Tria Design & Marketing Partners

Tina Block earned her Associate Degrees in Commercial Art, Illustration and Advertising from Lansing Community College and began her design career there. In this role, she designed promotional materials for the productions of the Art, Music, Dance and Theatre departments. After three years at LCC, Tina joined the staff of the Michigan House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, Communications Department as the senior art director. She managed all aspects of their full-service graphics facility for the next nine years. She went on to co-found Abbi Creative.

Tina is a noted colored-pencil artist who has won numerous awards locally and regionally with her work. Tina is also into gardening, as well as camping and travel with her family. Tina, her husband and their son live in DeWitt.

Ann Siegle has a B.A. in Advertising from Michigan State University with an emphasis in marketing. For nine years, Ann was president and creative director of Paradise Graphic Design. Before founding Paradise, she was Senior Designer at a $200M computer distributor. Prior to her high-tech career, Ann was art director at a South Florida luxury real estate magazine publishing company. Ann is a past president of the Lansing Advertising Club, bringing great ideas to mid-Michigan communications professionals. Ann is also post-commodore of the Lansing Sailing Club, a competitive sailing club on Lake Lansing, in Haslett. Ann is also on the board of directors for HOPING, a child-loss support group for Mid-Michigan parents, and she is on the marketing and public relations committee for the Capital Area IT Council.

Ann guest lectures and gives presentations on marketing and communications as tools to achieve business success. Visit Tria's News and Press page for an upcoming schedule of events.

Ann and her husband founded and run the Tour de Road America Foundation together with cycling friends in Wisconsin. The Tour donates over $30,000 annually, raised from the Tour de Road America bike ride, to three cancer charities: the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the Hole in the Wall Gang Kids' Camps and the Vince Lombardi Cancer Cinic.

Ann is passionate about competitive sailing, enjoys scuba diving, long-distance bicycling, cross-country skiing, classical ballet, knitting, traditional fiber arts, designing bags for her freelance handbag business, and playing with her dog Zuzu, an Australian Shepherd. Ann, her husband, and their daughter live in East Lansing.

Barbara Matheson has a B.A. in Fine Art from Michigan State University and two Associate Degrees from Lansing Community College, one in Fine Art, the other in Illustration. For ten years, Barbara worked as a typographer for Adventures with Nature, a typesetting and graphic design firm. Barb then founded Point & Click Graphics where she spent the next ten years working with clients on projects ranging from corporate logos and identity kits to trade publications and magazines. Barb's specialties are photo manipulation and magazine composition. Her fine art skills lend themselves perfectly to logos and illustrations.

Barb lives in East Lansing with her two cats and a parakeet. In her spare time, Barb enjoys reading, cooking, gardening and bird-watching.