New Skin Media is a cullmination of the collaboration between a few choice experts in both graphic design and web programming. The integrated and capable team of industry experts includes Melissa Crain (Principal, Owner) and Frank Rodriguez (Lead Designer, Branding Specialist) whose collaborations have produced a new standard for quality in the industry.

Melissa Crain has been designing websites professionally for over 7 years. She has a bachelor's degree in Physics from Sonoma State University where she concentrated in Astronomy. She established New Skin Media in 2006. Melissa has a strong background in graphic design as well as hands-on coding in html, css, javascript, php and more. As a member of the Media and Communications Advisory Committee for the Regional Occupational Program (ROP), she works with the Sonoma County Office of Education to assist teachers with keeping their advanced curriculums up to date.

Melissa is also an award-winning photographer. Photography is her passion, and also a second profession. She runs Arken Studios with her family shooting weddings, portraits and events. Her passion extends further having self-published her first book of fine art travel photography, Cyprus: In Photographs. She is currently working on her second book, a photographic essay and historical research project focusing on Victorian architecture in San Francisco.

Frank Rodriguez has over 7 years of professional experience as a graphic artist. He received his BFA in Visual Communication with emphasis in Computer Imaging at the Northern Arizona University in 2002 and shortly after, moved to San Francisco where he worked with clients such as Charles Schwab, Oracle, and Conde Nast as a consultant. He has worked as a photo editor for Wired Magazine and a production artist for Wired's How-to Wiki and Webmonkey. Frank has owned and operated Green Eye Creations since 2006. In December of 2009, Frank published his collection of images photographed in Jalisco, Mexico titled "Hijo de las Piedras" and is currently working on his follow up book from his journeys through Peru. With his photojournalistic travels combined with his experience as a wedding photographer in his early years in the Bay, along with his extensive career in new media, he is currently taking on projects as a destination wedding photographer and continues his work as a graphic artist.