The Designer
This is the studio of designer and art director Shanna Blasingame, a talented artist with a lot of experience and large portfolio of work. Her talents are varied, and she offers a kind of one-stop shop for marketing projects of all types. She works in WordPress, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Word, Quark, Acrobat, Excel, whatever it takes to get the job done. In recent years she has added photography to her list of skills, after hiring out for photos for projects for many years, now she picks up the camera and captures the ideas in her head. Though she does most of the work hands on, when needed, she hires other developers, illustrators, writers or techies if a project calls for it.

Shanna has personally branded several companies who have put their entire creative in her hands from logo to completed website including photography, such as Main Street Wine Bar, Rustic Lodge Furniture, Antonelli Event Center, Woody's Italian Restaurant and Woody's Catering.

A-Typical Studio
"Driving to work in traffic, paying to park every day, and working in an office with central air controls, cubicles, community refrigerators, and account executives attempting to interpret communication between myself and the clients was not for me" says Shanna." So one year, during employment at a very large ad agency in Pittsburgh, a vacation to Alaska changed her life. People do figure out what they desire in life and go for it, and she wanted more time in nature, less traffic. She dreamed of getting away from downtown, into a more inspired environment, maybe see a tree from her office window, or at least to have a window. She moved to a tree filled property just outside of Pittsburgh and began working from a home office and has never been happier. For some creatives, inspiration doesn't happen between 9 and 5 in a cubicle.

Educational and Creative Background
Shanna graduated from East Texas State University* having majored in fine art with an advertising minor, learning from ad professionals in Dallas agencies. After several years she did a one-eighty, changed majors to business administration, and got the full mix of left-right brain training.

She has had full and part and time jobs and positions in design studios and ad agencies, and freelanced in a variety of environments for many years. Her artistic background shows in the quality of her designs, and her understanding of marketing helps her communicate the appropriate message in her work. She works efficiently on computers, understands budgets and accounting, and everything that goes into a running a company. A great combination for someone helping others succeed in business.

*East Texas State University is now called Texas A&M Commerce