Our Team

 

Andrew Faulkner: Principal
Andrew is the creative guru at afstudio (although without the ponytail). He's a veteran of demanding design & production environments, and as senior designer for Macworld Magazine he gained his reputation for always displaying grace under pressure. Following his creative passions, Andrew launched afstudio in 1993, and has built a solid reputation for making complicated projects look easy. Print publication clients include Sunset Magazine, Addison Wesley, and Chronicle Books. New media clients include Adobe, Peachpit Press, Oracle, and Paypal.com.

In his spare time, Andrew is a talented illustrator and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Washington Post. Andrew earned his BA in Fine Arts from Trinity College and has received his share of awards from industry groups including the American Design Awards, Western Publication Association, and Magazine Design and Production Competition.

Elaine Gruenke:
Senior Designer
Elaine gave up a thriving design business to join the afstudio design team. Her business partner, Sammy, agreed to the decision in exchange for more lettuce (he's a rabbit.)

Elaine has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and has completed fine arts coursework at Rhode Island School of Design. Her education combined with her extensive experience as a freelance designer makes her the ultimate multi-tasker. She can prepare design presentations and manage several projects - all while juggling machetes with one hand and text messaging with the other.

Keely Reyes: Designer
Keely Reyes is so into "tiny type" that we have rented a neutron microscope just to read her memos. Her extraordinary typographic skills were honed at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UC Davis. Keely's worst job ever was having to clean up the unspeakable messes created by some of the pets that she cared for during her previous career of veterinary nursing. "All of this experience helps me deal with Andrew" she claims.

Megan Lee:
Associate Designer
Megan Lee, a San Francisco native, is a graduate of California College of the Arts and relies on her dog Otis for art direction ideas. In fact, the studio has converted it's standard for measure from picas to paw-prints. Megan is as well versed designing for the printed page as she is exploring pixel frontiers of the web. In her free time she enjoys mud-wrestling, stock-trading and has a thriving earring business @ lovelylittlebird.com.