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Ed Wilhite has been the CEO of this first rate design firm since it was founded over thirty years ago. Under his leadership Cherry Tree Design & Publishing has been through four iterations of locations and company names, most recently, Rock Island Graphics. Cherry Tree Design & Publishing grew out of his desire to name the company with a moniker that was not tied to a location which he's found limits clients' perception of his company's geographic reach. In today's technological age, there is literally no limit to where his company can practice its craft.This latest rebirth of the company identity, which he hopes will be the last, is based on yet another new location into a more expansive market with studios located in a community named Cherry Creek, thus Cherry Tree.
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| Angie Wilhite married Ed in 1979 and soon discovered that he was wired a little differently than most people. She has persevered, though, through more than thirty years of creative madness and mounds of photographic gear, books, computer equipment, books, clutter and books. She, however, is the real brains behind the "organization" of Rock Island Graphics (since Ed isn't organized at all) and the person that makes the financial wheels spin. One fact she learned the hard way is that creative people often are fairly unconcerned with money though she as a wife, mother and homemaker is always concerned with money. Something had to give, so Angie jumped in becoming the business manager for Rock Island Graphics. Her insistence on contracts, timely billing, reasonable work rates, etc., have made a tremendous difference in business facets of the company (except when Ed goes off the reservation and freelances a deal behind her back - that always turns out, well, enough said.) Angie is invaluable to the business both in financial matters and as an inspiration. Without her our shutters would fall silent and our computers would fall dark. |  |
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