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B&B Publishing is proud to announce that it has formed a partnership with Slammin Graphix, an innovative graphics design studio located in Los Angeles, California, to provide high quality print materials that coordinate fully with our website designs allowing our customers to present a consistent professional image to their customers. Slammin Graphix is owned and operated by Tonya Blackstone, a professional designer with over 15 years experience in the design industry. Learn more about Brandy Blackstone, the President and Founder of B&B Publishing, and Tonya Blackstone, the Owner and Creative Director of Slammin Graphix below.

Brandy Blackstone is the President and Founder of B&B Publishing, a full-service Web and Graphics design firm located in Lexington Park, Maryland. After successfully operating her own resource website, Maryland-Info.Com, for many years and assisting numerous businesses with designing and developing their own websites, Brandy recognized a need for affordable, quality web design services. This inspired her to create a web design branch of Maryland-Info.Com in 1997. The rapid growth of the newly created design division prompted Brandy to close the Maryland-Info.Com website to focus fully on the in-demand web design and support services. The name Maryland-Info.Com no longer fit the ever expanding design firm, so the name was changed to B&B Publishing. B&B Publishing specializes in custom-designed websites for small to medium-sized businesses and offers affordable web support services including domain name registration, website hosting and maintenance, SEO services and more.

Brandy is a Veteran of the U.S. Navy where she learned to work with a diverse group of people in a demanding work environment. As an Electrician's Mate during her four-year enlistment, Brandy received extensive training and gained valuable hands-on work experience in planning and installing electrical equipment and lighting systems, and maintaining and repairing multi-million dollar shipboard equipment. She also worked to earn high-level qualifications to represent her division in numerous shipboard inspections.

After her honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1990, Brandy worked in support of the Government for over five years. With Mantech Corporation in Lexington Park, Maryland, Brandy received numerous performance awards and promotions and honed her technical ability and attention to detail while performing quality assurance testing of the software applications developed by the governmental department she supported. Her extensive duties also included, technical writing in the development of user manuals and online help systems, copyediting in the review of government contracts and inter-department communications, editing and drawing technical schematics, database design and development, the design and creation of a technical library and more.

Brandy continuously draws on her extensive technical background and her eye for detail in her work as a web and graphic designer. She strives to keep her skills and abilities up to date and to offer her clients current web and marketing solutions. This goal has prompted Brandy to expand B&B Publishing to offer more extensive web/graphic design, support and marketing services including Logo Design, Flash Animation, E-Commerce solutions, Copyediting, Article Writing, Press Releases and more.

"At B&B Publishing, we find great satisfaction in interpreting our clients needs and helping them achieve their business goals. We strive to provide exceptional personal service, high quality web and marketing solutions and affordable rates. Our clients' success is our success." -Brandy Blackstone

Computer Skills ---PC

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator)
Macromedia MX Professional (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks)
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

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Tonya Blackstone is the Owner and Creative Director of Slammin Graphix, a full-service design studio that produces creative, distinctive designs for clients throughout the South, East and West Coasts. After being established in 1995, Slammin Graphix quickly gained a reputation as one of the best event-based graphic design studios in the industry. Now, Slammin Graphix has grown to include a unique skill set of marketing, copywriting and design on projects creating marketing strategy, ad campagns, magazine/publications, logos, brochures, press kits, invitations, posters, billboards, multi-media presentations, evites and websites. Tonya understands both the concept and design process and displays a full understanding of the marketing and technical production process to bring clients the best possible product.

Slammin Graphix works with a wide range of businesses with a specialty in entertainment graphic design. "We repeatedly exceed our client's expectations. Every design project is treated as a new challenge and we put our all into developing unique, creative designs to look great, but also meet our clients' marketing goals...whether it be to attend an event, buy a product or raise awareness. Our goal is to create a piece that people will want to keep." To Tonya, these characteristics mark the momentum of her company. "The greatest compliment is to hear words of appreciation from my clients and to watch their expressions as they see their ideas transformed into finished products - to me, that is instant gratification."

Tonya received a BA degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Advertising with a minor in Marketing from Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland which provides her with a keen understanding of both worlds. Her powerful combination of formal education and extensive hands-on working knowledge has allowed Tonya to work with an impressive list of high-profie clients including Mariah Carey, Macy Gray, Shaquille O'Neill, Eriq LaSalle, Artist Exposure, David E. Talbert, Target, Verizon Wireless, Tejano Magazine, Unleashed Magazine, Magic Johnson, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Chapelle Publishing, Denzel and Paulette Washington, Martin Lawrence, The Alma Awards on ABC, The Tejano Convention, Mariachi Spectacular, Tyler Perry and more.

Always accessible to her clients, Tonya has kept herself on top of her 'graphic game'. She has lived on both coasts in New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles which exposed her to a vast pool of creative inspiration. Slammin Graphix is currently operating in Los Angeles, California.

Computer Skills ---Mac

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
Quark Xpress
MS Office (Word, Powerpoint)

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