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[ About Webb Design ]
Webb Design is not a new, web-only company. We are a 20-year-old design firm with a long history of working with museums, galleries and artists. Here is a brief description of the business. We welcome visitors to our websites and the studio itself, located in Taos, New Mexico.
Janet Webb
Taos, New Mexico
ABOUT WEBB DESIGN INC.
Business Profile, February 1999
Business Structure:
Established as Webb-Pantaleoni Design in 1979. Operated as a sole proprietorship 1982-1992. Incorporated January 1, 1993. Also doing business as TaosWebb.com and Musee.com.
President:
Janet Webb has lived in Taos since 1973. She received a BA in fine arts from California State College at Long Beach and spent time in New York City as a fashion illustrator. She and her husband Larry Bell have three children. She is also a partner in TaosNet LLC, the area's Internet Service Provider.
Staff:
Currently principal, ten employees (three electronic designers, three print designers, typographer, pre-press specialist, media director, bookkeeper) and three freelance copywriters. Specifically, the electronic designers:
Kim Lemons moved to Taos from Wichita, Kansas with her husband Keith in 1991 to manage our type department. She now designs many of our websites in addition to maintaining our TaosWebb travel and art website. She has an amazing ability to translate her original skills in typography to the web.
Howie Roemer has long hair and wears flip flops - is a full-on geek in the purist sense of the word - a former "Dead Head" gone Wired. Has been a great inspiration to us all. Oh and he does websites too.
Teresa Rael came to Webb Design from Intel Corporation in Albuquerque where she was a database administrator. Teresa is a UCLA alumni with a degree in Art. Her role here involves designing websites and working with databases. She also designs many of our e-commerce sites.
In house facilities:
Twelve Mac work stations; two PC work stations½; scanners; printers; Mac file server.
Professional memberships:
Museum Store Association
National Press Women's Association
New Mexico Advertising Federation
New Mexico Internet Professionals Association
Tourism Association of New Mexico
Type Directors Club
Design awards:
New Mexico Ad Federation - 1983, 84, 85, 86, 87
New Mexico Advertising Federation - 1983, 85, 87, 88 - 95, 97, 99
National Press Women Association - 1990, 91, 92
District 12 Addy Awards - 1986
New Mexico Governor's Award for Tourism Promotion - 1988
Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International - 1991, 95, 99
Type Directors Club - 1993
Client base:
Seventy percent travel industry related, particularly the ski industry.
Also working with art clients and corporate/business clients. Partial list
of museum clients over the years:
Albuquerque Museum
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Fechin Institute, Taos
Harwood Museum of Taos
Hollywood Bowl Store, Los Angeles
Kit Carson Historic Museums, Taos
Louisville Slugger Museum, Kentucky
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
National Building Museum, DC
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Oriental Museum, Chicago
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nebraska
Toledo Botanical Gardens, Ohio
On TaosWebb.com:
TaosWebb is a travel, recreation and art website focused on northern New Mexico. It has been designed, published and maintained by Webb Design Studio Inc. since May of 1995.
TaosWebb facts and figures for 1999:
- Visits to TW main menu: 138,645
- Visitors to all subsite main menus combined: 1,068,041
- Subsites at end of December 1999: 7 area visitors guides; 5 recreation sites; 61 lodging property sites; 6 lodging reservation sites; 12 gallery/artist sites; 15 restaurant sites; 6 shopping sites; 1 monthly news journal
Webb Design websites:
* = Commerce-enabled
