Award-winning Integrated Branding Design

Gates Studio is an award-winning design team offering complete creative marketing design solutions for businesses large and small.

 

Branding and style guide design

Print and collateral design

Website design and development

Portrait + product photography

Copywriting and copyediting

Film/video creative and production

 

Creative Director Valerie Gates is an experienced Graphic Designer, Photographer and Film Director. As Photographer, she has photographed such personalities as Ronald Reagan, Denise Richards, Magic Johnson, and Wayne Gretzky. As Art Director she has produced integrated print and web branding design for many Fortune 500, non-profit and start-up clients. As Creative Director/Film Director for national broadcast projects for CBS, ABC and Women’s Entertainment, and as the Art Director for CBS-Boston, Valerie has won EMMY, the CBS Eye-On-Excellence, BDA, PROMAX and AFISONY Directing awards.

 

Studio Director Barry Friedman has extensive experience with all phases of creative services development and production for such companies as Sapient, Reebok, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Records and Motown.

 

Both are graduates of Brown University.