Portfolio
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/115/115501/attachment_115501950 "Direct mail postcard for Night Owl Landscape Lighting, a top-rated landscape lighting company in Wisconsin. I built a clear hierarchy that leads with the service benefits, adds credibility with a \"#1 rated\" badge, and backs it up with real project photos. A navy and white palette keeps it trustworthy and on-brand, and a bold free-consultation callout plus a large phone number drive the response.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/164/164926/attachment_164926206 "Full-page magazine ad for Sami Fine Jewelry promoting their American Gem Collection featuring Montana Sapphire. I paired a strong lifestyle portrait with a clean vertical product column so each piece reads clearly, then used an elegant serif and script headline with a purple footer bar for brand info and contact details. The result feels premium and Western-inspired while keeping the jewelry the hero.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/165/165598/attachment_165598954 "Event logo for a winter mountain bike short track race series. Two riders charging through a pine trail sit above a bold angled shield badge, giving the mark speed, energy and a community feel. High-contrast purple, lime and ice-blue palette with a snowflake accent for the winter theme. Includes a one-color wordmark version for apparel, number plates and merch.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/115/115192/attachment_115192831 "Contest submission for a jewelry and beauty brand named after its founder. A personal-name brand in this category lives or dies on the monogram — it has to work at ring-box scale, stamped, and embossed, long before it works as a full wordmark.
The OB mark interlocks the two letters so the B's bowls nest inside the O's counter, sharing a single stem. High-contrast didone strokes give it the thick-to-hairline transition that reads as fine jewelry rather than fashion, and the shared stem keeps the outline compact enough to hold at small sizes without the letters separating.
The wordmark sits below in the same serif at a lighter weight, letterspaced so it stays quiet and lets the monogram lead.
Built as a flat single-colour system across black, champagne gold and cream, so it works on packaging, embossed card, and over editorial photography.
Vector build in Illustrator, mockups in Photoshop.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/115/115357/attachment_115357743 "Contest submission for a property management company. The name gives you two things — rooflines and a sunset — and most entries in this category pick one. This mark builds a single shape where both read at once: three linked gable peaks that double as a horizon, a small sun sitting in the gap between them, and stepped rules below that work as either sunset rays or water reflection.
Linking the roofs matters. Property management is about a portfolio, not one house, so the mark shows multiple buildings held together rather than a single home icon.
Stacked serif lettering keeps it composed rather than salesy, which is the right register for owners handing over an asset.
Built as a four-way colour system — dark on light, dark on gold, gold on charcoal, gold on olive — so it holds up on signage, documents and over listing photography.
Vector build in Illustrator, mockups in Photoshop.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/144/144499/attachment_144499300 "Contest submission for a surf and watersport brand. The category runs on literal wave illustrations, so this one strips the wave down to a single continuous stroke — an \"e\" whose tail curls into a breaking lip. One letter, one gesture, no scene.
The mark sits in a rounded square so it works as an app icon, a sticker and a boardstamp without any redraw. Alongside it, a soft geometric sans with an open, low-contrast feel keeps the whole lockup calm rather than aggressive — this brand is closer to the water than to the competition circuit.
Built as a flat single-colour system, which is what the real applications demand: white knockout over surf photography, solid over apparel, small on hardware.
Vector build in Illustrator, mockup and presentation in Photoshop.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/152/152102/attachment_152102371 "Contest submission for a souvenir tee built around Koko Head, the Oahu hike known for its 1,000-step railway tie stairway.
The artwork treats that stairway as the hero. The mountain is rendered as a coarse halftone so the trail line reads straight up the centre as a clear graphic path — this is a shirt people buy because they finished the climb, so the climb has to be visible in it.
Everything else is restrained: an arched wordmark above, a flat baseline below, one flat sun disc in yellow as the single accent. Two spot colours on natural cotton, no gradients, all texture built into the halftone so it prints cleanly by screen and ages like a real souvenir tee rather than a DTG print.
Artwork and halftone in Photoshop, lettering and vector separation in Illustrator.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/152/152166/attachment_152166434 "Contest submission for a multi-author book on breaking limits and rebuilding identity. Rather than illustrate the abstract idea, the cover borrows a physical instrument for it: a performance gauge with the needle pushed past the top of the dial.
