Hello 🌊 ! I am a Chicago-based multidisciplinary 🖼️ artist currently 📌 working as a Senior Designer at Upstatement 💿.
I also 🦢 specialize in creative 🪚 fabrication. Past clients include
📊 Secretly Canadian, Sonos, WNYC, AIGA, and Patagonia 😎.
You can reach 📩 me here.
Animation, Art Direction, Illustration
Web Design, Prototyping
Objects Design, Woodworking
Experience Design, App Design, Illustration
Branding, Creative Direction
Branding, Logo Design, Packaging
Branding, Creative Direction, Web Design, Illustration, Event Graphics
Quiet Enjoyment Studio Table
Woodworking, Furniture Design
Branding, Web Design, Illustration
Creative Direction, Lettering, Illustration, Web Design, HTML+CSS
Illustration, Typography, Packaging Design
Creative Direction, Web Design, Typography
Objects Design, Homewares
Illustration, Typography
Select Wordmarks & Logos
Typography, Illustration
Illustration, Animation
Aoife Nessa Frances: Protector
Album Art, Packaging, Lettering
Secret Colours: Oblivion
Illustration, Album Art, Packaging
Web Design, HTML + CSS
Art Direction, Illustration
Saucony Grid Web Y2K Bunker
Art Direction, Production Design, Set Decoration
Web Design, Illustration
Misc: Select Shirt Designs
Illustration, Typography
Experience Design, App Design, Illustration
📐 EXPERIENCE
Senior Designer, Upstatement
2025-Present
Designer, Independent Practice
2016-???
Design Director, Varyer
(Previously Design Lead, Senior Designer, Designer)
Chicago, IL
2019 - 2024
Designer, Someoddpilot
Chicago, IL
2016 - 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
︎BFA Communication Design
︎Minor in Art History
︎Minor in Creative Writing
2012-2016
Senior Designer, Upstatement
2025-Present
Designer, Independent Practice
2016-???
Design Director, Varyer
(Previously Design Lead, Senior Designer, Designer)
Chicago, IL
2019 - 2024
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 Cannabis Group
Breakfast for Dinner
Chacos
Chicago Blackhawks
Clue Perfumery
Early Majority
Goose Island
Partisan Records
Polyvinyl Records
Patagonia
Saucony Originals
School of Rock
Secretly Canadian
Sonos
SXM Radio
WNYC
WQXR
Visitor
Zone 6 Management
AIGA Chicago
Asrai Garden
Auxly Cannabis Group
Breakfast for Dinner
Chacos
Chicago Blackhawks
Clue Perfumery
Early Majority
Goose Island
Partisan Records
Polyvinyl Records
Patagonia
Saucony Originals
School of Rock
Secretly Canadian
Sonos
SXM Radio
WNYC
WQXR
Visitor
Zone 6 Management
🔎 SELECT RECOGNITION
AIGA 365 Year in Design Awards (2023) - Experience / Product / Service / Systems Design for Sonos Radio
Dieline Awards Shortlist - NA Beverage Packaging for Visitor (2023)
SPD 58 - Digital Merit Winner for Varyer.com (2018)
D&AD Graphite Pencil for Community & Action (2018)
Cannes Lions Shortlist for Sustainable Development Goals (2018)
Shorty Social Good Award for Call to Action (2018)
Webby Award for People’s Voice (2018)
Jayne Ball Rousseau Memorial Prize (2016)
2016 Missouri Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Sports Page Design
2015 Missouri 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
Dieline Awards Shortlist - NA Beverage Packaging for Visitor (2023)
SPD 58 - Digital Merit Winner for Varyer.com (2018)
D&AD Graphite Pencil for Community & Action (2018)
Cannes Lions Shortlist for Sustainable Development Goals (2018)
Shorty Social Good Award for Call to Action (2018)
Webby Award for People’s Voice (2018)
Jayne Ball Rousseau Memorial Prize (2016)
2016 Missouri Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Sports Page Design
2015 Missouri Collegiate Newspaper Awards
First place – Political/Editorial Cartoon
First place – Entertainment Cartoon
First place – Editorial Page Design
