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StoryArts hires independent book artists, writers, editors, graphic designers, printers and binders to help us develop and create our published books and community projects. Together these community experts make up our Consortium listed below. |
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Founding Members
Lisa Bell is a freelance copy editor and transcriptionist for StoryArts. Pursuing a life-long interest in storytelling and culture, Lisa received her bachelor of arts in English, with minors in creative writing and religious studies, from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She worked for leading science and health publisher Elsevier for over eight years, with roles including managing editor and digital media specialist. |
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Bobbie DeBoer, served as both a project coordinator and transcriptionist for StoryArts. She was an integral part of our organization for six years, both working on custom projects as well as organizing and leading community presentations on collecting life stories. Bobbie's work experience includes seven years as medical office manager for a state-funded agency that served the developmentally disabled population. She also worked for two years, as a hospice secretary, supporting the nursing and counseling staff and the Hospice Director. She was committed to StoryArts because she believed rapt attention is a sacred gift; because the work continually taught and inspired her; because our work was important to our clients and their families; and because she wanted to use her life in meaningful ways. We were very fortunate to have her expertise and tender heart, her contribution was significantly grounding for both our staff and our clients.
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Kathi Olsen has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology. She also has had expressive arts training which she used extensively in her counseling with adults and children while working as a Bereavement Counselor and Program Director for Hospice. Kathi has worked with individuals and families to collect and record life stories, creating self published books to share with family and friends. She has a particular interest in working with people in life transitions, bringing in-depth personal experience as a result of her own healing journey after breast cancer. Kathi was a Project Coordinator from StoryArts inception in 2000 until 2005, and facilitated collage art workshops for our Encinitas Legacies Project. Kathi was highly regarded by both the community at large and her individual publishing client, and was an inspired member of the consortium.
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Current Members
Doris Doi is a graphic designer with extensive experience in many phases of print, media, and graphic design. She has designed most of StoryArts' 33 publications and all of our Family Publishing collateral material as well as several local writers' anthologies and books on writing and poetry. A longtime San Diegan, she has a B.A. in Art from San Diego State University, has worked in the printing industry, and freelanced as a designer for a number of firms and individuals, including: a non-profit health organization, a network TV affiliate, a writing center, public relations firms, ad agencies, media consultants, and writers and friends. It is due to Doris' heart-warming, family-centered yet highly professional design abilities, and unequal creative sensitivity to each of our authors, that StoryArts has been able to offer our clients such exceptional book containers for their stories. Doris also has given our promotional materials that same consistent, winning treatment. |
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Donna Otter, MA, REAT is a writer who has worked in many forms, including poetry, essay and performance art. The foundation of all her work is the diary. Also, visual art has been a joyful and important way for her to play with non-verbal imagery. She has made many artist's books employing collage, text, paint, photography and family archives. She received her BA in Creative Writing from SDSU and her MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from the Expressive Arts Institute of San Diego and the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland. Donna is a founding member of Storymakers. She has been a Project Coordinator for StoryArts Family Publishing services, facilitated book art workshops for our Legacies Project, was a member of the Memoir Makers Project, and now provides consultation for our Community Projects and Memoir Circles from her new home in Oregon.
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Jenny Yoshida Graduating with an MFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design from San Diego State University, Jenny Yoshida Park set out into the world to make books, draw pictures, and print things the old fashioned way. She also likes new technology (have you met her dear companion, YouTube?). But she realizes that one cannot live on technology alone. Stick some pencils and paper in there and you've got yourself a stew going. She likes to attack strange and interesting new projects and figure out what materials can be used to convey a desired message. She likes to think of funny phrases, cut things out of paper and stick them to other pieces of paper with Scotch brand adhesive tape. She takes pleasure in lists, dictionaries, encyclopedias, charts, maps, and trivia.
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She enjoys filling out forms, labeling things, and addressing envelopes by hand. Jenny is a new member of our consortium, whom we are exceedingly fortunate to be working with.
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Web Design (In Memoriam)
Steve Brixner grew up in San Diego and studied metalsmithing at San Diego State University. In 1997, needing a website to display his work, he started learning web design. Since then he has designed websites for friends and referrals. His primary vocation is still jewelry design but he enjoys the counterpoint of designing websites. |
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Transcription
A Better Type has been one of the top transcription companies in San Diego for the past 24 years, and a trailblazer in the innovative world of digital recordings. StoryArts has been exceedingly fortunate to have found Better Type due to their hands-on, personal service, which is exceedingly rare in today's computer age. Our clients are able to give A Better Type's transcribers highly personal, priceless documents, which are family heirlooms, to be transcribed, with absolute trust. Transcripts are sent via email as a Microsoft Word document, which means both our professional staff and our clients have easy access to work on them, and they can be returned quickly. A Better Type also charges the most reasonable fees of any service in the area, a necessity for our Family Publishing clients. |
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Printing
Any Budget Digital Printing and Copying provides full-service copying utilizing top-notch equipment. Their graphic and color specialists are proficient at creating output that satisfies our high quality demands. They feel that there is no greater satisfaction than delivering a finished product that helps a client reach their goals and objectives. Therefore their mission is to provide clients with the highest-quality products and services possible in a timely fashion and at a competitive price. They have always been there for our clients with honest, expert advice and quick, friendly customer service. 7150 Engineer Road San Diego, CA 92111 (858)278-3151 infor@anybudget.com |
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Binding
Western Bookbinding Company was the premier bindery in San Diego for over 50 years, and StoryArts preferred bindery for our hard bound books, until they closed in 2012. They specialized in and produced only hand-sewn books. It was the last remaining traditional bookbindery in the county. Of the few bookbinders left, most of them specialize in gluing and stapling all done by machine. Stepping into Western Book Binding was like stepping back in time, the only mechanical devices were the over head lighting and the telephones. It was a fully traditional bindery, where everything was done by hand, on elegant century old equipment, and produced by a staff devoted to the original craft of bookbinding, all trained on site. Quality Binder provides our clients with perfect bound (paperback) book services, in high volume quantities. Their fees are reasonable and their turn around is always timely. They also have always provided us with extra hands-on help and high quality products.
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7818 Wilkerson Court
San Diego, CA 92111 (858)278-4411 |
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Custom Binding Services provide high quality spiral or comb binding and carry only top quality binding systems. They offer case-making services also. They stand behind all of their products. Their experienced service staff are always ready and able to help. They have provided exceptional personal attention to our client's projects, at extremely reasonable fees.
Custom Binding Products 4664 Mercury Street San Diego, CA 92111 (858)268-3830 |
