About me.

I'm Ric Peltier — or Richard Peltier, depending on how formal you want to be — a freelance illustrator and art director working in the great sunny north of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

I started freelancing back in 1999. But before that I worked for several ad agencies around Minneapolis, beginning in 1982. I've worked at large agencies and small agencies. My jobs have included working as a production paste-up grunt (way before there were such things as desktop computers), as an art director and as a graphic designer. Lately a bit of photography and web design have also crept into the mix. Although my advertising agency experience consisted mostly of art directing, my first love has always been illustrating. And I've been lucky enough to have created illustrations for such wonderful clients as Pillsbury, ADT, MindWare, GfK Custom Research, BI and Campbell Mithun Advertising.

As an art director, I've hired my fair share of freelancers, so I know first hand how important it is for a freelancer to be easy to work with. And how important it is for the freelancer to treat a project with utmost professionalism.

So, if you need a logo designed, a brochure created, an ad campaign developed or some concepts illustrated give me a call. It would be great to hear from you and it'll be fun talking about your project.

Links of interest.

Below you'll find links to web sites of particular interest to me:

Dancegallery2.com is a site that was designed by me and constructed by an excellent web guru named Pete Howard.

Stcroixsites.com is Pete Howard's site. As I mentioned, the guy is a pretty incredible programmer.

Kevinfenton.com is the site for my friend Kevin Fenton. He's a wonderful freelance advertising and direct marketing copywriter with a whole boatload of experience.

Franklinsartwork.com is the site of my good friend and fellow illustrator, Franklin Haws.

Danwiemer.com is Dan Wiemer's site. Dan is a long-time friend and an extraordinary watercolor artist with an incredible eye for design and color. I think his paintings are so amazing that I own nine of them.

Confluencemarketing.net is the site of a very cool advertising and marketing agency located in Red Wing Minnesota. One of the founding partners is Dan's wife, Kim Wiemer. Kim is smart, energetic and has well over 15 years of experience in marketing and branding businesses and products. Do you like fun, innovative Web sites? Then you've gotta check out Confluence Marketing's site!

Francinemarietolf.com belongs to poet Francine Marie Tolf, a very gifted writer. And an all-around nice person.

Photobookpress.com is the site for PhotoBook Press, an awesome company that creates limited edition, custom books for people like you and me. And we're talking high quality, incredibly beautiful books. You can view images of a few of their books on my photography page. I highly recommend that you check out the company; you'll be very impressed.