Initially Lisa planned to be a writer. In journalism school she learned the fine art and grammatical freedom of advertising copywriting, and extended her schooling to include a minor in graphic design and two years of teaching to likewise advertising-bound students.

Over the following years Lisa worked as an in-house designer, marketing manager and freelancer for various education technology-based companies, and for the holistic consumer-goods companies Frontier Natural Co-op and Gaiam. Prior to creating her own company, she was the assistant art director at Horizon Organic, an organic dairy products producer, where she helped to revamp the packaging of more than 100 products.

At Blue Marble, Lisa interfaces with clients regularly in the capacity of designer, web developer, and project manager. She divides her time between business development and administration and client projects. In spare moments she salivates over the latest Apple product releases.

When Lisa’s not at work she’s out on the trails, in the garden, on the mountain or traveling to some interesting new locale.

Growing up among the wide-open spaces of Wyoming, Christine entertained herself by painting and drawing. A general love of learning and curiosity led her to earn a liberal arts degree that focused on biology, environmental studies, and Spanish, despite her best subjects in high school being marketing, creative writing and art.

Ecological research took her to magical places like the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park and remote jungles of Venezuela. She surprised herself with her ability to master analytical lab techniques, consider esoteric questions, and brave field dangers like grizzly bears, poop-throwing monkeys, and very poisonous snakes.

As marketing manager for an international non-profit publisher of environmental education curriculum, Christine’s focus was on generating revenue through material sales. She gained insight into marketing for non-profits and practical experience with details like warehouse logistics, tradeshows and e-commerce, as well as a first-hand appreciation for the client perspective through print and website projects.

Upon moving to the pacific northwest she completed an intensive two-year degree in graphic design, and now has nearly 5 years of experience in the field. She’s been dedicated to building the Blue Marble brand since its inception, and has played an instrumental role on dozens of projects from comprehensive business identities to complex web designs. Her science background led her to seek specialized training in the presentation of data and information.

To the outside observer, it would seem that Steve has gone out of his way to duck professional accomplishment throughout his life. Some have even gone so far as to accuse him of wasting his talent and brainpower on unworthy pursuits. While it is true that Steve has worked hard to fly low and under the radar, it has more to do with his wariness of corporate agendas and distrust of smiling people in business suits than him having some sort of failure complex. He would rather quietly and obsessively refine his skills in basements and dive bars across the country, than sell his abilities to the highest bidder because someone else thinks he should.

That said, several years back after moving to the East Coast on a whim, he took a night job in a downtown Philadelphia Kinko’s, which he spent handing out hefty “discounts” to average customers in response to the money-grubbing policies of the corporation itself. Long story short, he resigned with a sharpie marker, was 3000 miles from everything he knew and had nowhere left to go. Things weren’t looking good.

Then it happened. A company called Solutions for Progress liked his resume(?!?!), interviewed him, and hired him almost immediately. He dove in head first, doing what he could to help the company’s mission, which was to fight poverty. They took government money and private sponsorships, and spent it on building free software to make it easier for poor people to get benefits and other free stuff they had coming their way, stuff that most people never even hear about. The company’s attempts to cut through the bureaucracy was admirable to Steve so he decided it was time to come out of hiding and finally build some professional accomplishments.

Two years later, life brought him back to the Northwest for various reasons, and he spent a long time wandering the creative landscape, scraping together a humble living freelancing and selling paintings. He was holding out for a good place with good people that needed someone exactly like him… Again, just when he was starting to think there was nowhere left to go, he happened across Blue Marble. After meeting with them he started getting that old feeling back, the feeling of maybe having a chance to work with a small team of talented and creative people trying to change the world.

Things worked out, and now Blue Marble provides Steve with a good challenge (his favorite thing in the world), on a regular basis. They’re always calling him up with some crazy idea or confounding problem, and Steve disappears for a while to figure out how to make it happen. When he gets stuck, he asks the universe to help him out with it, and it frequently does when he’s showering, napping, painting, or singing to himself. Sometimes the dog tells him. Sometimes a combination of those things. The point is, there is a real collaborative spirit present in the offices of Blue Marble Creative, and having discovered that sense of camradery once again, Steve is once again back to flying high.

The first inklings of his future career began with an early interest in fine arts, including painting and drawing, and graphic design. At the same time, David pursued his love of math and science. Geometry was his favorite because he could actually “see” the solution to the problem before working it out on paper. His proficiency in math and science dovetailed with his artistic talents to
hone his visual method of problem solving and allow for a deeper appreciation of the geometry behind most pieces of art.
Then, the Internet was born. Almost immediately David heard his calling. He started designing simple web pages and figuring out how they worked. Programming code came naturally. Ten years later, David is fluent in more than 11 computer and web languages. He has built dozens of websites and applications. Not only is he highly skilled with the back-end work, but David’s aesthetic sensibilities make him a successful graphic designer as well.