TESTIMONIALS
Louis Wood
Owner
LAW Security
Eli is fantastic at bringing your ideas to life with her own added flair. I have worked with a multitude of freelancers for a variety of business tasks and can confidently say that Eli’s work is in the highest tier.
Cary Marriott
Freelance Writer & Marketer
Eli is a stand-out design talent. Behind the scenes, she's a project leader with the highest standards. She puts in the work to make every detail of a website not just good, but great.
Courtney Cavender
Owner
Cocina de Coco
Working with Eli on a logo design for my business was a fun and collaborative process. She approaches each project with the true eye of an artist. While working together, she offered several strong, unique options for my consideration. The logo we selected is the perfect fit for my brand. I would highly recommend her services!
Mary Burch
Chief Development Officer
San Antonio Museum of Art
Eli’s enthusiasm for our project was apparent from our first conversation. Within days, she had created not one but several mood boards to share. While passionate about each idea, she was very open to feedback and didn’t hesitate to adapt accordingly when necessary. Her knowledge and guidance throughout the printing process was invaluable and an impressive display of her creativity and acumen. To our delight, she advised us on paper selection, foil application, and other special touches to make our collateral stand out. Additionally, Eli is very prompt and meets every deadline given to her.
Beau Walker
Owner
West Ridge Construction
Most designers will do the layout but ask you for all of the content. I was looking for someone to do the full gamut of design — website, professional photography, social media — as well as the writing portion. I didn’t want to tell Eli what to do; I wanted her to run with it.
As a result of her work, our online traffic has increased dramatically. In the past, I was only getting referrals; today I received an email saying our pictures had already been viewed over 5,000 times.
When it comes to creating a website, people try to cut corners. I looked at designing the website myself but quickly realized that I wanted to do what I do best — build homes — and to hire someone like Eli to do what they do best.
Barbie O’Connor
Author
Eli is very easy to work with in person as well as remotely. She intuits her client's needs and uses visual imagery to effectively evoke the concept her client wishes to convey to their market. Eli meets deadlines, is clear about her service prices, and promptly communicates during last-minute edits and submissions before publication. After three book covers and two interiors, I plan to use Eli for the cover design and interior layout for my next book. She is a joy to work with as she is a true professional.
Meredith Doby
VP of Exhibits
The DoSeum
Across both physical and digital platforms, Eli’s contributions were essential in the renovation of the Semmes Foundation Spy Academy, a highly complex and ever-changing project. We’re extremely happy with her work, which resulted in a new look and feel for the Spy Academy.
Jim Poteet
Principal
Poteet Architects
Working with Eli was a pleasure. Her design sophistication and technical prowess produced a website that expresses our values and sensibilities as well as being easy and intuitive to navigate on all platforms. Her standards for her work are as high as ours—it’s really that simple.
Hilary Scruggs
Owner
Hilary Scruggs Design LLC
Working with Eli across three different projects was a fun and creative process. She is a dynamic designer with a wide range.
For Hilary Scruggs Design, people loved the logo, the website, the business cards, the stationary — all the paper goods; it couldn't be more perfect. The quality was impeccable.
Working with her on our wedding invitation package was a no-brainer; I didn’t want a conventional invitation, I wanted something that conveyed our personalities. It was basically another branding exercise, so I didn't think twice. I knew I just had to call Eli. She proposed using a letterpress with no ink; the effect was unique, modern, and striking.
For Hombres, a burger restaurant, she got it. It was a totally different style, not high-design but instead something cheap and accessible — and she delivered.
Eli understood my vision for each project and the work conveyed that. She is smart, efficient, and highly talented, yet practical at the same time.
Alizabeth Beck
Owner
Splendid Skincare + Brow Studio
People love having the ability to view our service menu and book appointments online — it’s convenient for us and customers, it saves time, and has increased our business. I frequently get complimented on everything Eli has designed, particularly on the new, more upscale logo and the business cards with the foil details and velvety finish.
