Elena Erber Email & Phone Number

Red Hook, New York, United States

Manage and direct my own design business as well as co-managed the cooperative ThinkingPartners.provide a complete range of services: consultation, concept development, strategy, art direction, design, photography direction, project management, and production for a range of projects including website design, print collateral, publications, branding, social media, email campaigns, trade shows, and swag.Some current and recent clients: 1440 Multiversity • Art of Living International • Art of Living Retreat Center • Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis • BrainFutures • Centre Helios • Community Music Space • iBme • Jewish Heritage Travel • Kathrine Switzer-Marathon Woman • National Brain Tumor Society • NovoPower International • NYC Village Halloween Parade • Poughkeepsie Day School • Rabbi Jonathan Kligler • Sinterklaas Rhinebeck • Sivananda Yoga Retreat Bahamas • SpiritKeeper Studio • The New York Center for Jungian Studies • The New York Open Center • The Seat of the Soul Institute • Women Together/Eileen Fisher Foundation • Woodstock Jewish Congregation

New York State

We bring business rigor and creative expression to the ventures and ideas you are passionate about.We are your "ThinkingPartners" when you need trusted advisors to assess, share responsibility, and commit to the critical decisions required for success.We take an integrated approach to your organization's needs or challenges. Whether your project is micro or macro, we look at the whole picture with you.Working from this perspective we provide project development from concept to delivery, including facilitating strategic plans; guiding visioning and branding; crafting curriculums and trainings; designing marketing and communications; architecting administrative functions; creating ancillary products and services; training staff, and coaching.If you’d like to know more about us, please browse our website, or better yet, please be in touch. We’re glad to begin with a conversation.

Rhinebeck, Ny

Member of the all-volunteer team that creates the multi-day celebration festival based on the old Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas. A true community-wide event including story telling, music, theater, parade, street performances and lots of good cheer during the darkest days of the season.

West Stockbridge, Ma

• member of Kripalu’s leadership team, brand development team, web strategy team• design and steward Kripalu’s visual identity in support of brand culture• translate marketing objectives into creative strategies• manage and mentor in-house design team• art direct all design projects: print, web, new media, and on-site communications• foster collaboration between design and editorial teams• conceptualize and design major marketing and development projects• art direct photography• serve as brand liaison to decor team

Art Director, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck, New York. April 2002–2004.• established first in-house design department• participated in executive-level branding process for the institute• designed and applied visual brand identity• staffed, managed, and coordinated designers, photographers, illustrators• conceived of and directed photo shoots• designed all major marketing material, annual reports, publications, web, emails, exhibit/conferencegraphics, and other collateral

• coordinated all phases of in-house design department, including schedules, budgets, design, editorial,production, and printing• set graphic standards• designed major publications and collateral pieces for the college and its many satellite programs• supervised in-house and freelance designers, and directed photography and illustration staff• worked closely with administrators, faculty, students, among others

• coordinated, designed, and produced identity packages, print marketing campaigns, andcollateral materials• shared responsibility for client contact, account management, concept development, and dailyoperation of business