Lynne Kelly, Owner / Creative Director

A freelance designer since 1992, Lynne Kelly's resume also includes in-house marketing or production departments with several well-known companies including Auto Trader Magazines, Sir Speedy Printing and Allen Tate Company (where she has worked both in the corporate office and with individual real estate agents and teams).

Lynne was educated at Winthrop University where she received a general education with concentrations in art, writing, French and education. Once deciding on graphic design as her chosen field, she transferred to King's College, where she graduated at the top of her class in 1996. Lynne is a professional-level member of the AIGA (the professional association for design), keeping her creativity fresh, exchanging ideas and information with other design professionals and working towards the advancement of ethical practice in the design field.

In 2008, Lynne made the move from freelancing and working for other companies full-time to owning her own company as Design Metamorphosis, LLC was formed. By February of 2009, business had grown too much to handle it from a home office, so her husband, Jason, joined the business, and we acquired office space in Mooresville, NC in which to open our design studio.

Mandy Thornton, Sales / Design Consultant

Mandy Thornton has been contracted on a freelance basis to handle our overflow business with design for real estate agents.

Mandy was educated at King's College, where she met Lynne and shared top honors with her at graduation in 1996. She is skilled in both print and web design, and also enjoys drawing, painting and crafts.

Mandy's full-time position is with an advertising agency, but she is also very experienced with the real estate design field through her freelance work, two previous positions working as the graphic designer for individual agents, and a past position with NHU Publishing, publisher of the Charlotte, NC edition of New Home Guide.

Jason Kelly, Customer Service / Technology

The newest addition to our team, Jason Kelly, has been creating custom-built computer systems, as well as working in computer sales and repairs, for many years. He also has spent time in the graphic design industry through a previous position at Trader Publishing as a photo technician (scanning and touch-up of incoming photos), and handled the layout production of one of the many publications that were being produced in the Charlotte, NC office at that time.

Jason is currently in training to become one of our web designers as he fine-tunes his skills with Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash.

In addition to his presence in the design studio to help serve our customers, Jason's technical abilities and his enjoyment of staying abreast of the latest technological innovations make him a valuable asset to Design Metamorphosis, LLC.

Erika Shaffer, Graphic Designer

A graduate of the Art Institute of Charlotte, Erika Shaffer completed an internship with us as a part of her final coursework. Because of her exceptional illustration skills and strength with layouts and Photoshop, we've invited Erika to continue working at Design Metamorphosis part-time on a freelance basis while she searches for a permanent full-time position.

Erika is fully proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and will be the graphic designer for some of our print design projects. She also has some skill with Aftereffects and Flash. Additionally, she has enough knowledge of Dreamweaver and HTML to work as a junior designer on some of our web projects if needed.