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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. We have to do it ourselves. For me, times a lot as I’ve dealt with many websites with their changes too. This isn’t really healthy 24/7.
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’ve worked in quite a few places from Dallas to Pittsburgh. Temp agencies kept me employed a lot early on. I worked in ad agencies, law firms, property management companies, many places until I landed a job at the largest ad agency in Pennsylvania so my teeth got cut in a variety of places. My skill set was computer aided software plus an art background. At first I was paid to learn Photoshop, Freehand, Framemaker and so many others as they hit the shelves right when they came out. Combined skills of computers plus design is not that usual as it turns out, so my skill set is a bridge.
Computers and how they operate comes very easy to me as my grandfather bought the first Mac way back when and my family was very into getting every single new thing that came out. I was right there with every single game, application and computer came out since day one! My brain learned how computers’ brains work, as they were being developed. My perspective is unique to say the least.
Left, right, left, right, so that’s why I have two websites now, and the goal of this one keeps changing, as I wanted to follow my creative side and sell photography and my own graphic designs in some way, but I am shifting again to putting down stories of nature driven healthy success stories and charts for natural solutions for eating better and cleaning without chemicals, and tying it back to books and charts for those things too.
I moved to Pittsburgh from Texas in 1989. Then to the Laurel Highlands in late 2007. Around the Laurel Highlands is the most beautiful farm land I’ve seen. On my adventures I was always capturing nature shots of anything I could use for websites and I’m pretty obsessive so I have my own personal stock photos, so many there is not enough time…
I still have photography and that has gone to the back burner as it is more enjoyable than profitable, but then that’s an artist for you, I will create whether I’m paid to or not.
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.
Custom graphic design projects of any kind can be done.
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.