We’re All About Ideas


A full service advertising agency located in Granbury, Texas, Contemporary Communications offers award-winning graphic design, web design, and business identity development.  Our purpose is to make the process of advertising and marketing easier. Whether it's business-to-business or business-to-consumer, we provide innovative ideas that achieve positive, measurable results. From concept to completion, we develop strategic marketing and advertising campaigns, design and maintain websites, develop brand identities, produce every kind of print collateral imaginable, buy media, place advertising, provide promotional products... did we say full service?  Budget-conscious and deadline-oriented, our mission is simply to meet the complete advertising, design and marketing needs of our clients, to their complete satisfaction.

It is our privilege to serve a wide variety of companies and industries nationwide, from local mom-and-pop shops to nationally known corporations. As a small company, we place a very high value on face time, and make it a point to be immediately available. When you hire us, you deal directly with the principals, you don’t get shuffled to an account manager. We see ourselves as your actual partner: your business' growth and success is ours as well.

Design
Typography, attention-grabbing photography, illustration, and sophisticated graphics that communicate what our clients need is how we define good design for traditional and digital media.  And although our work has been recognized on state and national levels, our focus is to garner accolades from our clients, not our peers in the industry.

Whether you need back-up support for your in-house graphics department, or you’re a company that needs start-from-scratch logo and identity development, we can assist in all aspects of design—leveraging branding, copy writing and photography—in order to produce professional, relevant and compelling visual communications.

Production Management
We have a long history in the world of production management. We thoroughly understand the varied processes of printing, signage, interactive and other media, and have strong relationships with such a wide variety of vendors that we are literally able to manage the production of anything related to marketing, including prototyping and other specialized processes. We've won print awards because of our attention to technique and detail. Once we take on the job, you don’t have to worry about anything... and you can expect professional, excellent results and on-time delivery.

Marketing Support
You've got an idea. You just don't know quite how to implement it, how to get it done, or what your budget will allow. Maybe you just don't have the time or the personnel to get the job done. Maybe you don’t even have an idea, you just know that you have to do something. That's where we can assist you. We'll look at your goals or your project with you, do any necessary research, help determine time frames and budgets, and suggest supporting collateral. When given the green light, we make it happen.

Our Work

Our Work

How do we show you what we do without boring you to death with endless pictures and descriptions? So we’ll try to keep it concise. We update this on a regular basis, so check back soon to see new stuff. And see the slide show on the home page for the stuff we’re REALLY excited about.

Our Team

Our Team

Actually, we’re your team. Some of our clients have never seen us in person—you may not, either!—but here we are. Now you kind of know what we look like, too.
Mona Nuckolls

Mona Nuckolls

Mona Nuckolls, President

I quit my real job as a senior graphic designer and creative director at a commercial printing company when ad agencies and design firms kept asking for my ideas, advice and direction on projects and then claiming them as their own. So I started Contemporary Communications. I guess some lessons you need to learn for yourself. That was 15 years ago, and I’ve finally recovered emotionally from that decision. I was able to talk my way-better-half Leonard into quitting his real job, too, and coming to work with me. I’m going to say it’s probably one reason I recovered emotionally from starting the business. But I still love design. I love it when I’m an insomniac because I’m trying to figure out how to make something look fabulous. And I really love it when a client is thrilled with the end result. When not at work I have this fantasy that I’m an organic gardener, a pipe dream that is perpetually challenged by my lack of control over fire ants, the constant disposal of dead houseplants, or the barren landscape of my vegetable garden. But my real devotion is to Leonard, and his shadow, our son Corbin, as evidenced by my unparalleled skill at folding clothes.
Leonard Nuckolls

Leonard Nuckolls

Leonard Nuckolls, Vice President

I started my advertising career while I was still in college as an intern at an in-house agency for a large grocery chain. This job had two main duties: one, sort circulars in a freezing cold meat locker; and two, deliver artwork that was assembled using wax in the company car that was heated like an oven from the West Texas sun. Ahh, the glamorous glory days…One day, the corporate office decided to go high tech and purchase all of the in-house agencies Mac computers: state-of-the-art, five-inch diagonal black-and-white screen and two floppy drives, one of which held the latest in graphics software (Illustrator 88 and Quark Express 1.0) and the other held all the working files. While most of my cronies were laughing at the idea of using this little box to create ads, I was figuring out how to make it work…in no time I went from running a hot wax machine to running the department. After a long and fruitful career of running large art departments at large printing companies in Lubbock and Fort Worth, I decided I wanted to deal directly with customers, so I started selling. I have always felt that the best sales people are educators with the ability to listen—too many sales people are so busy talking they do not ever understand the customer’s needs. Since I have been with Mona, sales has become a lot easier: she is the perfect art/creative director, her attention to detail and talent has always been an easy sell. It is great to never have to make an excuse for the quality of our work—it is always first class! My free time is usually filled with biking, mountain biking, BMXing with my son, Corbin, or recovering from a related injury.
Michelle Sapio-Harper

