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NEWS: JUNE 2008



Ruby Chacon: Web site

Jerman Design has re-designed the web site of Salt Lake City, artist Ruby Chacon.
A unique long horizontal layout was used to show her work in painting, drawing and murals, quickly, and without the need for thumbnail graphics.

Ms. Chacon is one of Utah's most awarded young artists, both for her artistic efforts, but also for her humanitarian work for Latina/o and Chicana/o causes. The Salt Lake Tribune recently named her one of the 25 most important people in the arts in Utah as well as naming her "Person of the year" in 2006.
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NEWS: DECEMBER 2007

Jerman Elevated: State of Utah Renews Contract.

The State of Utah has renewed it's graphic design contract with Jerman Design Incorporated for the fifth consecutive year.

Contract MC-1136 names graphic designers and studios that State agencies are pre-approved to purchase and solicit bids from. Steven R. "Steve" Jerman is of nine principal designers named. He is available to design projects ranging from simple to complex.

In the past four years Jerman has designed project for the the Folk Arts Council, Health Department, State History and Anthropology divisions and Workers Compensation among others.
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NEWS: AUGUST 2007

Collector's Abode: Designer fills his space with eccentricities, old and new

From In Utah This Week: Steve Jerman has been a name often dropped in the SLC scene over the past two decades. The graphic designer and all-around creative brain has designed such recognizable mainstays as the bestselling KRCL “Lion of Zion” T-shirt and the poster design for the Downtown Alliance’s Farmer’s Market.

Jerman’s Highland-area home holds as big a breadth of collectables as his expertise. To name a few, he’s worked in book design, merchandising and entrepreneurship (with clothing company Natty Threads and a gig making journals from old record covers), and has managed to gather hundreds of art pieces along the way.

Among some of his possessions: an original, 1940s print of the book On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess (worth about $150), a Grateful Dead themed painting Jerman commissioned from a college friend, and an autographed Evel Knievel poster. Each piece proves different from the next, making it hard to establish a theme at first throughout the collection. But Jerman has it figured out–frugality stands as his No. 1 decorating strategy.

“I never pay more than $100 for my personal art, and I usually find them in places like garage sales,” he said.

Other pieces in the home hold more sentimental than monetary value, such as the “World’s Greatest Father” statue his son gave him, an ancient Mac monitor he couldn’t bare to toss out and an art project he completed at the age of 9: a brown popsicle painted on a rock.

The house harbors as much character as the artifacts within. The kitchen holds its original ‘50s style with yellow walls, white cabinets and older appliances. The bathroom takes another step back in time, with teal tile on the walls and floor, and chrome hardware accompanying the white appliances. The rest of the rooms are simpler in furniture and color, letting the artwork do the decorating.

“It used to be an ‘old lady’ house. I took down lots of wallpaper and removed carpet,” Jerman explained.