The whole layout is built on that dial. The subtitle curves along the arc as tick-mark labels, so the copy reads as part of the instrument instead of type placed over an image. \"100\" sits at the centre where a readout would be — the number does the title work at thumbnail size, before anyone reads a word.
Cyan glow against near-black keeps it feeling engineered rather than motivational, and a gold needle adds the one premium note the category expects.
Built and composited in Photoshop, typography and curved type set in Illustrator.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/154/154399/attachment_154399903 "Contest submission for a teen life-skills guide. The book covers money, cooking, time management and laundry — a scattered list that most covers try to solve with one generic photo. This one leans into the scatter instead.
Hand-drawn doodles for each skill — chef's hat, stopwatch, t-shirt on a line, rubber gloves, medal, magnifier — orbit the title like margin notes in a school exercise book. They read as the table of contents without a single extra word, and they make the book feel like something a teen already owns rather than something handed to them.
Type stays chunky and hand-lettered so it belongs to the same hand as the doodles. Yellow on chalk-textured blue for thumbnail contrast, then a torn-paper strip at the base to hold the long subtitle where it won't compete.
Lettering and doodles in Procreate, layout in Illustrator, texture and finishing in Photoshop.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/152/152509/attachment_152509979 "Contest submission for a self-help book on teen social anxiety. The subject is isolation, so the cover argues the opposite — a tight group of teens crowded into one frame, overlapping, mid-laugh. It shows the outcome the reader wants, not the problem they have.
Type takes the top two-thirds because this book lives as a thumbnail on a retail grid. A heavy rounded sans in yellow on royal blue survives at 100px, and the title is split across three weights so \"Social Skills\" reads first, everything else second. The subtitle carries the long-tail keywords the category needs without crowding the hierarchy.
Rounded letterforms and a warm group shot keep it friendly rather than clinical — this sits next to clinical-looking anxiety books, and the difference is the point.
Imagery generated with AI, composited and graded in Photoshop, type and layout in Illustrator.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/152/152227/attachment_152227046 "Contest submission for a self-help book aimed at teenage boys. The category is full of covers designed to reassure parents, not to be picked up by the kid they're bought for — so this one had to survive both audiences.
The photographic half does the work for the buyer: a teen alone at the edge of an open valley, seen from behind so the reader stands in his place. Aspirational, not instructional.
The top half speaks to the boy. Rough brush lettering with visible texture instead of clean type, hand-drawn doodles scattered around it — lightbulbs, paper planes, question marks — that read as notebook margins rather than a lesson plan. Yellow against blue keeps it high-contrast at thumbnail, which is where the buying decision actually happens.
Doodles and lettering in Procreate, layout in Illustrator, compositing and colour grade in Photoshop.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/152/152304/attachment_152304066 "Contest submission for a guided journal that adults give their fathers to fill in. The buyer isn't the reader, so the cover had to work as a gift first — warm enough to hand over, restrained enough that an older man won't find it sentimental.
The illustration keeps both figures in silhouette and walking away from us. No faces means no one is excluded: any reader can place their own father and their own childhood into it. The long shadow and the widening path carry the memory idea without a single nostalgia cliché — no photo frames, no sepia, no handwriting scrawl.
Type is split deliberately. A textured serif for \"Life Story\" reads as the past, a cleaner script for \"Journal for Dad\" reads as the present act of writing. The pale blue keeps the whole thing calm on a crowded thumbnail grid, which is where most of these sell.
Illustration in Procreate, type and layout in Illustrator, texture and colour grade in Photoshop.")
About
"Experienced Graphic Designer with a focus on building strong, effective visual identities. Specializing in Packaging Design, Key Visuals (KV), and Branding Material, I have a proven track record of helping brands transform complex ideas into functional, high-impact designs. I am dedicated to delivering professional results that resonate with your target audience and elevate your brand's presence in the market."
Member since:
March 22, 2017
Reviews
"Great work and went beyond what I expected! "
jonsweeney3q
reviewed about 2 months ago
"Thank you so much! I really enjoyed creating the Sound & Summit logo, and I’m glad it exceeded your expectations. It was a pleasure working with you!"
ANDRRE95
responded about 2 months ago