We design for mission, meaning, and measurable impact.

Ace Creative helps education institutions and nonprofits communicate with clarity and confidence through strategic, design-led solutions. Our services include:

Branding & Identity

Brand strategy, visual brand guides, and systems that reflect your purpose and connect with your audience.

Web Design & Development

Clean, compelling, accessible websites built to tell your story, engage your audience, and grow with your organization for years to come.

Print & Digital Design

From viewbooks and annual reports to event materials and infographics, we bring your work to life in print, online, and throughout your physical spaces.

Content & Communictaions Strategy

We help clarify your goals and audience, then guide you in choosing the most effective design approaches to make the most impact with your brand.

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Trusted by some of the top institutions and organizations in the world, our work leads major brand initiatives and creates concepts and visual strategies that transform and reinvent institutions, programs, centers, and events.

Meet The Team:

Ashley Lazonick Harding

Principal

Ashley Lazonick Harding holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Upon graduating she was hired as an in-house designer at Harvard University for the Kennedy School of Government. The intersection of academics, politics, policy, and design felt invigorating and fulfilling. In 2006 Ashley embarked on her journey as an entrepreneur founding Ace Creative with a mission to work with institutions and organizations that educate and serve the greater-good. She further honed in on this mission in 2012 while completing a “mini MBA” through Interise, a program developed by Boston University.

Irene Owens

Art Director

Irene Owens graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Her dedication to her craft was immediately recognized by a boutique design studio in Hackensack New Jersey where she would manage and design high-end projects for the area’s top hospitals, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Rutgers University and many others for over 13 years. In 2014 Irene joined Ace Creative where her passion for innovative design, impeccable typography skills, and meticulous management have led to some of Ace Creative’s most influential design initiatives.

Jonathan Pieczynski

Senior Web Developer

After graduating with a degree focused on electronic media production, Jonathan worked in the broadcasting industry’s creative services department for the first seven years of his career. Managing websites, apps, email marketing, and video editing were his daily tasks. In 2016, Jonathan joined Indiana University as a web developer helping with the redesign and implementation of department websites. His experience extended into an understanding of marketing for higher education. Jonathan brings over a decade of WordPress and digital marketing experience to the Ace Creative team.

Susan Rosenblatt

Executive Assistant

Susan has honed her administrative and management skills in the nonprofit world for 17 years with experiences at The Progeria Research Foundation and Challenge Unlimited at Ironstone Farm. She brings diverse problem solving, technical, and financial skills to help foster growth with the Ace Creative team. Susan holds a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University.

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We are so grateful to have chosen Ace Creative as our partner for designing, developing, and maintaining our new websites. The Ace Creative team is strategic, organized, and very skilled. They were able to create a clear and streamlined website to showcase our complex work. They truly listen to us and understand our needs and challenges as a large academic and non-profit institution. We highly recommend this team!

Kyra Sanborn, Senior Advancement Officer and Laura Johnston, Administrative Director

Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School

a

Absorb

Our first job is to listen, confirm, and take it all in. We want to fully understand who you are, who your audience is, the challenges and goals, in order to strategize meaningful solutions.

c

Conceptualize

We develop strategy and concepts to speak directly to your goals. We have fun and dig deep in a collaborative environment. It’s through this process that we develop strong and targeted brands with design solutions that deliver results.

e

Execute

We are known for transparent pricing, detailed scheduling, highly experienced designers, and skilled production experts. We keep an eye on logistics at all times. We know what it takes to bring a concept to product with ease and excitement.

We Believe:

In a goal-focused, solution-based creative process that drives change.

Working with us should feel energizing and exciting!

Great brand designers always look out for the integrity of the brand.

Great design should be accessible and create results.

Strong deliverables need strong operations and systems.

Feedback and collaboration stengthen design outcomes.

Ace Creative is a Proud Woman-Owned Business Enterprise

Together, Irene and Ashley bring over 30 years of combined experience to each and every project. Their partnership in graphic design began in 1998 at the Rhode Island School of Design and continues to this day where they enjoy collaborating daily to create brands and design that excite and reinvent organizations, institutions, events, and campaigns.