Kelly Barkhurst Design

Kelly is irreplaceable! We would not have a successful Vermont business without her expertise in marketing and website design and administration It is so much better to have a single person handling this aspect of our business than a huge company We deal with Kelly only and love that! It really makes a huge difference

• Kristie and Todd Roling, Owners Design by Kelly Barkhurst, 2023 Firm: Barkhurst Creative, LLC Client: Stone Hill Inn, 2011 to Current Technologies Used: InDesign, Photoshop Design and printing of hospitality marketing brochures for top-rated U S Bed and Breakfast, Stone Hill Inn

Print design is one of the services provided to Stone Hill Inn as part of their integrated marketing package that includes web design, social media outreach, email marketing, and online advertising

Technologies Used: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

Defense Logistics Agency Website Redesign and Maintenance

3,078 webpages were assessed and redesigned in 18 months, reducing footprint to 887 pages Website redesign objectives were accomplished with guidance from DLA PAO and incorporating insight and experience from DLA Website Content Managers

Major Accomplishments:Improved Sitemap - reduced footprint by 71% without losing content; simplified folder structure and organization; centralizing access to apps, bios, brochures, events, and trainings; creation of catalogs of like information

Improved User Experience - Modernize design (look and feel of pages), including transition to full-width layouts; incorporate AFPIM modules; mobile friendliness improvements; user wayfinding enhancements: add breadcrumbs and secondary navigation (accordions), update global nav menu to include visual indicators for user navigation; standardize page styling: adjust font sizes and typographic hierarchy for readability and SEO; fix broken links Knowledge Transfer - Conducted brown bag trainings, developed user guides, checklists and documentation, created video how-tos

Web Developer/Designer & User Experience SME: Kelly Barkhurst, 2020 - Present Firms: Barkhurst Creative, LLC is a Teaming Partner with A3L Federal Works, the Prime Contractor for this DOD Government Contract Client: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) - Office of Public Affairs Technologies Used: American Forces Public Information Management System (AFPIMS), HTML, CSS, Javascript, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Google Analytics, Search gov, and Verint ForeSee

Listening for Racial Understanding Project

Kelly Barkhurst is the artist for Conversation #2 and a listening partipant in conversation #8

Listen/watch excerpts that inspired Kelly’s artwork: Conversation 2 Video Listen/watch Kelly and Sarah’s conversation captured in artwork by Khalil Burton: Conversation 8 Video Learn more about the project - Listening for Racial Understanding website Design by Kelly Barkhurst, 2022 Technologies Used: Illustrator

EX LIBRIS - WVU Libraries Magazine Fall 2022

Graphic design, layout, and print-ready file production for the West Virginia Libraries annual magazine

Design by Kelly Barkhurst, 2022 Firm: Barkhurst Creative, LLC Client: WVU Libraries Technologies Used: InDesign, PhotoShop

Family and Bible Games

A personal project, Granny Lou’s brand depicts the smiling likeness of Kelly Barkhurst’s grandmother Kelly is bringing to market the games her Granny Lou created for her as a child as a way to celebrate her grandmother’s love for family, games, and her faith legacy during her 100 years of life

Design and Art Direction by Kelly Barkhurst, 2021-22 Design and Illustration by Wes Casto, 2021-22 Firm: Barkhurst Creative, LLC Client: Granny Lou’s, a brand of Barkhurst Creative LLC Technology of Choice: Adobe Illustrator This custom-coded website is built with a flat-CMS backend, for client updating

Visit Myers and Co ’s website Explore the branding refresh component of this project

Design by Kelly Barkhurst, 2021-2022 Firm: Barkhurst Creative, LLC Client: Tri-State Machine Company Technologies Used: Statamic, Laravel Forge, Boostrap CSS, Digital Ocean, and Mail Gun For this project, I migrated brand assets and content from a legacy Drupal website to the client’s hosting service’s online site builder