Bill Nye
“I’m very happy with the work done by Rhizome Design, our website looks great and their service is even better.”
Bill Nye, the science guy
Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability
“I highly recommend Jen Pennington of Rhizome Design as an outstanding designer of marketing, branding and web materials. She has a broad range of skills that go far beyond her very attractive and creative graphic design work. Consider Jen a partner in advancing your business or organization through the many avenues of media, communications and print. She understands marketing and brand development and has excellent knowledge of how to make websites and materials engaging and attractive. In addition, Jen brings a team of resources to her projects – skillful web technicians, printers, writers and marketers. She finds the most environmentally appropriate print services and because of her professional relationships with her team and service providers, everything is done on time and to an excellent standard of quality. And did I mention the great image bank that Jen draws upon from Rhizome Images? You can buy a photo and plant a tree.”
Mary Rose, Co-Director, NBIS
Whidbey Camano Land Trust
“Rhizome Design took our outreach materials to a new level; every new piece that goes to our membership and community is returned by phone calls, personal comments, emails, and written notes with compliments. We’re getting noticed. People are picking up our materials and are becoming more engaged in our mission to save land because of what they see and read.
I love Jen’s creativity, fresh perspective, and most of all – her collaborative spirit. When we embarked on celebrating our 25th anniversary in 2009, Jen created the most amazing campaign for us. It was the result of an afternoon where we brainstormed ideas. Within a couple days, Jen produced our “25 Years of Homemade, All Natural Preserves” design. It was a hit! We integrated the design into all of our activities for the later part of the year, culminating in an evening gala in October. That final event was our true sign of the campaign’s success when nearly 400 people showed up to celebrate with us!
It has been such a pleasure to work with Jen. She has such creative ideas and an artistic ability to turn those ideas into interesting pieces – everything from the unusual like jar labels and buttons to the standard like brochures and posters. While doing so, she remains aware of her client’s needs and takes their mission, values, and constraints into account. She finds ways to be cost effective AND resource effective – two things a non-profit like us believes in! While working with us, she kept us involved throughout the entire production process, working with our ideas and addressing our comments and feedback. We are so pleased with the outcome of our projects and glad that Jen is helping get the face of the Land Trust out to our islands’ community and the larger Puget Sound area!
~Danielle Rideout, Land Protection Associate
Parker LePla
“Rhizome is a truly versatile design partner. At Parker LePla, we provide branding and marketing communications work for technology, healthcare and not-for-profits of all shapes and sizes. Therefore, it’s very important to have a partner who has Fortune 500 and small company experience. Rhizome knows how to interpret the graphics systems of large clients and has the client service skills to lead small clients to successful designs. Rhizome translates our clients’ needs into compelling corporate identities and websites that reflect their unique brands”
~Joe LePla, Principal, Parker LePla, Inc.
Valley Cultural Center
“Allow me this opportunity to tell you how pleased we are with Rhizome. Since retaining your services in 2003, our marketing materials, programs and ad design have been elevated to a new level. Our Board of Directors wishes to pass along their thanks as well.
I’m most pleased with the level of professionalism each of you conduct yourselves when dealing with tight deadlines and unusual (last minute) requests. Phone calls and emails are always returned in a timely fashion and someone is ALWAYS there to help.
The new Web site and corporate mark are amazing. We never thought we could have such a professional site such as this. Everything you have produced for us is fresh, slick and demands attention. We are happy to be associated with a company such as yours, and look forward to many more years together.
~James W. Kinsey III, President/CEO, Valley Cultural Center
SK Food Group
“Once we engaged the services of Rhizome to redesign our website, it became obvious we chose the right group to facilitate our desired changes.”
~Steve Sposari, President/CEO, SK Food Group
Service Performance, Inc.
“Thank you for the wonderful work and the quick turnaround. The work is amazing. I shouted with joy as I first saw the work. I wasn’t able to guess what you’d be delivering, but the actual ones far surpassed my expectations, which for Rhizome is always very high anyway.”
~Chris Arlen, Owner, Service Performance, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard
“HP hired Rhizome to help us understand the way small business retailers use printed materials to promote their businesses. Rhizome met all our expectations in developing and executing an effective research approach. Rhizome’s experience and insight into graphics design enabled them to identify new ways for HP in contributing to small retailers business success. Rhizome did an excellent job in preparing attractive and concise written materials that presented their research findings. Overall, I was very pleased with the work Rhizome did for HP and look forward to other opportunities to work with them in the future.”
~Dave Blanchard, Product Manager / Personal Printing Business Solutions
Rhizome was very responsive and easy to work with. If I were to sum it up, in this world responsiveness is at the top of my list of things I want from an agency. Not only was Rhizome very responsive, they stayed within our budget constraints – so they were very cost-effective as well.
~Larry Reitz, Technical Marketing / Hewlett-Packard
Sharon Rawlins
“It was not only my good fortune but also my pleasure to work with Jen Pennington, first through Quebecor Interactive and then through Rhizome Design, in my capacity as Marketing Communications Manager for Melles Griot. Her awareness of how key consistency is to branding and image development, her understanding of the importance of knowing the underlying goals and strategies, —the raison d’être — for the project in question, and her commitment to design excellence enabled us to field successful marketing projects both in print and online.
At the end of each project we had a practical piece that was also, if you will, a work of art — a piece that sent the right message, achieved the desired business results, and at the same time transcended those things as a creative statement that people liked to look at. A wonderful circle of success.
Jen’s creative talents and business acumen made it easy to realize sustainable high standards and to “do good work” while achieving marketing and business goals.
While acting as a freelance consultant in project management/art direction for Elayne LaPorta Find Art I naturally turned to Jen and Rhizome Design to build and design their new website. Jen’s design enhances the spirit of this artists’ work while providing an easy-to-use, easy-to-navigate user experience. Just what they were looking for.
I highly recommend Jen and the Rhizome Design Team (all excitingly talented and knowledgeable) and look forward to following their work.”
~Sharon E. Rawlins