About

About me:

Background: business, art, and customer service. 10+ years in creative services following adventures in real estate.
Successes: overcoming complications, objections, committee reviews, meeting specs and deadlines.
Goals: keep questioning assumptions, learning and growing.

Short version:

BA Liberal Arts, cum laude, Hamilton College
MFA & MA Fine Art, SUNY at Albany
Graphic Design & Pre-press Certificate Clark University

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ~ Gary Ryan Blair

Pixelmap Creations

Creative services for small business, large enterprise and individuals. Conceptual design and development of strategic visual marketing assets from digital to print.

Principal Creative, Anne Ashley

A brief bio:

Anne Ashley is an accomplished commercial artist, fine artist and project manager with a passion for creating visual communication for both print and the Web. Anne has a great deal of experience collaborating with cross-functional and product teams, as well as executive management and thought leaders. She enjoys being an integral part of the product team from the beginning, through product launch and beyond.

With a focus in biotech, high-tech, energy, architecture, law, real estate, publishing, and surgical and medical products, companies rely on Anne and her significant experience to help them promote themselves through her outstanding design and marketing skills. Whatever she undertakes, her creativity is evident.

Projects on which Anne has worked include designing complex and compelling artwork for 4-color catalogs for print and the Web, re-branding initiatives, business identity and launch collateral, corporate special events and trade shows.

Quotes from clients

As Reeze posted on her blog ...I gotta brag on my web development TEAM! Anne Ashley, the graphic designer is just the best and so great to work with! Thanks to my friend Connie in MA for putting me on to her. She is a treasure! And her buddy Jo Ericson, the web developer, is so talented and amazing. If you are looking to update or develop a new web presence I strongly recommend these two incredible women.
~ Reeze Hanson Morning Glory Designs

Thanks, Anne, for the help with the User Conference.
I'm still continuing to get positive feedback, internal and external.Your great attitude and willingness to jump in from Day 1 was much appreciated. The quality of your work was top notch, on everything from the brochures to especially the challenge coins to the nametags and roundtable labels, not to mention the Demo boards.Your patience and quick turnarounds as we changed our minds on format and content, was important in making AS&E look professional and in making the event a success.
Thanks a lot~ Mike Lang

A diamond under pressure is still a diamond. ~Larry Spang

I don’t think I’ve given you nearly enough praise at how fine your work has been on this project! Not only has your designing been beautiful, sophisticated and impressive, but you’ve been wonderful to work with....especially given all my perfectionist comments and questions! THANK YOU!~Wendy Nottonson

Anne Ashley took our business to the next level with her creative genius and tireless energy to see a project through to the end. Her attention to detail and always putting the customer first helped to make our publications double in size in a short period. I would recommend her to anyone, anytime! ~Matt Dubuque, President Emerson Publishing; LLC

Thank you SO much for all of your hard word, creativity, conceptions, and great product on this project, Anne; the materials (including web) are gorgeous, and it is great to have them behind me as I step out tomorrow to launch the business. Cheers, ~Jim (Founder, Managing Partner AuroraNova Consulting)

Thanks Anne, you are amazing. I so appreciate the great work you have done on this little project. And so quick! You totally rock. I am very pleased with the result. ~Reeze Hanson >^..^< Morning Glory Quilt Designs Morning Glory Designs

Experience/ clients

3Com® Computer networking equipment: routers, switches, security applicances and software, IP phones, wireless LANs. Acquired by HP®

American Science and Engineering, Inc.® Engineering and Manufacture of leading X-ray inspection and detection systems utilizing patented technologies

Arrowstreet Inc. Architecture, Urban Design, Planning, Graphics and Interiors

Aurora Nova™ Intellectual Property Strategy, Management and Asset Consulting

Cell Signaling Technology® International Biotechnology developer. Antibodies and related reagents for Signal transduction research.

Emerson Publishing Publisher of Apartment Rental Source and Affordable Search

Good Harbor Partners Consulting

Jeanne Abboud Design

The Math Works® International Software producer of 3D visualization and analysis software

MITEK® Medical components manufacturer, subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson®

Passport Systems, Inc.®

Polytech Filtration, Inc. Patented filtration equipment for manufacturing processes

The Salk InstituteGerard Manning Director, Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics at Salk Institute for Biological Studies. See Kinase.com

UMASS MedicalSponsor program, Invitations, RSVP card

Waitkus Studios Mark Waitkus

YourPageToday.com Web developer and SEO practitioner

"Building Great Graphics as Marketing Ambassadors for your business" ~Anne Ashley

Photoshop®

Illustrator®

QuarkXPress®

InDesign®

Flash®

PowerPoint®

Dreamweaver®

SnagIt®

FTP

Transformation skills

Metal coins