Over the past ten years, I've had the pleasure of partnering with a variety of creative businesses. My passion is helping them build and extend their visual voice with smart and thoughtful design solutions - giving them the credit they deserve.

Here is what they have to say...

"[Sheila] worked with me and Lori Backen on all of our branding: logo development and its applications, web design and ongoing development, menus, all other on-line venues, proprietary/branded retail product line and items like custom china and staff uniforms. We love Sheila. She is a brilliant artist, savvy designer and has helped us navigate our desire for restrained but clear and strong branding."

Stanley Morris
Managing Partner
French Blue Napa Valley
frenchbluenapa.com

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"We're getting all kinds of great feedback on the website: positive, appreciative, and enthusiastic! Many heartfelt thanks from all of us for the superb job and for your amazing patience and responsiveness."

Steve Bello & Irene Halsman
philippehalsman.com

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"I have had the great privilege of working with Sheila over the course of the last year. She has a keen sense of graphic design and has captured beautifully the nature of my brand and the type of image I want to project. With her help, my business has blossomed over the last year. I continue to reach out to her for help with new projects because of her professionalism, creativity, and ability to tranform my concept into a concrete vision."

Sarah Warren
Founder & Head Baker
smorebakery.com

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"We have been very impressed by Sheila to literally read our minds and deliver our company identity. She perfectly symbolizes our vision and product and conveys the stylish, elegant and modern image to our product labels. She really listened effectively to what we were seeking, brought forward beautiful design ideas for our consideration, and did it all in a timely manner and with excellent communication skills. We highly recommend her to any company or individual."

Yumi Parkinson
Project Manager
Raison d’être Bakery

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"Sheila has been instrumental in both my husband's and my life. Not only did she design my husband's restaurants and bakery web sites, she was our go-to designer for our wedding invites. Because Sheila is incredibly intuitive and creative she created perfectly elegant and modern invitations that reflected my husband and me perfectly.

When I launched my own coaching business, Sheila was the obvious choice for designing my web site. I had no creative vision of what it should look like but only had a message that I wanted to deliver. This is where Sheila completely blew me away - her ability to "see" my message in colors and logos was beyond what I was expecting. Her designs that she created for me to choose from were so different yet so reflective of me that it was incredibly difficult to decide!

But beyond her talent is her character. Sheila has a beautiful grace that makes it extremely enjoyable to work with her; while being completely open to my ideas she also holds to what she knows will be effective. I believe that it is because of this her talent really shines through. I couldn't be happier and I can't recommend her enough.

I'm certain that whatever our lives lead us to create, Sheila will always be the one to brand it and paint the picture of our vision."

Amy Eliza Wong
Always On Purpose
alwaysonpurpose.com

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"Sheila's design sensibility is among the most refined and elegant I have ever seen. She always finds the perfect balance of color, typography, and graphics for every project, and is simply a joy to work with. She is consistently professional, friendly, helpful. I have known Sheila for over 3 years as a co-worker and fellow designer, and have relied on her time and again for smart, visual problem-solving and honest, constructive criticism. Her ideas are not only creative, but immediately useful and on-target."

Sharon Mizota
sharonmizota.com

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"Sheila was an absolutely fantastic choice for all of our branding, design, web and print needs. When we were looking for someone to help us with our branding, we saw a variety of design sensibilities but hers immediately clicked. She not only took branding seriously, but she made it something very unique.

Ever since then, we've been extremely happy. As for the logistical stuff, she always been on time, her rates were reasonable, and she's been a lot of fun to work with. As for the talent end of things, she definitely goes above and beyond. Lots of cool ideas, beautifully executed, stuff we could never have done on our own. There have been many people who comment on how awesome our logo is, including our color scheme, as well as our website."

Blake Wirht
Founder & Partner
Scooter Media

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"Thank heavens for Sheila. After a happy chance encounter with her lovely site, I just had to meet who was behind the designs. To my delight, Sheila's felt like a kindred creative spirit ever since. Not only is she talented, timely, and professional to work with, she even puts up with my admittedly hands-on ("collaborative" as she kindly puts it) style. She's a joy to work with."

Kim O'Neill
Good Stock - Home & Family

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"Sheila is a brilliant designer and a wonderful collaborator. She was frank about the limits of my then current logo and helped me figure out my “brand” and from there my logo, card, stationary, website, and brochure. She was both honest when I came up with ideas that wouldn’t work or look good as well open to my suggestions without being defensive. She has creative, out of the box ideas, and beautiful execution. Despite my anxiety with creating a new logo, website, etc., she was always positive, encouraging, and really a pleasure to work with. She delivered projects in a timely fashion and was professional, clear, and honest in all our interactions. My website was challenging to create because we needed to communicate to an audience that does not always read well and many of whom think mostly in pictures. Sheila was able to work with my needs and the needs of my audience. I feel lucky to have found her and can’t recommend her highly enough."

Kim Ainis
Chicago Reading & Dyslexia Center

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Sheila was an answer to a prayer for me after being confused for four years as to how to brand my business. I offer a wide variety of activities for a wide range of ages and felt overwhelmed with trying to find a logo to contain all of the aspects of my business under one roof. Sheila came in and was clear, organized, professional, open minded, positive, and hugely effective. I had a truly gratifying experience working with her. I am picky and detail oriented by nature, and have been told I can be a "pain in the neck" by more than a few people. Sheila handled me with ease, grace, and professionalism. I learned a great deal from working with someone with such great integrity. I am thankful for Sheila and am very much looking forward to growing my business so that I can keep working with her!!!

Stephanie Shuken
Village Arts Center

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