Hey!
I’m Ryan.
Let’s create something cool together.
Art with Heart
My work tells a story through a celebration of color, geometry, and typography.
Brand Design
Illustration
UI / UX
Marketing Consulting
Writing
Photography
My toolkit
Adobe Creative Cloud
WordPress
Canva
HTML
CSS
Jquery
Adobe Illustrator
Figma
Microsoft Office
Google Docs
Squarespace
Sketch
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
HubSpot
Shopify
I work well with:
Animators, Backend Web Developers, Marketers, and other creative folks.
Clients
I’ve been very fortunate to work with clients from a wide range of industries and backgrounds. I do not take their trust for granted. Thank you to all of my clients who’ve supported me!
The growing businesses who I owe this all to:
You’ve probably heard of them:
Some kind words from kind people:
Work
Here is a sample of work that scratches the surface of my experience and abilities.
Looking for something specific? Reach out!
- All
- Branding
- Illustration
- Layout
- Packaging
- UI / UX
Creative Direction
Logo design and illustrated branding elements for Sherry's Soda Shoppe in Denver, Colorado.
360° Rebrand
Style guide for a brand refresh. I was in charge of the logo, colors, fonts, packaging, and all other graphic elements. Cool Jacks Handcrafters Ice Cream Sandwiches
Branded Site
Colors, fonts, layout, and more—I designed this photo- and user-forward website for American-Italian restaurant Lou's Italian Specialties.
Digital Badges
Badges for Openfit, a fitness app owned and operated by Beachbody. I took initiative to create a spectrum of inclusive imagery.
freezer box
Cool Jacks was one of my very first clients, and we're still working together today, constantly iterating and growing the brand. This box is making its way into grocery stores across the U.S.
Style Guide Deck
Color, Typography, Illustration, and slide design for political nonprofit Donor Organizer Hub.
Style Guide
Style Guide for Famous Original J's Pizza, an East Coast-inspired pizza joint in Denver, Colorado. All elements—including the logo, fonts, and colors—were created and chosen by me.
Brand Guide PPT
Presentation design and brand guidelines for Boon Health coaching.
Responsive
Homegrown site for renowned landscaping business, featuring custom iconography, simple navigation, and beautiful full-screen photos.
ice cream
Modern meets vintage with these two-toned ice pints, designed exclusively for Sherry's Soda Shoppe of Denver, CO.
WordPress Site
One-of-a-kind website for a medical practice, featuring my logo design, typography, and color work, developed on a fun and functional WordPress backend.
Look & Feel
How do you make four restaurants feel connected to each other through design? These raised print business cards use repeating patterns and styles to tell a cohesive and individual story.
Line work
Art Deco-inspired intro panel for a series of menu boards featuring stylized images of your favorite East Coast carb-loaded food and beverages.
In-store
I designed and oversaw the printing of every bit of branded signage in this store, including huge menu boards, window decals, item flags, and print menus.
E-commerce
Shopify-backed online store, pairing a nostalgic look-and-feel with modern simplicity. I built the site, logo, product mockups, and font and color systems.
Application
Custom-designed and -coded e-commerce application to build and purchase a one-of-a-kind ice cream sandwich.
E-commerce
Clean, modern, monochromatic WordPress site built to last, featuring an online store and custom iconography for a dermatology practice.
Animated Menu
I smiled ear-to-ear as a watched my 2D illustrations, text, and patterns move and shake in this super fun animated menu, featured on big screens at Rosenberg's Bagels & Delicatessen.
Responsive
Sleek, branded, responsive site for a local pizza joint in Denver, CO. Built on WordPress, designed to look good on any device.
Brand Guide
Logo and branding elements for a cannabis dispensary in the Midwest. I was in charge of logo design, colors, fonts, and all illustrative elements.
Anti-Racism
Children are resilient, intuitive, and ready to dive into important topics. such as racism. This snippet is from a worksheet I designed to get parents and their kids to begin conversations around equality and justice.
Logo System
A system of colorful logos to shape-shift from print to web and everything in between.
ads + flyers
From B2B to DTC and every jargony initialism in-between, we keep Cool Jacks' messaging clear and fun!
Digital Badges
One-of-a-kind badges to be earned by participants using a fitness app.
Conceptualization
Logo concept and design for a mobile IV treatment facility in Colorado.
Logo + Print
Logo, branding, and print design for a real estate firm in Breckenridge and Denver, Colorado.
Handdrawn Packaging
Handdrawn logo design and packaging for an organic coffee farm in Hawaii.
Illustration
Closets are for monsters, not human beings! A cute illustration in honor of LGBTQ Pride.
