CHRIS CARLINE DESIGN
Chris Carline Design is a full-service design organization, delivering award-winning visual solutions to clients since 1986. We manage all aspects of projects, from creative concept to final product.
We specialize in:
- Graphic Design
- Publications
- Corporate Identity
- Visual Communications
- Print Advertising
For more than 25 years, we have provided creative and production services to a broad range of corporate and not-for-profit clients of all sizes. (Clients)
We’re a hands-on design firm, carrying through on projects from the first spark of an idea to the last drop of ink on the page or the final pixel on the screen. Our primary strength is our ability to listen to clients to understand their unique needs. We then explore highly individualized, creative solutions — but always within the practical realities of client budgets and schedules. (Testimonials)
We have received a variety of design awards in competitions encompassing work in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. Also, our work has appeared in numerous issues of Graphic Design USA, an industry publication for graphic designers and other creative professionals. (Awards)
CHRIS CARLINE
Art Director / Designer and Principal, Chris Carline Design
My interest in the visual arts has been lifelong. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo, I worked in the field of advertising and graphic design in upstate New York and eventually moved to New York City. I was an Art Director for five years with a Wall Street design firm that serviced primarily financial and corporate firms, and then I decided to start my own graphic design business.
I launched Chris Carline Design in 1986. After the first decade, I expanded my business to include clients in Northern California and ended up dividing my time between homes on both coasts for several years. I’ve since returned to live and work in New York full time.
I’m an avid collector of art and antiquities and travel periodically to Italy to pursue my interest in Italian culture, classical art and history.
MY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
I believe that excellent graphic design is both beautiful and functional. It interprets and enhances the written word, fusing ideas and text with a distinctive visual form and clarity. Excellent graphic design introduces concept into the design solution to help communicate a message, forge a feeling and evoke an essence. It can help make the mundane unique and the ordinary vibrant, resulting in imagery that is intelligent and memorable.
— Chris Carline