Life Inside Dropbox
Dropbox Life Inside Dropbox As an Art Director at Column Five, we partnered with Dropbox Talent Brand to help attract top applicants. We produced engaging content for blogs, social media, paid ads and more. This content featured stories from Dropbox employees, behind-the-scenes insights, and the perks of being a Dropboxer.During the engagement, I was the lead Art Director on the account. My role required me to collaborate with the internal team at Dropbox and Column Five's strategist and designers to create a strategic, visually engaging and on-brand experience for potential applicants. ...
ThorFi
ThorFi ThorFi Rebrand I got the opportunity to team up with Thor Financial, a crypto company looking to rebrand to gain recognition as the foremost thought leader in blockchain innovations that bridges the gaps between DeFi and GameFi. We started with a series of moodboards to try to capture the right balance of innovative and trustworthy. Once the client felt aligned with a direction we moved into crafting the new brand identity in conjunction with a strategist to ensure the new brand would also meet strategic goals.Once the brand identity was complete, ...
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorer’s Basecamp
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorer's Basecamp Quite literally the largest project I’ve ever worked on was the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorer’s Basecamp. It was massive both is scale of the pieces and amount of work that was accomplished. The design team and writers worked in small groups to conceptualize panel artwork and content for all of the new habitat.The most satisfying part of the project was watching the pieces go from rough sketches I made on my iPad to fully realized illustrated murals and panels. It's such a joy to ...
Dropbox Employer Brand Campaigns
Dropbox Employer Brand Campaigns Build the Future I got the opportunity to art direct and collaborate on several campaigns for the Dropbox Employer Brand. For the Build the Future campaign the Column Five video team joined forces with a freelance illustrator and animator to bring the concept to life. The video was the hero for the campaign. However, it also included a dedicated website landing page, static and animated social ads, Google Display and Reddit ads, and YouTube bumper ads in 6 and 15 second cut downs.The theme for this campaign resonated so ...
Copper Key Web 3 Agency Brand Design
Copper Key Copper Key Web3 Agency Brand Design Column Five started a web3 focused sub-agency called Copper Key. They originally enlisted a freelancer to do the branding and but their work didn't align with the vision for the brand. I had the opportunity to team up with two of the other Art Directors at C5 to reimagine Copper Key in a bold new way.We created a vibrant and flexible system. Our templated approach allows us to experiment with layering in AI generated imagery and copy while still keeping a consistent brand ...
Saving Species Worldwide
SAN DIEGO ZOO GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH Saving Species Worldwide While working as an Art Director and Senior Graphic Designer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, a global non-profit conservation organization, I created several print and digital campaigns. I particularly enjoyed designing a print piece for the Institute of Conservation Research, the organization's conservation science division. Their work reaches across the globe and including a laboratory in southern California, where they address complex and urgent conservation challenges. The purpose of this specific piece was to offer a glimpse into ...
Walkabout Australia Opening Invitation
Walkabout Australia Opening Invitation As a Senior Graphic Designer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. I designed these letterpress printed invitations for the donor opening of the Walkabout Australia exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The exhibit was designed to feel rustic and textural so the invitations were meant to do the same. Since these invites were for high-level donors, the additional shiny going foil added a touch of the exclusive, VIP nature of the event.If you're the type of person who appreciates letterpress printing, you can ...
Komodo Kingdom Appeal
Komodo Kingdom Fundraising Appeal I never imagined that my path as a graphic designer would bring me face-to-face with the world's largest venomous lizard. Yet, that's exactly what occurred during my work on this appeal for the Komodo Dragon habitat at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.To be fair, calling them venomous is a bit of a misnomer, they actually have bacterial-filled saliva, and when they hunt they generally bite prey and then wait a few days for it to die of sepsis. Still gruesome, but not nearly as deadly ...
