"My favorite thing is to have in-depth discussions with clients, where they share their situations, challenges, and aspirations. Then my team taking that information and turning it into an actionable plan we implement, measure, and refine to help drive our client's success. It is enriching when our work helps so many people."
Brian Tyll
V.P. & General Manager
As a teenager, Brian started his career in the Graphic Communications business and opened his first company from scratch in 1995. That company was a service bureau providing critical needs to Advertising Agencies, Printers, and Direct Clients. Since then, his team and him have made acquisitions of complementary companies enabling healthy organic growth of clients. Today he is proud to have a great team working together to fulfill client's needs in all areas of Marketing and Graphic Communications. From Strategic planning to implementing all tactics for our clients to meet their goals. We work with fortune 500 companies to local businesses with the same passion for success.
"Building relationships with our partners. No question. It's rewarding to see our partners grow their brands and to help them create a more effective marketing project by integrating multiple channels--digital, social media, signage, branded merchandise.
Kathy Clendenin
Director of Client Experience
I have 25+ years of experience in creativity, marketing, production, and exceptional relationship-building skills coupled with proven success in executing continual growth and new product development for my clients. I have worked with clients in a variety of markets: automotive, education, consumer packaged goods (CPG), you name it my passion is maintaining and growing critical client and partner relationships at multiple levels from strategy to completion!
"I like helping clients create brand messages that align with their values and render product benefit in a clear and immediate way. It's gratifying to raise demographic awareness and sales for a client. ”
John McGee
V.P. Marketing Services
John values, above all, deep strategic and creative thinking when addressing daily opportunities. With other 40 years of consumer, industrial, automotive O.E. and aftermarket experience, John offers a wealth of experience in a variety of markets and disciplines. Major brands have relied on John's expertise, including Ford, Dodge, Jeep®, Mopar, Chrysler Fleet, Wynn's, Pennzoil, Holiday Inn and ITW. John lives and breathes the concept of ‘digging deeper, working harder’ to develop brand and product messaging that rings true, resulting in greater awareness, increased individual product sales and overall market penetration.
“My favorite part of the job is when a client sees a new concept for the first time and becomes immediately excited and you know you have hit a home run.”
Richard Rae
Creative Director
Over 25 years of progressive experience in providing graphic design, art direction, creative direction, and strategic marketing services to a wide variety of clients, from small nonprofits to fortune 500 companies. Specializing in brand-based marketing and design, my passion has always been to use the power of visual communication to create a powerful message that speaks to a particular audience and impacts them in a meaningful and memorable way.
“My favorite part of this job is learning the ins and outs of print marketing! Not only is there so much to learn, but every single time I learn something new I find myself thinking, "how can I marry my digital and data knowledge with this new print knowledge to create a powerhouse of a campaign?" It's very exciting!”
Ayaka Yamashita
Account Manager
Ayaka has over 6 years of digital strategy and data optimization experience. She started her career at Google, working her way up to a Digital Strategy Lead partnering with industry leaders in the B2C ecommerce space. She also has vast knowledge in the B2B marketing space, and as the Head of Digital Marketing lead the strategies for email marketing, social media, influencer marketing and UX design. In her free time, she learned SEO social strategies to grow her own personal account to over 300k+ followers.
“Seeing the project through from conception to live pieces is one of my favorite parts of the job. ”
Jack Johnston
Project Manager
Jack began his education in art school with a focus on product design, and eventually found his way to a degree in printing. He has spent over 20 years working with both production and marketing agents in the packaging, POS/POP, specialty products, and direct mail industries. His experiences have allowed him to help customers achieve their goals by collaborating with production teams on creative solutions and innovations.
"The favorite part of my job is the overall creative process from initial concepting to final product!"
Jon Berry
Graphic Designer
Over a decade of creative expertise including graphic design, photography and videography. With experience spanning multiple industries such as automotive, tourism, home goods and educational technology. I have a special passion for digital design since so much of how we communicate and consume is on screen.
"Experimenting with the Colex cutter to create new forms of signage, displays and experimental graphics."
Ethan Ulrich
Graphic Designer
Several years in both graphic design and customer relations has taught me flexibility, complex problem solving, and adaptability. There’s always more than one way to tackle a problem; and often, getting to see the solution makes me grateful for the challenge. My favorite projects to work on include physical items like trade show displays and point of sale materials, because you can see your work transform a space and make a powerful impact.
