About Yulan Studio
Lisa Holmes
Principal
Yulan Studio, Inc.
Lisa Holmes – a co-founder of Yulan Studio, Inc. – brought extensive experience in all aspects of communications design to the firm. And as majority owner and president of Yulan Studio, Lisa has managed the firm’s work on projects that span a broad spectrum of the marketing communications field.
Lisa has been instrumental in building the firm’s operational base in the Greater Kansas City region, as well as gaining and cultivating proactive relationships with clients from New York to Los Angeles. Her emphasis on high quality graphic design work and efficient, client-focused services has enabled the firm to grow in revenues each year of its operations.
Additionally, Lisa’s versatility and ability to provide effective graphic design services in a broad range of media – from print to electronic to signage to display – allows Yulan Studio to provide its clients with a flexible approach to marketing communications program planning.
Prior to launching Yulan Studio, Lisa held management and art direction positions for HNTB Corporation, as well as running her own freelance graphic design company for six years.
While at HNTB, she served as the firm’s corporate art director. In this role, Lisa was in charge of the firm's corporate graphic standards, and she oversaw all graphic design work within the firm's corporate marketing department. Lisa also was a co-founder of HNTB’s New Media Group, where she served as the manager of new media design and programming services. As such, Lisa was responsible for all graphic design and interactivity programming for multimedia CD-ROMs, kiosks, web sites and supporting print materials created for HNTB and its clients.
As a freelance designer, Lisa provided art direction, design and multimedia development services for a wide variety of clients. Her work included corporate identity and logo design, the design of consumer packaging, trade show exhibits, brochures, signage and magazines, as well as the design and development of interactive multimedia kiosks.
Lisa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design from the Kansas City Art Institute.