UrbanMartini is a collection of designers, copywriters, coders, developers and planners specifically hired for your project. We began in 2005 in New York City to meet the demands of advertising budget cuts. With our small staff and streamlined approach only are primary players are always staffed.

Creative Director/Owner: Andrea Dawson-Ellis
Education: Fashion Institute Of Technology – BFA Advertising Design

Andrea graduated from F.I.T. in New York City in 1997 and hit the ground running working immediately after graduation with DMB&B and other advertising giants like Foote, Cone & Belding, Grey and other smaller agencies like Green Team and FSA. She followed the path of an art director and climbed the ranks internally to Assistant Creative Director before beginning UrbanMartini. At these larger agencies she concentrated the Direct department which helped hone a great understanding of how to gain a specific customer base for clients, how to retain them and how to make them relevant to the viewer. She worked on clients like Norelco, OnStar, Papmers, Pitney Bowes and more.

Now she resides in Lake Placid where she was hired by AdWorkshop for as a freelance artist before restarting UrbanMartini. We began slowly with clients like Waters Edge Cottages in Long Lake and The Porcupine in Saranac Lake building brands and Flash Based Websites. Now we build most of our sites in a Powerful W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G editor called Word Press to maximize Search Engine Optimization and giving our clients the ability to control their own sites without the need to come to us with minor changes and updated to their websites. Although most of our clients only require interactive services we still continue to do brochures, corporate ID and letter head design, logos and almost anything your business might require right down to decorating your office.

All of our other players are hired on a per project basis, are all local or US based. This keeps our cost low so we can pass it on to you. We encourage our clients to remember good advertising is not cheap, but doesn’t have to be unaffordable. Hire the right team for your job and the money you spend will work for you.