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Graphic Design & Illustration
Brand systems, posters, editorial layouts, album art, playbills, and original digital illustration. Adobe Certified Professional in Illustrator.
Available for hire · Colorado Springs
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
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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Brand systems, posters, editorial layouts, album art, playbills, and original digital illustration. Adobe Certified Professional in Illustrator.
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Videography, audio capture, editing, motion graphics, animation, and event/portrait photography — including a daily live-streamed broadcast operation.
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Screen printing, apparel design, file prep, and end-to-end production through my studio, The Print Shop Studio.
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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
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
Identity, editorial, and original digital illustration for schools, theater productions, music releases, and community events. Hand-built typography when the project called for it.
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02 — 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.
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03 — 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.
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04 — 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.
Contact
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.