Gates Studio is an award-winning design firm offering complete creative design solutions:

• Branding and style guide design • Print and collateral design • Website design and development
• Portrait and product photography • Film/video creative and production

Valerie Gates and Barry Friedman offer the personalized attention and low overhead of a small studio, with the creative and business expertise that achieves results and wins awards for non-profits, major brands, small businesses and start-ups alike. We offer exceptional work at reasonable rates.

Creative Director Valerie Gates is an experienced Graphic Designer, Photographer and Film Director. She has photographed such personalities as Ronald Reagan, Magic Johnson, and Wayne Gretzky. As Art Director she has produced integrated print and web branding design for many Fortune 500, non-profit and start-up clients. As Creative Director/Film Director for national broadcast projects for CBS, ABC and Women’s Entertainment, and as the Art Director for CBS-Boston, Valerie has won EMMY, the CBS Eye-On-Excellence, and BDA, PROMAX and AFISONY National Directing awards.

Studio Director Barry Friedman has extensive experience throughout all phases of creative services development and production, producing a diverse range of creative projects with exceptional attention to detail for such companies as Sapient, Reebok, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Records and Motown.

Both are graduates of Brown University.

>> Valerie Gates / Creative Director

>> Barry Friedman / Studio Director

>> Telephone: 781.235.3480