Braintree Multimedia Design was started by Christopher Schiebel after working for several years doing freelance design and creative direction in the graphic and web design industry. The Story: Christopher first started out teaching himself web and graphic design as a hobby back in 1998. In 2002 he began studying web and graphic design in an accelerated study program through Cappella University. In 2004 he graduated with honors at the top of his class and a 4.0 GPA becoming a fully certified graphic and web designer. (His school projects are still used by the admissions office of Capella University for marketing purposes today.)
In previous endeavors, Christopher has done design or production work for such local companies and organizations as:
The Braintree Multimedia Design concept:
Braintree Multimedia Design is a design studio that provides one of the broadest ranges in high quality services available to businesses and organizations in the Springfield and Pioneer Valley area. With a certified designer working with you, you keep all of your design work consistent and of high quality. You begin to develop a look for your business that speaks volumes. This is the heart of the branding philosophy. For businesses, it is all about image. Having a consistent design shows your customers you take careful attention to detail and care about quality. This fosters a feeling of trust that customers look for. Braintree Multimedia Design can help mold and develop your business brand to meet your needs and requirements. We work closely with you to make sure all of your needs are met and maybe even identify a few that you haven't even thought of by helping you with creative marketing ideas. We provide you with the option for quality professional printing services so there is no need to rush around to multiple sources for your marketing needs. We'll make sure your business literature is high quality, not poor quality copy shop fare, but at great prices. You always own the files we create for you. We find the usual practice of design studios retaining "copy and print rights" of the files they create for you to be utterly deceitful. We will always provide copies of your files free through email or for a nominal fee burned to a CD for your archive. By keeping quality and integrity in mind, we rewrite the book on what quality business and design services are all about. Braintree Multimedia Design was created to fill a niche that was sorely lacking in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. That niche is a design studio that has a strong background in multiple media types that could partner with small and medium business owners to design consistent high quality business imagery for use with any media type while lifting the burden this all brings to the owner or manager. How does this affect me? We save you time and effort without sacrificing quality. We have professional production and print services available, so you can have it done all in one place. No more running around to get multiple professional services performed from multiple sources. As a busy professional or business owner, the last thing you need to be doing is running from source to source getting different services done. By partnering with local co-op printing groups, we keep the price low for you and we keep control of quality. Since we are not an agency but rather a small local business ourselves, we keep our prices low and incredibly competitive. We will even ship or deliver your job to you! Check out our services page and see what we can do for your business or check out the gallery page to see our portfolio. If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us. We're here for one reason only and that is to make your business easier for you! |
Who Is Braintree Multimedia Design?
Coming from a strong customer service oriented background and after working in the design industry for a couple years, Christopher became increasingly frustrated with the low quality designs he saw coming to him by customers bringing design jobs from previously attempted projects that needed fixing. To try and make a difference in the local design scene, Christopher joined a small local business services company in Springfield, Massachusetts and became their Creative Director. Christopher managed many aspects of the creative process for the business on their many design projects, including creative resources and various project designers. This also included many aspects of production, especially in large format printing. He also provided quality oversight to many of the professional print jobs that entered and left the shop. This gives him an incredibly diverse background in many business services and drives his passion for quality design. In May of 2007, Christopher left his position as Creative Director to pursue starting his own business services company to try and make a bigger impact, calling his business "Braintree Multimedia Design". Recognizing that all creative design stems from the "creative flowering" of the mind, he felt it was the perfect name to begin his company from which so many diverse high quality services would be served. Currently Christopher is sole proprietor of Braintree Multimedia Design and is out to change the world, one design at a time. 
If you do hire a designer, in most cases there is no guarantee that the designer you get will be experienced in the media type that you need. You usually end up with the one that has his or her docket of projects OPEN. Most experienced designers, even some of the best ones, specialize in one or two media types, depending on where they have worked. Magazine designers usually stick to magazine ad design and the same holds true in most design formats. We have experience in most media types in both design and production! This is what makes Braintree Multimedia beautifully different! We have detailed experience with most business media types that any business will need from advertisements and business literature to websites and beyond! We truly are a multimedia design studio.
