I began my career as a visual designer. I loved the challenge of creating interesting graphics to communicate my message effectively. Making it all work has been my passion. Typography was one of my early interests, beginning with lessons in calligraphy and nurtured in the era of Letraset and typesetting. To know how much a…
When I heard about the Card Campaign on Facebook last year, I was immediately interested. It was an effort to fight the rampant misinformation that was flooding our phones and laptops by presenting documented information on civics and political process via pdf files for cards one could print out at home. Each card is on…
As a lifelong lover of satire and political cartoons, my eyes lit up when I saw that Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Ohman was looking for someone to help with design and production for his latest collection of cartoons. I got in touch immediately. After chatting a bit about his time in Oregon, I was hired….
When long time client Gerry Ellis decided to reorganize his online presence for GLOBIO and Talking Apes, a new website was required. A fresh new UX approach was implemented along with updated branding and new information architecture that combined the previously separate sites for the Talking Apes podcast, the Apes Like Us video portal, and…
Eric LaBrant needed a simple campaign website. The one he’d used a few years back had been lost after he got tired of paying monthly support fees. We were able to review the old site on the Internet Archive and come up with something fresh and new that reflects Clark County’s progressive growth for this…
Is it Time for a Tune Up? The answer is Yes! The new year is a perfect time to give your WordPress website a fresh look and make it more fun as well as enhance your search engine ranking. Frequently updated content is one of the strongest measures to increase your site’s visibility on search…
As the the world of media gyrates and wobbles, I have heard of some instances where friends have lost social media accounts due to the whims of the gatekeepers. Overnight the carefully collected archive of creative work is gone. Some were lost through discussing topics declared forbidden by the page admins, some through mistaken instances…
Linda Lee Michelet and I met in 1990 we both worked at TriMet. Since then we have worked together on four websites, hundreds of posters, postcards, social media campaigns, and marketing emails to promote her amazing career as a jazz singer and bandleader. Every show requires a large format promo poster, tabloid posters, print postcards,…
Before I began Sirius Media, I had no idea what a manufacturer’s rep was, but after doing 3 websites for manufacturer’s reps, I now understand what a key role they play in getting products to market. Anna Filip has been working with clients in retail for a long time, and needed a stie to welcome…
After building a site, doing the QA, fine tuning the carefully crafted content, it’s time to share it with the world. So you post it on Facebook and bam – the funky slider you had tried early on is showing up. Or the short blurb summary is something you wrote on the last site. It’s…
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