Comprised of an accomplished team of professionals dedicated to both implementing and utilizing sustainable business practices, we value innovative thinking and personalized attention. We've applied our extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies to serve the creative needs of green-minded organizations as well as those that aspire to implement sustainable practices. Our client list reflects this mission.
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Cheri Larsh Arellano
Creative Director & New Business Relations
As the founder of Conscious Creative, Cheri serves as its creative director, photographer and manages new business relations. After several years working as a professional photographer in Miami Beach, she moved to Los Angeles where she attended UCLA for graphic design and worked as a freelance designer, working mostly on entertainment and corporate design. She has been a graphic designer for over seven years and a photographer for over a decade, and has worked for and with such companies as Warner Bothers, DreamWorks, Universal, Disney and AT&T. Upon realizing that these corporate markets did not satisfy her soul, the idea for Conscious was born. In 2001, Cheri moved to the Bay Area and started Conscious Creative where she can dedicate all of her creative skills to bettering the planet. She is committed to increasing awareness around sustainable business practices, helping the environment and supporting the local community. You can view her personal photography website at cherilarsh.com |
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Mark Arellano
Producer & Director
A San Francisco resident and Bay Area native who has been involved for over half a decade with all aspects of the film and video industry, Mark Arellano manages the motion picture production as well as the copywriting and copy editing for Conscious. Upon receiving his BA from UC Davis in 1997, Mark headed to Hollywood, where he was involved in production for NBC, festival coordination for the Slamdance Film Festival, and production and development for Miramax Films. Mark’s recent editing credits include Jornalero, a documentary selected by HBO’s Frame By Frame documentary film series and His Only Son, a film selected for the Oakland Film Festival. Recent projects include producing and directing a regionally broadcast television commercial, a DVD for a nationally-touring stage production, and a critically acclaimed vegetarian cooking show. You can view his personal film website at markarellano.com |
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Kent Richards
Web Programmer
After getting his BA in Computer Science at the University of Texas, Kent ran off to the woods to be an outdoor instructor—guiding whitewater rivers, instructing rock climbing and kayaking, and teaching environmental awareness. He has long been interested in sustainability and green architecture. Kent came to the Bay Area with the intention of getting a "real job", working in the nonprofit community, and getting involved in renewable energy. His technical skills carried him into one and a half years of assisting with database and IT support for The Management Center. Since then, Kent has been applying his technical experience as a freelance database and website developer to the nonprofit community, and is thrilled to be working with Conscious Creative. When he's not sitting at the computer, you'll find Kent back in the mountains. |
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Nova Brown
Senior Content Strategist
As a senior content strategist and copywriter, Nova has produced quality content for a wide variety of clients, assisting everyone from techies to foodies. For over ten years, she has developed strategic website content, promotional print copy, collateral systems, blogs, white papers, presentations, speeches and more for the likes of TiVo, Kinko's, Gallo Winery, Williams Sonoma, TuttiFoodie, Olivia Travel and Visa, among many clients and ad agencies. With a degree in Russian studies, Nova spent three years in St. Petersburg teaching English and composition and managing a restaurant before moving back home to the Bay Area to join the creative world. In the last two years, this child of Bay Area hippies chose to put her marketing powers to good use through helping companies that are working to make a difference in the world. Nova is dedicated to supporting and building local communities around art, writing, music, and food. |
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Emily Ortmans
Designer
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, and a recent Massachusetts transplant, Emily loves everything the Bay Area has to offer, from enjoying locally grown produce to hiking along the coast. After working as a designer for a small multimedia studio in Boston, she spent two years studying muscular therapy which helped in her role as a designer, allowing for a better balance in her work as well as providing an improved understanding for her clients' design needs. When spare time is found, Emily enjoys traveling to new places, cooking up new recipes, and attempting to learn to play the electric bass. |
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Darcel Walker
Audio Engineer
As the audio guru for Conscious Creative, Darcel ensures top quality audio on all of our film and video projects.
As an active musician, he has been playing bass around the Bay Area music scene for the past twenty years. Darcel studied at San Francisco's prestigious California Recording Insitute, where he specialized in audio engineering. With over eight hundred hours of studio session work under his belt, he has engineered audio for the majority of the projects in which he has participated. He is also a devoted animal-rights supporter, and has worked tirelessly to ensure the well-being of our animals and the planet on which we live. |
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Volker Rathke
Production Artist
In his previous work, Volker built and maintained international websites and applications for companies such as Macromedia and TTZ. Through his work he became more interested in the creative aspects and returned to school to study graphic design. Conscious Creative now offers him an exciting environment to apply his experience and to round out his graphic and web design education. Volker believes in a global community that is about social justice, ecological responsibility and peace. He values his sensitive approach to preserving the world around him and is excited to include these ideals in his vocation. Volker's inquisitiveness often takes him on short adventures discovering hidden gems of his surroundings and creative inspiration to look forward to. |
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