That Blue is all about Graphic Design.
Lisa Marshall (she/her), Graphic Designer and Founder, That Blue
I started That Blue in 2008, after many years work experience as a graphic designer largely focused in the arts, environment and technology sectors.
My clients include inspiring innovators, from inventors and technologists to galleries, museums, and artists. Clients have included: Surrey Art Gallery, Museum of Surrey, Photonic Inc., Netskrt, Sage Simply Accounting, SAP, Sierra Wireless, Fraser River Estuary Management Program, Burrard Inlet Environment Action Plan, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and more.
My passions include art, technology, and the environment — I am fascinated by what people make, how things work, and our natural world. In my design work, I continue to specialize in these areas, always keeping in mind the potential for design to support connection and positive change. As well, I bring the deeper knowledge, including visual and language skills, of an advanced degree in art history.
Project Preference
While I have to earn a living, project preference will be given to projects and ways of working that are in alignment with my beliefs. Does the project or action have an attitude of consideration and respect for the intricate interconnectedness of all ecosystems and life on earth? Does it respect all beings? As Paul Hawken put it in Regeneration, Does it heal the future or steal the future? (Paul Hawken, on Regeneration, The Tyee, August 2021.)
Often it's a question difficult to answer. Even so, I hope to humbly contribute towards improving the situation of all beings and life on earth, in whatever small way, always hoping to leave things better than we found them. Supporting that goal, I regularly consider the above question.
I humbly acknowledge that I live and work on unceded territory gained through acts of colonization. Continued efforts to think and feel through the issues left in the wake of history will be made here, with gratitude and respect. That Blue's studio and clients are in territories of the: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Peoples in the Vancouver area, and also in Surrey, BC, the territories of the Katzie, Semiahmoo, Kwantlen, and other Coast Salish Peoples.