Our Team

Principal

Leslie Tane founded Leslie Tane Design in 1996 after working at Random House Publishing in New York and Impress, Inc. in Northampton, MA. After two years in the New York area, Leslie relocated the business to Easthampton, Massachusetts where it remains today. Along with a busy design career, Leslie also taught design at The Katharine Gibbs School in Boston and Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, MA. Leslie received her degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine graduating Magna Cum Laude with honors in English. She then went on to complete coursework in graphic design at the Radcliffe Publishing Course, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design/The New School, The School of Visual Arts, and MIT (through a joint program with the American Institute of Graphic Artists.)

Project Manager

Sarah Kelley recently joined our team. Sarah worked as a project manager for a web design firm in Boston, before relocating to Easthampton with her family. She graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Journalism, and then worked as a newspaper reporter and niche publications editor for the West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Company.

Creative Partners

Our partner structure is efficient and cost-effective. By bringing in the right talent and technology we can custom tailor a solution for your project. Our efficiencies are passed along to you, resulting in competitive pricing and fast turn around times.

Our design partners specialize in integrated print and web communications. Services include the design and development of logos, business identity, brochures, advertising, and interface design for web sites. Our partners have produced materials for a broad range of clients from high tech and start-up firms to corporate, non-profit, government, local, and national organizations.

Services range from basic copywriting to producing newsletters, web sites, and custom-published magazines. In addition, our writing partners specialize in revamping existing publications and web sites for better content, clarity, and design.

Photographers, painters and fine art and digital illustrators make up our outstanding team.

Expert in HTML, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Javascript, CSS and Flash, our programming partners are focused on building user-friendly web sites and online applications.

With experience in a wide array of marketing communication and public relations tools, including strategic marketing, media relations, promotion, special events, and collateral materials, our marketing partners base your marketing and public relations campaigns on a clear cut understanding of your goals and objectives.