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Head up to Capitol Hill’s Cloud Room to talk about small business design

(Image: Salt House Studios)

(Image: Salt House Studio)

Here’s your chance to visit The Cloud Room.

Salt House Studio will be hosting a Design Happy Hour in The Cloud Room, a co-working space situated on the fourth floor of Chophouse Row, Thursday from 5:30 PM to 7 PM.

Holly Torneby, co-founder of the design studio, decided to bring together the Design Happy Hour to focus on big design on a small business budget.

Torneby and her business partner Holly Robins first met in 2012 when they were attending Seattle Central’s Creative Academy Design Program.

Torneby, a Seattle native, lives in the Matthews Beach area while Robins is a six-year Capitol Hill resident.

Robins was working at a food tech startup as a lead designer, when she decided to leave and start a fresh company with Torneby, who had been working at a small design agency that folded. With that, Salt House was launched in early December 2015, specializing in web and digital design, as well as identity and branding.

“Our tagline is ‘a new kind of studio,’” said Robins. “So we’re basically a small design agency and we’re trying to sort of fit that niche between the large design firms and a freelancer, that you may or may not have to manage a lot… you may or may not know what you’re gonna get.”

Robins and Torneby are excited to be part of the The Cloud Room’s first Design Happy Hour and will focus the session on “what you can do as a mom and pop shop that doesn’t have any design budget at all,” said Torneby. “There’s a lot of free and easy-to-use tools out there.”

The happy hour is open to the public, though space is limited. You can RSVP here.

 

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karen
karen
8 years ago

And this is programmed opposite Capitol Hill Artwalk. Talk about being out of touch with the local community…