From our Berkeley Studio, we serve clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. With our commitment to excellence, we offer unsurpassed attention to detail and level of service. We find ways to optimize your budget and your results.

Our designs often include our award-winning photography. Depending on your needs, we can schedule a custom photo shoot, or pull images from our extensive stock library.

About Louis Benainous

As founder and art director of Bay Design Associates, Louis brings the expertise and broad experience essential to his approach to marketing communications – consider the big picture; pay attention to the details.

Louis first entered the world of media as publisher of The Mother Lode Weekly, a community newspaper in Sonora, California. He has taught in the graphic design department at Laney College and launched Bay Design Associates (originally Benainous Communications) in 1992.

He enjoys design and marketing for many of the same reasons he enjoys the sport of sailing on San Francisco Bay – graceful lines, teamwork, challenging technology, informed decisions, quick judgments and always something new.

Louis is fluent in French, and often has to explain how his name is pronounced (ben' a noos).

Sailing photography by Louis Benainous can be viewed at www.thesailgallery.com.