I am a 🖼 multidisciplinary artist and independent 🕯 graphic designer based in Chicago.🪐
I also 🦢 dabble in traditional craft and creative 🪚 fabrication.
Past clients include 📊 Secretly Canadian, Sonos, WNYC, AIGA, and Patagonia 😎. Let’s build 🛠 something together. 📩  



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

Designer, Independent Practice
2024-Present

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

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)


🦴 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

🍸 SELECT CLIENTS

AIGA Chicago
Asrai Garden
Auxly Cannabis Group
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

Die Line 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




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LAST UPDATED 16 SEP 2024
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