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Welcome

Renovation in progress! Please bear with us while the Constellation Design website is updated for the new year. Naturally, client jobs have priority over in-house projects, so it’s taking a little while.

Constellation DesignThanks for visiting the Inter­net home of Con­stel­la­tion Design, your source for stel­lar desk­top publish­ing services!

We’re here to help you. Specializing in the print and World Wide Web presen­ta­tion needs of small busi­nes­ses, service providers, and indi­vidu­als, Constel­lation offers ser­vices rang­ing from basic docu­ment for­mat­ting to com­plex pub­li­ca­tion lay­outs and Web­site con­struc­tion.

Have a look at our mission statement and lists of print ser­vices, Web services, and editorial services and see what you think—and what our clients have to say about us.

Whether your project is paper or virtual, simple or complicated, be it a new business card, a quarterly newsletter, an operations manual, a monthly magazine, a Website for your small business, or something else entirely (well, to a point; I mean, we can’t help you with your plumbing or a faulty carburetor), look to Constellation Design for quality service, competitive rates, and personalized attention.

An Eye for the Skies

The name Constellation has its roots in a couple of things. My love of many things science-fictional and astronomical, to be sure, but also in the subtle influence of a university professor. When I was in school at the University of Arizona (a fine institution for astronomers, by the way), I took an Intro to Astronomy course from Dr. Christopher Impey, who was easily the most fun and humorous of all my college instructors. “Impy,” as we called him, would wear Marx Brothers T-shirts to class and borrow lines from Steve Martin and hide them in his midterms, and one time displayed an overhead transparency of the Northern Hemisphere constellations—with the lines connecting the stars in new places. He captioned this image “If the constellations had been named today,” and suddenly our familiar star formations were no longer Orion the Hunter and The Big Dipper, but The Hair Dryer and The Sony Walkman. It stuck with me, not just ’cause it was funny, but because it illustrates that design is all in the eye of the beholder. The stars have looked the same up there for millennia, but where one person might see Leo the Lion another might see a cricket bat.

We’re all working with the same raw materials in the design world—nifty computer software, color theory, paper stocks, Internet browsers—but no two designers will come up with the same thing. We each have our own eye for things...even the stars.

—Tim Harrison