After a long career in the medical field, Laura now dedicates herself fully to abstract painting and her work is shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. Her catalog was released in 2020 and focuses on a 10 year period of work. 

The catalog is 8 1/2 x 10 1/4”, 48 pages with 37 color plates, white foil stamped cover, translucent flysheet, and a fold-out center spread. Printed in Los Angeles on digital and litho presses on Mohawk Superfine paperstock with eggshell and smooth finishes.

Creative direction and design Ellen Roebuck. Writing Laura Roebuck, Sue Braham Koletsky, Marialidia Marcotulli. Copy editor Matthew Gilbert. Photography The image Flow. Print Management Janet Klein.

All paintings Copyright © Laura Roebuck

Design of 5 symbols to represent each company value. Launch materials included custom notebooks, notecards, posters, t-shirts and water bottles. Wall Graphics placed throughout corporate headquarters teased at the upcoming launch.

Creative Director Ernesto Quinteros, Rick Stoeker. Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Hannah Cho. Copywriter Erika Leiser, Christopher Keough.

Packaging for a range of products, price points and retailers. Custom packaging for Apple exclusive premium car product and mid-range cables. New packaging directions secured Belkin the exclusive power brand spot in Apple stores worldwide. Mixit Metallic Cables and Chargers developed in colorways matched to Apple devices. Packaging exclusive for Target.

Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Rob Realmuto, Alvaro Pires. Package Engineer Eric Macdonald.

Conserve power products launched the smart home, internet of things category for Belkin and later became the WeMo brand. Package, pattern, and conserve symbol explorations shown as well as final retail packaging.

Creative Director Rick Stoeker. Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Juan Hernandez. Package Engineer Aaron Meneses, Pushpak Jain.

Catalog prepared for retailers to promote new Mixit product category for cables and chargers. Design direction and photography also used for retail store displays, corporate website and social media campaigns.

Art Director Ellen Roebuck, Rob Realmuto. Designer Brit Smith. Photographer Anna Goplen.

Visual communication and marketing services firm. Symbol based on Tajima japanese family crest and hub & spoke company organizational model.
Self Promotion projects prepared for select client group. Custom designed journal with felt drawstring bag included 40 personalized pages prepared by the Tajima team. The journal received Neenah’s Paperworks award, an American Graphic Design award, and was featured on the cover of GDUSA. Custom designed playing cards with box, and foil wrapped chocolate poker chips created for client holiday gifts. 

Creative Director Elaine Tajima, Gareth Walter. Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck.

Brand Refresh for WMFS, WaMu’s Financial Services Division. Updated design, photography direction, color palette and all collateral including brochures for bank branch customers and money management seminars.

Creative Director Elaine Tajima. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Komal Dedhia.

Wallpaper and Textile design proposed for corporate offices and bank branch interiors. Patterns based on extraction and interpretation of the WaMu logo.

All Designs Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

Interior wall graphics, custom displays, photo selection and color palette for WaMu Corporate Headquarters in Seattle. Wallcoverings designed in multiple colorways and sizes used throughout the 42 floors, incorporated the expanse of regional locations and the spirit of the brand.

Creative Director Elaine Tajima. Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Ximena Quijano. Photography David Hume Kennerly Collection. Elevation Callison.

Working closely with co-founder Tom Sandonato, we created a 6-panel, accordion fold brochure to introduce kitHAUS to the prefab housing market. Clear vinyl envelope with metal snaps custom made to house brochure and product spec sheets. 

Creative director Elaine Tajima and Tom Sandonato. Designer Ellen Roebuck. Company logo provided. Watercolor drawings Marcus Lui, architectural renderings Nolen Nui.

VenusGolf
Sports company dedicated to women’s golf, health and fitness. Debbie Steinbach, president and author of ‘Venus on the Fairway’.
Baywest Builders
Custom residential construction in Northern California.
Collective Design
Representing furniture and interior related companies to the design industry for 25 years.
CameoWorks
Venture Capital Investment firm and financial consulting.
Rita Rivest
Lifestyle coach, wellness practice, health and fitness studios.
Grow at Belkin
Corporate program providing opportunity for internal career growth.

Marketing materials for photo agency representing photographers shooting in entertainment, advertising and editorial. Promotional brochure and Select Magazine print ads shown.

