Background

 

Trpti Creative (T2 Designs / T. Vanessa Todd) is a boutique designer, living in Ashland, OR, with her tabby cat, Cheyenne, where her local surroundings influence her work. She enjoys spending time in nature, culinary arts, theater, music concerts, and attending classes online or in person. Her hobbies include collage, creative writing, and metaphysical studies, and she enjoys working on personal design projects.

Recent accomplishments have included logos and branding kits, print collateral, small business websites, and packaging and label design. She has also worked on Retail Signage, Billboards, Bus Signage, Trade Show Graphics, Brand Identity, Media Kits, Brochures, Luxury Real Estate Marketing, E-commerce Website Design, Landing Pages, and Email Campaigns. She understands her client’s objectives and sees projects through from the concept phase to completion while remaining true to her design, marketing, and editorial roots whenever possible.

  • She has designed music-related and instructional books for String Letter Publishing in San Rafael, CA. She has also designed for publications, including Diabetes Health Magazine, Common Ground Magazine, and Play Guitar! Magazine. She was employed by Marin Magazine LLC (Sky Media LLC) as the lead designer during the launch of a regional publication with a distribution of over 35,000 customers (now celebrating 20 years in business). She also designed a front-end shopping site, along with a print catalog (The Marin Store Catalog) with a collection of sustainable products sourced throughout the Bay Area.

    She began her career working under the guidance of creative directors, art directors, and production managers. She worked with marketing, editorial, copywriting teams, photographers, photo stylists, makeup artists, and lighting specialists. She has worked on diverse projects within a direct marketing and full-service agency environment (Haggin Marketing, Mill Valley, CA). She collaborated on projects for Birkenstock, LL Bean, Starbucks Coffee Company, The Nature Company, Levi Strauss & Co., and Hallmark, Inc.



 
 

Name: Trpti Pronunciation: “Trip-tee” Meaning: Satisfaction Origin: India Language: Sanskrit Spelling: “R” is a vowel in the traditional Sanskrit language History: Given at birth