Contact
- Email:design@lealea.net
- Skype:lealeadesign
- Profile:http://zerp.ly/lealea
Biography
If you are a small business, non-profit, web service, a developer looking for a design hand, or a designer looking for an ExpressionEngine expert, I'm your gal.
This experience with branding, design, and the web is often shared at many conferences, festivals, and schools like:
+ Future of Web Design in New York City
+ SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX
+ FrontEnd Web Design Conference in Tampa, FL
+ EECI 2010 in San Francisco, CA
“Lealea” means happiness, joy, or pleasure in Hawaiian—let's make you and your clients happy, too!
Experience
Lealea Design
Creative Principal / Chief Hir
Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine, for an international roster of clients including non-profits, web apps, and small business.
She's been listed in blogs as:
+ one of the best women designers in the world
+ an amazing female role model for web designers
And has written for several publications, including:
+ A List Apart
+ .net magazine
+ Digital Web
and has been interviewed or written about in:
+ Applied Arts
+ The Austin Chronicle
+ Edmontonians Magazine
+ Entrepreneur.com
She's been listed in blogs as:
+ one of the best women designers in the world
+ an amazing female role model for web designers
And has written for several publications, including:
+ A List Apart
+ .net magazine
+ Digital Web
and has been interviewed or written about in:
+ Applied Arts
+ The Austin Chronicle
+ Edmontonians Magazine
+ Entrepreneur.com
EE Podcast
Host
Expert opinion and discussions on ExpressionEngine software, community, developers, designers, and trends. Co-hosted by the talented Emily Lewis.
Named one of the Top 10 Podcasts of 2011 by .net magazine awards: http://www.netmagazine.com/features/net-awards-2011-top-10-podcasts
Named one of the Top 10 Podcasts of 2011 by .net magazine awards: http://www.netmagazine.com/features/net-awards-2011-top-10-podcasts
Dates:
June 2010 - Present
Website:
Grant MacEwan University
Instructor
Interface Design classes to the masses
Dates:
January 2011 - Present
VOXCOM Security Systems
Print & New Media Specialist
Print and web design services. Developed and championed corporate brand guidelines; redesigned, coded, implemented and maintained company-wide intranet; designed national direct-mail campaigns, t-shirt designs, conference materials, posters, ads, brochures, and anything and everything in between.
Dates:
June 2003 - July 2005
Somnia Communications Inc
Design Intern
College internship. Refined company identity through re-design and implementation of company stationery and layout of proposal documents. Created website concepts. Also did miscellaneous graphic design work. Familiarized myself with the workings of a small company.
Dates:
April 2003 - April 2003
Education
Grant Macewan College
Dates:
2000 - 2003
Old Scona Academic
Dates:
1997 - 2000