415-488-5881 jdavis@sq1creative.net

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Adding impact to your communications —

Services

Graphic Design / Digital & Print 

Graphic Design

We create highly-effective, elegantly-designed graphics that visualize products, benefits, services, or clarify concepts. Custom graphics can deliver knowledge & ideas in visually interesting ways, so audiences understand them immediately. Let us show you how graphic artistry can help you achieve your unique goals, simply and beautifully.

Websites

Stand out from your competition and attract your target audience with a website focusing on your core messages. Our solutions integrate your brand with eye-catching visuals, helping to engage visitors and convert them into customers.

Brochures & Promotions

Inspired designs for brochures, fliers, promotional campaigns, mailers, banners, etc. We explore a range of creative solutions for you that will be both practical and cost-effective. Our targeted solutions find the right words, visuals & media to communicate your Unique Value Proposition. Then, we manage schedules & production, to ensure you’ll get cost-effective, agency-quality results.

Advertising

Our system for creating effective ads and campaigns starts with our brand audit questionnaire. This helps determine your goals, and the best content for attracting your target customers. Next, our creative exploratory will determine the layout, visuals and copy that most effectively communicate your strongest marketing position. Our creativity combined with experience can help you achieve outstanding results!

Logos & Branding

The best branding and logos make a memorable impression on customers, communicating what they can expect from your organization. We’ll help you distinguish yourself from your competitors and clarify what you offer that makes you the better choice. Our design process will help you build or update your brand to be a true to your organization, and help you stand out in a crowded marketplace.

Book Design

Start with a great cover design to grab your reader’s attention. Then, we’ll collaborate with you to enhance the visual appeal of your content, making your book easier to read and comprehend. We’ll turn your manuscript into a professional-looking product, adding the winning personality your book deserves. Our authors get rave reviews!

Some of the clients we’ve worked with …

Introduction

Joyce Davis, Senior Graphic Designer / Owner
Square One Creative

Joyce has been working in Graphic Design, Marketing Communication & Advertising for over 20 years. 15 years ago, she established Square One Creative, specializing in both print & digital design solutions.

Her background includes work at many of the largest advertising, marketing and graphic design agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson and Ketchum. She has served as an award-winning art director, designer, writer and creative director. Her experience includes national clients, including Wells Fargo Bank, Capital One, Hunt Wesson, Dole, Del Monte Foods, Hewlett Packard, Clorox, LeapFrog Educational Products & Pfizer, to name a few. She presently serves a wide variety of business and nonprofit organizations.

She has been an instructor at the Academy of Art, SF, teaching both Integrated Marketing and Graphic Design. She also volunteers her writing & design skills in support of local nonprofits.

She’s developed her own systematic methods to help her clients reach their target goals. Believing creativity is the key to success for any endeavor, Joyce is passionate about enabling others to tap into their own creative energy!

Portfolio Samples

A range of print & digital design expertise — contact us if you’d like to see more samples of our work.

(Click on center of each sample to see larger image)

From our clients …

Helping clients reach their target goals by partnering with them to make the most of their own creative energy.

“Working with Joyce Davis has been an extremely successful creative collaboration over the years. She has the ability to interpret concepts into beautiful designs that communicate clearly, yet with flair, creating memorable marketing collateral. She is a versatile designer who delivers on time, as promised. That kind of trustworthiness is golden in a business relationship.”

Candiece Milford

Marketing Manager, Rhoda Goldman Plaza, San Francisco

“I have worked with Joyce on several projects now and am always thrilled with her work. She not only helped me design a new logo and a set of brochures, she offers invaluable recommendations on how to take my business to the next level. She is highly creative and a seasoned professional I can always call upon and rely on. I’d heartily recommend her!”

Linda Barrett

Marketing / PR / Editorial, All the Buzz, Washington D.C.

“Joyce Davis, owner of Square One Creative provided very professional services in logo design, business website design and development, as well as writing creative marketing copy and designing a business card for my freelance business. She made suggestions for website and domain hosting and set up a new account with the selected host. Joyce has very creative custom artwork, Photoshopping, copywriting and marketing skills. Her rates are affordable, and meetings were arranged convenient to my location.”

Terence Pyle

Technical Writer, Walnut Creek, CA

“Together Joyce and I designed a beautiful book. What started out as a basic book project grew to photographic narrative with images on almost every page. Joyce’s talents with graphics and photography shine through. The book is eye-catching and has received many accolades for its design. Over the year it took to complete the project, she was timely and diligent, always returning drafts to me quickly.”

Diane Power Zimmerman

Author / Former Petaluma City Schools Superintendent

“Joyce Davis was a skilled, clever and funny creative partner when we worked at Ketchum Advertising, San Francisco. Her unique and refreshing point of view always added to the quality of the work, and her art directing skills were always reliable and fresh.”

Dave Wolf

Senior Copywriter & Author, Freelance

“J

She just completed a series of graphics and she focused her attention on discovering precisely what we needed. The app is about to go live and her work made it much better.

I am happy to recommend Joyce for her work in graphics for web design for small companies.”

Laurel Mellin, PhD

Founder of EBT, Psychologist & Author, San Anselmo, CA

Let’s start something creative …

Just call 415-488-5881 or email Joyce at jdavis@ sq1creative.net

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