Melissa Rotert has been involved in many aspects of design for nearly 15 years.

Jewelry Design
Beginning as a junior in high school, she trained as a silversmith, eventually gaining apprenticeship with a master jeweler and working with gold and platinum as well. Her jewelry design has extended into beadwork and other media. Examples of her wire-work jewelry can be seen at the Support Our Shelters Charms page on her personal website. Custom jewelry design is available on a limited basis.

Printwork
As a sophomore in high school, Melissa did her first company logo design work. This first design, a logo for a newly opened FBO aviation company, was in use for more than five years; a long-lived logo, to be sure. Since that time, Melissa has been involved with logo, letterhead and other business designs on numerous occasions, including designing the entire graphics layout for Jumpin' Kate's most recently released album, Brave Life, as well as two yet-unreleased albums. She has done additional merchandise design work for Jumpin' Kate as well. Logo and printwork design are available at negotiable prices.

Web Design
Melissa has been designing websites for nearly as long as the world wide web has existed. She writes HTML without aide of web design software and can also design custom web graphics. In addition, she designs custom Windows wallpaper and internet avatars. Click through the Websites list to see examples of her web design. You can see examples of Windows wallpaper at her family website.

Drawings
An outlet for her more mundane artistic abilities, simple ink and Prismacolor pencil drawings allow Melissa to express her more fanciful side. Her ferret artwork is an example. She has done custom work for tattoo designs and also is designing a set of colorful graphics for notecards and stationary.

Needlework Patterns
New to the world of knitting, Melissa has already begun experimenting with knitting patterns all her own. Expect more original knitting designs from Melissa in the near future! Meanwhile, you can see her first knitting design, a toddler-sized adaptation of a vintage adult poncho pattern, on this thread at Craftster.

Melissa's bolero-style sweater is available free!

New: Vaughan, a knitted leather hatband, has been added! Check it out here.

Photography
An added bonus: Melissa's husband Cory Rotert is an award-winning photographer. He enjoys portraits and landscape photography and is available for outdoor photography in the Lincoln, NE area. Some of his portrait work can be seen here:
The hospital portrait of his daughter, Katherine
A summertime portrait, also of Katherine