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Global Village Media

Branding , Brochure , Communications Design , Logo , Packaging

5 to Ride Non-profit Campaign

Branding , Campaign Creative , Logo , Schwag

Kinship Conservation Fellows Branding, Chicago, IL

We provide excellent design for mission-driven companies and non-profit organizations who work to directly improve the quality of social justice, human health and wellness, the environment, animal welfare, and the arts. We believe in the all the good that non-profits and private companies can do to make meaningful change for everyone, and we put the full force of our talent and skills to help make this happen.

Our work clarifies and improves the brand design of clients across these areas of concern. Contact us today to learn how we can help you better communicate with supporters, partners, and funders.

Portfolio

Melissa is very detail oriented and a great project manager — she's also fun and easy to work with. Melissa has been a great choice for our small non profit.

Renee Michaels - Executive Director, Kinship Foundation

Melissa is one of those rare talents who combines brilliant business strategy and acumen with "breakout" design and user interface. She gets "the whole thing" — has an integrated mind and a tremendous spirit. She is also a true pleasure to work with — bright, insightful, funny, kind and super energetic!

Cynthia Artin - Advisor, Extranet Capital Partners

Melissa is that rare designer who cares as much about moving the business needle for her clients as she does about developing compelling creative. She's smart, responsive, strategic and RESULTS ORIENTED.

Kimberly Curry - Curry + Collective

Melissa is hard working, detail-oriented, and wonderfully talented. I give her an unqualified recommendation.

Stan Adler - Owner, Adler Branding & Marketing

Melissa became a significant part of my marketing team, participating in re-branding, product launches, new web sites, revised marketing collateral, trade shows, events, and even office space design. Melissa is talented, responsible, creative as well as fun to work with. She was always there for us...and delivered outstanding results each and every time.

Lois Liebowitz

Melissa brought a spark of creativity to every discussion we had at Ecotrust. She executed fabulously on a wide range of projects in a wide range of media. Plus was a lot of fun to work with.

Howard Silverman - Pacific Northwest College of Art

We have used Melissa many times because she is fast, creative, reasonably priced and professional. I recommend her services often.

Michael Dimock - President, Roots of Change

Melissa is the full deal for graphic design: thoughtful, technically savvy, creative, and always delivers what she promises... and very fun to work with.

Bettina von Hagen - Managing Director & CEO, Ecotrust Forest Management

Melissa took the written content and developed an integrated web site with clear graphics and great color coordination. Very easy to work with and grasps the project scope. I have received numerous positive feedback from viewers.

Ed Sager - Mentor Capital Partners Ltd.

I worked with Melissa on several different projects and found her to be talented, enthusiastic, results oriented, and overall a great creative director. A pleasure to work with!

Sydney Mead - President, Habitate Property Management & Gone West PDX

A great communicator, a creative designer and an expert marcomms professional, Melissa demonstrates global awareness and great creativity, she is reliable and a pleasure to work with.

Jeremy Jackson

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Melissa Tatge

Creative Director

Melissa has been helping nonprofits and mission-driven businesses refine their brand design since 1995.

Since starting her business in 2005, Melissa has been guided by one very simple principle: Deliver great work for passionate, mission-driven clients who want to build a strategic creative partnership for the long term.

Part of that goal evolves from her style—she values good relationships as much as beautiful type or the perfect shade of blue—and part of it comes from her background: Her formal training is in product design (at Savannah College of Art & Design), so she’s particularly attuned to the importance of abiding a cohesive and holistic process. (Be prepared: diving deep in the process means there is sometimes “homework” for clients, but Melissa promises it will be fun.)

Her diverse experience—in graphic design, product design, environmental graphics, branding, and web design—comes from the years she worked as a designer and creative director at various dots on the map including Frances Meyer, Inc. in Savannah, GA, Stan Adler Associates in NYC, and Ecotrust (a wildly ambitious gang of conservationists) in Portland, OR. Since she’s been running the show, she’s honed her skills so that she can deftly cut through the marketing mumbo jumbo to get to the beating heart of a project.

While she doesn’t have many “rules,” there is one overriding mantra Melissa picked up from one of the industry’s phenoms, Dan Wieden (W+K): “The work comes first.” And she’s a stickler for getting things right the first time. (Her clients love this, by the way). Everything that leaves the studio is impeccably designed meet the dual standards of what her client needs and what is actually going to work in the real world. (Some clients have used the word “magical” when talking about what she does.)

Best of all, she truly cares about the work—and her clients.

Her clients get this. They feel it. And it’s why most of her clients have been with her for years. Because working with Melissa feels real. Real conversation. Real trust. Real partnership. And, of course, real results.

Portfolio

Global Village Media

Tapestry Family Law

5 to Ride Non-profit Campaign

Kinship Conservation Fellows

Veritable Vegetable

Ecotrust

Veritable Vegetable

Forest Trends

Thrive Pilates Studio

R Baby Foundation

Kinship Conservation Fellows

Renee Michaels - Executive Director, Kinship Foundation

Cynthia Artin - Advisor, Extranet Capital Partners

Kimberly Curry - Curry + Collective

Stan Adler - Owner, Adler Branding & Marketing

Lois Liebowitz

Howard Silverman - Pacific Northwest College of Art

Michael Dimock - President, Roots of Change

Bettina von Hagen - Managing Director & CEO, Ecotrust Forest Management

Ed Sager - Mentor Capital Partners Ltd.

Sydney Mead - President, Habitate Property Management & Gone West PDX

Jeremy Jackson

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Melissa Tatge

Since starting her business in 2005, Melissa has been guided by one very simple principle: Deliver great work for passionate, mission-driven clients who want to build a strategic creative partnership for the long term.

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