Right in the central business district of Spencerport, Fuse Creative has a space where they do graphics, design logos and do business marketing. They also do vehicle wraps, signage, and according to its founder Domenico Colaprete, they do “anything pretty much art related”. Dom started the company in June of 2017 and a few years later Harry Sotomayor came on board as a partner. Fuse Creative has been at its current location on South Union Street since January of 2020. They have big clients such as Christa Construction and then they have smaller clients such as the sports bar Clutch on the Canal in Spencerport. They did all the graphics and signage for the new sports bar.
Their work space is located very close to where the old railroad bridge used to be on Union Street. At the time when that bridge got torn down in 2013, Dom was working for Skooba Design in Rochester and Harry was growing up in Rhode Island. While Harry is from another state, Dom grew up in Spencerport. He has fond memories of going to the Spencerport carnival with family and friends when he was a kid. Although Dom and Harry don’t live in Spencerport now, they are very invested in the community, having a space in the village and working with Spencerport businesses.
“One interesting thing about Rhode Island that they don't do here in New York is drink coffee milk. I'm sure most New Yorkers reading this are asking themselves "what is coffee milk?". The best way I can describe it is that it's the same as when you mix milk and chocolate syrup to make chocolate milk. In Rhode Island we have coffee syrup. It's a very normal thing to drink there but extremely uncommon everywhere else,” Harry says.
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