Giving ideas form for their function.
We’ve been up to creating! Explore our updated portfolio we’ve developed to quickly share recent projects, the scope of the client’s needs, and specific skills we put to use for our clients. We’ve also included some of our recent illustration and infographic work.
Let us know what you think and how we can put our skills to work for you.
Somewhere back in the 1200s, peace replaced Old English frið which also meant “happiness.”
We really like this idea of happiness as the root of peace.
In 2017 we hope you find your deep and abiding peace… a happiness filled with calm and quiet in heart, mind, and soul.
As a kid, I loved coloring, drawing, painting, and generally make things prettier. After a weekend visit to the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park and seeing large scale paintings and murals, my Mom found me drawing on my bedroom wall. “We don’t draw on walls,” she said in her best Mom-voice. I replied “Yes we do… they did at the museum.” Wonderful kid-logic!
But even while scrubbing my masterpiece off of the wall I knew I had to make the world a more visually pleasant place.
Fast forward to college. After intensive business marketing and accounting classes I listened to the inner call to make things beautiful as well as useful and spent the rest of my college career honing my fine art talent and finished with a degree in graphic design.
Each step of my career has improved my design esthetic. Adding layers of understanding like reasons for consistency versus change, the ins and outs of offset and web printing – estimating, project management, mailing – and following modern design trends in communication.
Being an artist helping others see beauty in the world is still my main joy. Now the form is focused on creating clean designs that grabs your audience, improves your marketing efforts, and gets to your point.
I’d love to help you reach your target and have them see and understand clearly what you want to say.
Sonja Turner-Montaño Design is now Design&Effect.
Why the name change? you may ask. Great question.
On many levels, our original name, while descriptive of who we are, didn’t describe what we do. So, we headed back to the drawing board and came up with descriptions of the services we provide, areas of specialty, and what we like to do. We threw darts at the names, bounced them off friends and associates, and the best liked, most descriptive won!
We’re now Design&Effect.
Just like cause and effect. Only better looking.