Logo
Colorful graphic representing the peaks and skies of the Appalachian mountains. This graphic was used as stickers, shirts, and social media images
Frontend Development
Responsive mobile web mockups featuring custom iconography and animated GIFs for a tech company.
illustration
One-of-a-kind minimal illustration used as the cover of a cookbook for logistics firm ShipCompliant
LGBTQ+ Pride
Imagining the famous haunted Blucifer statue on the road to Denver International Airport as a colorful unicorn
Menu Design
Artwork comes to life as my work—logo design, typography, and color selection—decorates the windows of Famous Original J's Pizza in Denver, CO.
Packaging
It is so fun to see my work on screen come to life across different channels! I created the logo and color scheme.
Social Post
Brand colors are transformed into a gorgeous, flowing, inclusive rainbow for Boon's celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Branded Paper Goods
One customer said it better than I can in a unsolicited email: “I just had to let you all know that whoever did the design on your to-go bags is brilliant." Thank you, stranger!
Stickers
Stickers honoring the natural beauty and majesty of the west coast.
Apparel
Shirt design for a farming summer camp.
Slide Deck
Example of a sleek, modern presentation for a FinTech startup.
Mural
One of many murals designed for Denver's famous Rosenberg's Delicatessen. I love the use of the same pattern in different contacts—how diamonds can represent everything seasoning, pizza toppings, and a starry sky!
Pride
Custom gradient mesh and typography created to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride through apparel, stickers, and flags.
Technical Brochure
One of many technical manuals, brochures, and ads for Kelso Technologies, which produces parts for railroads. Who knew trains could be so modern?
brand concept
Logo and brand colors designed by me make their way into the real world in this ad for Quality Roots. I love seeing my brand work informing the context around the original creations.
to-go bags
I love seeing familiar objects take unfamiliar forms. Pasta carefully simplified to squiggles, mushrooms transforming into a dancing pattern, olives and tomatoes becoming one-in-the-same. This is the kind of design that lights me up!
Print Menu
Modern and funky kids menu + coloring page.
Oh, you want to see more?
- All
- Branding
- Illustration
- Layout
- Packaging
- UI / UX
Creative Direction
Logo design and illustrated branding elements for Sherry's Soda Shoppe in Denver, Colorado.
360° Rebrand
Style guide for a brand refresh. I was in charge of the logo, colors, fonts, packaging, and all other graphic elements. Cool Jacks Handcrafters Ice Cream Sandwiches
Branded Site
Colors, fonts, layout, and more—I designed this photo- and user-forward website for American-Italian restaurant Lou's Italian Specialties.
Digital Badges
Badges for Openfit, a fitness app owned and operated by Beachbody. I took initiative to create a spectrum of inclusive imagery.
freezer box
Cool Jacks was one of my very first clients, and we're still working together today, constantly iterating and growing the brand. This box is making its way into grocery stores across the U.S.
Style Guide Deck
Color, Typography, Illustration, and slide design for political nonprofit Donor Organizer Hub.
Style Guide
Style Guide for Famous Original J's Pizza, an East Coast-inspired pizza joint in Denver, Colorado. All elements—including the logo, fonts, and colors—were created and chosen by me.
Brand Guide PPT
Presentation design and brand guidelines for Boon Health coaching.
Responsive
Homegrown site for renowned landscaping business, featuring custom iconography, simple navigation, and beautiful full-screen photos.
ice cream
Modern meets vintage with these two-toned ice pints, designed exclusively for Sherry's Soda Shoppe of Denver, CO.
WordPress
One-of-a-kind website for a medical practice, featuring my logo design, typography, and color work, developed on a fun and functional WordPress backend.
Look & Feel
How do you make four restaurants feel connected to each other through design? These raised print business cards use repeating patterns and styles to tell a cohesive and individual story.
Responsive
Sleek, branded, responsive site for a local pizza joint in Denver, CO. Built on WordPress, designed to look good on any device.
Shopify
Shopify-backed online store, pairing a nostalgic look-and-feel with modern simplicity. I built the site, logo, product mockups, and font and color systems.
E-Commerce
Clean, modern, monochromatic WordPress site built to last, featuring an online store and custom iconography for a dermatology practice.
Line work
Art Deco-inspired intro panel for a series of menu boards featuring stylized images of your favorite East Coast carb-loaded food and beverages.
In-store
I designed and oversaw the printing of every bit of branded signage in this store, including huge menu boards, window decals, item flags, and print menus.
Brand Guide
Logo and branding elements for a cannabis dispensary in the Midwest. I was in charge of logo design, colors, fonts, and all illustrative elements.
