Team

From a little office outside of San Francisco, we operate a studio focused on graphic design for business—web sites, application interfaces, and brand positioning and identity.

Our role is to work with clients to solve problems from overall strategy to page-level navigation, balancing business needs and customer needs within realistic time and budget constraints. Every project is carefully planned, with thought processes, recommendations, and deliverables clear and concise.

Having worked in companies both large and small, we've come to realize that clients want the breadth of skills found in large firms, combined with the quality of work found in studios, and the trust they can only find in one-on-one relationships.

We try to deliver on all three.

Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson

Designer

Chris opened the doors of Chris Peterson Design in 2001. While his background is in traditional print and corporate identity design, Chris has been focused on interactive design since 1996. He has completed over 70 interactive projects for clients including Google, Wells Fargo, Innovacom (France Telecom), Cheskin and Knova.

Prior to opening the studio, Chris was a managing director at Scient, leading the customer experience teams on some of the consultancy’s largest projects. Before Scient, he worked for a range of design studios, including USWeb/CKS, Design One, Pentagram, and Landor.

Chris can be reached at chris@chrispeterson.com or +1 415 412 5560.

Nicole

Bookkeeper and Office Manager

Mark Sales

Dr. Mark Sales

Stormweaver Programming

Mark has been writing application code and building databases for our more complex projects since 2006. Mark’s first project was the Hanover multisite system, which utilizes a single content management system to manage multiple real estate sites.

Mark also built the infrastructure for Foundation, our VC site code base, and supported its deployment for Sofinnova Ventures.

In addition to his work with the studio, Mark continues his post-doctoral work and operates his own programming business.

Mark has a Ph.D. in physics and an M.S. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Vanderbilt University.