Brian Sooy

Current

• President and Creative Director at Sooy + Co.

Education

• Bowling Green State University
• Lorain County Community College

Recommended

3 people have recommended Brian

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Altered Ego Fonts

Brian Sooy’s Summary

25+ years in graphic design and visual communications.
Principal Designer: Altered Ego Fonts

Sooy + Co. is a leading design consultancy specializing in brand development, design and visual communications for non-profit organizations. We enable our clients to create effective communications for higher education, community, philanthropic and health care audiences, in print, web and interactive media. We create brands that build relationships. We help organizations recruit, retain, build and maintain relationships within the community and with their audiences.

We do this through strategic collaboration on strategic, brand development, communications, recruitment and development initiatives — in print, web and interactive media design.

Brian Sooy’s Specialties:

Category Expertise:
- Higher education (Community College and University marketing and communications)
- Health Care
- Entrepreneurial development
- Non-Profit Organizations (Philanthropic, Community Foundations)

Disciplines:
- Strategic graphic design and communications
- Type design
- Typographic consulting and branding
- Branding and Identity development
- Web Site design and development
- Interactive Media

Brian Sooy’s Education

• Bowling Green State University

  BFA, Graphic Design, 1981 — 1984

• Lorain County Community College

  Associate's Degree, General Studies, emphasis on Art, 1979 — 1981

  Activities and Societies:

  Theater Department

Additional Information

Brian Sooy’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Altered Ego Fonts

Brian Sooy’s Groups:

AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts, aiga.org)
COSE (cose.org)
NCMPR (National Society for Marketing and Public Relations, ncmpr.org)
NEOSA (neosa.org)
Type Directors Club (tdc.org)
SOTA (Society of Typographic Aficionados, typesociety.org)
Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio (VP, Board of Directors)

•    Art & Design member
•    NEOSA member
•    Linked Cleveland member

Brian Sooy’s Honors:

COSE Ten Under 10 (2007) – for best business practices
Golden 30: Growing Companies Demonstrating World-Class Performance -- Finalist: 2001 - 2007
Golden 30 Winner: 2002
Various Paper and printing awards competitions honors
Recognized and published in various periodicals and publications:
– Create Magazine, Mar+Apr 2008, Package Design Unwrapped
– HOW Design Magazine, June 2007, Creative Collections
– STEP inside Design, June 2005, Type Legibility

Brian Sooy’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch