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Red Room is a web and graphic design studio. It is a place of unprecidented imagination, where websites, logo designs, business cards, posters, photography, and creations through a host of other avenues take shape and thrive. Whatever your visual advertising needs are, you’ll be able to satisfy them here. Take a look around the site, leave your mark on the blog, and realize that this is where your design project should begin.
The news feed is where I like to put the scoop on goings on in web design and development, and other bits of information. Check back often for updates.
- 10.26.09
HTML 5.0...all I can say is WOW. Check out this great article by A List Apart --> GO - 10.10.09
CasianPartyHats.com is in the works. Check the URL soon for some really cool local products.
See the Services Page for a full list of available design services.
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Biography
Blake Berard
Principal Designer / Web Developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
At the age of 12, I built my first computer. It was a notebook P.C. made out of scraps from several other machines, and assembled into one Zenith 486 case with a 10" screen. The moment it fired up, I was hooked. Technology has been my passion since childhood, and I don't believe it'll ever go away.
Building websites, and being a visual designer for all types of media is my life. I've worked in sales and advertising, for a printing press, for a web development company, and attained a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design from the finest Art and Design school in the state. I always look to the future. My web work will always reflect the most cutting edge methods of development, and a tasteful artistic touch. I'm not one of those people who has to go to work, I get to go to work. I enjoy what I do more than anything else, and any project that I produce for my clients reveals that.
Portfolio
Here we have a small collection of work from recent years. I've tried to show some diversity here. I've done work for a lot of people, including a Fortune 500 company. You'll find design examples from all walks of life, including everything from ladies' tennis to the oil industry. The portfolio can be viewed as a continuous gallery. Just click on whichever thumbnail you'd like to see first. If you'd like to see photographic work, please click on the "Photo" thumbnail...hope you enjoy these.
All of the work shown here is copyrighted either by Red Room or its respective owner.
Contact
Call me for anything you need. If you need a quote, updates to your site, or advanced tech support, I'm just a phone call or e-mail away. You'll get no automated answering system here. You want to talk to the man in charge, because you mean business, and so do I.
Phone, Email, Address
Blog
The blog is on the way.
Quotes
Due to the very detailed nature of graphic and web design projects, I always ask that you call to speak with me directly. The more detailed we can get, the better I'll understand what your needs are. Ask me about the "Red Tag" guarantee...you'll be glad you did. If you do contact me by email, please be as detailed as humanly possible, and leave a phone number where I can easily reach you.
Services
Custom Website Design
The specialty of the house - Web design and development is Red Room's expertise. You'll get no boring, cookie cutter design here. Every website is a hand coded masterpiece tailored to your specific need, and the great part is, you'll get the best prices around.
Logo Design
Watching a logo design take shape is like watching a child grow. With Red Room you've got one of the brightest creative minds in the business with you. Brand your company with a professional quality logo, and be noticed.
Content Management Systems
So, you want to make changes to the website yourself, and update the company calendar to let everyone know what's going on? You can do this, and MUCH more with the Red Room C.M.S. If you can use a word processor, you can use the system, and that's the truth.
Print Media
If you've got a business, you need printed advertising - business cards, flyers, brochures, t-shirts, folders, labels, you name it - Red Room can produce it. Years of experience in the print industry are the backbone of Red Room's graphic design excellence.
Online Resume
The C-V.me package includes business cards, matching professionally designed and printed Resumes, and your own single-page ".me" website acting as an interactive Curriculum Vitae. There is no better way to impress a potential employer or client, at one very low price.
Photography
Trained in professional dark room photography, you'll get great shots, every time. If you need top-notch quality photos for your website or printed material, Red Room has the equipment and training to provide you with a one-stop solution.
Red Room
People have asked me "why Red Room ?...what's with the name". Well, here's the story. The name "Red Room" has been something very near and dear to my heart for some years now. Anyone who has been through any sort of design school knows about the ridiculously long hours, the sleep deprivation, and the mess that comes along with it. Through those turbulent times in my life, I had a special place to make all of that mess and to pull my hair out. The extra bedroom of our house was painted a beautiful crimson color, with dark wood floors and great lighting, and therefore became known in our home as "the red room". When the sleepless battles with senior projects and portfolio reviews were finally over, what was left of that turmoil and unbridled creativity was a place filled with memories, a huge mess, and that leftover feeling of never-ending anxiousness. I arrived home one afternoon to find it painted white and grey, since years of compressed charcoal and spray adhesive had actually stained the wall itself. At first I was a little upset over the loss of the warm glow that reminded me so much of my perseverence and creativity in those times. When I decided to start my own web and graphic design studio, I knew there was only one thing that I could call it. Every day I am reminded that those moments of peak creative prowess, and that strange sort of comfort is still there. It will always be my place of creation, determination, and passion. No matter what color my office is, or where it's located, it'll always be red to me.