Our Team

Kurt Kruse is a visual communications professional who strives in making it happen for his clients. For over 25 years, Kurt has built relationships with customers, friends, and non-profit organizations by providing advertising/marketing, web, print, video, and marketing services. Kurt’s philosophy for his clients’ projects is to provide the right amount of form and function to help achieve their goals, while working in the most efficient way possible. When Kurt’s not working, he’s thinking about it!

Howard is an experienced and passionate graphic designer, illustrator, web designer and developer who’s worked with a wide variety of project scopes and budgets. He understands the value of clear, consistent branding and messaging. He’s experienced with HTML, CSS, audio/video, and interactive media. He’s a veteran with content management systems such as WordPress, e-commerce, SEO and social media. He’s also an accomplished artist, designer, conceptual 2D and 3D illustrator and animator with broad experience creating many types of visual communications. Howard enjoys all things tech, spending time with his family, being active and trying to get out of his office chair at least once an hour!

Sara’s background in organizational marketing strategy and execution has given her extensive experience with outbound and inbound marketing, including lead generation, marketing campaign development and strategy, copywriting, website development, brand identity, customer experience, social media and content marketing, public relations, event planning, and project and team management. Her true love is content development, from blogs to website copy to white papers. When Sara’s not working on your marketing project, she’s likely wandering a hiking trail with her family, but usually within cell range.

Bryan is a strategic, multidisciplinary visual communications professional with an eye for innovation and pixel perfection. He’s worked the gamut of clients and although his skill set is vast, Bryan’s greatest expertise revolve in the worlds of web design, e-commerce, brand identity design, content creation and print collateral. His greatest wish is to combine his knowledge and experience in these areas, to deliver the best creative and up-to-date design for clients. Bryan loves spending time with his family and children and is officially known as the office “nice guy”.

Amado is an application architect with over 15 years of full stack web application development. He develops custom built web solutions utilizing tools that power and interface with a customer’s back-end systems.

He specializes in .NET, Linux, Javascript and a variety of software architectures and genuinely enjoys learning new technologies while striving to constantly improve.

Averi graduated from Grand Valley State University in April with a degree in Advertising & Public Relations. From her work experiences, she has developed a broad range of skills from strategic planning, to social media marketing, and graphic design.

Averi provides the team with a helping hand on all sorts of projects, such as graphic design and face-to-face customer interactions.