Creative Business

Posted by | December 23, 2025
Meet Jenna, Graphic Designer for Shapes & Colors

Meet Jenna Graphic and Web Designer Jenna joined the Shapes & Colors team in September 2025 as a Junior Designer. Her career began three years ago as a UX Design...

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Makayla Williams Marketing intern for Shapes & Colors
Posted by | August 19, 2025
Hi, I’m Makayla!

Makayla Williams Summer 2025 Intern I’m a sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University majoring in Marketing, and this summer, I’ve been interning at Shapes and Colors! This isn’t my first time...

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Posted by | October 28, 2024
October 2024 Newsletter

October Update Shapes & Colors has been steady this year with existing client work and new business coming in. We had a staff change mid-year (more on that later) but...

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Richmond BizSense Economic Forecast panel 2024
Posted by | January 31, 2024
January 2024 Community Events in Richmond

January 2024 Community Events in Richmond With the New Year energy of January, I attended several economic forecast and research events I attended the following: Richmond BizSense Economic Forecast -...

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Posted by | May 9, 2023
Welcome Cierra Fountain, Graphic Designer

Cierra Fountain Graphic Designer Cierra Fountain joined the Shapes & Colors team in January 2023 as a Junior Designer. She began her career shortly after graduating from Columbus State University...

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Posted by | April 8, 2023
2023 Client Appreciation Event

Earlier this spring, Shapes & Colors partnered with our friends from Blue Skies Eco-Scaping to celebrate our clients together. We hosted an appreciation event at Gather with the help of...

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Hand wearing a ring with text Be Brave stamped into it
Posted by | March 18, 2020
Virtual Business and Social Distancing in March, 2020 Newsletter

Virtual Business and Social Distancing in March Be brave I wear this ring a lot. I've had this for a couple of years now and I look at it all the...

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Jolinda Smithson, graphic and web designer
Posted by | February 12, 2020
Feeling the Love In February, 2020 Newsletter

Feeling the Love in February What's it like taking the leap? To be honest, I didn't really leap. My freelance journey started in 2009 and at that time it didn't last much...

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Posted by | April 28, 2017
Day 2 – Being Boss Clubhouse

Whoa. My brain is swimming with lots of ideas, goals, tools and habits to level up and be more boss. I met some awesome fellow bosses in various stages of...

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Posted by | April 27, 2017
Day 1 Being Boss Clubhouse

Today begins a 2-day intensive webinar about business goal-setting, habits, boundaries and processes that creative entrepreneurs can use to grow successful businesses. The webinar and year-long masterclass / resource area...

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