the designer

PRINCIPAL/DESIGNER

Amy has more than 25 years of experience involving many realms within the creative fields—including graphic design, print production circa the film & plates era, as well as web design & development—and has the mad skills and creativity to take your idea all the way to a finished project on screen or in hand. Folks, there is no AI here, just hand-crafted, human-brain-originated designs made for you and only you. With clients spanning the globe, Amy personalizes each project to meet her clients’ varied and unique needs.

From her first job in the industry with cut, paste & wax, all the way to social media planning and design, Amy continues to maintain a high level of knowledge in commercial graphic design, publication layout, web design & development, social media management & client-training, advertising sales and advice, photography, public relations, marketing, event planning, pre-press setup and printing.  

Amy earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism-public relations from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and her masters degree in public administration from Ohio University.

She grew up on Catawba Island (well, it’s not really an island, exactly) and hasn’t strayed far from the beautiful shores of Lake Erie in all these years. In her device-free time, she enjoys spending time with her awesome family, making gourmet ice cream, baking bread, quilling, reading paper books, drinking Wango Tangos and other amazing libations at Speak of the Devil in Lorain, obsessing over her latest vinyl album purchase, and drooling over beautiful fountain pens she would like to add to her collection. Her passion-cause is voting rights and you can find her working the polls every Election Day beginning at the dark and early hour of 5:45 am.

Amy currently serves on the Catawba Island Historical Society Board of Directors and she was co-owner/artist wrangler for Māksla Gallery in downtown Sandusky, a fine art popup gallery in 2022. She was also co-owner/master curator of Brick Gallery in downtown Sandusky for 6 years with partner-in-crime Jamie Speer, owner and creative visionary of 1826 Photographic. Amy is a supporter of local artists, the arts in all forms and will hopefully get to own another art gallery again someday!