Arutai Studios

Client: Catapult Film Fund provides developmental funding to documentary filmmakers—enabling them to take their film projects to the next level at a time when funding is hard to find. Catapult supports powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives.

Project: Catapult needed a website that could both feature their current projects and support their ever-expanding roster of talented filmmakers. We teamed up with Experience Lab (www.experiencelabpdx.com) to design and develop a website geared for growth and flexible enough to accommodate as much, or as little, information that individual filmmakers are able to provide.

Connection: Erin O'Brien, working for Sockeye at the time, recommended me for the job. The non-profit Catapult didn't have the budget to hire the agency. Ms. O'Brien recommended Robin Stevens of Experience Lab as an amazing content strategist.

Catapult Film Fund Catapult Film Fund provides early funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell, have secured access to their story and are ready to shoot and edit a trailer/reel for production fundraising purposes. Our mission is to enable filmmakers to develop their film projects to the ne...

The Amy Burgess Jewelry website now features her pretty mug. Photography by Amy Ouellette Photography (www.amysgallery.com). Also, Amy Burgess is now conducting jewelry-making workshops at her studio in NW Portland.

Amy Burgess Jewelry All artwork © Amy Burgess Jewelry.

Client: Alison O’Donoghue is a Portland-based contemporary folk artist. Her work features the playful next to the sinister, giving the paintings a sense of humor and the complexity of an unfolding story.

Project: For Ms. O’Donoghue, we designed a series of galleries, standardizing the widths of the artwork to give a sense of order to her vibrant, prolific output. The bottoms of the pages are populated by small New-Yorker-style people who calmly review the artwork displayed on the walls. Resize your browser window and the artwork readjusts to fit the new dimensions.

Connection: Alison and I used to practice kung fu together.

Alison O’Donoghue Alison O’Donoghue is a Portland-based contemporary folk artist. Her work features the playful next to the sinister, giving the paintings a sense of humor and the complexity of an unfolding story.