Lorien Steele
Senior Interactive Designer
Lorien, our Senior Interactive Designer, joins us from Cincinnati, where she moved after earning a BS in Visual Communication from Ohio University. Since graduating in 2004, she has worked as a designer and art director on a plethora of online campaigns for a series of commercial products. These include the Dawn Saves Wildlife campaign, Kodak’s Propass online magazine and Home Made Simple’s Your Home Made Simple online forum and campaign. In her spare time, Lorien is an avid photographer, traveler and chocolate aficionado.
People always ask, ‘What is your greatest failure?’ I always have the same answer — We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome! — Jim Coudal
Education
- BS in Visual Communication, Ohio University
Other Interests
- Photography
- Travel
- Snorkeling
- Skiing
- Chocolate
Several Favorite Movies
Websites
Recommended Books
- A Wrinkle in Time
, Madeleine L'Engle
- Where the Wild Things Are
, Maurice Sendak
- The BFG
, Roald Dahl
- Where the Red Fern Grows
, Wilson Rawls
- The Giver
, Lois Lowry
Networks
Posts by Lorien Steele
The Communication Challenge
On the Bachelor Pad, my current trash-TV guilty pleasure, they won’t divulge the age of contestant Gwen Gioia. So the first thing I did was whip out my iPhone to find the information myself (disappointingly my sources revealed a range from 40 to 60). I’ve had a smart phone for over a year now and [...]
We Want A Redesign!
These were the words chanted through the Pop Art halls in mid 2009. And even though our latest iteration of our website had only been up for a little over a year, we had already grown tired of passively watching and waiting for the homepage “river” design to flow out a particular article or [...]
Agency & Design Lessons from Sail School
I recently decided to fulfill a life-long dream of becoming a sailor, took the plunge and joined sail school. The class entails six weeks of hands-on training which I (hopefully) will be certified through the Portland Sailing Center and the American Sailing Association to handle any small keelboat between 18 and 25 feet. My salty [...]
University Websites: Help Me Help You
I have recently been working on coordinating a position for an Interactive Design Intern at Pop Art. I set out gung-ho to contact every university I could think of in the greater Portland area to make the position open to as many students as possible. It turns out the simple act of contacting a professor, [...]
Decking Our Walls
Underwhelmed by the thought of another agency lobby with a flat screen mindlessly cycling through our work and potentially burning images into the retina of our clients’ eyes – Pop Art decided it was time to get some real art on the walls. Selecting art that portrays the culture of an agency is not an easy [...]
We Want a Traffic Jam
Everyone wants more site traffic. More traffic means happy client, and happy client means happy agency. Marketers invest huge amounts of money to pay for methods of generating traffic to their microsites and applications like SEO, social media and the all-encompassing category: viral. Even though all these methods exist, several sites fall by the wayside never to be [...]
