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Annette Coleman
Creative Director/Art
Susan Passmore
Creative Director/Copy
Kay Loris
Marketing & Brand Development Manager
Eileen Kelly
Production & Project Manager
Lisa McMath
Copywriter
Kent Osborn
Graphic Designer/Webmaster
Bo Boss Inman
Graphic Designer
Antoinette Clark
Multimedia/Video Specialist
Larry George
Photographer
Sharon Weinberg
Market Research
Our integrated marketing services are spearheaded by a core team of marketing pros.
Then, we expand each team to match the right people with the right project.
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Annette Coleman
Creative Director/Art  Fearless and incredibly resourceful when it comes to new creative challenges |
With today’s constantly changing electronic and print media, you’ve got to be on your toes. Fortunately for our clients, Annette is virtually fearless and incredibly resourceful when it comes to new creative challenges. She’s been known to work around the clock to master new software, raid her closet for just the right item for a photo shoot, or look to a children’s toy as the inspiration for a merchandising device. A fine artist, marketing pro and lover of film, Annette brings a unique perspective to communications of all types. For the past 25 years, her imagination and natural sense of design have helped her create award-winning ideas and effective marketing programs for a variety of clients. She's equally at home designing print materials, producing a video, thinking in three dimensions to develop dynamic displays or creating whizbang special effects for multimedia. Annette is Creative Communications' founder and creative director overseeing art direction and design. After attending Colorado State University and the Colorado Institute of Art, she embarked on a design career which has included positions at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, the Colorado Historical Society, and a number of Colorado's leading advertising agencies. She formed her company in 1993. Client/Experience Highlights Annette maintains her visual cutting edge by actively showing working and showing her fine arts visit her coop gallery at: www.corenewartspace.com |
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Susan Passmore
Creative Director/Writer  Easily transitions between the traditional realm of print and the new digital world |
Susan has the rare ability to perform mental acrobatics without effort. She easily transitions between the traditional realm of print communications and the new digital world of web and multimedia. In a single day, you could find her diving into an electronic presentation for a sexy consumer product, developing an identity for a new business-to-business training company, or directing broadcast for a bus service. She quickly grasps intricate products and translates their benefits into meaningful messages for the end-user—whether that’s a college student, a builder or a decision maker at an IT company. This versatility and mental agility, and her broad marketing background, make Susan an extremely valuable member of the Creative Communications team—whomever the client. An independent marketing professional, she has worked for some of Denver’s top advertising agencies, as well as for major corporations. Susan graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in psychology. Wide-ranging talents are evident in Susan's other lives as well. Her passions range from botanical illustration and ballet to paleontology and natural history. Susan joined Creative Communications as a founding team member in 1993. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Kay Loris
Marketing & Brand Development Manager  An entrepreneurial flair for seeing marketing opportunities |
Combine a strong creative sense and keen analytical skills, and you have a superb marketing mind. Kay Loris brings that and much more to the table. With over 18 of years experience in marketing management and brand development, Kay is a motivational leader who has as an entrepreneurial flair for seeing marketing opportunities and finding the best ways to capitalize on them. Most recently, she was Director of Marketing for XOR Inc., a rapidly expanding I-builder on the road to an IPO. Previously, as Senior Account Director with Sterling-Rice Group in Boulder, she served as VP of Marketing for Bernina of America, a $75MM subsidiary of Swiss-based Fritz Gegauf Corporation. Kay helped direct a $7 million marketing budget, and grow the company’s business 25 percent. Under her guidance, Bernina became the leader in international brand-building for the $160MM parent company. Kay’s experience also includes developing her own direct mail business, and positions as Celestial Seasonings’ Marketing Manager for new products, and General Foods Corporation’s Senior Brand Manager for the Maxwell House brand. On top of all that, Kay found the time to earn her MBA from New York University while working full-time. An avid CU Buffs fan from undergrad days on the Boulder campus, Kay almost never misses a game. She joined the Creative Communications' team in 2000. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Eileen Kelly
Production/Project Manager  Loves working to push the limits of today’s production technology |
If a job can be done, Eileen will find a way to do it. For the past 20 years, Eileen has supervised the production of print materials, managed accounts and attended all those midnight press checks. Her experience, knowledge of the field and honed organizational skills mean she's an expert at finding ways to produce projects within budget and on schedule. And, she loves working with our creative staff, art directors and designers to push the limits of today's production technology. (Did we mention she also pushes herself to the limit snowboarding, mountain biking and playing Ultimate Frisbee?) Eileen is Creative Communications' print production guru and project manager, overseeing quality control and budgets. She has worked with large regional advertising agencies in Colorado and Ohio. Eileen graduated with a masters degree in Education and a B.S. in Visual Communications from Bowling Green State University. She became a founding member of the Creative Communications' team in 1993. Client/Experience Highlights • Almond Board of California • Bernina of America • Hewlett-Packard • Hunter Douglas Window Fashions (Duette Honeycomb Shades, Luminette Privacy Sheers, Silhouette Window Shadings, Vignette Window Shadings, Brilliance Pleated Shades and other brands) • United Distillers & Vintners (Smirnoff brand) • Vail and Beaver Creek Ski Resorts • Valleylab • The Junior League of Denver |
