Hi, I’m Ashley and I specialize in brand identity, packaging, website design, ux & ui for mobile and web. I love illustration, branding, typography, & when it all works well together. Beyond design, I'm a nature enjoyer, history buff, and a curious explorer of entomology and mycology.

work experience

Alloy | Contract UX/UI Designer
2023

• UX/UI, Web Design

Sherper’s | Marketing Associate, Contract Designer
2022 – 2024

• Email Marketing. Creating templates and updating designs to reflect ongoing sales.

• Social media. Creating, editing and scheduling posts. Copywriting. Running multiple social media pages on both facebook and instagram, and facebook groups.

• Creating store signage, promoting sales, updating existing in-store branding

• Product photography, filming and editing promotional videos

• Merchandise design including custom T-shirts, Labels, Patches, and Tags

Synthesis Sound | Freelance

• Web Design

• Print Marketing

• Email Newsletter Marketing

• Business Cards and Print Collateral
  

Ocupop | Designer
2019 – 2022

• Identity Design, brand guidelines, illustration libraries, and social media kits

• Collaborating with animators, developers, marketing, and external marketing teams

• Websites, logos, wordmarks, illustrations, packaging

• Responsible for a weekly article editorial illustrations, branding elements, presentations, for various google developer brands (Android, GooglePlay, Firebase, women techmakers, puppet.js, etc)
  

Odvant Creative | Design Intern
2018 – 2019

• Design for digital and print for local non-profits and small businesses

• Collaborating with the team during sketch and brand discovery phases

• Gathering estimates and researching production options with local print shops
  

Freelance
2018 – Current

• ui / ux, landing pages, web design, development

• branding, illustration, typography

• social media content

• print and digital marketing materials

• creative direction

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Union Marketing Services | Lead Designer
2016 – 2019

• Designing both digital and printed marketing material for campus clubs, small and large scale events, university organizations, student government groups, and promoting available students resources

• maintaining a welcoming, open-minded, and inclusive work environment for the student design team

• creative direction, gathering solid inspiration, facilitating design check-ins before presenting to clients, serving as a bouncing board for ideas, and offering constructive feedback

• collaborating with internal writers, intake, social media team and external student organization teams

• hiring, training, and mentoring new designers
  

Graphic Designer by trade, creative spirit by design.