Meet the team.

Lisa has spent more than 30 years working across branding, print, digital, and environmental design. She founded Olive + Spark in 2012 to create a more collaborative and thoughtful way of working with clients.

Her strength is seeing how the pieces fit together—whether that's building a visual identity, bringing multiple brands into a cohesive system, or helping a complicated idea become easier to understand.

Lisa leads projects from concept through execution and brings a practical, organized approach to the creative process. She believes good communication and good design go hand in hand.

Deborah brings a strategic perspective to the Olive + Spark collective, helping connect brand decisions to broader marketing goals.

She works across brand strategy, positioning, and audience engagement, bringing together creative and practical thinking to help organizations communicate more clearly.

Her collaborative approach makes her a natural partner for projects that require both strong design and a clear strategic foundation.

Jennifer Arterbury is a thoughtful and experienced graphic designer with over 25 years of dedication to her craft. As a co-founder and leader of a design startup in Chicago, she spent nine years nurturing a team of 15 talented professionals, fostering creativity, collaboration, and shared success. After her time at Boom Design, Jennifer continued her journey as a freelance Creative Director, partnering with teams of strategists, marketers, programmers, writers, and designers across print, web, and interactive platforms.

Jennifer approaches every project with care, curiosity, and a deep appreciation for collaboration. Her recent work spans media-rich presentations, engaging web design, print materials, concept development, strategic planning, and team leadership. Jennifer's work has been featured in publications including Steven Heller's Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age and Neo Bohemia, Inc. Magazine and shown in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's centennial exhibition, Mixing Messages.

DJ works at the intersection of design and technology, helping turn creative ideas into digital experiences that work well in the real world.

With experience across web and design projects of different sizes and scopes, he brings both technical knowledge and a designer's perspective to the work.

Andrew helps bring websites from concept to reality, overseeing the structure, planning, and production that hold a digital project together.

His experience spans information architecture, project management, content management, and web production. He helps make sure the creative and technical sides of a project work together from start to finish.