Donovan N. Beery
Director of Graphic Arts

Donovan oversees all creative development at Eleven19 Communications, Inc.

He received a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication & Design from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.  His background in visual communications, web design, and creative concepts were put to good use when he was the chief web designer at Union Pacific and the corporate identity and web designer at Nexterna. He’s lectured on web design at Creighton University, teaches visual communications at Metropolitan Community College and proudly serves on the Board of Directors for AIGA Nebraska.

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PROJECT DETAILS:
STEP cover co-designed with Bennett Holzworth of Be A Design Group and certified in September, 2006 as the best-selling issue in the magazine’s history.

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Jason has been conducting business in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding areas since 1998. His services include graphic design and Internet development services across the nation and Canada. Jason has over 17 years of creative experience andhas worked with large companies and organizations such as JCPenney, AEGON, Atmos Energy, NFL, NHL, NBA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Way, YWCA, KraftFoods, Dr Pepper, Texas Tech University and many others. He has also created two additional successful online businesses which include CreativePublic.com A graphic design business resources Web site and SilkFlowerDesign.com which sells custom silk floral arrangements which his wife creates. To caontact Jason just go to http://www.artspacedesign.biz/

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Here are some samples of his work…

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving.

Check out the video at www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture

Sands Creative Group is pleased to announce that the 2006 Annual Report for Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston has won an Award of Excellence in the 2007 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, a national competition for communications professionals. The APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. According to APEX, this year’s entries displayed an extraordinary level of quality. The APEX judges saw only the most promising publications that professional communicators could enter. From those entries, the judges had the truly difficult task of selecting the award-winning entries.

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Adrienne Levin has been in the Design Community for 5 years. She is an active member of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists). After attending both the Art Institute and Platt College Adrienne uses her personal and educational experience in her work. She is currently living in San Diego, California where she works as a Graphic Designer for a small sports Advertising company and does freelance work under the name Moonshinedesign. She can be reached at moonshinedesign@gmail.com.

Here are some samples of her work…

Robinson Creative (http://www.robinsoncreativeinc.com), an advertising design firm, opens its offices in the Southlake Town Square. Robinson Creative moves its main design facility into the latest section of the center. The firm’s nine years in the industry and an expansion of its client base have encouraged growth and a new office facility.

“We are anxious to open our doors and expand our services,” says creative director and founder Ben Robinson. Robinson, a native Texan, has lived in Southlake almost as long as his business has flourished. After working as senior art director and creative director for such companies as Shapiro Small Agency, Madden Marketing and Design, Fitz and Floyd and the Nelson Group, Robinson demonstrated great promise and collected many design awards. In fact, several of his clients urged him to form his own company. “My clients followed me and I felt I owed them a more personal approach I couldn’t offer while working for other firms.” It is this dedication to a more individualized attitude that has earned the company long standing clients. Robinson states, “My clients trust me and I personally ensure we handle their account properly. We also have excellent referrals that continue a steady stream of new business.”

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Ema Design Inc., an award-winning Denver-based graphic design firm with clients nationwide, celebrates its 25th year in business this month. To announce this landmark anniversary, founder Thomas Ema created a new “25″ logo and special anniversary mailer, and added an historical timeline to www.emadesign.com, featuring 16 groundbreaking projects he has designed over his 25-year career.

Ema, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art/Design, established Ema Design in 1982. The company creates identity, print, signage, public art and new media designs for a wide variety of clients. Past clients have included the Adolph Coors Company, Hewlett-Packard, Swedish Medical Center and the Downtown Denver Partnership. His recent work includes extensive signage and wayfinding projects for the Denver Pavilions, Maggiano’s Little Italy, the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield and others.

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Pod1 web design Leaps 39 Places in Top 100 Survey by Design Week 2007. Pod1 web design Named Second Most Bullish Agency. Pod1 web design is Third Largest Income Growth.

London (PRWEB) June 12, 2007 — Pod1, the London and New York based web design agency, has been ranked number 61 in this year’s Design Week Top 100, up from number 100 last year.

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Portland, OR, Ryan Graphics, Big Tricks for Small Budgets, has just received multiple awards from the 4th annual International award competition sponsored by Portfolios.com. Portfolios.com is a well known website in the creative industry. An online source for creatives to showcase work samples, search the job bank, and enter the annual award competition. Portfolios.com advertises in high-end graphic design magazines and partners with other design-related websites.

