2020 was a doozy, so Mailchimp decided to make their report focus more on their customers’ success stories and bright spots rather than dwell the negative things that happened. I illustrated the report with Chris Sandlin and Luke Webster, and then Linda McNeil animated the whole thing. Our killer dev team put it all together with crazy speed. Check it out here.
Awards:
D&AD Graphite Pencil - Illustration
D&AD Wood Pencil - Graphic Design
ADC Silver Cube - Brand/Communication Design
The One Club Bronze Pencil
Christian Widlic - Creative Director
Ross Zietz - Art Director
Meg Lindsay - Designer
Austin Ray - Writer
Chris McGee, Christina Scavone - Comms
Jordan Andree, Brian Ball - Dev
and countless others tbh
Goldstar Recordings is a record label based in Australia and Nashville, TN.
MC Records is Mailchimp’s record label.
Profile + Principle is a modern architecture firm in Nashville, TN that I named and branded in partnership with Mark Kirby.
Logo for a company that makes licensed college sports collectibles.
Logo for the kids clothing brand I started with my family.
Logo for an imaginary factory for a real Mattiel album.
Logo for my favorite DJ.
Bowli Hai was a proposed tiki bowling lounge that wasn’t to be. Too bad, it would've been awesome.
Kanga is a crowdsource delivery app. This was an unused option developed in partnership with Matchstic.
I’ve illustrated and art directed two games for Mailchimp. I also helped set a lot of the general vibe of the games and helped write the jokes.
You’re a bodega cat, dodging snacks from a villainous vending machine. Play it here.
Awards:
FWA Site of the Day
Awwwards Honorable Mention
You’re young Freddie, before he inherited a multi-million dollar email business (and before the internet). Prove to your pops that you have what it takes to run the family business by delivering some postcards and by not getting obliterated by an abandoned shopping cart. Play it here.
Additional Credits:
Game Development and Project Lead: Chase Curry
Animation: Linda McNeil
Additional Illustration: Luke Webster
Music: Luke Webster
SFX, Post Haste: Caleb Andrews
SFX, Meow Mart: Luke Webster
Producer, Post Haste: Elizabeth Teasley
Producer, Meow Mart: Paul Byk
Additional Art Direction, Meow Mart: Ross Zietz
Additional Illustration, Post Haste: Joe Montefusco
I’ve been fortunate to work on quite a number of parades at Mailchimp. I have been the lead designer on all these projects. For the Inman Park Parades, I was the creative lead. With the Pride Parades, I partnered with artists from the LGBTQ+ community to help transfer their vision to balloons, giveaways, and parade participant apparel.
Additional Credits:
Photography: Jamie Hopper, Albrica Tierra, Lizzy Johnston
AD: Ross Zietz
Additional Linocuts, Inman Park Parade: Mattiel Brown, Luke Webster
Parade Coordinator: Ashley Wilson
Pride Parade Consultation: Pride Employee Resource Group at Mailchimp
Pride Parade fabrication partner: XD Agency
I was lucky enough to design the logo and every poster for Atlanta’s coolest dance party.
I partnered with the cool dudes at Brother Moto to design two tees for their spring/summer line. The designs were based on 1970s motocross.
Unfamous Pirates from Arrrrgh! to Z is an unfinished children's book about the most fearsome and fumbling swashbucklers to ever fade into complete obscurity. Their tales of mischief, misadventure, and mismanagement are collected here to amuse and horrify the ages. All ages. I illustrated this book myself and wrote the poems with my wife.
Designed the LP, CD, Cassette, and 8 Track. Cover photo by Troy Stains.
Designed the LP, CD, and Cassette versions. Cover painting by Brent Funderburk.
I designed and illustrated this one by South Carolina roots rock band HoneySmoke.
I designed and took the cover photo (using rear projection!) for this EP by alt-country musician Ian Campbell. The back photo is by Karla Jean Davis.
More design and illustration for The Explorers Club.
Vintage-styled trade ad for Shindig! Magazine, a publication centered around vintage music.
Design for a big band jazz singer. Photography by Karla Jean Davis.
A poster for Susan Cain, the author of a book about using introversion to your advantage, which really spoke to me for some reason.
I made a poster about stressing out about making a poster for one of my heroes, Art Spiegelman (Author of Maus, creator of Garbage Pail Kids, etc etc).
Poster for a monthly event at Lloyds resembling 1970s rock mags.
A poster for a silent film tribute/satire directed by Karla Jean Davis.
Chomp and Stomp is an annual chili cookoff/music festival that benefits the historic neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Atlanta, GA.
A poster for a fundraiser event for Lazarus Ministries inspired by a CS Lewis quote.
The nugget is an online blog for the Chick-fil-A Foundation, a charity organization. Done in partnership with The SuperGroup.
Fresh Food is an initiative to get kids to care about eating veggies. We made about 10 original characters (some based on celebrities) with infographics for parents and activity sheets for kids. Done in partnership with The SuperGroup.
Internal and Consumer-facing logos for various clients. Done in partnership with the SuperGroup.
The Listerine Brand Toolbox is an annual report and all-in-one sales guide for the Listerine Sales Team. Done in partnership with The SuperGroup.
Done in partnership with The SuperGroup.
Chick-fil-A's guide to organizational changes and campus redesign. Done in partnership with The SuperGroup.
