Fantastic Realities Studio

All about visual communications. Getting your message to look good and get your point across. Laying out your magazine. Create a brochure. Design a Logo. Build a Media kit. Letterheads, business cards, presentations. You name it, I will pour 35 years of accumulated visual design skills at it.

Combines the disciplines of Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Typography and prepress to move your project from cocktail napkin squiggle to printed piece, presentation or Web presence. Arranging and facilitating production and printing. Press checks and preflighting and all the opaque technical stuff that you may have no idea about, but trust me, you are glad someone is doing.

Working with clients, managers, editors, making sure that everything that needs to happen, does. I also hire and/or supervise the work of Designers, Illustrators, Photographers and Writers. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

The bastard child of Design and computer programming. Web pages most certainly need the hands and minds of professional designers involved. In the current visually saturated market, HTML alone is not a compelling web experience. You can leave programming tasks to the wireheads, but to make your site communicate, hire a Designer. Web site Design, Web Graphics, Email Campaigns, Banner Ads.

People have looked down on Illustration as mere "Commercial Art". Be that as it may, sometimes the job calls for a picture. Despite the prejudice of the marketplace, Illustration is absolutely Fine Art as far as I'm concerned. Only difference is that the art has a definite purpose. To communicate a message. Whether it is a cartoon or photo-realistic rendering, pencil, marker, paint or digital. Creating images that didn't exist before to express new thoughts, or classic ideas in new ways.

I've made pictures my entire career, for books, magazine covers, cartoons, using both traditional and digital media. Solo commissioned work or illustrations for my own projects.

I can also train you to understand what this work takes. Teach theory, techniques and software. On the job, one on one, or with groups. Advise you on projects, ways and means. Guide you into the digital age. Typiclally most projects involve some level of consulting, all part of the service.

Owner and Creative Director Kurt Griffith is a veteran Art Director, Graphic & Web Designer, Illustrator and Design Consultant. A Skilled, experienced and versatile graphics professional with over 35 years experience in print and web design, publishing, marketing, promotions, branding, business identity, and print production. He has produced projects ranging from brochures, logos, magazine designs, book illustrations to media kits and web sites. This broad range of design and technical skills and flexible stylistic approach enables him to execute client's projects from concept to finished production art ready for print or deployment online.