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, Animation and Painting
✓ Audio Production
✓ Video Production
✓ you tell me...

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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, underwater, in over my head on some home improvement project.

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
Adventurous Seasonal Pursuits
sofiEvents LLC
The Nature Conservancy
Fox Television
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
Bicycle Pro Shop

Every Tuesday evening, I get together with a group of Alexandria youngsters to teach the ins and outs of digital filmmaking, using Apple's iMovie software. The kids are in 5th grade—all from Del Ray and Old Town, Alexandria—and each of them is paired up with an adult mentor who helps them produce their very own short films over the course of the year. The iMovie Mentors Program is funded by a crime prevention grant from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, and is part of the Alexandria Mentoring Partnership, a collaboration of mentoring programs throughout the City of Alexandria.

2010 is my second year with the program and it promises to be the best year yet! The guys—mentors and mentees alike—are all so enthusiastic and eager to learn. This year, we will be taking a weekend trip to Camp Kekoka, hosting a Family Video Critique Night, producing social issue documentaries, and putting on a red carpet film festival at the Old Town Theater.

Most importantly, the relationships these kids build with the mentors are lasting friendships. I am proud to be a part of this program. It's good for the kids, it's good for the mentors and it's good for the community. Learn more about iMovie Mentors from the 2010 Group Website or from the City of Alexandria.

The Gypsy Dive Log is my scuba diving blog. I am a PADI-rated Master Scuba Diver, and I have been fortunate enough to dive all over the world—from the Caribbean to the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. For about a year, I stayed wet working regularly as a volunteer diver at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. (If you've ever been to the aquarium, I was one of the guys in there feeding the sea turtle and the eels.)

The Gypsy DIve Log started out as a way to share the experience of diving at the National Aquarium, but since has become a forum for a discussion. Now that I no longer work at the Aquarium and have shifted in my views of zoos and aquariums, I am opening this website up to civil conversation on the topic of animals in captivity. Join the Conversation here.

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 continue to be a record of my dive travels, and hopefully a forum for other divers to share their experiences from the big blue.


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