Take care of yourself.

Take care of
your business.

In that order.

CreativeRefuge.com is an online resource devoted to helping creative professionals better manage their businesses and their lives. We'll help you: locate top-quality vendors and talent; manage your businesses with advice from business and legal experts; download FREE goodies; pick up health and wellness tips; and have some fun along the way.

CreativeRefuge.com is unique in that our database is built solely by professional referrals — searching it is like getting a great tip from an industry colleague versus plowing through the yellow pages. We've also positioned ourselves to cater to the whole person, not just the professional, by adding a health and wellness component to the site. And, most of all, we're proud to have an expert team of professionals from different industries writing exclusively for CreativeRefuge.com!

Our goal is to have CreativeRefuge.com become the most valuable resource directory on the Web for creative professionals — and we think we're off to a good start!. Let us know your ideas for making CreativeRefuge.com even better.

We hope you find the site's tools useful, its articles informative, and its energy renewing. Content changes daily, with major quarterly updates... so, come back and visit often. Thank you.

Warm regards,
Kim Buchheit & Denise Traver
CreativeRefuge.com Co-Founders

About Us

Kim Buchheit

CreativeRefuge.com Publisher (Site Designer and Front-End
Programmer) — Kim Buchheit brings over nineteen years of experience in creative management and design to CreativeRefuge.com. Her specialties include Web design and development, book publishing, business communication and strategy, corporate identity, and digital illustration.

A traditionally trained, award-winning designer with a bachelors degree in art, Kim has made her mark in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds — including nationally recognized environmental and arts organizations. She is a certified instructor in both graphic arts and computer drafting and has taught classes at the college level.

Kim is also founder and principal of Buchheit Creative Services — providing graphic design, Web site design, art direction, photographic, writing and editorial services for businesses and non-profit organizations. Contact Kim at Buchheit Creative Services to discuss your business needs and/or receive a project estimate.

Denise Traver

PHP Programmer — Denise Traver brings a full complement of software/ hardware know-how to CreativeRefuge.com, as well as a solid background in retail marketing. The programming arrows in her quiver include: PHP/MySql; HTML; ColdFusion MX; ASP.NET; JavaScript; Macromedia Studio MX (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash); Front Page; Adobe Acrobat; Adobe Photoshop; MS Windows.

When not at the keyboard, Denise can be found roaming the remote canyons of the desert Southwest. A naturalist, educator, avid backpacker, and former Grand Canyon backcountry ranger, Denise has shared her love for the out-of-doors with thousands of enthusiasts. In fact, the most successful of her numerous Web projects finds a way to marry her twin passions for computers and wilderness in the form of a Grand Canyon-related Web site that enjoys a half-million hits per month.

Coy Clayton

Lead PHP Programmer — Besides working as CreativeRefuge.com's Lead Back-End Programmer, Coy Clayton is also Chief IT & Software Engineer for Papillon Airways, Inc. Coy's philosophy is that any good piece of software has, at its core, an engineer who listens to the needs of the users. For the past ten years he has been writing software with that idea in mind. With education from the University of Arizona and expertise in PHP/MySQL programming, Coy continues to write Web-based and non-Web-based software for airlines, creatives, and tour operators.

Contact Buchheit Creative Services. Let us build your vision!