
Blueprint Design Studio
Design and marketing studio serving startups through national brands — Subway, Unilever, Tyson, Northwestern, the City of Chicago.
#1 "Chicago web design" for ~10 years
I'm Eric Barker — entrepreneur, former agency owner, and content systems builder. For twenty years I've helped businesses attract attention, generate leads, and build smarter systems that drive revenue.
ERIC BARKER · SPEAKING ON DIGITAL MARKETING
Before consulting on growth systems, I spent a decade building and operating one of Chicago's most visible design and marketing agencies — then proved content strategy at national scale in Thailand's entertainment industry.
See the full track record →Tools produce output. Systems produce customers. I build the second kind.
Positioning, offers, and channels grounded in two decades of campaigns that ranked, charted, and converted — built to win you visibility and customers.
Learn more →Research, strategy, production, and publishing as one managed operation — content that compounds into attention and leads instead of disappearing.
Learn more →Workflows that remove the repetitive 80% of your operations, so your team spends its time on the work that grows the business.
Learn more →Where AI actually improves your numbers — and where it's a distraction. Practical adoption plans your team can execute, plus hands-on workshops.
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Design and marketing studio serving startups through national brands — Subway, Unilever, Tyson, Northwestern, the City of Chicago.
#1 "Chicago web design" for ~10 years
Music marketing in Thailand's entertainment industry — releases driven to #1 on iTunes Thailand ahead of Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran, client pages grown past 1M followers.
Hundreds of millions of views

Builds and runs managed content growth systems that help businesses consistently generate attention, authority, leads, and customers.
Founder · designdelulu.com
Managed content growth systems — production, distribution, repurposing, and optimization that turn attention into leads and customers.
designdelulu.com → AutomationBusiness systems powered by automation and AI — less manual work, faster execution, and operations that scale.
aiautomationasia.com → AdvisoryHelping leadership teams adopt AI where it improves revenue and efficiency — and skip it where it doesn't.
Learn more →Ongoing work on production pipelines, publishing systems, and what makes automated content perform.
Researching how content, automation, AI, SEO, and modern distribution combine into scalable growth systems for small and medium businesses.
Workshops and training that leave teams able to run AI workflows themselves.
Learn more →I'm a Chicago-born creative strategist and entrepreneur, based in Bangkok for the past decade. I've run a top-ranked design agency, driven music releases to #1 on national charts, and now help businesses build the marketing, content, and automation systems that big teams take for granted.
I don't sell creativity as magic. I build repeatable systems — for visibility, for leads, for production efficiency — and hold them accountable to results.
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Let's discuss how content, automation, and AI can support your business goals. Two sentences about your situation is enough to start.
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