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BEFORE JOINING FORCES
after meeting on America Online in 1994, partners Dave and Suzanne Stephens
each had separate careers as nationally-recognized, award-winning print
designers in the Southeast and in the San Francisco Bay area. Soon after
meeting, we relocated together to southern Oregons
Rogue Valley, where we became two
of only a small handful of print designers to explore the new field
of Web design. In June, 2002, we relocated our business to beautiful
Lake Oswego, near Portland, Oregon.
Long-time print and advertising designers,
we witnessed the first public release of Netscape Navigator in October,
1994. Immediately we foresaw a major paradigm shift in communication.
Quickly becoming obsessed with learning Web site design, our first Stephens
Design Web site was one of only two professional design firms listed
on Yahoo!, out of a total fewer than fifty Web developers registered.
That number has since grown to over 15,000 companies.
We offer our clients print, Web and multimedia
design and illustration skills second to none. Combining our years of
marketing communications experience with our unique artistic skills,
we create high-impact, low-bandwidth site graphics that help set apart
our client sites. Several of our clients sites have been recognized
as among the best in their respective industries.
When we owned larger companies, we learned
that managing companies kept us from doing the work that we most enjoy
designing. We also found that the larger the staff, the worse
the communication and higher the fees. As a result, we have chosen to
keep our company small and our overhead low.
When you hire Stephens Design to do your
design work, your work will be done by Dave and Suzanne Stephens, not
by a junior design assistant. If we dont have time to do your
work ourselves, we will not accept your project. When you call, youll
talk to either of us, not some account executive whose sole mission
in life is to miscommunicate your input.
And while were not dirt cheap, youll
receive the same high quality design work thats shown throughout
our online portfolio at a fraction of the cost of comparable work produced
by a larger company.
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