The team

Treesaver, started in 2010 is a small band of people who believe that the future of publishing involves HTML5. For more information, send email or message @treesaver. Examples of our work are on our “portfolio” page.

To introduce our key staffers:

Filipe Fortes

Roger Black

For more than 35 years, working with magazines like Rolling Stone, newspapers like The New York Times and websites like MSNBC, Roger Black has been developing ways to communicate content more effectively. Recently he completed redesigns of Scientific American (both print and online), and is consulting on the design of MIT’s Technology Review website. His teams have redesigned Reader’s Digest, Esquire, The Nation (Bangkok) and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few. Last year he redesigned The Washington Post. Aside from Treesaver, Roger is a partner in Ready-Media (a new template-based design service), Font Bureau and Danilo Black. He works from a small office in New York and has homes in Texas and Florida. Black is a recipient of the distinguished alumni award from the University of Chicago.

Scott Kellum

Scott Kellum

Scott Kellum is a widely experienced designer, previously working at Darden Studio drawing type and recent graduate of Parsons the New School for Design. Combining a taste for traditional design methodologies and deep understanding of HTML and CSS to create templates for Treesaver.

Peter Karnig

Peter Karnig


Peter Karnig has 35 years experience in media publishing, sales and technology working with companies like McGraw Hill, International Data Group and NeXT Computer. He co-founded Five Across, one of the first turnkey social network platforms, which is now part of the Cisco family of products. Karnig has worked with Roger Black on other startups, and has been involved with Treesaver and Ready-Media for the last year.