Ryan Graphics is honored to receive a Bronze Award for it’s “Hawaiian Historical Print Society” logo and two Merit Awards for it’s “Moose and Monkey” and “Skyward Merchants” logos. The Hawaiian Historical Print Society logo was completed for a local client located in Vancouver, WA. This logo was for an artist with a collection of reproduced, antique Hawaiian paintings. The Moose and Monkey logo was completed for a client in California with plans to launch an online retail website selling whimsical home decor. The third logo, Skyward Merchants, was completed for a client in North Carolina. This client is a full-time pilot that also had an online retail website selling aviation supplies. Ryan Graphics goes above and beyond to develop unique identities for each client. “I am so pleased with this news and to actually receive multiple awards from one competition was beyond my expectations,” said Laurie Ryan-Day, owner of Ryan Graphics. See designer’s website for work samples.

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Meredith, NH, June 01, 2007 –(PR.com)– Shawn Dixon, of Birchtree Creative Services, has recently been selected for inclusion in this year’s LogoLounge Book 4. LogoLounge carefully reviews submissions, from all over the world, and is the internet’s largest database of logos – over 65,000 to date.

The book, now in its fourth volume, is published every 18 months and judges this year, include Louis Lygo of Wolff Olins, Jerry Kuyper of Jerry Kuyper Partners, Jason Schulte of Office, Gaby de Abreu of Switch Branding & Design, Haley Johnson of Haley Johnson Design, Neville Brody of Research Studios, Janet Martin of Communication Arts, Inc., and Chris Campbell of Interbrand. The new book will be released by Rockport Publishers in February of 2008.

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Woody Holliman, Creative Director for Flywheel Design! Woody Holliman served for seven years as founder and chair of the Art & Design Department at Peace College in Raleigh. His professional experience also includes stints as an art director, art critic and freelance illustrator. Woody earned his M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed an M.A. in philosophy.
Flywheel Design is now a ten-person firm providing print design, web design and corporate branding to businesses and institutions throughout the United States.

Andrew Shalat is the author of Mac Design Out of the Box (Peachpit), CNET’s Do It Yourself Mac Projects (with Joli Ballew, on McGraw-Hill), and the upcoming How To Do Everything with Online Video (McGraw-Hill).  He is a designer, writer, author, illustrator and consultant. He is heard weekly on InsideMac Radio, giving graphic design tips and keeping listeners up to date on new design related technologies and whatever is stuck in his craw for that week. He has been working as a graphic and commercial designer and a writer for over twenty years.  He also teaches graphic design as an adjunct professor at Sessions.edu, an online design school.

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Originally from NJ, I started getting serious about “commercial” art in High School, selling a few of my paintings and sculptures. I also made quite a name for myself in school by being banned from the HS art show. They say the content was a bit racy, I preferred to call it artsy.

Then came the big party, I mean college, the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. After my first year of school, I was sucked into an ad agency, doing some illustration work but mostly paste-ups and mechanicals, I sure do miss the smell of rubber cement and a waxer (ask your parents about that kids!). Working in NJ agencies I built a nice portfolio, and set my sights on North Carolina where I could afford a house on the artist’s salary.

In NC I landed a job with a FireFly Balloons, a hot air balloon manufacturer, managing their graphics department. We would design and build balloons for corporations tired of the same old advertising media. Working that gig for about 4 years exposed me to working with fortune 500 companies and some really big egos! I married and had two great children and we decided it was time to move back North, (was I crazy?) this time to Upstate NY.

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Axie Breen is a graphic designer based in the Boston area. Her clients are arts and education organizations, social service and policy non-profits, businesses and political campaigns. She enjoys working collaboratively with organizations to develop effective, distinctive comunications: “Part of the fun is the variety of projects I work on, which could be a Doc Watson album cover or opera advertising or an annual report. It’s great to get the client’s feedback when they get a new piece that really delights them and surpasses their expectations.”

The studio helps entrepreneurs and established organizations create new projects that are on target with their message and their audience. Ms. Breen is pleased to use her skills to support service and policy organizations that are working to make the world a better place, like Women Employed in Chicago, Citizen Action Wisconsin, and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugee Rights in California.

Ms. Breen’s work has received awards for brochure and annual report design. She has a BFA in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also teaches tai chi and kung fu in Boston.

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Check out some of Axie’s work…
Advertising for Concert Opera Boston, a philanthropic organization	Season brochure for Chorus pro Musica, a Boston-based music group
Logo for The Living Room Project, a leadership development initiative in Wisconsin	Web site for The Immigrant Children’s Advocacy Project, a Chicago-based organization

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Axie Breen Graphic Design
781.449.9638
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