Experience
Slant Communications
Dave Burdick and Mary Lukens partnered their extensive design and communications experience in 1993 as Lukens-Burdick Creative Services, based in Chicago, IL. After a move to Michigan in 2002, Lukens- Burdick became Slant Communications. Slant is a design and marketing communications firm that produces identity, messaging, branding and graphic design for print, environmental, online and interactive communications. Slant services clients in the healthcare, medical, pharmaceutical, building, real estate, financial services, consumer products and not-for-profit industries.
Dave Burdick, President
Dave Burdick's experience has been nothing if not varied. At various times (sometimes in the same day) Dave has been a writer, designer, programmer, marketer and teacher. After studying at the Institute of Design at IIT, he worked at a variety of agencies in Chicago as a designer, eventually winding up at Stryker Corporation in Kalamazoo, MI as Director of Corporate Communications. He developed the graphic standards that are, to a large extent, still in use 25 years later. At Topin and Associates in Chicago, Dave was Creative Director and worked on a variety of accounts including medical device, healthcare delivery and pharmaceutical companies.
At Lukens-Burdick Creative which eventually became Slant Communications, Dave worked with a variety of larger pharmaceutical agencies as well as smaller specialty agencies and directly with clients such as Searle, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Allscripts, Health Alliance and Sheffield Pharma.
In 2002 the company moved to Douglas, MI where Dave has continued to serve his medical and healthcare clients as well as expanding into several other markets including building, real estate, business and financial services and consumer products. Dave also taught Design at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Mary Lukens, Vice-President Creative Director
Mary Lukens partnered with her colleague and husband, Dave Burdick, in 1993 to form Lukens-Burdick Ltd., now Slant Communications. Prior to '93, she worked on contract as an art director in healthcare advertising for Topin & Associates, McCann Healthcare, Hamilton Carver & Lee, Corbett and Face Communications, for clients such as Baxter Healthcare, Abbott Laboratories, Zimmer, Mercy Healthcare Systems, Janesville, WI and Holy Cross Healthcare System, Chicago, IL.
Mary got her start in outdoor advertising at Sign Art, Inc. and then moved on to retail advertising and healthcare when she worked as an art director for Valentine, Bear & Woodruff out of Kalamazoo, MI.
Mary graduated from Western Michigan Universityin 1984 with a Bachelor of Science where she majored in art with an emphasis in graphic design and phototgraphy.
Mary has won awards from the Rx Club of New York, Healthcare Advertising Review, How Magazine, Wisconsin Public Relations and Marketing Society and the Wisconsin Addys.
Mary Lukens