Anti-Racism
Children are resilient, intuitive, and ready to dive into important topics. such as racism. This snippet is from a worksheet I designed to get parents and their kids to begin conversations around equality and justice.
Logo System
A system of colorful logos to shape-shift from print to web and everything in between.
ads + flyers
From B2B to DTC and every jargony initialism in-between, we keep Cool Jacks' messaging clear and fun!
Digital Badges
One-of-a-kind badges to be earned by participants using a fitness app.
Conceptualization
Logo concept and design for a mobile IV treatment facility in Colorado.
Logo + Print
Logo, branding, and print design for a real estate firm in Breckenridge and Denver, Colorado.
Handdrawn Packaging
Handdrawn logo design and packaging for an organic coffee farm in Hawaii.
Illustration
Closets are for monsters, not human beings! A cute illustration in honor of LGBTQ Pride.
Logo
Colorful graphic representing the peaks and skies of the Appalachian mountains. This graphic was used as stickers, shirts, and social media images
illustration
One-of-a-kind minimal illustration used as the cover of a cookbook for logistics firm ShipCompliant
LGBTQ+ Pride
Imagining the famous haunted Blucifer statue on the road to Denver International Airport as a colorful unicorn
Menu Design
Artwork comes to life as my work—logo design, typography, and color selection—decorates the windows of Famous Original J's Pizza in Denver, CO.
Packaging
It is so fun to see my work on screen come to life across different channels! I created the logo and color scheme.
Social Post
Brand colors are transformed into a gorgeous, flowing, inclusive rainbow for Boon's celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Branded Paper Goods
One customer said it better than I can in a unsolicited email: “I just had to let you all know that whoever did the design on your to-go bags is brilliant." Thank you, stranger!
Stickers
Stickers honoring the natural beauty and majesty of the west coast.
Apparel
Shirt design for a farming summer camp.
Slide Deck
Example of a sleek, modern presentation for a FinTech startup.
Mural
One of many murals designed for Denver's famous Rosenberg's Delicatessen. I love the use of the same pattern in different contacts—how diamonds can represent everything seasoning, pizza toppings, and a starry sky!
Pride
Custom gradient mesh and typography created to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride through apparel, stickers, and flags.
Technical Brochure
One of many technical manuals, brochures, and ads for Kelso Technologies, which produces parts for railroads. Who knew trains could be so modern?
brand concept
Logo and brand colors designed by me make their way into the real world in this ad for Quality Roots. I love seeing my brand work informing the context around the original creations.
to-go bags
I love seeing familiar objects take unfamiliar forms. Pasta carefully simplified to squiggles, mushrooms transforming into a dancing pattern, olives and tomatoes becoming one-in-the-same. This is the kind of design that lights me up!
Print Menu
Modern and funky kids menu + coloring page.
Oh, you want to see more?
Your investment goes a long way.
When you’re working with me, you’re working with someone who chooses long-term solutions over quick fixes, someone who values collaboration over knowing it all, and someone who cares deeply about people and the quality of my work.
Experiencing sticker shock? I hear you. Let’s talk about what we can accomplish within your budget.
360° packages to launch a dream or reinvigorate what you already have.
Visual Brand
$8000+
Let’s build a system of logos, colors, fonts, and other graphic elements that inspires you, your team, and your customers. In the end, you’ll have a Brand Style Guide and high-resolution graphics for all of your use cases.
Brand Voice
$6000+
What does your business stand for? What emotions do you want people interacting with your brand to feel? From social media to your site, blog posts to press releases: we’ll build a system of words that mean something, and organize it in a way that allows anyone on your team to speak your unique language.
Custom WordPress Site
$8000+
Your online presence begins with your site. I will build a one-of-a-kind site integrating today’s best practices in SEO, responsive for all screen sizes (duh!). Have a preference for Squarespace, Shopify, or some other platform? We can make that happen too.
$200 / hr
Marketing Consulting
Whether you’re struggling with online presence, marketing strategy, or something else, I love helping businesses reach the next stage in their journey. If I do not have the skill set to help, I will find someone who does.
Creative Support
Graphic Design, Illustration, Writing for Business Marketing, Photography. I welcome a creative challenge!
Web Support
Frontend Development (HTML, CSS, and some JavaSript), SEO Implementation, WordPress, eCommerce Integration, Email Templates, Newsletter Templates, Web Mockups, and so on.
I’m a thinker, feeler, brand designer, illustrator, frontend web developer, artist, journaler, Brooklynite, dreamer, realist, skier, plant-based cook, yogi, born-and-raised Michigander, cyclist, empath, uncle, brother, queer person, dance-while-I-work-er, and a proud owner of a compost bin, among other things.
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