Susanne Arens

President | Art Director | Public Information Manager | Photographer | Fine Artist | College Instructor | Executive Director of the Pikes Peak Studio Tour | Judge for the Space Foundation – Space Symposium Art Contest | Writer

Susanne started her advertising agency, Crystal Peak Design March of 1986. Her agency provides advertising and marketing services. Combining their creative vision with the unique goals of each client, Crystal Peak produces quality, results-driven marketing activities – on time and within budget. Crystal Peak Design works with clients across the country, as well as internationally.

Crystal Peak Design has a comprehensive staff of talented designers, programmers and photographers, as well as an extended team of writers, producers and editors. Susanne is the President and Art Director.

Susanne has extensive experience developing marketing plans, development of marketing collateral and handling deployment.

In addition to running her agency, she is also an Instructor at one of our local colleges where she teaches what she does and has been a guest speakers at area colleges and high schools for the past 10 years.

Susanne has volunteered as the Logistics Chair for the American Heart Association of the Pikes Peak Region as well as the Chair for the Graphics Committee and Co-Chair of the Raffle Committee. She participated in and volunteered as the Chair of the Multi Media and Graphics Department at the Pikes Peak Community College for the past 15 years. Susanne is also a board member for a local non-profit called Springs Recovery Connection.

Susanne and her agency has also been honored and recognized by local, regional, National and International awards over the past 30 years.

Works with Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as Lockheed Martin as well as a number of government agencies and international companies such as the Space Foundation as well as local companies.

Susanne Arens – Professional Public Speaker

Susanne has been providing award-winning marketing and graphic services nationwide for over 32 years. As a professional speaker she shares her vast range of experience with her audience.  Topics include; Defining your company brand. Determining the best method for reaching your target audience. Marketing; Traditional, Guerrilla and Online.

The various organizations include:

• Business Networking Groups

• Associations

• Colleges

• High Schools

Susanne Arens – Fine Artist

Born in Minnesota, Susanne has been an award-winning artist since her childhood. Her artist talents include using the mediums, inks, acrylics, watercolor, color pencil, scratchboard, stain glass, photography and digital art.

Click here to view some of Susanne’s work-of-art.

Lourn Eidal

Assistant Art Director/PIO

In 1995, Lourn joined the team at Crystal Peak Design. In his time working for Crystal Peak, he has gained experience in skills ranging from traditional film stripping and paste-up production art to the digital means of design, pre-press, digital illustration and conceptual art, photo touch-up and compositing, video production and editing, web site design and social media work.

As Assistant Art Director, Lourn has overseen work on projects that include logo design, corporate identity, brochures/marketing materials, direct mailers, book layout, web sites, product packaging/labeling, tradeshow booth graphics, and concept illustrations.

He graduated with honors from Alexandria Technical College in Alexandria, MN in 1991.

Lourn volunteered to serve as a judge for the 2012, 2013, and 2014 Space Foundation International Student Art Contest. In 2014, young artists were selected for awards from among more than 7,100 entries representing 54 countries, including 43 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation is the foremost advocate for all sectors of space, and is a global, nonprofit leader in space awareness activities, educational programs and major industry events. He also served as a judge for a student art exhibition for the 9 participating schools in the Black Forest League, held in the Louisa Performing Arts Center at the Colorado Springs School.

Lourn has created or collaborated on projects that have received various prestigious awards including the Communicator Award, the Addy Award, the Summit Award, the Hermes Award and The PIA Award.

Linda Howe

Print Specialist

Linda has been part of the Crystal Peak Team for over 34 years. She has an extensive background in printing and is knowledgable about printing methods, inks, paper, die cutting, folding techniques and more. Not only does Linda provide our clients with wonderful customer service, her background in printing ensures our clients projects will be executed correctly at the printers, by over the printing process.

Experience

DeLin & Associates
President
Jul 1995 – Present
Print management of companies that do multiple printing projects.

KPB Commercial Printing
Outside sales consultant
KPB Printing
1995 – Present

Addressograph Multigraph Corp.
Printing Sales/Customer Service
1970 – 1976
First woman to attend the national sales school in printing

Amanda Sullivan

Web Programmer
Amanda graduated from UCLA and has been working in web development/design for the past 28 years, 26 of those years with Crystal Peak. Amanda is skilled is writing custom HTML, Java, Pearl, developing shopping carts and building CMS platform web sites.
 
She is a valuable part of the team. Amanda has a wonderful talent for trouble shooting some of the most difficult web sites to determine the best method for moving forward. She has a eye for details and a means for making our clients requests a reality. Amanda is dedicated to her craft and works tirelessly to resolve our clients issues and concerns.

Peter Strand

Web Programmer

Peter has been working with Crystal Peak Design since 2006 primarily in Web Development. After a 30 year career in Ballet and Dance with companies across the United States and the world, he has settled down in his home town Colorado Springs with his new career in Multimedia Design. In addition to working for Crystal Peak, Peter is also the Chair of the Multi-Media & Graphic Design Department and an Instructor at Pikes Peak Community College.

He has worked in the Front Range metro area focusing on marketing for Professional dance companies including David Taylor Dance Theatre, Zikr Dance Ensemble, Ballet Ariel, Dawson Wallace Dance Project, Colorado Springs Dance Theatre and Ballet Wyoming. He has also been an instructor at Pikes Peak Community College for over 11 years and is now department chair for Multimedia Graphic Design.

Peter has collaborated on over 50 web sites with Crystal Peak and is honored to be part of the team.

Meghan Turner-Patel

Creative Writer

Meghan Turner-Patel joined the Crystal Peak team in 2017, bringing with her more than 10 years’ experience in marketing and branding. In that time, she has helped launch, fine-tune and grow countless brands.

Her expertise includes content strategy and content creation for websites, social media, email marketing, advertising and print. Her extensive writing skills include SEO copywriting and blogging, and she is a published writer in local and national magazines.

For every Crystal Peak client, Meghan delivers creative, strategic content that exemplifies the brand’s vision and values, while also engaging and delighting its audience.

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