for language and grammar with her intrinsic optimistic outlook, Faith strives to identify and communicate the benefits of a brand.
As a member of the CSS team, Faith embraces the challenges of crafting messages for different mediums, be it a brief inspiring headline or long copy that keeps the audience engaged for the full read.
Some of her areas of expertise include headlines, advertisements, postcards, invitations, and full website features for a wide range of clients and industries, including healthcare, senior living, non-profit, technology, retail and tourism.
Faith’s guiding principle is that copy is not just about talking to people, but rather about creating engaging conversations and dialogue.
Our Guiding Principles
Strategists at Heart
CSS generates dramatic designs with real world applications. Our unique, in-depth knowledge of the production process guides our work to develop tactics that make financial sense when it comes time to implement. With all client projects we:
- Assess the entire scope of your project: its application, turnaround time, budget constraints, and audience and distribution goals.
- Offer printing, production and mailing recommendations based strictly upon your individualized project criteria and intent.
- Strive to identify, and then pursue, the most effective and efficient methods to enable your collateral to have its greatest impact.
Passion to Perform
We’re passionately focused on building meaningful and impactful relationships with our clients while telling your brand message through innovative means, based on your timeline. At CSS, your project will be done on time, every time. No excuses.
A Team Player
We view ourselves as more than just a vendor, but rather an extension of your team. CSS can provide any level of service you need, from working alongside an existing agency to collaborating with your in-house marketing department. We will develop a flexible arrangement to handle any task, from the full spectrum of creative development through production, and anything in between.
Let’s Work Together!
If you are ready to communicate to the world what makes you unique, then it’s time to choose a partner who is different from the rest.
Contact CSS today to arrange a consultation.