Design Portfolio
graphic + web
“CONSIDER
EVERYTHING AN
EXPERIMENT.”
Corita Kent
"Consider everything an experiment."
Corita Kent
Web Design:
ThriveCultureCoaching.com
May 2023 – present
Illustrator, Miro, Photoshop, Lightroom, Divi, Elementor, HTML, CSS, Javascript
This client came to me as a young brand trying to launch a WordPress site with analytics and calendar integration to promote her career coaching business. She had a brand identity cooking and a beautiful logo and photography, as well as excellent copy and content. I created a basic site for her with several pages and a resource center with a custom blog template. Each page is comprised of flexible, responsive, reusable modules that are saved in a back-end file system for the client to experiment with whenever she needs a new layout on the fly. This allows the client to have full agency and creative freedom while maintaining a cohesive brand identity across the site that can evolve across many pages as her brand grows. My work with this client is ongoing.
Web Design + Front-End Development:
Community Brands LLC
December 2021 – September 2023
Illustrator, Figma, Divi, HTML, CSS, Javascript
In this role, I created content for over a dozen sites using Divi as a parent theme, but were highly customized to fit the distinct requirements of each site’s branding. Some brands were well established with clean, appropriate, scalable branding that needed little adjustment. Others were wildly out of date, far too dry, or otherwise not in alignment with our parent brand. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunities for work with both sorts, iterating on stable brand guidelines and brainstorming with stakeholders to reimagine old branding and breathe new life into more functional, colorful, engaging sites. Nimble AMS and Pathable were great opportunities to implement custom animations using javascript and css. I was thrilled to collaborate with designers Max Kuznetzov and Leah Lukens. I’ve loved working with this team and grew so much while I was with them.
Web Design + Development:
University of Georgia
April 2021
Illustrator, Photoshop, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Javascript
This landing page was the primary resource to direct donors to the correct giving forms and inform our audience on the status of different giving challenges throughout the week. It was built using a Bootstrap core and included live infographics and charts from both Highcharts and Google Maps. It also featured donation thermometers via css and jquery that counted up gifts towards each challenge’s goal. The goal for this project for me was to make all of the information accessible and optimize load times and general performance. My primary method of achieving this goal was to rely on css generated design elements and microinteractions to add visual interest and offload the large visual assets like the video preview with a still image that became hidden and played the video when it was hovered over.
Web Design + Front End Development:
George Washington University Fullstack Coding Bootcamp
March 2020
Illustrator, Figma, Miro, Divi, HTML, CSS, Javascript, React
WorkHQ is a tool designed to assist job-seekers in organizing their job search. This was my first full-stack React project. I really enjoyed the flexibility of React and the organizational frameworks I put into place for reusable components. My favorite role in this project was designing and developing the user interface. I focused on creating as many of my visual assets as possible using css and load my image assets upon user interaction so as to offload the weight from initial page load. All visual assets were created using Illustrator.
Web Design, Brand Development:
Foundation for Family & Community Healing
January 2019 – July 2019
Illustrator, Figma, Photoshop, After Effects, Elementor, HTML, CSS, Javascript
At the foundation, I focused my attentions on developing a brand from first sketches of a logo, through logo and brand identity development, all the way to creation of brand style guides and templates, site templates, blog templates, and launching their site, which was built primarily using WordPress. My responsibilities have also included oversight of interns’ publication of social media posts and other promotional materials.
UI Design + Web Design:
VirtualKEY
July 2018 – Sept 2018
Illustrator, Photoshop, After-Effects, Bootstrap, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript
I began my time at VirtualKEY as UX/UI Designer working primarily on the web and mobile app designs, but quickly took on additional graphic design responsibilities. I used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign to create printed and digital ads including trade show materials such as banners, fliers, brochure spreads and social media content. After producing several design iterations for the reboot of the VirtualKEY website, I built an entirely new site using a Bootstrap template as a base.
Capstone:
New Media Institute
Aug 2017- Feb 2018
Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Miro, Xcode, HTML, CSS, Javascript
For our senior capstone project, my team was tasked with expanding the ODYSSEY Media Group’s online presence into a mobile app in order to grow their readership and better serve their readers. For this goal, I designed and co-developed an iOS app using Swift and Objective C within the XCode environment, worked closely with the WP REST API and used Javascript to pull JSON data remotely from the client’s existing website. My experience with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro was essential both to the design of the app and in the creation of both digital and printed promotional materials, which included a small informational booklet which folded out to a full-sized poster.
Graphic Design:
Classic City Rollergirls
Feb 2017 – July 2019
My work for the Classic City Rollergirls has primarily consisted of graphic design for bout promotion via fliers, posters, and merchandise. I also have collaborated with the creator of the website to improve its design and functionality. This has included the development of the “Rollergirls” page of the “About Us” section of the site to include photographs and information on each of the team members.
Graphic Design:
Jittery Joe’s Coffee for Good Dirt
Nov 2018
I completed this design as a rush job for Good Dirt’s collaborative blend with Jittery Joe’s Coffee, which was released at the holiday sale in early December.
Graphic Art:
Creature Comforts Brewing Co.
July – August 2018
This piece was commissioned by Creature Comforts as a beginning of a series of screen printed coloring pages to spearhead their Get Artistic campaign. My subject matter was entirely sourced from live sketches of the brewery environment and served to highlight the eexperiende of the staff as a community. Art Director Madeline Bates and I later adapted the design to a 3x4′ plywood version for patrons to color in with chalk.
ArtWork:
Athens Community Council on Aging
Jan – April 2018
This series was commissioned by Carly Landa for her introductory birding class at the ACCA. Each drawing features a bird native to the Athens area.
Web design:
Adrian Hanson Portfolio Site
Aug 2016 – Oct 2016
For this project, I worked with Mr. Hanson to build a basic portfolio site using a Bootstrap template. This opportunity also provided me with the chance to work with Amazon Web Services for Mr. Hanson’s hosting.
Web design:
Kudzu Jungle
Nov 2016
I created Kudzu Jungle as an example of a landing page for an online art feature for Lamar Dodd School of Art. Its purpose was to highlight student work in a publicly accessible manner. This exercise allowed me to entertain a few different gallery formats and play with information hierarchy.
Graphic design:
Honeywheel
Sept 2016 – Nov 2016
Using Photoshop and Illustrator, I worked with band members of Honeywheel preceding the release of their album titled “Shadowboxing” to develop a vector logo for merchandise as well as the album art.