During my time as Creative Director at IdeaBase, I was able help guide several projects from concept to delivery for Kent State University that I’m really proud to have been a part of.

This included the Athletic Program for the Athletics Department, campus wide wellness initiative for the department of Human Resources, The Kent Stands Up! campaign against sexual assault for campus organization, SRRVS, L’aventurra Italiana: The minimalists guide to Florence (and beyond) for the College of Communication and Information, “ Allison, the activist” exhibit for the May 4th Memorial Center, collateral for the School of Public Health, and the school of fashion hype video for their IFFTI conference. These projects all show my ability to work within specific branding elements of the Kent brand, while implementing novel solutions.

Non-University clients

I Also had some great opportunities to work with non University clients, such as with the Textile Art Alliance’s book, Fiber Focus book, design collateral for Midwest Precision, Burton D. Morgan and more…

I served as Marketing Communication Specialist Lead for the College of Business & Economics. In this role, I was able to work on many really rewarding projects, Including the 2022 Dean’s Report.

I am especially proud of the report, as I was responsible for gathering or creating much of the content, the design layouts, data visualization and copy edits, translating a large volume of institutional content and data into a clear, structured visual narrative. The turnaround was tight, but I am really proud of what we were able to achieve. I also had a hand in leading our social media overhaul as well as our website re-design in which I was able to provide much of the photography and UX of the new site.

In my time as a production designer at Greenlight Creative, I developed and executed visual assets for entertainment and consumer campaigns, supporting brands including Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video, Nickelodeon, HBO Max, and Lionsgate.

One of my responsibilities was to work within established brand systems to adapt key art across multiple formats, including digital campaigns, social media, and promotional materials like decks and collateral products. This requires focus on maintaining consistency, clarity, and visual impact while scaling assets across platforms and use cases.

I collaborated closely with creative and marketing teams to ensure all deliverables aligned with campaign goals, timelines, and brand standards.

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to be involved in many motion and videography projects, and wear multiple hats while doing it. From writing scripts, to being behind the camera, providing storyboarding or motion design graphics, necessity has often been the catalyst to expanding my skill set. I am excited to continue to add to my experiences through this powerful medium whether it's my story or yours!

For part of my Graduate Assistantship with the department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, I had the opportunity to not only design the print collateral for visiting artists, but I was also able to assist Idris Kabir Sayed with curating the Uumbaji Gallery.

My experience working at the gallery really frames how I approach creating design collateral involving art. It boils down to… when you have amazing images…get out of the way! organize the information, but the let the work speak for itself.

Designed marketing materials and visual assets to support product communication across digital and print platforms, including brochures, advertisements, and campaign graphics.

Translated technical product information into clear, visually engaging formats that improved accessibility for a broad audience. Maintained consistency across brand materials while supporting campaigns that contributed to measurable business growth.

Also produced and edited product photography used across marketing channels, ensuring alignment between visual presentation and messaging.

This was a project that focused on using Type as Imagery. The topic came about when we were asked to identify our favorite event of the previous summer, mine was when my partner and I made it official under the stars of Joshua Tree, California.

Admittedly, I am a Hunter S. Thompson fanboy. His intelligence, his quirks, his fearless search for the “edge” has always spoken to me. The adventurous nature, the button pressing, the outside the box approach, is something that inspires my design and illustration every time I make something… so when I had the chance to create a book based on a person I admire, I jumped at the chance to tell the good Dr’s story.

This book was truly a labor of love. It was my first foray into Perfect-binding, constructing a hard cover book using book board, it might have even been my first trip to Jo-Anne fabrics to procure the canvas for the cover. It was definitely my first time using a laser cutter, and its something I incorporated into future projects, because those things are just so badass. I’m really proud of how this project turned out. Thompson was such a colorful personality, and I did my best to let that shine through the book. One of my favorite parts are the fold out pages which highlight Ralph Steadman’s iconic scratchy art style and give a larger canvas to show off his work. The copy from this book are all from interviews from people who knew him that I pieced together from different books I read about him, so it not only looks fun, I feel it tells a pretty interesting story of his life as well.

When tasked with finding an organization that was in need of a rebrand. I chose the cannabis advocate group, The Ohio Rights Group.

Its about more than legal weed. We are on the verge of a sustainable industrial revolution, with the continued evolution of our knowledge in the use of the cannabis plant. It was important to me to recognize a burgeoning industry early on in my design education, as I realized that while this plant is making our lives better, there would be a need for visual communicators to help end the stigma that many of us have had ingrained in us since childhood.

The spirit of this project was to combat long accepted iconography, by stepping away from the well known symbol of counter culture, the pot leaf, and instead approach from the viewpoint of wellness. This meant a clean and sensitive approach, to help the audience understand they aren’t breaking the rules, they are doing not only what feels good, but what helps the body and mind by way of naturally occurring medicinal properties. Instead of the pot leaf, I chose the iconic symbol of potential, the building block of life and growth, the seed.

Included in the rebrand was a website, advertisements and print collateral.

Music has been a passion of mine for a long time. In many ways, music helped me find my way to design! My thesis research centered around how design and illustration could enhance musical experiences. To that end, I created a virtual band, which visually communicated not through images of band members in a field staring off at random directions, but rather through stories and art. Flatts Fields is the culmination of that project! The fly on the wall of our imaginations.

www.flattsfields.com