Moreover, unlike some of the other agencies I’ve looked into, working with Eli is definitely something a small business can afford.
David Denton
Attorney
DTD Firm
I didn’t have to be sold on working with Eli; I already knew that she had done some brilliantly creative covers while working at The Current and San Antonio Magazine. She clearly has a great eye for design and knew she could apply that to my marketing and website.
The website’s value is in validating me, professionally, in the eyes of potential clients, and it has done just that. Her ability to coordinate the photography for my site was invaluable. For the shoot, she selected my wardrobe, scouted locations, and found the right photographer; I couldn’t have done that.
Throughout the entire process, it felt like she knew what I wanted without me knowing what I wanted.
John Russ
Owner & Chef
Clementine
As a small business, working with Eli makes your life so much easier. You’ll have a great product in the end and won’t have to deal with massive firms that just want to sell the same thing over and over again with different colors. She crafted a unique design tailor-made for us the same way we strive to tailor experiences for our guests.
Consistently, we see that the custom mural she created for us — various components of a mandarin orange — is a big part of our daily life here at the restaurant. People take pictures of it, gesture to it; it stops them during their visits. Even if they’ve been here a hundred times, you can still see that they’re looking at it and appreciating the beauty of it.
Another aspect of her work we really appreciated was her attention to detail when it came to the photoshoots, which she directed. We had a subsequent photoshoot without her and thought, ‘this is not worth it without Eli. The money’s not worth spending unless Eli’s involved.’
Tatiana Herrera
Chief Engagement Officer
San Antonio Museum of Art
As an art museum, we are in the business of selling beautiful experiences. Consistently, Eli’s event invitations set this standard. As an art museum, we are in the business of selling beautiful experiences. Consistently, Eli’s event invitations facilitate this.
Working with a designer capable of translating a fully developed concept to a finished product is crucial. Her work details transform potential ideas into gorgeous and captivating pieces.
I believe some graphic designers are time-stamped by their work. Eli’s designs have a classic feel; they stand on their own and age well.
Callie Enlow
Editor and Chief
San Antonio Current + Make Change
Eli always presents polished, high-impact designs, with the most resonant details being her great sense of color and clean sensibility. At The Current and Make Change, in the age of social media and online sharing, we really needed eye-catching content; at both publications, the responses to her artwork were great.
We were usually required to meet demanding turnaround times while on a tight budget. We were not employed by luxury magazines, with three months’ runtime for a photoshoot, but often, her work was of the same caliber.
Eli’s ideas are strong, with sound reasoning behind them.
Michael Velliquette
Artist
What ultimately sold me on working with Eli was the freshness of her designs. Her understanding of color and pattern led me to believe that together, our aesthetic would flow quite well.
My book, What We’re Looking For Is What Is Looking, is this explosion of color, pattern, and joy, which I believe has a lot to do with her design choices: the interfacial pages, her intuitive sense of layout, her strong and clear vision. People love it. I gave her a general outline of the layout and order, and the finished product ended up very close to my vision, but better, given her own experience and artistic perspective.
My catalog, Creations are Numberless, has a strong design sensibility to it, but it’s a little quieter. It supports my work in an almost invisible way; I believe the positive catalog responses I’ve received owe a lot to the clarity and simplicity of her designs.
Eli was responsive to my ideas but remained honest in her feedback. I always appreciated her sincerity.
Olivia Beck
Engineer
After reviewing Eli’s portfolio, we had a high level of confidence that she’d be able to create the website we were looking for. She did not disappoint.
Legitimate engineering firms are expected to have a website. The website she built gives us more credibility and helps us present ourselves more professionally. Not only does it pull the firm into the 21st century, it includes features other engineering firms rarely have, such as the drone footage on our homepage.
We also really appreciated her and her team of copy editors punching up our resumes and some of our other files. Again, she helped us increase our professionalism. We thought that the work she provided was an excellent value for the cost. We couldn't recommend her enough.