Laura Lamar | graphic design, print production, project management

Laura is a graphic designer and typographic designer specializing in print design and art direction, coordinated print marketing campaigns, and publications design. She taught typographic design and computer-aided publications design at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and San Francisco, California; advanced publishing courses at Stanford University and the Aspen Design Conference; and she currently lectures on small business design and marketing. She authored a textbook for graphic design students, “Desktop Design” which was published by Crisp Publications. Former Art Director of San Francisco Focus Magazine at PBS affiliate KQED in San Francisco (and other publications), she was also an art director/designer at Communications Design in Sacramento. When not at her computer, she kayaks, reads copiously, sings in an a cappella choral group, and occasionaly writes scripts and designs sets and costumes for a local Renaissance Pageant.

Max Seabaugh | graphic design, illustration, photography

Max Seabaugh is an illustrator and graphic designer who, after mastering traditional media—pencil, paint, and paper collage—was one of the first West Coast illustrators to use the Macintosh computer. He has taught illustration classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and San Francisco, California, and seminars at Stanford University. He was a designer, illustrator, and studio manager at Communications Design in Sacramento, worked at Barile + Garnas in Oakland, and in the corporate design office of Macy's California. He opened MAX Design Studio in San Francisco in 1984, and was joined by designer Laura Lamar in 1985. When not at his computer, Max enjoys cooking, music, photography, and western events.

After 14 years of working for high tech, corporate, publishing, and agency clients in the San Francisco bay area and nationally, Max and Laura moved their studio to Lake County, California, in 1998. Located at the northern end of California’s wine region, they now enjoy using their design skills to promote a wide range of local and regional small businesses, while still occasionally working at the national level.