Who We Are

We start with strategy. We end with results. Our team brings decades of experience to solve the problem you are facing today.

Why Loka?

Loka Creative relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in February, 2012. Years of creating authentic, original and artistic designs have evolved into a happy client base located all over North America. Our mission is, simply put, to create great design and help you market your business—effectively.

We love doing it all, from strategizing your social media presence to creating a great brand to carrying out your daily social media strategy and public relations plan for you. We understand difficult markets and have developed ways of working that are sharply focused yet agile. This means that we deliver value-loaded work-for-hire for our clients in a timely and cost-effective way.

Let’s tell your story.

Julie has the vision and creative power of an artist which she focused into functional branding and story telling for us: guiding a redesign/rewrite of a technical manual, giving advice on our logo, and creating infographics that our constituents are going crazy for! She's absolutely great to work with - flexible, seeks and then implements feedback, and effectively delivers a product better than what we were even initially imagining.
- J. Piacitelli
I have had the pleasure of Julie Ruth's contributions on many a project, from exterior signage for businesses, through web and original graphic designs. Julie brings a rare thing to the world of commercial art: genuine artistry.
- P. Wilder
More than anything, Loka is just all-around nice people. It’s taken my stress level down immensely knowing I can rely on them and it’s such a pleasure to work with them on a daily basis.
- R. Gonzales

Our Team

Julie Ruth

Founder/Creative Director

Julie has a fine art background with a B.F.A. in Painting, and has spent the last 22 years in marketing, design and advertising. In 2006, she and her husband Mat bought an existing business in northern Vermont and grew it into a full-service graphic design shop. They sold this business in early 2012 to relocate to Santa Fe. Now, she is the principal strategist for Loka Creative and loves turning ideas into beautifully crafted campaigns for her clients. When she's not working, Julie loves traveling, riding her bike and writing.

Katherine Murphy Sanchez

Senior Copy Editor/ Account Manager

Katherine is a writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to joining Loka Creative, she served as an account representative at the Waite Company, writing copy and securing earned media for clients like Town of Taos Tourism and beWellnm. For the past six years, she has also been the resident playwright at Albuquerque Little Theatre, and 21 of her original scripts and adaptations are available through UK publisher TreePress. Katherine likes to throw wine and cheese nights, listen to true-crime podcasts, thrift shop, and spend time with her husband, family and friends.

Mat Long

Logistics

Mat makes all of the furniture found in the Loka office, and installs signs and graphics for us when he’s not exploring trails on his mountain bike.

Dominique Revelle

Graphic Designer/ Photographer

Dominique is a veteran print graphic designer and photographer with more than 20 years experience. She especially likes it when we get to road trip for photography projects around northern New Mexico. When not working, she loves to travel, find great dark craft beer, mountain bike and spend time with her dogs.

Nick Rosenheim

Inbound Marketing Manager

Brint Crockett

Digital Strategist

Michael Dumont

Web Developer

Michael has years of technical expertise that he brings to his work with Loka Creative. He handles everything from custom themes to e-commerce functionalities to SEO. He lives to scuba dive and always welcomes a good cigar and a glass of malbec from grateful clients.

Rosario Gonzales

Chief Operation Officer

Rosario has a B.S in Psychology and Spanish from the University of New Mexico and has worked both in the private and non-profit sector here in her native New Mexico. She loves details and checking things off her to-do lists, but if you ask her what brings her joy she’ll tell you it's helping others.

Married and the mother to a 22-year-old son and an 9-year-old daughter, Rosario loves her family and friends, her dog Rosie, gin and tonics and nachos.

Luke Macias

Senior Social Media Account Manager

Luke Macias is a New Mexican. Raised in Santa Fe he has all the small town feels with big city drive. Luke brings to Loka an extensive background in events management and beer.

Prior to Loka, Luke was an Events and Marketing Manager with one of the largest local breweries in New Mexico. Curating his love for beer and developing a passion for writing, he is now a writer and blogger for the New Mexico Dark Side Brew Crew.

Luke enjoys reading, writing, and finding ways to expand his imagination, through books, games, movies, and even foods. But most of all, he’s just appreciative of the things in which he’s allowed to participate; a gracious guest to whatever host the world has to offer.

Our Process

Research
Strategize
Design/Write
Implement
Analyze

The Clients

We’ve worked with small businesses, non-profits, higher education institutions, independent school systems, government entities and festivals across the country. Here’s a handful of clients we’ve worked with recently—for most of these, we work with them on a daily basis.

Fun Fact

The Loka logo contains the alchemical symbol for earth—fitting, since loka means “world” in sanskrit. We look at the entire picture when we take on a client, and work hard to craft your story and communicate it to the parts of the world you are targeting.

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