1. logos

2. ABOUT STUDIO ABSOLUTE
A successful and thriving brand is more than just a
pretty face. It’s the result of strategic thinking,
planning, and a bird’s-eye view of the market and
your customer. Design must tell a story in a way that
endears your target market to your story in a lasting
and meaningful way. Studio Absolute helps develop
these connections, or as we call them–touchpoints.
Our clients are diverse and range from startups to
major corporations with multi-level, complex brand
architecture. Our passionate dedication to our
clients allows us to deliver timely personal service
and creative that is effective, intuitive, and
beautiful. Studio Absolute’s role is to ensure your
brand’s touchpoints are clear, consistent, and most
importantly—remarkable.
Studio Absolute is recognized by our approach to
logo design that captures the brand idea, are unique
in the marketplace and are executed with discerning
detail to typography. We also understand that a logo
must also work from a technical standpoint and be
easily reproduced. We provide all final logo artwork
in all necessary color and file formats for easy
usability and distribution.

3. RUSS MCINTOSH them when Russ’ sketch arrived for the new ship
Principal + Creative Director + Designer the government didn’t know they needed.
So how does an ex chain puller, ranch hand, 18 years after fumbling with the Mac CD drive
Hawaiian tour guide, forestry technician, log and sending sketches to the President, Russ’
home builder, butcher and electrician end up in a portfolio includes work recognized in the Oregon
design career? Your guess is as good as his…it Addy’s and the books, Logolounge and Visual
would have been a lot easier to have known what Marketing. He credits his strength in typography
he yearned to do, went to college and landed a to several years as design director for a branding
design job. Instead, he took the winding adventure firm where he had the opportunity to work on
of life that accidentally landed in design. projects for Krusteaz, Ghirardelli and Thomas
Nelson Publishers. This emphasis on strong
Russ’ entry to the design world began at a small
typography helps drive the passion of our studio.
local newspaper in his hometown where on his
first day, he struggled to coax a CD from a Mac While logo design remains the most challenging
and had to teach himself QuarkXpress in two item on his schedule every week, helping a
weeks (the equivalent of learning a foreign company realize the essence of their brand
language in the same time frame). In the process, through a simple and beautiful mark is also the
he realized, “Hey, maybe I have an aptitude for most gratifying.
this?” Yes, organize things, set type, use the grid,
dork out on the details... It was here that his
passion for design began to unfold.
Russ grew up constantly sketching inventions. He was
always curious about photography, signage, industrial
design, dimension, order…yes things neatly placed. The
Reagan administration probably didn’t know what hit

4. CHERYL MCINTOSH publishers to ensure that projects were delivered
Principal + Strategy Director on time and according to client direction.
Cheryl is an entrepreneur, artist, copywriter and Cheryl’s involvement with the Advertising
professional chef-in-training at the COCC Federation of Central Oregon, Opportunity
Cascade Culinary Institute. At Studio Absolute, Knocks and COCC keeps her engaged with the
she works hand in hand with our clients to community and in tune with local and national
communicate the essence of their company’s trends in branding and advertising.
brand while cooking up ideas on how they can
best engage with their target market.
Her passion for efficient systems, good
communication, and social justice began at a
young age when she too reached out to Ronald
Reagan in a plea for world peace. This was of
course tempered with a dual plea of scheduling
future addresses to the nation outside of prime
time TV which interrupted the regularly
scheduled shows–Fraggle Rock and Alf.
Cheryl’s career in marketing evolved over the years
while working and volunteering in resource
development for several local non-profits. She entered
the design cosmos when she became the Studio
Manager for FaceOut Studio–a nationally recognized
firm specializing in book design. Here she served as the
liaison between the design team and major book

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