Art Director Ellen Roebuck. Designer Ellen Roebuck, Allison Goodman. ‘MH’ logo designer PHd. Photography Mark Hanauer, The Douglas Brothers, Bonnie Schiffman.

Custom portfolio’s and slipcases designed to showcase the PinUp Project - digitally enhanced celebrity images inspired by vintage pinup photography. The collection was later published by Harper Collins in the book ‘Hollywood PinUps’. Faux fur, ultrasuede and glascine flysheets.

Art Direction Ellen Roebuck, Daniel Roebuck, Timothy White. Designer Ellen Roebuck. Photography of all celebrity images Timothy White.

Holiday and special occasion cards designed for Aardvark Letterpress, Syndicate Design division. Multiple designers contributed to the Aardvark card & stationery collection – letterpress printing by Aardvark, sold in retail stores throughout the U.S.

All Designs Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

My relationship with the company and the Ocon brothers has spanned more than 20 years and includes working with them for letterpress printing for many clients. We worked together to prepare preliminary design explorations for their own branding, packaging, and interiors. 

The brand explorations reflected the company’s 40+ years in business, with an approach that embraced the past yet felt modern and current. We also looked at simple ways to make their space more inviting for a steady stream of clients coming into their press room and offices.

Creative direction and design Ellen Roebuck – working from the companies original aardvark mark from 1968.

CD cover design, pattern and graphics for the album featuring the Dalai Lama. Worked in collaboration with new age music label owners Gil and Janet Friesen.

Design of posters for several museum shows and traveling exhibitions including the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art.

Creative Director Ethel Kessler. Designer Ellen Roebuck.

Corporate capabilities brochure and pocket folder with client services inserts. Blind embossed cover, elegant architectural photography and premium paperstocks offered a new direction for the company and elevated the brand.

Creative Director Ethel Kessler. Designer Ellen Roebuck. Photography Larry Olsen.

The Avis family hired Bonnie Schiffman Photography/Telling Stories to capture their family and new Montana weekend home. Provided concept direction, design, pacing, and photo selection for the project. Custom photo album included blind embossed leather cover, ultrasuede interior panels, custom printed vellum flysheets and pony hair slipcase.

Art direction and design Ellen Roebuck, Photography Bonnie Schiffman, Bookbinding A1 Bookbinding, photo prints A&I Photography.

My furniture company launched with a focus on ottomans and expanded to include benches, tables, cabinets and custom pieces. Metal fabrication and upholstery was produced locally in Los Angeles and sold nationally through retail stores, design showrooms, and direct to customers. 

Featured in Elle Decor, Interiors and Deco Magazine, and shown at ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York and the San Francisco Design & Furnishings Show.

Company launch, creative direction and design of all furniture Ellen Roebuck.

All furniture Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

Custom Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, and special occasion invitations and thank you notes. Personalized marks were created for many of the events. Letterpress and offset printing on fine art rag papers and commercial paperstocks.

All Designs Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

Prepared for various clients and personal projects – Back-to-School campaigns, Conserve products, New Years cards, and Wallpaper. 

All Patterns Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

Work in progress on a graphic art series. Fascinated by iconic breeze blocks and other architectural details found on residential houses and commercial buildings throughout California – I have been exploring and documenting them for years. This body of work references the original iconography and interprets through graphic play and expanded shapes and colors.

Digital prints are 20x24” on archival 100% cotton rag paper – signed artists proofs and numbered editions. Custom sizes are also available.

Prices on request. Please contact with any questions, to see more images, or order prints.

All Images Copyright © Ellen Roebuck

A photo art series using the iPhone app Shake-It. I love taking pictures with this app and have been doing that for more than ten years.  It mimics the old polaroid cameras with audio that sounds like the real thing – like the film is processing and coming out of the camera. And shaking your phone actually adjusts the image – the more you shake the more saturated the image becomes. 

Shake-It photos have been included in gallery shows throughout the U.S.

Digital photo prints are polaroid format – 3.5 x 4.25” centered on 8x8” paper. Larger format images are printed with no borders – 12 x 12” centered on 17x17” paper. Custom sizes also available, as well as diptych, triptych and multiple combo images on one print. Archival 100% cotton rag paper – signed artists proofs and numbered editions.

Prices on request. Please contact with any questions, to see more images, or order prints.

Website coming soon !

All images Copyright © Ellen Roebuck