Yellow Dot Designs Information

I'm Ellen Hamilton and this is my design studio, located in Alexandria, Virginia. I design and print products which I sell in my online shop, Yellow Dot Shop. As a designer, I specialize in logo design, packaging, marketing, websites, and some video with motion graphics. My studio works with nonprofit groups, businesses, political candidates and publishers. I studied Communication Design and Fine Art, majoring in painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in Graphic Design at NVCC. I worked as in-house designer at a publishing company in Washington, DC for eight years, leaving in late 2007 to start Yellow Dot Designs. I have been involved with the Alexandria business community, the City's Archaeology Department, and the local filmmaking scene. In 2011 I started doing motion graphics for video. Several years ago, I started working on a documentary film that I called "Why They Left: A Scottish Migration." The film project has now turned into a book project where I am adding in all the details that I had thought would be too much to fit into a film. I have renamed it, "A Scottish Migration to Alexandria." Yellow is warm like the sun. It is unassuming and friendly. Yellow is a color. A dot is a shape. Artists work with color and shape. Graphic designers work with punctuation. A yellow dot is a visual image that helps you remember. Yellow Dot is a design studio in Alexandria. Yellow Dot Designs is here for you. Why They Left: A Scottish Migration is a historical documentary film. Most Americans of Scottish descent dont know where their ancestors came from, why they left, and on what ship and where they arrived. These details have been lost to the generations. This film tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land. Discussion of the cotton revolution which was as big ...