Matthew Michael
Co-Founder & Accounts Director
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My Favorite Pandora® Stations – Iron & Wine, The Head & The Heart, Bruno Mars, U2, Alexandre Desplat, Florence + The Machine, Foster the People
My Go-To Websites – NPR, Ad Week, Pop Candy, ESPN, Soule Mama
My Bucket List – Take my wife on a month long, European vacation, drive a few NASCAR laps, have coffee with Jack White, have a living room concert with Iron & Wine, and visit the coffee farms of Africa.
Weekends are best spent with my wife and our 3 boys, Garner, Riley, and Harper, racing cars, crashing trains, and kicking dirt. The best way to spend an early morning is with great coffee, a quiet room, and a project.
Some things I’m proud of are two successful skydives, a little league no-hitter, enjoying a handful of Cuban cigars and cups full of Kopi Luwak, and eating fried grasshoppers in Thailand without throwing up in front of everyone (I did that alone).
Each day I get to speak with a great group of clients in a variety of industries; it’s great learning the intricacies of their field, their clients, and their needs, and then creating marketing strategies to help them perform and thrive within their industry.
Nick Rios
Co-Founder & Creative Director
My Favorite Pandora® Stations – Adele, The Cowsills, Gorillaz, The Cranberries, Classical, Jason Mraz
My Go-To Websites – NPR, Fox News, IMDB, Ad Week, Smashing Magazine
My Bucket List – Visit St. Peter’s Basilica. Drive a Formula 1 car. Drink a Belgian beer in Belgium. Drive along the coast of Napa Valley. Have access to the vaults at the Vatican. Be the good guy in a car chase. Have coffee with Adele. More coming soon…
I enjoy the simple things in life. A great day for me is dinner with family, coffee with friends, and generally relaxing and having a good time. I love to spend time in the kitchen trying my hand at new recipes. I’m currently experimenting with all the various ways to make pizza (smoked salmon, capers, and caramelized onions). Movie and music trivia is a favorite of mine due to my passion for both. I will jump into any conversation that is centered around business, politics, or God, three more passions of mine.
Sitting down and speaking with businesses to discover what makes them tick and what drives their heart beat is a part of the work week I look forward to. Overseeing the design process & creative direction for our clients is a great opportunity to envision their brand and their message in front of their audience. Working with so many industries, it’s always an enjoyable challenge.
William Haun
Lead Web Developer/Photographer
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My Favorite Pandora® Stations – Radiohead, Damien Jurado, Four Tet, Washed Out, Yo La Tengo
My Go-To Websites – Petapixel, Pitchfork, BBC Africa, All Things D
My Bucket List – Visit and photograph all seven continents (only two to go!)
I think the best way to spend a day is playing LEGOs® with my 6-year-old son, hiking, shooting concert photography for The Blue Indian, and traveling internationally. Having traveled to all sorts of third world countries, I’ve eaten some pretty interesting foods: dried grubs, roasted termites, baked cobra, roasted bush rat, pan fried guinea pig, and smoked monkey.
What I enjoy most about web design is creating a great looking and functioning site for a client who had no web presence or an outdated site. The excitement of them realizing they can go from being embarrassed to sharing with everyone is quite rewarding. In commercial photography, I enjoy the challenge of showing up on-site and having to think on my feet to capture a place or its people. I like the spontaneity of working outside of a studio environment.
Oh yeah, and I love a good easter egg.
Heather Waldron
Graphic Designer
My Favorite Pandora® Stations – Electric Feel, Coldplay, Ingrid Michaelson
My Go-To Websites – Designspiration, DoodlersAnonymous, Cracked
My Bucket List – Go backpacking in Europe, skydive, run a 10k, solve a rubics cube
Love, love, love baking, making stuff, crafting, and re-purposing. I’m one of those avid yard-salers and estate sale-hunters who shows up before you open – it’s the best way to spend a Saturday. And my besty is Sophie, my Shih Tzu/Lhasa Apso mix.
I draw on anything I can get my hands on, to the point that it is a joke amongst my family and friends. So I knew when I got to college that art was the way to go. Graphic Design was just a really nice fit for me.
Sarah Rios
Marketing Specialist
My Favorite Pandora® Stations – Chris Botti, Coldplay, Fleetwood Mac
My Go-To Websites – AdWeek, Mashable.com
My Bucket List – Go to the ballet in Paris and Russia, visit Japanese gardens, visit Monaco, go to the Opera Ball in Vienna….it’s a list in progress!
I love chiffon! And I enjoy baking, reading, ballet, and fashion. I’ve danced for most of my life and spent two years as a professional ballet dancer. My sweet Maltese (Lexi) is the best dog in the world and she loves me unconditionally!
What I enjoy most about marketing is crafting creative ideas and messages that help our clients grow and better communicate with their audience, whether through web, print, or social media.
