Portfolio

Specialization:
Elegant Design Solutions for Packaging, Branding, Identity, & Annual Reports

Biography:
For over 10 years, Louisa Sugar Design has provided a wide variety of clients with elegant design solutions for packaging, branding, identity, and annual reports. Principal and creative director Louisa Sugar leads a team of talented, highly qualified senior designers and writers. The studio's work has received numerous awards and has been published in 12 books.

Louisa Sugar Design offers a full range of creative services including graphic design, copywriting, and naming. The firm maintains strategic alliances with web design companies to facilitate seamlessly coordinated online services. Louisa has developed and named many successful new beauty and fragrance products sold in the United States, Japan, and Australia. She consults with clients on new product development and naming.

Louisa works directly with each client and is the creative director for each project. Louisa Sugar Design delivers the talent, expertise, service and value of a larger design firm while maintaining close personal attention and the reassurance that comes from working directly with the principal and creative director.

Prior to founding Louisa Sugar Design, Louisa was creative director for Carmé Inc., an international cosmetic company, and partner in Seismo Graphics, a San Francisco design firm. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, where her studies included jewelry design, sculpture and etching.

Louisa served as a director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, San Francisco, and is a former director of Women in Communications. She is active in the San Francisco Art Institute Council, and has lectured about design at the University of California Extension and Academy of Art College. She has taught package design at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco.

Awards & Publications:
Advertising Age Creativity American Corporate Identity American Graphic Design Awards Art Direction Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards Communication Arts		The Creativity Annual Graphis Annual International Brand Packaging Awards Logo 2000 Natural Foods Merchandiser Package & Label Design

Selected Client List:
Cosmetics, Fragrance Carbaline - Verona, Italy Carmé International, Inc. DFS Group, Ltd. Jojoba Farms Loanda Herbal Soap Company Mill Creek Natural Products Nature's Country New Zealand Nature's Secret Neo-Life Nutriance Nutri-C Complex Skin Care REALM (Fragrances) Sleepy Hollow Naturals Walgreen's Vitamins, Nutritional Products Diamite Corporation Golden Products Neo-Life New Vision International Peak Performance, Inc. Sailors' Secret Premium Ginger Retail, Gifts, Consumer Goods DFS Group, Ltd. (Duty Free Shoppers) Hydrovue Disposable Lenses I. Magnin Ocular Sciences American Hydron Sesame Street Three Bags Full		Food, Beverages, Spirits Beringer Vineyards The Christian Brothers Delicato Vineyards DFS Group, Ltd. Escalon Premier Brands Herbal Lite Tea Monterra Promise Wines Peak Performance, Inc. Robert Mondavi Winery Traditional Medicinals Tumon Bay Market Cafe Hospital, Medical American Red Cross Irwin Memorial Blood Bank St. Mary's Medical Center University of the Pacific Dental School Technology CenterView Software EDA Today EDA Today Online Erox Corporation Venture Enhancement Resource Associates Financial and Business Services The Bank of California International Futures Group, Ltd. LECG, Inc. LSA Environmental Consultants

Copywriting:
Click here to view Louisa Sugar's Copywriting Portfolio