I am a 🖼 multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago 🌭. I’m currently working as Design Director at Varyer 🔗. I also specialize in traditional 🪵 craft and creative 🪚 fabrication. Past and current clients include 📊 Secretly Canadian, WNYC, AIGA, and Patagonia 😎.
Animation, Art Direction, Illustration
Creative Direction, Lettering, Illustration, Web Design, HTML+CSS
Web Design, Prototyping
Objects Design, Woodworking
Branding, Creative Direction
Branding, Logo Design, Packaging
Branding, Web Design, Illustration
Creative Direction, Web Design, Typography
Illustration, Typography
Illustration, Animation
Aoife Nessa Frances: Protector
Album Art, Packaging, Lettering
Secret Colours: Oblivion
Illustration, Album Art, Packaging Design
Web Design, HTML + CSS
Art Direction, Illustration
Saucony Grid Web Y2K Bunker
Art Direction, Production Design, Set Decoration
Web Design, Illustration
Objects Design, Woodworking, Painting
Misc: Shirts
Illustration, Typography
Experience Design, App Design, Illustration
Experience Design, App Design
📐 EXPERIENCE
Design Director, Varyer
(Previously Design Lead, Senior Designer, Designer)
Chicago, IL
2019 - Present
Designer, Freelance
2016 - Present
Designer, Someoddpilot
Chicago, IL
2016 - 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
︎BFA Communication Design
︎Minor in Art History
︎Minor in Creative Writing
2012-2016
Design Director, Varyer
(Previously Design Lead, Senior Designer, Designer)
Chicago, IL
2019 - Present
Designer, Freelance
2016 - Present
Designer, Someoddpilot
Chicago, IL
2016 - 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
︎BFA Communication Design
︎Minor in Art History
︎Minor in Creative Writing
2012-2016
🗞 FEATURED ON/IN
Fast Company
Fonts in Use
GQ
Klim Type Foundry — Fonts in Use
Refinery29
Wax Poetics
Typewolf — Site of the Day ① ②
I Love Creatives
Fast Company
Fonts in Use
GQ
Klim Type Foundry — Fonts in Use
Refinery29
Wax Poetics
Typewolf — Site of the Day ① ②
I Love Creatives
👀 ON VIEW
Tusk, Chicago
Clue Debut (2023)
Complex Magazine’s ComplexCon
Saucony Originals Booth (2019)
Public Works Gallery
Space Becomes You (2018)
Refinery29
29Rooms (2017-2018)
Public Works Gallery
Mars (2016)
Tusk, Chicago
Clue Debut (2023)
Complex Magazine’s ComplexCon
Saucony Originals Booth (2019)
Public Works Gallery
Space Becomes You (2018)
Refinery29
29Rooms (2017-2018)
Public Works Gallery
Mars (2016)
🦴 CAPABILITIES
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding & Identity
Editorial Design
HTML & CSS
Illustration
Layout Design
Motion Graphics
Screen Printing
Set Design
Sewing
Print & Collateral
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Website Design
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding & Identity
Editorial Design
HTML & CSS
Illustration
Layout Design
Motion Graphics
Screen Printing
Set Design
Sewing
Print & Collateral
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Website Design
🍸 SELECT CLIENTS
AIGA Chicago
Asrai Garden
Auxly
Chacos
Chicago Blackhawks
Clue Perfumery
Early Majority
Partisan Records
Polyvinyl Records
Patagonia
Saucony Originals
School of Rock
Secretly Canadian
Sonos
WNYC
WQXR
Visitor
Zone 6
AIGA Chicago
Asrai Garden
Auxly
Chacos
Chicago Blackhawks
Clue Perfumery
Early Majority
Partisan Records
Polyvinyl Records
Patagonia
Saucony Originals
School of Rock
Secretly Canadian
Sonos
WNYC
WQXR
Visitor
Zone 6
🔎 RECOGNITION
AIGA 365 Year in Design Awards (2023) - Experience / Product / Service / Systems Design for Sonos Radio
2023 Die Line Awards Shortlist - NA Beverage Packaging for Visitor
SPD 58 (2023) - Digital Merit Winner for Varyer.com
D&AD Graphite Pencil for Community & Action
Cannes Lions Shortlist for Sustainable Development Goals
Shorty Social Good Award for Call to Action
Webby Award for People’s Voice
Jayne Ball Rousseau Memorial Prize
2016 MO Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Sports Page Design
2015 MO Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Entertainment Cartoon
First place – Editorial Page Design
AIGA 365 Year in Design Awards (2023) - Experience / Product / Service / Systems Design for Sonos Radio
2023 Die Line Awards Shortlist - NA Beverage Packaging for Visitor
SPD 58 (2023) - Digital Merit Winner for Varyer.com
D&AD Graphite Pencil for Community & Action
Cannes Lions Shortlist for Sustainable Development Goals
Shorty Social Good Award for Call to Action
Webby Award for People’s Voice
Jayne Ball Rousseau Memorial Prize
2016 MO Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Sports Page Design
2015 MO Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Entertainment Cartoon
First place – Editorial Page Design