What Clients are Saying
I have worked with some awesome people and the fact that my client base are mostly women, just makes my job even more special. From therapists and yoga instructors to coaches and professionals in the wellness field, these women are on a mission. And they are surely making a difference in the world. Bringing beauty to their business and helping it grow through design is my gift to them. Working alongside these badass ladies really means the world to me. And their kind words not only make me smile, they light up my soul. It tells me I’m right where I need to be and this was what I was born to do.
I feel so grateful to have found Melissa, after interviewing several website designers to work with. Having never built my own site before, I was a little nervous going into it and wondering how smooth the process would be. Her calm and expertise guided me all along the way. Not only was it not stressful....it was creative and FUN! And she patiently taught me how to maneuver edits going forward. Our websites are a key tool in our work and I very proudly display mine thanks to Melissa/Gray Star Design!
~Melissa Harris, Wyshbone Wellness
I love working with Melissa for all of my graphic needs. She is a total pro! Always a fast turn around time, always keeps her word and is full of great ideas that most of the time I never would of thought on my own. I really feel like the kind of care and skill that Melissa puts into every project is rare. I am so grateful I found her!
~ Terri Cole, Licensed Psychotherapist, Transformation Coach, and Mentor
Working with Melissa was amazing! After interviewing a couple of website designers, Melissa gave me the confidence to more forward. I Had a couple of ideas and she converted them into reality using her many creativity and design skills. From day #1 she was very communicative and honest, I liked this about her. I really liked working together and will keep in contact for future projects. If you are looking to have your logo and website created this is the woman that will help to make dreams come true. I recommend her 100% Phenomenal results!!
~ Stephany Lugo, Yoga and Women’s Wellness Coach
Words don't even do justice how instrumental Melissa has been and is in my business. But I will try. She is part branding guru, meets design doula, birthing the most gorgeous images for me and my business. She takes my ideas and my words and turns them into gorgeous visual masterpieces for my clients to truly FEEL the words. My business has begun to feel like me. My business is my soul business and up until I met Melissa it didn't feel like me. She totally re-designed my website, does all my images for my quotes, takes my newsletters and turns them into magic, and does the most amazing design for my retreats and events. Not only is the design amazing but the paper and packing too.
~ Christine Gutierrez, Licensed Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Author, and Speaker
Melissa is a talented graphic designer who understands the complexity of creating a brand. She has creatively transformed my brand image to complement my business and personality. Her work ethic is stellar - she listens and delivers everything in a timely matter! She is the best!
~ Patti Green, Wellness and Lifestyle Coach
I love working with Melissa! She is magic! She works quickly and efficiently and always produces something that blows me away! Grateful to have found her!
~ Malaine Leah Butler, Wealth Mindset Coach
Working with Melissa was a blessing. She is very knowledgeable, creative and detail oriented. She is also very dedicated to her work, and has great ideas to make your project as perfect as possible. Hiring Melissa to work on my website was a true investment and I am beyond happy with the work she did. If you need someone to create or upgrade your website and logo, Melissa is the person to call. Thank you, Melissa!
~ Margaret Lajara-Ruiz, Yoga/Meditation teacher + Reiki + Breathwork Facilitator
“I have known Melissa for over a decade now, both professionally and personally. I met her in 2007 when I interviewed her for the graphic designer position for my company, Petite Picasso. She was kind, courteous and a breath of fresh air. I hired her immediately and ever since that day she has been nothing less than diligent, responsible, available, detail-oriented, and professional. Besides working with Melissa professionally, she has also become a wonderful and caring friend, always willing to help me out in a pinch. She has become so much more to my family and I than the graphic designer for my company. I would not hesitate for a moment to sing Melissa‘s praises both professionally and personally. She is a wonderful colleague, friend, wife and mother, daughter, granddaughter. An added bonus is that she also happens to be a very talented graphic designer! Melissa has my highest recommendations.”
~ Donna Gryboski, Founder of Petite Picasso
It was a true pleasure to have Melissa design my website. I knew that I wanted something that was truly me, but had no idea how to create it. Melissa put together a beautiful reflection of me, my brand and values. I felt extremely comfortable with Melissa, and found her to be respectful on my decisions and input. She had great communication skills, hit my deadline and always answered my questions sooner than expected. I absolutely love my website, more than what I thought was possible. It looks very clean, professional and is easy to navigate. She turned my vision into reality. I would definitely recommend her work to anyone looking to take their vision to the next level!
~ Rachel Ackley, Yoga + Breathwork Instructor
I could not have been more blessed to have such an experienced VA like Melissa assist me in birthing my website for my soul-aligned business. She made this the most amazing experience and made sure that the website reflected my uniqueness and the soothing vibration I wanted to send out. Melissa is reliable, her advice effective, and her promptness invaluable. Her work has been a game-changer for my business, and I will be forever grateful.
~ Mario Brito, Women’s Empowerment Coach
Melissa (Gray Star Design) is awesome!! She has been easy to work with, professional and really efficient and creative in taking my ideas and putting them into marketing materials that are classic and appealing. Her response time is a relief, the prices are fair and her sense of humor and down to earth collaboration is a God-send. I look forward to continuing to work with her and would recommend her to anyone!
~ Kerry Shay, MA LPC
My productivity got off the ground when I was introduced to Melissa! Finally, someone who could deliver my ideas graphically and still it felt like me! Finding your soulmate graphic designer isn’t easy but I feel like I have!
