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Fishergate was founded in 1969 by Anthony Drummond in Annapolis, Maryland. In 2001, the company moved to its current location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. By staying one step ahead of technology and design trends, Fishergate has been able to provide its clients with fresh, current designs. From its early days of paste-up and darkroom cameras to today’s digital technology, Fishergate continues its tradition of creating top-quality work at a reasonable price.
Our clients include businesses, national trade associations, local government agencies, and nonprofit organizations from Maryland’s Eastern shore, Annapolis, Washington, and Baltimore.
SUSAN VIANNA
PRESIDENT
SUSAN VIANNA
Susan Vianna, Fishergate’s president, has been with the company since 1986. She is the main liaison with clients and participates in the day-to-day design and production of publications. She brings writing and editing expertise to the process along with a thorough familiarity with the technical aspects production, printing, and e-book
development. She was a member of the first graduating class of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and received a bachelor's degree in Communications from that institution.
Fishergate’s founder, Anthony Drummond, named the company after the name of the main street in the town of Preston, England, where he grew up.
The recorded history of Preston, in the county of Lancashire, England, starts in 670 AD. The town is listed in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 and was established as a Borough by royal charter from Edward II in 1179.
Every school day in his youth, he walked along that street to Winckley Square. Sometimes, on his way home, he dropped by the premises of The Lancashire Daily Post, where his father was employed as the Circulation Manager. He would enter the heavily paneled public lobby, pass a cavernous space full of thundering machinery and the sweet smell of printer's ink, and ascend to his father's quiet office on the second floor. There, he would occupy himself with an ancient typewriter or bother the staff cartoonist in an adjacent office until the "Late City” edition was safely on the streets.
So, when the time came to name the graphic design company he founded in 1969 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, the choice was easy. He reached back to the town of his youth and the name of its main street, FISHERGATE, where he first became acquainted with wordsmithing and printing.
Although we have been around for over 50 years, we undertake each client’s project with the same level of excitement and fresh perspective as we did with our very first ones. Each project requires us to create a unique design that will help sell a business’ services, explain an organization’s mission, motivate people to take action, or spark interest in a book’s topic.
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