Telling your story, beautifully.
Alosa Communications provides comprehensive creative support for small businesses, non-profits, and cultural institutions. From Squarespace website design to copywriting, photography, and design, we create beautiful tools that support your unique branding, goals, messaging, and audience.
Services
At Alosa, we develop a comprehensive creative package for your entire online footprint that reflects your brand, your business and your goals. We’ll help you build your web presence with an up-to-date website, beautiful images, a well-designed logo, engaging copy and ongoing communications outreach. We also specialize in interpretive materials for cultural institutions and organizations, providing interpretive research, copywriting, design and signage.
Services & Process
process
At Alosa, our process is built around client needs and feedback. Our initial meeting helps us determine your goals and provide the best customized solution. We then create a structured, transparent proposal that fully details each step of the project and what you can expect us to provide. Once underway, our projects rely on creative collaboration between each client and the Alosa team, with multiple opportunities for review and revision. Throughout, your input is critical to our work and to ensuring our work aligns with your expectations and wishes.
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Squarespace website design
Logos & web branding
Digital & print flyers and promotions
Merchandising, letterheads and business card design
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graphic design
photography
videography
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website copy development
e-news (constant contact, Mailchimp)
non-profit appeals & member materials
press releases & artist statements
blog writing and content creation
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Facebook and Instagram branding
Social media campaigns
Social media communication plans
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Alosa has developed a wide slate of interpretive tools for different organizations, non-profits and regional agencies. With expertise in research, copywriting, tour development, docent training, scriptwriting, and exhibit development, we support clients with storytelling that is accessible and engaging for general audiences.
Full portfolio here
“I worked with Kate on my artist statement. She is quite extraordinary. She listened and truly studied my work and paid attention to every detail. I felt like her most important client and could not have been happier with the final product. Whatever your project may be Kate will make it shine.”
Portfolio
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about
Started in 2018, Alosa Communications is run by a creative team with years of editorial experience in communications and writing. Kate is an award winning writer, web designer and historian, Caroline is a photographer and videographer. As freelancers, we’ve worked for magazines and non-profits throughout the Chesapeake region. As passionate and invested Marylanders, we believe in bringing that skillset to the communities we love.
Together, we cover a broad range of professional communications expertise needed to make your digital story shine— website design, writing, editing, photography, videography, graphic design, and illustration. We know how to write for the web, how to select the right platforms to get your message to your target audiences, and how to craft the voice and format of your content to make it engaging and effective.
Based in Chestertown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, we’re proud to have a Chesapeake focus, and the businesses and clients we’ve worked with reflect our commitment to serving local artists, non-profits and small businesses.
Creative Team
KATE LIVIE, ALOSA FOUNDER & HEAD CREATIVE
Kate is an award-winning writer, blogger, photographer, and former museum curator who has written extensively for print, digital and social media. A Chesapeake historian, oyster expert and and proud Eastern Shore native, Kate created Alosa Communications in order to bring her professional passions for writing, photography and design to the community she loves. www.katelivie.com
caroline J. Phillips, photography& Videography
Caroline is a local photographer and filmmaker. Inspired by the colors and landscape of the Eastern Shore, she loves communicating regional stories through photos and video. www.carolinejphillips.com
What’s an Alosa?
Alosa sapidissima is the latin name for the American shad, a species native to the rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Every spring, millions of these fish return to their natal Bay rivers in order to spawn. Like our namesake, the Alosa team is made up of Chesapeake natives, creating new ideas in the places we were born.
