About the Company - Studio 2108 LLC

Studio 2108 LLC is a professional graphic design, website design and website hosting company.

Wayne has been in business as a graphic designer in St. Louis since 1996 and has been offering clients a wide variety of professional graphic design, website design, website hosting & website development solutions for over for over 18 years.

Studio 2108 is located at 3801 Wyoming Street (located in the Tower Grove South neighborhood) in St. Louis, MO. with FREE parking.

Where did the numbers 2108 in the company name come from?

In June of 1996, Wayne M. White and his wife Julie Padberg-White moved to St Louis. Wayne began working as a Freelance Graphic Designer as "Wayne M. White Design". In October 1998, Wayne and Julie purchased a 6000 sq. ft. historic Second Empire home located in Historic Lafayette Square at 2108 Lafayette Ave that needed to be renovated. With Julie's Architecture degree - Wayne and Julie rehabbed the house and continue to work on it.

Since then Wayne and Julie have been featured in the following: in a "My Dreams video - mydream.tv - Quick Time Video Player required " feature sponsored by Lincoln and Amazon.com - 11/06. As seen in "The American Townhouse" book Kevin D. Murphy - 12/2006, Restore America - HGTV - 2002 all because of the house website showing the progress of the rehab.

In 1999, Wayne expanded his Freelance graphic design business and started a graphic design, web design and web hosting company by the name of Studio 2108 while working out of his house located at 2108 Lafayette Ave. After being in business as Studio 2108 since 1999 and achieving such high search engine rankings with the domain name studio2108.com he figures he better keep it even after the moving the office out of the house - see the office space.

Meet the staff

Wayne M. White - As Owner/Creative Director - Wayne has 18 years of graphic design experience - helping clients with the following items for printed graphic design needs from line drawing illustrations of product, digital photography, hang tags, logos, neck labels, locker labels, stationery, brochures, post cards, catalogs, package design and flyers for a wide variety of companies and businesses .

In addition to graphic design, Wayne has over 8 years of website design, website development and website hosting experience - completing everything for website needs from custom designed banners ads, flash animation, interactive flash projects, custom designed website, html newsletters, html e-mails, shopping carts and web hosting for a wide variety of companies. Wayne currently manages/maintains over 85 website's while 65 of those website's were designed and are hosted by Studio 2108 on a dedicated web server located out of state (not subject to St. Louis black outs/power loses).

Wayne also has over 13 years of graphic design experience in the Sporting Goods Industry - completing everything for graphic design needs from line drawing illustrations of athletic apparel product, digital photography, hang tags, logos, neck labels, locker labels, stationery, html newsletter, web site, catalogs, package design and flyers for the following companies: TAG & TAG Team Uniforms, Rawlings & Legends Athletic (where Wayne met and worked for the owners of TAG Team Uniforms 13 years ago).

Wayne has been in business as a graphic designer for 11 years in St. Louis, MO and previously resided in Kansas City, Missouri after graduating with a BFA degree in Graphic Design/Illustration from Kansas State University in December 1992.

Wayne remains to be on the cutting edge of professional graphic design and web design while focusing on client satisfaction.

Wayne's Professional Experience - click here

Jenny M. Oughton - As Art Director - Jenny continues to help Wayne/Studio 2108 present and deliver excellent designs and helps with completing all jobs for our clients on a daily basis.

Jenny was one of three summer interns for Studio 2108 during the summer of 2006 and graduated from Truman State University with a BFA in Visual Communication and a BA in Printmaking May 2007. Jenny continued to work for Studio 2108 throughout the 2006 - 2007 school year. Jenny was offered a job with Studio 2108 at the end of the internship in August 2006 to start after graduation May 2007.

Professional Experience

Art Director - FINE ARTS PUBLICATIONS - 2005 - 2007
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

Fine Arts Publications is a student managed Design Studio for the Division of Fine Arts at Truman State University. It completes all design needs for the art, music, and theatre departments as well as other campus publicity requests. Designers work closely with clients to produce posters, brochures, web sites, and other multimedia projects.

As the Art Director of Fine Arts Publications Jenny oversaw eight designers and their creative processes from concept to pre-press. In addition to managing the studio, she became proficient with time management and designing to a client's specification. She was also responsible for the final design layouts and production of all projects.