Big Business Design for the Small Business client

 
Fantastic Realities Studio is a small, boutique, graphics and web design studio specializing in providing world-class Art, Graphic and Web Design services to the small business community.

In 2014, we moved from Rockland County New York, into new quarters in Berkeley Springs, West Virgina in the Eastern Panhandle, also serving Matrinsburg, Hagerstown, Frederick, Winchester, South Central PA, the Baltimore/DC area. We continue to serve our clients in the New York City, Rockland County and the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Tri-state region.

And for that matter, anywhere with an Internet connection. One of the joys of the digital age. So long as I have a roof, electricity and and broadband Internet connection – we can serve you wherever you are.

KURT E. GRIFFITH - Creative Director

Owner and Creative Director Kurt Griffith is a veteran Art Director, Graphic & Web Designer, Illustrator and Design Consultant. A Skilled, experienced and versatile graphics professional with over 35 years experience in print and web design, illustration, publishing, marketing, promotions, branding, business identity, photography, and print production. He has produced projects ranging from brochures, logos, magazine designs, book illustrations, to media kits and web sites. This broad range of design and technical skills and flexible stylistic approach enables him to execute client’s projects from concept to finished production art ready for print or deployment online.

Over the years, as the design world grows ever more technological, he has embraced consulting and educating our clients about design processes and graphics technology as a vital part of our provided services. We Translate! We speak English to you, and the appropriate dialect of geek or tech to vendors and technicians as needed to get your project done.

We take great pride in working closely with our clients to execute your projects with craftsmanship, professionalism, and personal attention.

 

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Sekrit N1nj4 Project

Having been at this for over 35 years as a professional creative, I'm working on a sekrit project that takes a look back, will say more as it pulls together – and of course, get some of the pile off my desk. Still have to keep the lights on and buy groceries – Kurt.

The project has gradually been taking shape, read an update here.

Five years in Berkeley Springs

In the Summer of 2014, we relocated our home and The Studio from the NYC area to Berkeley Springs, WV, got plugged back in and back to work. Find out about what brought us here.

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Site Updates

Welcome to our ever evolving (bet you've heard that before) Home Page – well considering the past couple of years, make that inconsistiently revised. This latest face-lift, like the previous, was long overdue. While we've been steadily improving both our design and technical skills with our client's projects, with the moving target that is web design – we haven't taken the time with our own. Check out previous versions of some of our old home pages, or even this one, they were all so very 2000’s-era. Seriously – 640 pixels wide for 13" monitors, complete with font tags and table based layouts. Still, was pretty kickin’ for the 2000›s.

But definitely time to bring some proper HTML3 HTML5/CSS stylin'. In his huge free time Kurt is in the process of updating the interior pages and retiring the old looks. Not to mention updating the gallery with more recent projects.

Obviously, a work in progress. But thank the gods, finally in progress.

Of COURSE we need to make the site RESPONSIVE now, too. Imagine that.... Absolutely under way, including this page. You may note that this page doesn’t look all that different. it doesn’t, but it's now coded in the Bootstrap 4 Framework and is now responsive and mobile friendly, along with other subtle updates, including a logo re-design, also in progress.

Before anyoone gets queasy about that, i've been making client sites mobile responsive for the past few years, but yes, certainly need to do it here. We're now up to HTML5/CSS3/JQuery tech... web tech is certainly a moving target in this day and age.

Now then, about that %$#@&$%@ Adobe Creative Suite Creative Cloud (!$) upgrade...

 

We will ART THE HELL OUT SOME STUFF for you!

Interesting Stuff

Please Read our Studio Blog - Graphics, Design, Tech, Musings and Rants. Updated Randomly.

Available from FRS:
A Rockland Fall, A chronicle of Digital Photography.

For the artsy toon fans
A is for ART, an Artist's Primer - a Digital Restoration

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We do have a FRS Facebook Page with the oceassional clever post. But we’re NOT using FB’s bandwidth-eating, data-sucking Page Plugin. Nor do we mine your personal data with FB ads. Eat my shorts, you criminals.

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NETWORK NEUTRALITY

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