Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
You can't use up creativity.
The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya Angelou
Our Services
God is in the details.
– Mies Van Der Rohe
Our People
John Drake
Creative Director
John is responsible for integrating the visual components of your brand and managing your corporate identity. “Making sure your brand gets found online is what we do!” He enjoys creating logos and designing visual solutions to graphic and website problems that clients’ can’t even see or didn’t know existed. Since opening J Drake Graphic Design (now J Drake Web Design) has been awarded several American Graphic Design Awards by Graphic Design USA for their work on different projects and campaigns. They have also received two Summit Creative Awards for Public Service Campaigns as well as several Hermes Creative Awards. In 2018 and 2019 they also won Indigo Awards for logo designs. Currently John serves as the President on the Board of Directors for AIGA The Professional Association for Design in Richmond, VA. He is also involved in community organizations such as Caritas and The Healing Place, Virginia Supportive Housing and Virginia Voice.
Ryan Meo
Director of Programming
Every site is built in the most recent version of WordPress on top of the Genesis or Divi platform. We have developed a system where we can deliver custom built, visually appealing websites at a very low cost allowing small businesses to focus their marketing dollars on “hard” marketing rather than their website presence.
Social Media Team
Social Media Marketers
Our team has the ability to use social media to maintain and help to build your brand’s online image. We regularly post text, video and images that engage with your company’s target market, we can also follow online conversations on a company’s social media accounts and solve customer concerns using social media platforms. As good communicators, we must identify social media events such as an interesting hashtag or a sensitive topic and share appropriate content that aligns with the company’s social media strategy. We try to align content with customer trends and market changes to interest and engage people.
Bruce Goldman
Editor
As a copywriter and creative director in New York, Miami and Richmond, Bruce Goldman has won 414 international, national, regional, local and industry awards for outstanding advertising creativity and effectiveness. He’s taught at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communications (Richmond), co-authored Lean Advertising (2003, Oaklea Press), and conducts free marketing workshops as a volunteer speaker for the Richmond chapter of SCORE.
Kenny Liang
Lead Generation Team
Ara Analytics is a New York-based full-service online marketing firm that specializes in branding and lead generation services using:
Brand & Creative
Search Engine Optimization
Paid Search Management
Influencer Marketing
Live Shopping
Their Tri-Wave Model™️️️ helps brands understand the power of integrating SEO, SEM, and Influencer Marketing. The model effectively supports websites to get more traffic from different channels and exponentially grows their visibility over time.
Design can be art.
Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
– Paul Rand