Summer of Stationery
Summer of Stationery Campaign SUMMER FUN, EVEN ON DULL WORK DAYS The "Summer of Stationery" marketing campaign was Elum's very first paid media campaign that touched all of their digital channels. The goal was to drive traffic to the newly redesigned Elum website and promote a new line of journals, washi tape, greeting cards and notepads that had recently launched. Since this was the first full marking campaign Elum had even done we wanted to make sure it really popped. We took inspiration from the vibrant products Elum was introducing and created a ...
Elum Website Redesign
Elum Website Redesign CREATING A BETTER USER EXPERIENCE I was tasked with redesigning the Elum website to create a better web experience for B2B and B2C customers, improve web traffic, and enhance their brand presence in the digital space. The previous website was clunky and not mobile friendly. I provided a simple and clean visual design framework to a Ul/UX designer who translated the designs into a full site experience. Elum partnered with Mojo Creative and Technical Solutions to build the site on the Magento platform. I oversaw all aspects of ...
President’s Clubs Redesign
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San Diego Zoo Hummingbird Habitat Appeal
San Diego Zoo Hummingbird Habitat Appeal Photos : Tammy Spratt | Written by: Mary Sekulovich | Printer: Neyenesch © San Diego Zoo Global. All rights ...
Elum Designs Social Media Content & Strategy
Elum Social Media Content & Strategy CREATING A BRAND VOICE AND VISUAL IDENTITY Being the first employee at Elum to focus on social media and digital marketing, I was given the task of building a brand aesthetic and voice in the digital space to attract new social media followers. I started by creating a strategy to build their audience while also meeting company goals. We used the social space to promote new lines of products, showcase Elum's achievements, give an inside look at all the work that goes into creating great ...
Shari’s Berries Social Content
Shari's Berries Summer Social Content While at Shari's Berries I was responsible for concept and creation of engaging content for their social channels and blog. I also art directed outside content created by bloggers and contracted vendors for those channels. The objectives were to create brand awareness, improve SEO rankings and drive traffic to their website with a constant rotation of useful, seasonally relevant content. ENGAGE, INSPIRE & PROMOTE During the summer months, the challenge was finding ways to keep products relevant. In the absence of a big revenue-driving holiday during those months, we focused ...
Salty Blue Jewelry
Salty Blue Jewelry Content CAPTURING THE BEAUTY OF HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY During my time at Elum, they acquired Salty Blue Jewelry, a local handmade accessory company. I was tasked with capturing the jewelry in a way that was complementary to its handcrafted origins and use of raw, natural elements in lifestyle and product photography. The images were used interchangeably as social content and product photography for the ...
Elum Catalogs
Elum Catalogs BRINGING THE BRAND IMAGE TO PRINT I designed several product catalogs as well as sell sheets and sales collateral for Elum. Each piece is an extension of the brand image Elum is establishing through it's social and web presence. For each catalog, I was responsible for the design, photography, layout, copy, and ...
Shari’s Berries Spring Social Content
Shari's Berries Spring Social Content SPRINGTIME AT SHARI'S Since Shari's claim to fame is dipped strawberries, one of the SEO focus' was creating engaging content about berries. This was particularly true in the spring months when strawberries were in season. I created new and clever ways to use strawberries, like muddling them and freezing them in ice cubes or using them in fresh springtime ...
Stay Gutsy
Stay Gutsy MY HAPPY PLACE Staygutsy.com is my passion project. It's a home for all the crafts I make, the food I cook, the places I go and the things I like. Inspired by my grandma's retirement community girl gang, it's meant to be informative and inspire visitors to do and try everything that life has to offer. The spirit of staygutsy.com is captured perfectly in the tagline: Someday you'll be dead until then, stay gutsy. Illustrations by Kasey ...
International Rescue Committee Watchlist 2023
International Rescue Committee Emergency Watchlist 2023 As Art Director at Column Five I partnered with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to oversee the creation of the campaign identity and publication design for their 2023 Emergency Watchlist Report.After we determined the look at feel for the campaign, I worked with an incredible team of our in-house designers to pull together the report on a very tight timeline.The identity we created was used on marketing materials, ads and social media. Column Five's team also created a video for the campaign using the creative ...