Fall/Holiday catalogs for Fairytale Brownies. Six cover designs with a total of 20 versions for the season.

Skills:

• Developed cover design concepts, mood boards and coordinated the photoshoot

• Layout design

• Photoshop (most of the packaging was not actually shot)

• Managed large quantity of assets across multiple InDesign files and kept track of the versions in Excel

• Time management, efficiency, and attention to detail

• Effective communication with print techs at on-site press checks

Special Report 6x9 booklet for eQRP Co.

Skills:

• Layout design and use of styles in InDesign

• Effective communication with contracted illustrator

• Formatting of content for diagrams and charts to match look and feel

• Pre-press and delivery of print ready files

This invitation for a cigar social for Event Services of America had a very quick turn around time. Textured papers and cigar tubes were sourced and the invitations were assembled in house.

Skills:

• Time management and efficiency

• Materials sourcing

• Copywriting, editing and proofing

• Attention to detail

These logos were created for eQRP Co., a foodservice company, a project management company and a professional cleaner and organizer.

Skills:

• Effective communication with client

• Presentation skills

• Illustration and typography

As a freelancer for a Portland based company, I created new, and refreshed existing materials for Antis Roofing.

Skills:

• Understanding of creative briefs and ability to execute with minimal direction

• Utilization of brand standards and consistency to match materials created by other designers

• Layout design and typography

• Time management and attention to detail

This welcome box for new eQRP Co. clients was designed to showcase the eQRP Co. branding and values, as well as a vehicle for current marketing materials. At minimum, this box includes a copy of the Special Report and a note from the founder.

Skills:

• Seamless vector pattern creation and typography

• Design with consideration of the substrate, uncoated corrugated

• Effective communication with vendor and project owner

• Pre-press and delivery of print ready files

• Attention to detail

Fairytale Brownies offers a variety of occasion packaging to fit their best selling box sizes. Creating distinctive designs while maintaining consistency across the collection was a fun and challenging project.

Skills:

• Moodboard development and presentation skills (to achieve buy-in from decision makers)

• Vector pattern creation and design development using approved elements

• Set up files for production with considerations for special finishes like UV spot varnish, PMS Metallic inks, folding and glueing

• Attention to detail and time management

Holiday Tower Boxes for Fairytale Brownies

These boxes were produced overseas and utilized CMYK printing plus PMS Gold Metallic and UV Spot Varnish.

Skills:

• Concept design for entire Holiday product line, knowing this project would be finalized first, months ahead of the other package designs

• Pre-press and proper file set up for PMS and spot varnish in Adobe Illustrator

• Coordinated with production vendor

• Effective communication through a complex proofing process

• Time management

• Attention to detail

I worked with our selected vendor to secure a template for the make and model of the van wrap and consulted with them about potential issues to avoid in the design. The goal was to be consistent with the current brand look, but not so specific that it would become dated when other materials were updated.

Skills:

• Effective communication with print vendor

• Strategic design placement considerations such as door handles and wrap distortion around curves

• Time management and attention to detail

• Pre-press and delivery of print ready files

These poster designs were done on an accelerated timeline before any of the packaging even existed. I worked with Amerifresh associates to get French translations and other parameters for the Canadian market where the products were going to launch and then created these posters. Once the production templates for the packages were available, they were made for real.

Skills:

• Remaining calm under pressure, critical thinking skills, and being able to ask the right questions

• Time management and efficiency

• Photoshop and layout design

Food Services of America's in-house brand had secured a partnership with Alaskan Brewing Company for a new line of beer battered fish. The needs of this flyer could not be met with stock photography, so I shot these photos using the real products.

Skills:

• Food styling and photography

• Photoshop: compositing, color correction and details

• Layout design

• Attention to detail and time management

This pocket folder with tiered height inserts was designed to easily mix and match different inserts of varying heights. This allowed for quick customization of folder contents depending on needs. The tiered height system works nicely to view all section titles at once.

Skills:

• Effective communication and presentation skills

• Knowledge of paper stocks and finishes

• Utilization of brand standards to create materials that fall in line with existing collateral

• Pre-press and delivery of print ready files

• Time management and attention to detail