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ERIKA BAUER

Making new technology and superb design come together harmoniously...

Principal Erika Bauer (EB) is an interactive design pioneer with nine years of experience helping people in diverse industries create a solid visual presence, over twelve years of media industry experience and over three years experience as an digital media design instructor.

Since starting her consultancy in 1999, Erika has designed and built world class web sites for educational centers, PR firms, not-for-profit programs, and she has also designed and built niche-product online stores, and corporate brochure sites. Her previous projects have also included large dynamic Web site builds for a premier educational institution: The Buck Institute for Education, prototyping user interfaces for emerging online tools from companies such as Ekomi and Linkify, designing intranet portals for Yahoo's USA sales training center, and designing and building intranet benefits Website/CD packages for E*TRADE Financial.

Erika's background as an international print magazine director and an online magazine publishing pioneer has also given her deep understanding of what it takes to build and maintain a complex web site and what it takes to publish across different media. At IDG's Publish Magazine from 1996-99 Erika single-handedly spearheaded the magazine's web site development. After leaving to start her own business, she consulted on Eyewire's online magazine site redesign in Canada.

Erika's web design is content and user focused, and enhanced by another ten years of creative and technical writing experience, and art & online design training at schools including California College of the Arts, California State University Fresno, The Center for Electronic Art, The Ojai Digital Arts Center (Lynda Weinman's school). Overall, in her web development projects, she emphasizes scalability and ease of use. She believes that a successful web site is one that works well for its intended audience and does so with elegance and style.

To help her accomplish larger web projects with full functionality, Erika creates teams of experts who join her at e.b.Studios to support the full scope of project development including: backend coding (PHP, java, perl, etc), database development, e-commerce, technical writing, interactive programming, and streaming video. Expanding the business in 2002 e.b.Studios began offering print design services and logo/lidentity system design.

Erika has taught authorized web design classes using Macromedia products at Ciber Training in San Francisco, at ISInc. in Sacramento, and independently with Bay Area clients. From 2002-2004 she was a part-time college faculty member at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California where she helped author online-design course curriculum. In 2005 she became an Adjunct Professor in the Digital Media program at Chabot College in Hayward, California.