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Josh Brownlow

Josh Brownlow

Creative Mentor & Systems Designer

A systems designer with a sideline most designers don't have: nine years mentoring 2,700+ creative learners to portfolio-ready work. Brand systems, identity, illustration, video, and print — paired with the rare instinct to teach the craft to whoever's next to me.

Open to remote, hybrid, contract, and full-time roles.


About

The through-line

Twenty years in, the through-line is constant. I'm a multidisciplinary creative drawn to environments where making, mentoring, and visual storytelling are the work — not a side effect of it.

For the last nine years that's looked like CTE art and design education — building nearly ten creative curricula, training students daily on the Adobe Creative Suite, running a daily live-streamed broadcast, and producing posters, murals, apparel, and video for school and community events. Alongside it, I run a screen-printing studio for local schools, churches, and small businesses.

I'm not leaving anything. I've been one thing the whole time. The classroom was one studio — I'm looking for the next one. A creative team, agency, in-house brand, or values-aligned org where I can make the work and help the people next to me get better at making theirs.

I make work that's clear before it's clever, useful before it's pretty, and honest before it's polished. I take direction well, use AI-assisted workflows fluently, and love being part of a team.

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Graphic Design & Illustration

Brand systems, posters, editorial layouts, album art, playbills, and original digital illustration. Adobe Certified Professional in Illustrator.

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Video, Motion & Photography

Videography, audio capture, editing, motion graphics, animation, and event/portrait photography — including a daily live-streamed broadcast operation.

03

Apparel, Print & Production

Screen printing, apparel design, file prep, and end-to-end production through my studio, The Print Shop Studio.

04

Creative Mentorship & Training

Nine years mentoring 2,700+ creative learners to portfolio-ready work. Curriculum design, software walkthroughs, microlearning, and the studio-culture instincts that make complex tools feel learnable.

Tools

Illustrator · Photoshop · Premiere · After Effects · InDesign · Figma · Canva · LMS platforms · AI-assisted creative workflows

Work

Selected work, 2018–present

A cross-section of the work I'm proudest of, organized by what kind of problem it solved. Happy to walk you through any of it.

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01 — Design & Illustration

Design & Illustration

Identity, editorial, and original digital illustration for schools, theater productions, music releases, and community events. Hand-built typography when the project called for it.

Synthesis of the Aberration Digital illustration · 2023
For Her Cup… Digital illustration · 2024
The Line Digital illustration · 2022
The Thread Digital illustration · 2023
Vignette Music Album art · digital illustration

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02 — Video, Motion & Photography

Video, Motion & Photography

Videography, editing, motion graphics, animation, and event/portrait photography — including the daily live-streamed announcement operation I built and ran with student crews. When the schools shut down in March 2020, I produced and shipped a fully remote learning operation within four days.

Daily live-streamed broadcast Production · operations · training
Videographer / editor reel Video production
Remote Learning Demo Video · remote instruction · March 2020
Remote Learning Demo · part two Video · remote instruction · March 2020
Videography & motion reel Video · motion graphics
Stage portrait Event photography
First dance Event photography
Mountain elopement Event photography

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03 — Apparel & Print

Apparel & Print

Screen-printed apparel and production design for schools, theatre departments, and community events through my studio, The Print Shop Studio. Often this means rebuilding messy client artwork into print-ready files — sometimes redrawing typography by hand to keep cost and color count down without losing the original feel. The Sister Act case study below walks through one of those rebuilds: original handoff, the problems with it, the rebuild, and the final printed shirt.

Sister Act — original handoff Case study · client artwork · 2024
Sister Act — production detail Case study · close-up of the problems · 2024
Sister Act — rebuilt Case study · production rebuild · 2024
Sister Act — final print Screen print · Rampart High School · 2024
Rampart Theatre — show shirt Apparel design · screen print · 2023
Columbine Art Department — trifold Print collateral · editorial layout

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04 — Creative Mentorship & Training

Creative Mentorship & Training

Nine years mentoring 2,700+ creative learners to portfolio-ready work — across design, photography, filmmaking, animation, and visual arts. Nearly ten curricula built. Daily broadcast operation shipped. The kind of training instincts most creative teams wish their senior designers had.

Columbine — creative curriculum collateral Curriculum design · graphic design
Animation curriculum — character rigging Image coming
Animation curriculum — character rigging Curriculum · sample student work
Live-stream broadcast training Image coming
Live-stream broadcast training Curriculum · operations
Adobe-track creative software instruction Image coming
Adobe-track creative software instruction Software training · 8 yrs · 2 districts
Remote-learning pivot · 4-day rebuild Image coming
Remote-learning pivot · 4-day rebuild Instructional design · video · March 2020

Contact

Let's work together.

I'm open to full-time, contract, hybrid, and remote roles — instructional design, customer education, multimedia design, creative production, or any combination that uses both halves of the brain. I respond to every email within a day.