About Us
Design 291 is an independent design studio that offers clients a fresh, intelligent resource for brand identity, print, and website design. From our greater Washington, D.C., offices, Design 291 serves a wide range of regional, national, and international clients providing art direction, brand strategy, copy writing, graphic design, marketing, and web services.
Our design solutions begin with your goals—whether to increase awareness, generate business, or convey an important message. Regardless of the audience, from policymakers to corporations, customers to investors—our team develops designs that seize attention and connect with results.
Our Team
Design 291 works with a carefully selected and well established team of writing, marketing, and production partners. We are passionate about design and approach each project—from concept to implementation—in a personal and creative way. Tailored to your particular objectives, we work together to develop on-time, on-target, and within-budget communications solutions.
Elizabeth Hardy
Elizabeth is the founder, principal, and primary creative force of Design 291. An active member of the Greater Washington, D.C., area graphic design community for over twenty-five years, she is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University's Summer Studies Program. Elizabeth has served three terms on the executive board of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and is a former adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
Allie Shaw
Allie is an accomplished interactive designer with over fifteen years of design experience. Known for her ability to manage multiple projects and work under tight deadlines, she is proficient in both Mac and PC environments executing projects in 3-D Studio Max, Action Scripts 2 & 3, Adobe Creative Suite 4 (Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Adobe Premiere, Convio, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, Joomla, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, Vignette, WordPress and XHTML.