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Reflecting on a five-year partnership with The Lighting Agency

by Carolyn Kerchof | Jul 8, 2022 | Branding, Case Studies, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Web Design

The Lighting Agency connects architects, engineers, contractors, landscape architects, and interior designers with outstanding lighting manufacturers and products in Colorado and Wyoming. The Merge Team keeps us on schedule and our marketing efforts on track. Their...

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    Lara Gomora, Digital Designer

    Lara Gomora

    Digital Designer

    Lara has been delivering creative web design and branding to businesses, startups, and nonprofits for the past decade. She has a strong background in marketing and brings both a creative and pragmatic approach to all design. Lara likes to dive deep into the needs of each client, expressing their most important value and messaging visually and consistently. She is a graduate of Northern Arizona University with a Visual Communications degree, with an emphasis in Graphic Design. Specializing in web design, she has created dozens of websites, brand identities, and other designs in the print and digital realms.

    An avid nature and music lover, Lara is also the Marketing Director & Designer for Pickin’ in the Pines Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival (one of the few Nonprofit music festivals around) and has been involved in the branding and management of the festival since its inception in 2006. She resides in Flagstaff, Arizona where she is active in the local arts and music community. She enjoys exploring trails, rivers and backpacking in her spare time, and hanging out with her little ten-pound dog Pancho and her family. 

     

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    Luda Polyakova, Marketing + Communications Coordinator

    Luda Polyakova

    Content Strategist

    Luda is a strategic and creative thinker who supports clients’ goals by conceptualizing, planning, designing, creating, editing, and publishing content. With persuasive verbal and writing skills, she is a strong presenter and meeting facilitator who enjoys working closely with clients to bring their brand vision to life.

    Luda’s well-rounded perspective comes from years of copywriting and content creation, including higher education, nonprofit, corporate, small business, and digital agency environments. With firsthand experience creating content, she brings a pragmatic point of view when managing projects and collaborating with her teammates and clients.

    A meticulous editor, Luda will ensure your brand’s voice is consistent and true to what you stand for.

    Luda admittedly still plays Wordle every day. When she’s not behind a screen, you’ll catch her staring wistfully out the window, making pottery, or enjoying the outdoors in Southwest Colorado.

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    Brian Hutchinson, Creative + UX Designer

    Brian Hutchinson

    Creative + UX Designer

    Brian is a digital creative designer who's been helping businesses build a better brand experience through visual design for over 15 years, working with non-profits to tech startups. From concept creation to delivery, Brian brings a high level of professionalism and energy to everything he tackles. Although his expertise is in creating visual compiling websites and applications, he also excels at video production and motion design.

    When he's not in the mountains snowboarding or mountain biking, he's in the studio composing, playing and recording music.

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    Julie Tuerk, Web Developer

    Julie Tuerk

    Web Developer + Code Creator

    Julie brings a diverse background to her practice of web development. She has studied computer programming, art, and psychology, and is also a certified sommelier. Her eagerness to learn new technical skills has enabled numerous small businesses and nonprofits to create an online presence, improve website functionality, and manage data.

    Julie loves solving problems with creative solutions, but is equally at ease using traditional methods to help clients realize their vision.

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    Dina Barnese, Project Manager + UX Specialist

    Dina Barnese

    Project Manager + UX Strategist

    Dina joined the Merge team in 2017. As a UX Strategist, she applies human-centered design principals to websites and mobile apps, keeping the user experience top of mind. She approaches project management with a goal of guiding the client’s vision to reality, keeping the big picture in mind while managing details and tasks.

    Dina has more than two decades of experience in the tech field. She has worked as a database and software developer, business analyst, UX designer, and project manager. She also has experience as a mediator: she served as a volunteer court-appointed mediator for eight years, during which time she continued training in advanced facilitation, negotiation, and mediation skills.

    Outside of the IT world, Dina is a potter, musician and nature lover. She serves on the board of directors for the Flagstaff Foundry, a nonprofit performing arts incubator.