Melissa has been timely, responsive, and organized despite the 6-hour time difference between us. We’ve never met in person, yet I can feel her caring and grounded personality through our communications. I value that deeply.
Here are a few of her talents: mastered my book layout that I struggled with for a few years- which led to a finished product available for purchasing, prepared files for printing and set up in Lulu.com for me, created a website + branding package that fits me like a glove, (She may not know this one!) made me believe in myself as a brand in itself- that thought hadn’t crossed my mind! I plan to work with her for everything from now on! Cannot recommend her highly enough!
~ Noreen O’Sullivan, teacher, eft tapping expert, and author
I came to Melissa in a pinch a few years ago and she whipped up exactly what I needed in a flash. She has been my go-to designer ever since. Her skill, speed, and professionalism are exceptional. It is amazing to work with a designer who opens herself up the client’s vision and then brings her own incredible artistry and marketing insight to the table to render beatiful final designs. In addition to all of this, Melissa is really a joy to work with. She is kind, patient and generous - it’s like working with a good friend. I volunteer as a Marketing Director of a local non-profit and my partnership with Melissa has increased the efficiency and impact of the work I do for that organization immensely.
~ Kate Tofig, Marketing Director/Salesian Elementary
I’ve been so impressed by working with Melissa from Gray Star Design. She did an awesome refresh of my website and branding. She took the time to listen, took my likes and dislikes to heart and created beautiful images and website that felt very much aligned with me. She was also incredibly timely and delivered everything super promptly. I highly recommend her!!
~ Kate Snowise, Psychologist & Coach
I am grateful to have been connected with Melissa to work together on developing my first website. Technology is not my strongest suit, and Melissa was there to guide me throughout the process, answering any questions I had. She has an intuitive creative eye, and I felt very much on the same page in terms of vision. I appreciated her insight and suggestions, while still honoring my ideas and desires for the site. She had excellent communication throughout which made the process easy for me to follow. I would recommend Melissa to anyone who is looking for a creative designer to work with. I could not be happier with how the website turned out!
~ Caitlin deLahunta, Yoga Teacher
As a small family run company, we were “behind the times” with our old website. Too busy and out of the loop to even begin to update, Melissa offered her services and provided examples of her work to back up her promise! She walked us through each step, providing us with the knowledge we’d been lacking to back up and update our current website. She did a complete overhaul, creating our vision and providing guidance and insight throughout, leaving us with a finished product better than we had even dreamed. We cannot begin to thank Melissa for the amazing work she did on our website. We could never have imagined it would have looked so incredible and function so well. We highly recommend Melissa for the quality and professionalism that we experienced every step of way!
~ Laura Miller, Owner/The Little People’s Center
Working with Melissa was an absolute dream! She just got it, from the word go. She translated my brief and vision into exactly what I wanted, and more, I love my website! Even though I am based in London, I was a bit nervous working with someone based in NY but Melissa was quick, approachable, friendly, & super helpful with any questions I had - and I had many! I will work her again and I highly recommend collaborating with Melissa.
~ Twanine Gabellone, Yoga Instructor
THE BEST!!! Melissa is simply amazing. Attentive, quick, creative, efficient, organized...I cannot say enough about how pleased I am working with her. She is truly a professional, no- nonsense, honest, up-front and ridiculously talented!
~ Andrea Vallely, founder of Spread Happy/Shift Happens
Working with Melissa was such a pleasure. The website she designed was exactly what I envisioned for for my business. She took the time to Understand my goals, get to know me and my business, and was so kind and professional to work with. No matter how many edits I sent back, questions that I had, she answered everything with grace and efficiency. I highly recommend using her for your design needs!
~ Rebeca Cypher, Founder/Musical Journeys
As a new business owner, I found my experience with Melissa to be welcoming, friendly and very professional.I was blown away by the end result and how everything looks. I really appreciate her taking the necessary time to explain each step of the process to me. Throughout my project, she remained very professional and expedient in her turn-around time for completion. Not only was working with Melissa great, but she was an excellent example to any entrepreneur of how a great company should be run. I highly recommend Melissa for all your business projects and needs!
~ Kati Wasserman, Flagstaff Skincare
Hands DOWN, Gray Star Design provides experienced design services for a variety of projects. You will immediately find a wealth of creative energy when you interact with Melissa. Melissa's work is original but client driven. I've always been able to collaborate and talk thru my design ideas with her for my brand. Gray Star's deliverables have grown my brand immensely, and I've always felt that they have my brands best interest in mind every time we work on a project. I've run into a lot of design houses lately that re-spin logo templates for their clients and call it a day. That is NOT what you will find here. I highly and strongly recommend Gray Star for your next project.
~ Rachel Steele, Dottie M. Designs
Melissa is a branding and marketing genius. She has helped me develop my brand literally from the ground up. She has a simple yet edgy style that allows her to streamline ideas into a beautiful finished product. I am so grateful for the work she has done to help me launch a business that grows more successful by the day!
~ Elizabeth Spohr-Russinko, Handlettered Artist and Owner of This (Un)Scripted Life
I am so glad that I decided to work with Melissa on my card project for my business. I had vetted 4 other designers/card-makers, and Melissa was by far the most responsive, warm, fairly-priced, and invested in my project. As soon as we started working together, I felt confident I had made the right choice. She works quickly, collaboratively, and her work is beautiful. I couldn't believe how fast we were able to get this done. I had anticipated 3-4 weeks and within a week I already have the printed cards. I couldn't be happier with her work and look forward to finding other projects to work with Melissa on in the future!
~ Kimberly Davis, Onstage Leadership