New York, NY 
Who We Are
Arts Clients
Since we began working with St. Ann’s Warehouse in 1997, we have earned a reputation for building communicative, cohesive brands for artists and arts presenters from logos, brochures, event promotions, newsletters, membership campaigns, fundraising campaigns, advertising and environmental graphics to award-winning, business-enhancing websites that energize and cultivate a client’s distinct ticket-buying public. Throughout our process, we make inventive use of Web 2.0 tools from development to implementation and content management, crafting streaming audio , video, and blogging software to meet client-specific needs. Our arts clients come to count on our ability to contribute defining insights and strategic direction to early discussions of new projects. As they wish, our clients may also draw upon the long-time creative relationships we enjoy with accomplished professionals in associated fields: web design communication strategy and implementation, information architecture, motion graphics, editorial and promotional writing, proofreading. Flyleaf Creative appreciates your sense of curiosity. If you see something you like or don't see what you're looking for, shoot us a quick email.
Corporate Clients
Our corporate relationships have survived numerous mergers and departmental reorganizations based on our proven ability to manage tremendous volumes of facts and figures in multiple languages over many rounds with speed, accuracy and style. We’ve been designing print and intranet pieces for JPMorgan Chase for 18 years, beginning with the private banking and estate planning departments and, more recently, employee compensation and benefits (incentive and peer recognition programs, health care packages, spending accounts and more). Over 10 years with American Express, we re-vamped their quarterly mailing to retailers to a fresh magazine style and produced brochures and handbooks for their extensive network of travel-related and foreign exchange offices. We excel at working within the branding guidelines of established corporations to find new distinction. Flyleaf Creative manages all aspects of corporate communications including business-to-business, employee compensation and benefits, consumer services and form design. As they wish, our business clients may also draw upon the long-time creative relationships we enjoy with accomplished professionals in associated fields: web design communication strategy and implementation, information architecture, motion graphics, editorial and promotional writing, proofreading. Flyleaf Creative appreciates your sense of curiosity. If you see something you like or don't see what you're looking for, shoot us a quick email.
Anita Merk
Anita Merk joined Flyleaf in 1992 as co-principal, and since the death of founder Arch Garland in 2009, is owner and creative director of Flyleaf Creative, Inc. Cool-headed and warm-hearted, with a genuine love of the smallest details, Anita’s particular gift is for creative strategies for marketing and development initiatives encompassing both online and print environments. With Arch Garland and designer Aleks Gryczon, Anita shares a 2009 Wilmer Shield Rich Award for Excellence in Communications for design of the web site for The Tow Foundation. The team also received a coveted Adobe Site of the Day Award for the website of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in June 2008. Anita is a Herzog Award finalist for her design of My Life in the Gulag, a hand-sewn, letterpress memoir of World War II, archived in the Marshall Military History Collection at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the recipient of an ACE Award for publication design and a French Paper Company Design Excellence Award for creative branding; she also shares with Flyleaf a Best of Category Award from the Engraved Stationers Manufacturers Association. Anita is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, where she has been teaching since 1999, and is also a founding partner in Beam Camp, a summer camp in New Hampshire where young people acquire and refine their problem-solving skills through a creative education in the fine and manual arts (plus swimming and ball-playing). She also often lectures at F.I.T., where she received her B.F.A. with honors.
Aleks Gryczon
Aleks Gryczon has been with Flyleaf since 2007 when she graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where she held a Presidential Merit Scholarship for four years. While still at Pratt, the Society of Illustrators acknowledged her excellent illustration skills by selecting her work for competition. Aleks is the lead designer at Flyleaf for all web projects, possessing, as she does, irrefutable logic coupled with excellent communications skills, a boundless imagination and unflappable creative composure. It was Aleks’s work on the website for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas that won Flyleaf an Adobe Site of the Day Award in June 2008. Likewise, her contributions to the website for The Tow Foundation helped Flyleaf to garner a Wilmer Shield Rich Award for Excellence in Communications from the Council on Foundations in 2009.
Arch Garland
Founder of Flyleaf, Arch Garland, who died too young in 2009, earned his M.F.A. in design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art following a B.S. in design from Louisiana State University. Throughout his creative career, in addition to his careful, elegant and insightful design work, Arch sought to give back to the creative community that nurtured him. He served as vice president of the New York chapter of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), participated in AIGA New York’s Mentoring Program, design education lectures at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and other distinguished universities and art colleges, and was devoted to the students he taught so memorably at Pratt Institute as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Arch was one of 185 accomplished international designers invited to participate in World Studio’s Urban Forest Project, the installation of 185 banners in Times Square to promote the cause of world peace—in Arch’s case, with a call to personal mindfulness.
During Arch’s tenure as owner and co-principal, Flyleaf’s work was featured in many important design references, including the magazines Sphere (Designer Profile), Graphics International (Designer Profile), Emigre (Issue No. 10, as well as The Digital Realm, a book commemorating the foundry’s 10th anniversary), Plazm, an artist’s cooperative publishing effort with worldwide distribution, and Mary Jo Fahey’s Web Publisher’s Design Guide for Macintosh. Flyleaf was honored by the Association for Communications Excellence with an ACE Award for their work on the American Express newsletter, Spotlight. Uncommon Heroes, a Flyleaf-designed anthology of personal narratives, earned a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. Twice, Flyleaf has been commended by the French Paper Company with design excellence awards for creative branding. The Strathmore Paper Company has also acknowledged Flyleaf for outstanding work in the field of corporate identity.