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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 16 years as a marketing and graphic design professional. 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, swimming and spending time with Mat and her dogs.

Katherine Murphy Sanchez
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 helps clients strategize their social media presence and carry out their messaging across all channels. He also makes all of the furniture found in the office his company—HoCo Fabrications—shares with the Loka office. He makes the day-to-day operations flow smoothly for both businesses when he’s not exploring trails on his mountain bike or exploring lakes with his standup paddleboard.

Dominique Revelle
Graphic Designer

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.

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
Social Media Account Manager
Nick Rosenheim
Inbound Marketing Manager
Luke Macias
Social Media Account Manager
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.

  • RDC
    LANL
  • CYOA
    Housing Trust
  • Santa Fe
    Audi
  • Mercedes-Benz
    Icehole
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.