multidisciplinary designer + Artist

I'm Allison — a multidisciplinary designer and creative leader with over a decade of experience building brands, crafting motion, illustrating worlds, and in general, making things that look and feel right.

My background is unusually wide: I've designed full brand identity systems, animated explainer videos, illustrated tabletop game worlds, built 3D assets, and produced podcasts. I've done it as a solo contributor, as a key team member, and as a creative director managing strategy, budget, and a team. Spending my career as a creative chameleon, constantly adopting across mediums, industries, and audiences, has given me an unexpected superpower: thinking in systems AND stories at the same time.

Most recently, I spent three years at Paytient as their Multimedia Designer, working as a core member of a small creative team supporting a rapidly growing health tech startup scaling toward hundreds of enterprise clients. I took projects from brief to final delivery, building and maintaining templates, systems, and visual consistency that kept the brand cohesive across social, email, events, and (cobranded) partner collateral.

Before that, I led creative direction at Panda Bear Creative, a boutique promotional marketing agency where I managed multiple brand identities simultaneously across tech and cannabis clients. My work spanned the full creative scope: developing and executing marketing campaigns across email and social media, designing logos, illustrations, and merchandise materials from concept to production-ready (Pantone-matched) files, and maintaining brand consistency across every client touchpoint. When my plate was full, I delegated design tasks to other team members, providing direction and feedback to ensure consistent quality regardless of who was executing. I also managed a $25k annual marketing budget, developed campaign calendars, and kept a close eye on trends and competitive positioning to make sure that our clients stayed relevant and visually sharp.

I work best with teams that care about quality, move with intention, and appreciate a designer who asks why before picking up an Apple pencil.

Software I live in: Adobe Creative Suite (Express · Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · AfterEffects · ProCreate · Premiere · Firefly) · Figma · Google Workspace · Meta Ads · Canva · Webflow · Framer · Slack · HubSpot · Confluence · Jira · Maya · ZBrush · ToonBoom ·

Outside the studio: I'm Colorado-raised, Atlanta-based, and always looking to expand my horizons. I'm deeply into geek culture: anime, Lord of the Rings, DC comics, Venture Brothers, Fourth Wing, video games, anything that brings a little magic into this world. The best storytelling is meticulous about world-building and (visual) consistency, and that obsession bleeds into how I approach brand work.

I also ski (backcountry + double black diamonds), am pretty darn good at cooking + crafting cocktails (if I do say so myself), am an avid hockey + soccer fan, crochet cute critters for my baby nieces + nephews, like to travel whenever + wherever possible, and have a black cat named Spooky who supervises all my work. I also have an Aruban-Dutch husband, dus ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, kende al Spaans, en ben Papiaments aan het leren.

I also volunteer as a graphic designer for 50501_GA, because I believe design has power and that power should go toward things that matter. “There is some good in this world, Mr Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.” (Samwise Gamgee)