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ABOUT STUDIO ABSOLUTE A successful and thriving brand is more than just a pretty face. It’s the result of strategic thinking, planning, and a bird’s-eye view of the market and your customer. Design must tell a story in a way that endears your target market to your story in a lasting and meaningful way. Studio Absolute helps develop these connections, or as we call them–touchpoints. Our clients are diverse and range from startups to major corporations with multi-level, complex brand architecture. Our passionate dedication to our clients allows us to deliver timely personal service and creative that is effective, intuitive, and beautiful. Studio Absolute’s role is to ensure your brand’s touchpoints are clear, consistent, and most importantly—remarkable. Studio Absolute is recognized by our approach to logo design that captures the brand idea, are unique in the marketplace and are executed with discerning detail to typography. We also understand that a logo must also work from a technical standpoint and be easily reproduced. We provide all final logo artwork in all necessary color and file formats for easy usability and distribution.
RUSS MCINTOSH
them when Russ’ sketch arrived for the new ship
Principal + Creative Director + Designer
the government didn’t know they needed.
So how does an ex chain puller, ranch hand,
18 years after fumbling with the Mac CD drive
Hawaiian tour guide, forestry technician, log
and sending sketches to the President, Russ’
home builder, butcher and electrician end up in a
portfolio includes work recognized in the Oregon
design career? Your guess is as good as his…it
Addy’s and the books, Logolounge and Visual
would have been a lot easier to have known what
Marketing. He credits his strength in typography
he yearned to do, went to college and landed a
to several years as design director for a branding
design job. Instead, he took the winding adventure
firm where he had the opportunity to work on
of life that accidentally landed in design.
projects for Krusteaz, Ghirardelli and Thomas
Russ’ entry to the design world began at a small local newspaper in his hometown where on his
Nelson Publishers. This emphasis on strong typography helps drive the passion of our studio.
first day, he struggled to coax a CD from a Mac
While logo design remains the most challenging
and had to teach himself QuarkXpress in two
item on his schedule every week, helping a
weeks (the equivalent of learning a foreign
company realize the essence of their brand
language in the same time frame). In the process,
through a simple and beautiful mark is also the
he realized, “Hey, maybe I have an aptitude for
most gratifying.
this?” Yes, organize things, set type, use the grid, dork out on the details... It was here that his passion for design began to unfold. Russ grew up constantly sketching inventions. He was always curious about photography, signage, industrial design, dimension, order…yes things neatly placed. The Reagan administration probably didn’t know what hit
CHERYL MCINTOSH
publishers to ensure that projects were delivered
Principal + Strategy Director
on time and according to client direction.
Cheryl is an entrepreneur, artist, copywriter and
Cheryl’s involvement with the Advertising
professional chef-in-training at the COCC
Federation of Central Oregon, Opportunity
Cascade Culinary Institute. At Studio Absolute,
Knocks and COCC keeps her engaged with the
she works hand in hand with our clients to
community and in tune with local and national
communicate the essence of their company’s
trends in branding and advertising.
brand while cooking up ideas on how they can best engage with their target market. Her passion for efficient systems, good communication, and social justice began at a young age when she too reached out to Ronald Reagan in a plea for world peace. This was of course tempered with a dual plea of scheduling future addresses to the nation outside of prime time TV which interrupted the regularly scheduled shows–Fraggle Rock and Alf. Cheryl’s career in marketing evolved over the years while working and volunteering in resource development for several local non-profits. She entered the design cosmos when she became the Studio Manager for FaceOut Studio–a nationally recognized firm specializing in book design. Here she served as the liaison between the design team and major book
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