Blackburn Design

  • Smart, Integrated, Design Solutions.
  • Graphic Design & Creative Services Consulting
  • 30 Years in Marketing Communication Design
  • Integrated Interactive Marketing Strategies

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Marsha Blackburn has a Certificate in Applied Graphics; a Certificate in the University of San Francisco's Integrated Internet Marketing; attended both Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Sonoma State Universities before launching Blackburn Design in 1983. See what clients say.

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About Us

Blackburn Design is an integrated marketing communications design firm in Northern and Central California offering graphic design for both print and web since 1983. Person-to-person service and a wealth of experience in translating client objectives into integrated design and marketing solutions. design and marketing solutions

30 Years Translating Client Goals into Visual Communications

The bottom line is this and this alone, it’s a relationship. Blackburn Design has a long track record of following clients from company to company as careers evolve and move forward. Being easy to work with, reliable, and fair along with proven design and marketing skills that make everybody look good is why we have been in business for almost 30 years.

Our philosophy in design and business is always to start with a clear objective, a goal, and then create an integrated strategy and design solution to best and most efficiently achieve the objective. We always work with a creative brief that is developed as a collaborative effort with you, the client, so we know where we’re going, we know what criteria to evaluate possible solutions, and can, together, drive the successful results determined and expect.

  • Design
  • Production
  • Photography
  • Copywriting
  • Content Development
  • Illustration
  • Print
  • E-Marketing Strategies

Brand-Building Design Meets Intelligent
Marketing Strategies

Experience pays off. In creating effective, eye-catching, hard-working design that communicates in both print and electronic media – and in avoiding expensive mistakes that effect budgets and deadlines. Most importantly, smart integrated creative design introduces fresh concepts while building continuity in visual messaging as marketing strategies respond to evolving markets.to evolving markets

Blackburn Design works closely with you in start-to-finish design and production projects creating design concepts, mock-ups and presentations, to final files, and when called for, pulling in associates that specialize in programming, print production, copywriting, photography, illustration – to deliver integrated creative, brand-building design.

And we specialize in creating new concepts that work with last year’s communications that are still in use; presenting concepts to approval and then producing design templates that your production artists or staff can adapt and modify, saving budget and time.

Creative Services Design Consulting

Call Blackburn Design for consulting with your marketing team and in-house staff about strategies, concepts, design, integration and quality production. We can help you hire the right people, and be there on-call for design and technical support when you or they need it.

Consider Blackburn Design on your team, but not on your payroll.

Concept to launch, web or print, by the project, by the hour or by the month, Blackburn Design is available to help you with your marketing efforts.

Please call, 707.328.1079 or email, to get an estimate to answer questions about our rates and services or to set up a time to meet either in person or via skype.
 
 

What Clients Say:

"Over the last 18 years through my tenure in various telecom and software companies, I have come to know Marsha Blackburn as the consummate professional, who has a seemingly bottomless well of creativity that produces client-centric material because she knows how to listen and translate business "buzz-wordiness" into clear visual communication. But she can't walk on water, so she's not superhuman. Now,if some person were to come along today and in fact walk on water, Marsha would without question be the perfect choice to create that person's visual and graphic presence."

  • Jim Butts
  • Marketing Professional
  • Santa Clara, CA.

"I've been a client of Marsha Blackburn's for over 10 years at various companies. She is a talented design professional who brings a wealth of strategic vision. Marsha has been key in bringing her creative signature to many projects we've collaborated on from web sites, to print ads,collateral materials, direct mail campaigns, and trade show booth graphics. She has great skills in understanding the business and getting to the appropriate design and messaging to reach the customer. Of course always in a very creative way! Her eye for detail and design is always fresh and inspiring. I would highly recommend Marsha for anyone seeking a multi-talented creative professional.".

  • Tracy Schriver
  • Marcom Manager Symmetricom
  • Santa Rosa, CA.

"It is a great pleasure to recommend Marsha Blackburn.

We’ve worked closely for over six years on a wide range of graphic design and marketing communications projects--from logos and ads, to brochures and packaging—and for a wide range of clients, each with different needs, perspectives, pressures and personalities.

Marsha’s work delivers predictably measurable success. Her design is fresh, relevant and has visual presence. Her work style and work ethic makes these projects pleasurable and exciting, because beyond the mature scope of her design, she bring warmth, genuineness and understanding to the work relationship, becomes part of the marketing team, building great trust because of her reliability in meeting budgets and deadlines and because of the consistent high quality of work."

  • Morris Schriftman
  • Marketing Consultant
  • Petaluma, CA.