My name is Jeff Nesmith. I am a designer, a painter, a videographer, a musician, a marine enthusiast, and a traveler. I've been an artist all my life, and I have worked as a professional graphic designer since 1997. I've toiled away on Hollywood sets, in stuffy DC boardrooms, onstage in dozens of music venues, and inside the stingray tanks at the National Aquarium. Now I work full time out of my own studio.


I have been fortunate enough to live and travel across the United States and all over the world—from California to Patagonia, The Great Bear Rainforest to the Great Red Island, Madagascar. Today, I live in the DC area with my wife and daughter.


When I'm not working on a design project or finding new and creative ways to crash my Mac, I'm usually under the Jeep, under the water, in over my head on a home improvement project.

Gypsy Creative Communications is a print and multimedia design firm based in Alexandria, VA. I started the company in 2004 as a small freelancing business while working full time as a graphic designer. The idea was to serve the creative needs of a diverse clientele that could benefit from my expertise, built over time and timezones.

Since then, Gypsy has grown into a full-time, full-service agency. (So, yay Gypsy!) As such, Gypsy allows me to pursue any number of audio-visual communications projects—be it a print magazine, a promotional video, or children's book illustration or a song. I am always exploring new ways to channel my creativity, and the portfolio is always growing.

Gypsy is true multimedia. Services include:

✓ Print Design

✓ Web Design

✓ Logos and Branding

✓ Illustration and Animation

✓ Audio Production

✓ Video Production

✓ you tell me...

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Clients, partners and others I've worked with include:


The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Potomac Conservancy

Burson-Marsteller

HDN Studio

Full Page Multimedia

The City of Alexandria, Dept. of Recreation

The City of Alexandria, Court Services Unit

NE Events

War, Porn and Bacon

Adventurous Seasonal Pursuits

sofiEvents

The Nature Conservancy

Fox Television

Intrepid Flame

Amanda Lynn Davies

The Virginia Coalition

The National Hospice Foundation

The Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa

Democracy Data and Communications

Aerial Photographers, LLC

Air America Radio

The National Aquarium in Baltimore

Worry Stones Music

The Gypsy Dive Log is my scuba diving blog. As I am finishing the last requirements for my PADI Master Scuba Diver Certification, I stay wet working as a volunteer diver at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. (If you've ever been to the aquarium, I'm one of those funny-looking aquanauts in there feeding the sea turtle and the eels.)


Diving at the National Aquarium is exciting, to say the least, and a wonderful escape from the world above ground. But I find that the life of a stingray-feeder is actually not all that familiar to people. Go figure... Just before I started diving at the Aquarium I found it hard to get any information about the gig. So I figured, why not keep my own blog about it?


I've also been fortunate enough to dive in some of the most diverse and beautiful marine environments around the world. The Gypsy Dive Log will also be a record of my dive travels and hopefully a forum for other divers to share their experiences from the big blue.


Check it out here.