who we are

Teresa is a Vancouver girl with ‘Braveheart’ Scottish ideals, French romanticism, English bluntness and Polish gypsy blood who loves the fast pace of the city and the slow pace of the country.

As the Chief Deck Hand, Teresa is the production backstop here at Tugboat. If it's printed, punched, stamped, folded, mailed, screened, digitized or otherwise visually manifested, Teresa is on it. She also strikes fear into the hearts of writers and designers alike with her bionic proofing eye.

Seeking the Wild, Wild West, she landed in Southern Alberta and earned her Graphic Arts Journeyman papers while working at The University of Lethbridge. Once she read about the new digital technology sweeping the print world, she headed back to Vancouver to jump in. She soon joined Laser’s Edge as a partner for the next 11 years.  

Moving on to new adventures, Teresa built an in-house design studio for Angus Reid. After rebranding the company for sale, she managed and produced the new Ipsos-Reid brand ID for 10 offices with the help of one outside designer. The new corporate identity won the prestigious BC Chapter American Marketing Award in 2001.

Then the pull of adventure hit again and Teresa went down a new road for the next three years. Now working as a freelancer, she immersed herself in studying human behaviour (hitherto quite a mystery, including herself). She went on to study equine psychotherapy (working with horses as part of the therapeutic team for emotional and mental healing) and studied in Vancouver, Tennessee, North Carolina and New Mexico. It was an amazing and wild ride.

Besides good typography (bad typography being a pet peeve), her passions include her family and friends, learning to walk with a lesser footprint and enjoying life moment-by-moment.