Jon Camrud is a graphic designer in Denver, Colorado providing design services across the United States and Canada. Primarily, my favorite graphic design activities are reflected in my offering on this site. Nothing is more satisfying in my business than helping to improve a company’s brand. The more out of date your brand, the more satisfaction I get as a graphic designer. In Denver, which is now a good sized city, the marketplace is very competitive. I’d love to help you with your Denver graphic design to improve your public image.
Design Philosophy
My design philosophy is to please everyone all of the time! But seriously, I want to help make my clients successful, with an image that garners respect in the marketplace. My goal is to make each project I design creative, not just a knock-off of current trends.
History of Graphic Designer in Denver
My path did not start out as a graphic designer in Denver. However, I have always been creative. When faced with the decision of what I would go to school for to earn a living, I decided on Architecture. After earning degrees in Business, Environmental Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture at North Dakota State University, I relocated to Denver, Colorado to work with the Denver Technological Center Executive Offices (DTC), performing architectural reviews and creating computer graphics in their marketing department.
Using a newer computer called a MacIntosh, I quickly became fascinated with computer illustration, learning all the available graphics software in a short time (there wasn’t much out at that time). I was picking up jobs on the side as early as 1993.
Desiring more creative work, I left DTC in 1995 to create graphics full-time with my own business, Camrud Design Art & Graphics. My first specialties were logos and hand painted architectural renderings. This soon expanded into brochures, full branding, and postcards.
Putting Graphics to Use in Web Design
Around the year 2000, I added websites to my list of services. As an off-shoot of working with pixel oriented graphics used online, I came to really enjoy working with Adobe Photoshop and started working with editing photography more and more. I was incorporating photography into all of my projects. Eventually I bought a digital camera and began my landscape and nature photography career.
Old Graphic Designers Eventually End Up in Marketing
In 2007, I realized the importance of search engine marketing in helping my clients to get noticed in the marketplace. I studied SEO (search engine optimization), read all about it, took seminars, experimented a lot, and in 2009 began offering it as a service as part of the business and incorporating it into every website I worked with.
Hand in hand with SEO came search engine marketing (SEM) and Pay Per Click (PPC) Management services. I find that my skill set and aptitude for organization, detail, and writing is a great fit for online marketing.
I love what I do and still enjoy experimenting with graphic software capabilities.
