Bluestar* is an independent creative studio that produces art, graphics, and web design for clients.

Our specialities include logo and identity design, branding, web marketing, cross-cultural design, and custom artwork (both fine art and illustration graphics).

Our passion is to produce outstanding, effective, and meaningful designs that speak directly to our clients' audiences. We love working with our clients to develop a visual voice to best represent their vision and objectives.

Contact Kristin Shardlow, M.F.A. about your graphic design, website, or custom artwork project and she will work with you to prepare a detailed project proposal and estimate.

contact*

kristin@helledesign.com // Kristin Shardlow, M.F.A., creative director

selected web portfolio*

Ace Hoops™ // website // A MSP-based non-profit using basketball to inspire youth around the world

Soft Chocolates™ // website // Minneapolis-based designer of tango-inspired apparel for women

Start My Own Clinic // website // The Trillium group provides full consulting support for pracitioners seeking to open their own practice

Stone's Throw Chateau // website // kick back, drop a line, wrangle a muskie

South Country Health Alliance // website // healthcare management for 14 Minnesota counties

Between 2: Tango as Interactive Design // mfa thesis project

Coffee ALTARrnative // msp guerilla art project (a co-production)

Passport to Adventure // flash | educational travel game (1.7MB .swf)

selected print portfolio*

From the Kitchen of Helen Rose Olson // cookbook

The medium is the message! // meandering artist book

Puerto Rico // Typographic politicsl

*STACHE // A rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the realm of the moustache

selected ink and watercolor portfolio*

One-Line Drawings // Featured on Kristin's artist page at mnartists.org