At Studio Blue Maggie has found a way to embrace her curiosity for learning and fostering understanding. Combining theory and practice, Maggie employs principles of learning and strategic change to help organizations think differently about who they are and where they are going. Her expertise and education is in understanding an organization’s complexity, bridging design and business thinking so that humans, those who make and run organizations, deliver results that further an institution’s aims. She has broad knowledge in strategy and management with depth in branding and marketing communications planning, design and implementation. As a partner at Studio Blue, she leads teams from assessment through problem definition, intervention design and implementation, combining the innovative process of design thinking with principles of adult learning, team dynamics and organizational change. She has served on the board of AIGA Chicago and is an active volunteer.
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Cheryl began her design discipleship at age nine, when she learned to proofread galleys at her parents’ weekly newspaper. She attended college sporadically, preferring to work or study in a different country each year. This love of culture and language is integral to her design sensibility, and her projects often marry design thinking with the development of visual language. She founded Studio Blue in 1993. She acts as creative director and oversees the mentoring of the design team. Cheryl’s influence on the studio’s work shows in her contextual approach as well as her intrepid demand for craft and innovation. She has served on the national board of the AIGA, the professional association for design; taught and lectured on design at universities and conferences; and juried numerous design competitions, including AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers competition, which she has chaired and juried four times.
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Silja began her “apprenticeship” at Studio Blue in November 2009 and has returned as a full-time designer. She has a strong passion for typography and conceptually sound design and is eager to learn from experienced designers to develop and refine her visual communication voice. During a design internship in Australia and a year at a Swedish university, working in a different cultural context has proven to be an inspiring and very enriching creative experience.
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Raised by parents who worked for the United Nations, Claire's humanitarian interests were formed early in life. She loves to design for clients who have community and educational interests at heart, and the search for work with this focus led her to Studio Blue. Her career experience began with five years in New York book publishing, where she designed covers for the trade paperback imprint Vintage Books. During that time she also ran a freelance business that focused on local branding projects and music packaging. Love and marriage then took her to Chicago, where she spent her first three years working on large-scale corporate communications campaigns and annual reports for VSA Partners. At Studio Blue Claire's role is to manage junior staff, and to create design that solves strategic problems with beautiful visual solutions. She currently serves as president of AIGA Chicago.
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