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Lisa McMath
Writer  A keen observer of human nature with a quick sense of humor |
After five years as a copywriter at Denver and Boulder advertising agencies, Lisa was ready for new challenges. So, she struck out on her own and quickly found opportunities to work for clients in a wide variety of industries. Today, the 18-year advertising industry veteran enjoys working on a colorful mix of consumer and trade, high-tech and hands-on products, ranging from retail department stores and cable television franchises to computer manufacturers and e-business ventures. A keen observer of human nature with a quick sense of humor, Lisa is particularly talented at creating attention-getting and entertaining broadcast advertising. She’s also topnotch when it comes to today’s digital media: websites, multimedia presentations and CD-ROMs. Not to mention video productions, written ads, brochures and collateral pieces. Lisa lends her creative services to clients, design firms and advertising agencies including Creative Communications. She has been part of our team since 1996. Client/Experience Highlights • The Bon-Ton Department Stores • Hewlett-Packard • Mountain States Bank • Persona, Inc. • Solant, Inc. • University of Northern Colorado • US West • WeatherData |
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Kent Osborn
Graphic Designer/Webmaster  A real right brain/left brain kind of guy |
There are graphic designers. There are web programmers. And then there are a few professionals, like our web developer Kent Osborn, who bring a command of both fields to their work. For 21 years, Kent’s focus was graphic design and production art services. In 1993, he added website design and other Internet-related services to his skills. Kent works in both Windows and Macintosh environments and is a Java programmer. He can find the best ISP for your business, understands the communications needs of e-commerce companies, and how to develop on-line databases and catalogues.All that with the keen eye and attention to detail of a seasoned graphic designer. You might say that Kent is a real right brain/left brain kind of guy. He has been part of Creative Communications’ team since 1993. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Bo Boss Inman
Graphic Designer  Bo knows––design |
Give Bo Boss Inman the challenge of branding a company or product, and it’s amazing how many wonderful, effective ideas she comes up with. A graphic designer for over 20 years, Bo has worked for some of Denver’s top design firms and has been a partner in a graphic design company. Her exceptional talents with communications imagery and symbolism are evident in the compelling logos and identity packages she has created for manufacturers, information technology and telecommunications companies, to name just a few. To borrow from an ad campaign for a famous athletic footwear company we won’t mention, Bo knows––design. In her career, she’s created everything from brochures and direct mail to catalogues and invitations. She has worked with the Creative Communications team since 1996. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Antoinette Clark
Multimedia/Video Specialist  Picked up awards like Emmys and Tellys along the way |
In two decades in the broadcast media and film industries, Antoinette Clark has gone from lettering camera cards with a hot press to computer graphics and digital editing. Antoinette has worked as a senior designer/art director for CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox affiliates–and picked up awards like Emmys and Tellys along the way. And, it all started by chance. While completing her liberal arts degree, Antoinette joined the school newspaper and began creating a comic strip. After graduation, she moved to a local television station–and was hooked. Recently, and fortunately for Creative Communications' clients, Antoinette traded live news for the more predictable professions of film promotion and freelance art direction/editing. Having worked with computers from their inception in the industry, she knows how to make software perform, including AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Media 100 to name a few. If she had it to do all over again, Antoinette says she'd be a fishing guide. But we don't believe her. She became part of the Creative Communications’ team in 1999. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Larry George
Photographer  A unique perspective on location or in studio |
It’d be easier to describe what Larry George doesn’t do. In his 14-year career as a traditional and digital photographer, Larry has applied his talents to an incredible variety of projects. He has shot product and fashion photography, magazine covers, catalogues and annual reports. Snapped the rich and famous. And traveled around the world shooting in exotic locations like Thailand, India and the Middle East. Needless to say, Larry is an avid traveler. He’s also a scuba diver, an accomplished martial artist who has studied karate in Japan, a musician and an outdoor enthusiast. All of which gives him a unique perspective whether he’s on location or in studio. Larry’s work has not gone unrecognized. Over the years, he has won awards and recognition from organizations such as the Business/Professional Association and the Art Directors Club of Denver. Larry graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, and has been behind the camera on Creative Communications’ projects since 1993. Client/Experience Highlights |
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Sharon Weinberg
Market Research Specialist  Uses every tool at her disposal to find the facts |
Finding and analyzing information is Sharon Weinberg’s passion. Her work is founded on the philosophy that the right information will help clients make clear, wise business decisions, plan new products and services, prevent costly mistakes and guide direction. With 20 years of research experience and well-honed critical thinking skills, she is well qualified to develop qualitative and quantitative information––from forecasting/trends analysis and competitive market research to “think tank” retreats and historical research. Sharon uses every tool at her disposal to find the facts, and can navigate the Net like no one else we know. Sharon is a published author of articles on business trends, has taught graduate and undergraduate college courses on organizational communications and motivation, and holds bachelor’s degrees in communication, education and psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She became the Creative Communications’ fact finder in 1998. Client/Experience Highlights |