Lorien Steele
Art Director
Lorien, our Art Director, 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
Cus!*mer Serv!ce
Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Adobe – Who has better support. Today has been the ultimate bad computer day. We received shiny new ginormous monitors at work along with beautiful sleek new MacBook Pro laptops! My laptop bit it the second day. The problem – it bit it with all of my licenses for all my Microsoft [...]
Thank you for my Career.
It started with Oregon Trail. I logged hours losing my oxen and dying of dysentery. In high school, I hurried to art class to claim the beautiful teal computer – learning this new program called Photoshop. The first day of my visual communications program in college I was introduced to this sleek white machine and [...]
Giddy on up to Broadway Commons
The exciting news has been revealed on the interwebs – Pop Art is moving to a new space! We will soon be relocated to 225 S.W. Broadway, formally known as the Commerce Building, which we have rebranded as Broadway Commons. I have had the opportunity in helping to define our new space and work with [...]
Cross Channel Communications – What does it mean?
As designers, we are tasked with constantly bringing a brand to life in new and innovative ways. Here at Pop Art we concentrate on the online experience, but that doesn’t mean we fail to look across all channels to ensure the brand consistency. Cross-channel experiences are important no matter the medium, as you must expect [...]
You say recipe card – I say iPad
I have been helping my mom plan my sister’s wedding shower and one of her favorite traditions is mailing a recipe card along with the invitation and having everyone write down their favorite recipe. This tradition ensures that our future bride is not at a loss to prepare the perfect delicacy for every formal Tuesday [...]
The Art of Designing A Halloween Costume
Its the best time of the year – Halloween! And one of my favorite creative outlets for design once again consumes my waking thoughts – costume design. It can be a torturous process for some to come up with a design idea, but there are several things you can do to ensure an awesome costume. [...]
Designing For iPad
Recently I have taken the plunge into designing an application for iPad. Its always exciting and a bit scary designing for a new medium, especially one in which there is still a lot to be explored. With the iPad, the rules of design are still being explored and defined but I found great articles and [...]
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 [...]
