Our work

Rachel V. Tess

A website showcasing choreographer and dancer Rachel Tess, based in Stockholm, Swededn; and Portland, OR.

Business cards for Matt

A simple set of business cards, designed by Sublime Point, printed by Two Thousand Pounds of Letterpress.

The I Don't Understand Movie

Promotional website for the new documentary, The I Don't Understand Movie, a look at one man's experience growing up Egyptian-American. Built with HTML and CSS.

Rumpus Room Dance

Informational site about the internationally known dance company Rumpus Room Dance.

Yellow Hawk Cellar Wine Club Select Label

Wine label designed by Sublime Point Design and printed by Two Thousand Pounds of Letterpress.

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Our Services

Research and Discovery

Still in the planning stages? Just getting off the ground? We can help you research your user base and create the perfect site. We start by understanding your target audience in depth, creating personas to drive our design and development. We can then move on to wireframing and user testing, getting on-the-ground feedback from your potential clients.

Development

At Sublime Point Design, we are full stack developers. Any language, any database, any tool. This means we aren't pigeonholed into one framework, but can select the perfect tool for your unique project.

Design

We pride ourselves in elegant, responsive design, meant to make the user's life easy. We'll work with you from beginning to end to ensure your site meets your high standards of excellence. Need graphic design to complement that new website? We can help with that as well, even offering high quality printing through our sister company Two Thousand Pounds of Letterpress.

Resume

Principal Designer

Murray Sampson

Education

B.F.A. with honors Multimedia Design, University of Oregon 2005 Studied web and graphic design, photography, computer programming, and digital audio and video

M.L.I.S. University of Washington 2011 Studied information architecture, design, web development, and data visualization

Experience

Freelance designer 2003-2007

Logo design for Tweak’t Gaming
Brochure design for freelance movie producers

Sublime Point Design 2007-2012

Developed promotional sites for Rumpus Room Dance, Foundry Vineyards, filmmakers, and authors, often including dynamic contact forms and custom Wordpress templates
Developed an online dating platform

Walla Walla Foundry, Webmaster, 2007-2008

Website maintenance and updates of The Foundry Website
Design of new pages, including Current Projects
Digital art including 3D scanning and modeling
Photographic and video documentation of work process and finished work.

Principal Developer

Justin George

Experience

Principal Technical Architect at AT&T (2011-Present)

Internal tools and application development with the Silver Lining cloud deployment team

Senior Software Engineer at New Relic (2009-2011) (http://www.newrelic.com/)

Maintainer and lead developer of the New Relic Ruby Agent (http://www.github.com/newrelic/rpm)
Managed release schedules, feature priorities, and compatibility, including coordination with the other agent developers and the open source community
Tested on every major ruby platform, app server, and database driver
Led support and community including direct interface with internal users, open source contributors, and customers
Active development of new features and support for new libraries, as well as contributing to open source projects
Refactoring major portions of the codebase, tests, and instrumentation.
Mentored developers in the use of agile practices, Ruby, TDD, Cucumber/Selenium, and Git.
Advocated positive process change and championed quality software engineering practices.

Agilist at Revelation Global (2008-2009) (http://www.revelationglobal.com/)

Was instrumental in a sitewide rebuild, refactored legacy code, increased spec coverage, implemented code quality tools and automated website testing (selenium), worked on scaling and efficiency, monkey-patched everything under the sun, troubleshooting of complicated usage of Git, participated in and helped shape development practices, worked with Merb and Rubinius alongside a now-core Merb developer, deleted large swathes of bad code

Lead Ruby Developer at Intrigo (2008) (http://www.wirehire.com/ and http://www.ugreekrow.com/ )

Led development and architecture on several medium-sized projects, implemented use of Git and Github,improved development practices and project management towards an Agile approach, taught other developers Ruby and the Rails stack and introduced Postgres as a replacement for MySQL.

Associate Designer

Juliette Oliva

Education
B.A in Graphic Design from Portland State University.
Studied web and graphic design, marketing.

Special Interests
2010 Web Retailer's Design & Usability Design Conference attendee
2012 Internet Retailer Mobile Marketing & Commerce Forum attendee

Experience

Southern States Cooperative 2011-Present

Web design, marketing, and site maintenance

LaDifference, Inc., 2008-2011

In house graphic design & director, webmaster, an marketing liaison

Loti Corporation 2007-2008

In house design, rebranding, marketing & research

Select clients, 2004-Present

Selected Clients, 2004-Present
Cardinal IHDC, Tampa, FL
Taradel, Richmond, VA
Citizens Market (non-profit), Washington, DC
Energy Works, Richmond, VA
Better Afters, Centreville, VA
PSU Theater Department, Portland, OR
The Avatar's Lair, Hillsboro, OR
Goose Hollow Gardens, Portland, OR
Cardinal IHDC, VA, FL
AFLA Political Action Committee, OR
Lake Oswego Fire Department, OR
Citizen’s Market/Fosfo, MA, DC

Content Creator

Joseph Streckert

Experience

Regular contributor to the Portland Mercury
Former contributor to the Daily Journal of Commerce blog
Former local content provider for MetromixPDX
Former contributor to Not for Tourists
Former contributor to Chronicles of the Nerds
Former contributor to Nerve

Select Publications

About Face Magazine: Sprint 2011 Downtown and NE Broadway district news
Chronicles of the Nerds: Sucker Punch Review
Not for Tourists: Beer Town, USA
Nerve.com: Talking to Strangers in Los Angeles, CA
Nerve.com: Talking to Strangers at Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon
The Hired Tongue: Being a Description of an English Teacher’s Time in Japan
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Inefficient Units of Currency