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Andrew Van Fleet
DarningPixels, Inc.
Waterloo, Iowa

Leveraging his knowledge of web site development and graphic design, Andrew Van Fleet founded DarningPixels, Inc. in 2001 to bring useful, usable and desirable web sites to the Cedar Valley. Since then, he's landed clients in the Twin Cities, Birmingham, Chicago, and the local business community.

DarningPixels offers full service graphic design, with print, logo, multimedia, and web expertise. He caters to the small business community with his flexibility and willingness to create anything from a single design piece to an entire design package, including web sites, logos, business cards, letterheads, and multimedia presentations. Van Fleet graduated from UNI with a BA in Print Graphic Design and a minor in Business, and has years of experience in the industry.

"DarningPixels is a one stop graphic design shop for small to medium sized businesses. We possess the capabilities to build powerful brand recognition through creating all facets of graphic design materials for any business, while maintaining a competitive edge through our web site usability knowledge," said Andrew. "We have the experience it takes to fluctuate between the client who needs some hand-holding, to the ones that know exactly what they want."

Andrew has benefited from his tenancy in the UNI Regional Business Center Accelerator program. In addition to consulting from SBDC and SCORE counselors, he takes part in an array of workshops including Fast Trac and the entire Iowa Women's Enterprise Center technology workshop series. "These programs are amazing. They provide us with useful resources which helps us make the right business decisions" stated Andrew.

DarningPixels' philosophy on helping clients achieve their goals hinges on asking clients the right questions and translating their answers into a functional design. "The initial client meeting is actually an interview. It's the designers chance to get into the mind of the client. You have to, in order to get their vision out of their head and into a design," said Andrew.

Praba Manivasager, CEO of Renodis recently commented, "DarningPixels has helped us put together the web site and many other materials that we will use in our sales team. They've been instrumental in crisply presenting our capabilities to the outside world. With little direction, they come up with just the right stuff for us (we think they're psychic!)."

You can find DarningPixels on the web at www.darningpixels.com.