Kandra Churchwell :: Creative Director
Strategic Design, Creative Guidance, Baking
Kandra Churchwell has been a web designer in Denver for almost 14 years – serving emerging and established businesses with a unique blend of business savvy, creative passion and a dedication to great customer service. Kandra has helped dozens of business owners in Denver as web designer and creative director for Phases Design Studio.
As a web designer for Denver businesses, Kandra is influenced in her design by everything from Hubble Space Telescope imagery to the strawberry plants in her garden. Her concepts are known for their characteristic combination of warmth, simplicity and functionality, and for their strong resonance with her clients’ brand and corporate identities.
Kandra holds a BA in Advanced Computer Graphic Design from Platt College in Aurora Colorado, and spent several years teaching graphic design there, and honing her print design and production skills before launching Phases Design Studio.
Although primarily known today as a branding expert and Denver web designer, Kandra is also an accomplished print designer and publication specialist. As a web designer from Denver, she is influenced by both the city’s vibrant culture and by the natural beauty of Colorado’s Front Range, often incorporating natural motifs into her design concepts.
Kandra’s non-branding interests include gardening, baking, hiking and camping with her family, and vintage VW buses.
Recent Blog Posts by Kandra
The Valentine’s Day Branding Massacre
February 14th is the biggest day of the year for florists, so if they don’t have their ducks in a row, the day doesn’t end well. 1-800 Flowers screwed up several hundred deliveries this year, and then dropped the ball on customer service. The damage to their brand will definitely hurt their sales, but it didn’t have to be this way, even after the botched deliveries.
Phases 2012 Super Bowl Ad Roundup
Ever since Farrah creamed Broadway Joe Namath in the first “Super Bowl Ad” (as opposed to an ad that runs during the Super Bowl), watching and critiquing the commercials has become just as important as watching the big game. Because of Read More
Don’t Let Facebook Give You the Blues
Facebook’s dominance of the web has small businesses convinced that their Facebook badges have to be Facebook blue, regardless of whether or not the color works in the overall design of their own websites, or with their own brands. This isn’t the case. It’s your job to brand yourself, not to manage Facebook’s and Twitter’s brands. Here are a few sites that make the icons their own.
Flyby Social Media Badges
Before Americans went to the moon or astronauts orbited the earth, test pilots like Chuck Yeager, Gus Grissom and John Glenn risked their lives to kick start the Space Age.
Now you can honor these brave aviators every time someone visits your Website, with these retro-stylish social media and communication icons.
Hope You Got Your Homework Done Early Today!
Wikipedia is blacked out today (along with Reddit, the Google doodle, and Boing Boing, and others) to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and its stepchild, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The Wikipedia pages for those bills are still open for business, by the way.