Michelle Sapio-Harper

Michelle Sapio-Harper

I started my “grown up life” after four years at Texas State University (Southwest Texas State, when I was there). After my SWT days I worked briefly as an administrative assistant at a small design firm in Austin; from there I moved on to the television industry. As glamorous as that might sound, I spent most of my days typing for long hours as an assistant to the sales department and managers at the station. After spending six years in the spot light of my desk, I decided to make a pretty big change and took a position at a financial agency as a Marketing Coördinator. After that, change just kept following me—that’s when I met my wonderful husband! Meeting him brought me to today; we reside in Granbury and I work at Contemporary Communications! My three years of married life and working at CC have been a blessing and is proof that change truly is a good thing! In my free time I enjoy spending time with family which includes my two adoring cats and our two recent additions, our dogs, Appy and Willy. My husband and I enjoy boating on the Brazos River, football season, and driving to Austin to visit family and friends.
Sarah Rausch

Sarah Rausch

Sarah Jurecek

When I was younger I wanted to be several things…a veterinarian, a lawyer, a congresswoman—well, not really a congresswoman, but you get the idea. While I was dreaming up a new profession every other week I was always drawing, painting, crafting, making art out of anything I could get my little paws on. I loved art.

In high school I took a class that changed it all for me: a primer about packaging/logos/ads/etc. I was so intrigued! I talked to my Aunt, who is a graphic designer, and she really opened my eyes to graphic design. So I enrolled at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology for a degree in Graphic Design. (Short side note: GO POKES! I’ve been a Poke all my life and my family hates me for it—they’re OU people.) Even though I lost many a nights sleep, blood, sweat, tears, and probably at one point my sanity, I graduated. It’s so great to say that I love what I do and not many people can say that.

So when I’m not declaring my love for what I do for a living, you can usually find me reading a good book, jammin’ out to some good tunes, makin’ trips to Oklahoma to visit family and friends, heading down south to hunt, playing with our puppy Levi, floatin’ the river, tryin’ out different kinds of wines, and my all time favorite—lounging around the house with my husband (we just tied the knot! :) ).
Nicole Bolls

Nicole Bolls

Nicole Bolls

I hail from the land of In-N-Out and “The Governator.” When I came out to Texas seven years ago, I thought I would be pursuing a degree in Physical Therapy. Much to the chagrin of my parents, I changed my major to Advertising. It was during my four years at TCU (GO FROGS!) that I began my love affair with design. I have always had a knack for all things creative, I dabble in everything from sewing to scrapbooking to photography, but it wasn’t until I did my first project in InDesign that I finally found my calling. For me design isn’t just my job, it’s my passion. I’m always in search of good design and constantly trying to learn something new.

When I’m not sitting in front of a computer screen you can find me hanging out with the love of my life and my two furry babies, Stella & Raider. I love watching TCU football and the Texas Rangers, thinking about my next meal (I’m a fat kid at heart), singing karaōke, and professing my love for all things Glee.
Paul Alvarez

Paul Alvarez

Paul Alvarez

Thinking creatively is one of my favorite hobbies. In fact, I am thinking right this moment. Allow me to share my thoughts.

If I and a mate could explore the cosmos in search of a new planet with the same characteristics of Earth, we would inhabit this planet and task ourselves with the responsibility of naming it “No Idiots Allowed” and creating a family. These are the traits that I would want my children to inherit: Loyalty. Resilience. Patience. Creativity. Sensitivity. Compassion.

One last thing, I am so happy to be interning with Contemporary Communications because insanity is allowed.
Dennis Williams

Dennis Williams

Dennis Williams

Before I got into the world of web development and design, for many years I had a career in retail management. As much as I enjoyed having direct daily contact with customers and other co-workers in that fast-paced profession, I didn’t get many opportunities to really express my “creative” side. Since then I have made the switch to web development and have racked quite a few years of experience getting to be very, very creative — 14 to be exact. My development specialties involve things like PHP, CSS, SQL — and many other TLA’s (three-letter acronyms) you’ve probably never heard of. I really enjoy bringing web designs to life and making them interactive for our clients (and their customers) as much as possible.

All in all, I still love what I do, and I still get to enjoy communicating with customers…even though nowadays it’s mostly via email.

Contact

Contemporary Communications, Inc.
403 Temple Hall Hwy
Suite 7
Granbury, TX 76049

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