We Believe:

Design facilitates social change.

Working with us should feel exciting!

Form always follows function.

Good design should create results.

Schedules and budget are real. And important.

Process & collaboration lead to solutions.

We Believe:

Design facilitates social change.

Working with us should feel exciting!

Form always follows function.

Good design should create results.

Schedules and budget are real. And important.

Process and collaboration lead to solutions.

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.

Conceptualize

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

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.

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

Irene Owens

Art Director

Jonathan Pieczynski

Web Developer

Susan Rosenblatt

Executive Assistant

Michelle Johnson

Graphic Designer

Ace Creative has worked with me on all design and development aspects of my program’s brand, print, and electronic materials including creating a website; designing html email templates and core brand collateral. I have received so much positive feedback on all the materials Ace has worked on for me. They have helped me create consistent and polished branding. The team at Ace Creative always responds to my requests and questions with patience and clarity, they are a true pleasure to work with.

Mollie Barnathan, Program Manager
Ministerial Leadership in Health Program,
T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University

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.

Jonathan Pieczynski
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.

Michelle Johnson
Graphic Designer

With a background as a traditional typesetter, Michelle has worked in a number of settings from large, in-house corporate art departments to smaller marketing and design firms. Her experience has allowed her to work on a variety of projects in the financial industry, health care, education, non-profits, and small business. She is a talented production designer, skilled in HTML and CSS, and savvy when it comes to anything that prints.

Leah Feeney
Graphic Designer

Leah Feeney has a degree in literature, a background in photography, and a degree in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She worked as an in-house designer for Boston University’s Metropolitan College for many years, and brings these many relevant skills along with strong conceptual work and expert project management to the Ace Creative team.

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.

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.