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Hi, and thanks for visiting the site.
I have made my living as a graphic designer and website developer for many years. It’s technical and fast changing, eats up our time with updates, scammers, upgrades, hackers, and our involvement with techno yuck is not going to slow down.
Back to nature is where I go to refresh. It’s where I’d rather be.
Most of my life has been spent split in half, both on a computer and then onto adventures, hiking, seeing where every road goes by foot, bike, snowmobile, dirt bike, you name it… as soon as I could get out of that office.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Pittsburgh in 1989. Then to the Laurel Highlands in late 2007, where I found the some of the most beautiful farm land I’ve seen. My camera goes with me everywhere and it gets used a lot; my own stock photography gets used on websites and now into art.
I have so many photos it’s hard to go through them all but getting there.
My dad said to me early on, if you get paid for what you love doing, it’s like not working. Try to do that if you can. That’s what my career has been about, working with people and their businesses has been a great run and I still do that too, and now this is another seed planted. Making art.
Custom graphic design projects of any kind can be done. Let me know if you have an idea of your own you’d like to see on a shirt or card or?
If you’re still here, thanks for reading,
Shanna Blasingame
Graphic design – Websites – Art – Photos all in one place
My commercial work is under Hot Designs, established in 2002 and can be seen here:
Transition of the logo
My new tree logo was drawn over a lunch break on this table top that got ruined.
I found a table at Goodwill (above) and created a cool top for it out of leaf skeletons I’d been saving up and epoxy. The poor table sat outside; the freezing weather cracked the epoxy and ruined it. I was sick about it, threw the table in a heap pile until recently, when I pulled it out and decided to see if some paint would stick to the top of that laminate circle… It did!
So during a lunch break over summer 2025 while watching two acres of trees being clear cut outside my window, machines everywhere, loud noise daily for weeks on end at my studio and home, I played the piano and painted my tree (incidentally learned how to play “The Trees” by Rush to drown out the noise) and a new logo was drawn like that.
The symbolism was everywhere. Art and music therapy is what it turned out to be, while also dealing with losing family members.
I loved my new tree, so I got busy making stamps for my hand art note made cards, printed new business cards, and began a new journey forward.
I love the new look, hope you do. Turns out it looks great on many things.
The rest of the table sits in my yard as decor with moss and tree roots.