My Background

Creative & visual partner for a unique, human brand

I’ve had the great fortune to partner closely with marketing directors, inspired writers and business professionals to create unique, cohesive and human brands. Helping to develop and design insightful, creative strategies that come from a big picture vantage point, paired with attention to detail.

I like to think of myself as a visual interpreter, once I get a feel for a client’s vision, my role in the process is to capture the eye, instill the first impression, and move the eye/action to inform. Whether that’s from various points in a document, a website or across multiple platforms. From the very beginning of your brand development, or blossoming from wherever you are in brand development — I can meet you where you are.

| Earmark Experience |

I bring my extensive career experience as the “art department” for a mid-Michigan non-profit, developing the visuals and helping to strategize and drive the brand; from original Logo concept radiating to center wide symbology, collateral, displays, extensive website design and management for both the center and their retail store, social media

I designed, produced and project managed a website that radically changed the way a community college interacted with its students, faculty and the public.

|  Specialties |

Adobe CC2020 | Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Web Design | Front-end development, encompassing visual strategies, planning and implementation, specializing in Wordpress sites

Illustration | Digital & Traditional

Logo & Icon Design

Graphic Design | Logos, icons, all types of print materials including; brochures, stationery, direct mail, tradeshow displays & exhibits

Awards | Over 60 awards in the Advertising & Public Relations field, Dale Carnegie Human Relations Award

Art | Creating my own art is a natural extension of my love of design and color…or is it the other way around? sas-studios.com

Shanghai, China | while living in China for a good part of 2006, the art, the culture, and the global community gave me a new understanding of diversity.