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Design for Music

Visualizing your sound.

MY BRAND JOURNEY:

My path to graphic design actually began with music! Back in my wee high school days, I wanted to get more involved in my local music scene. I wasn’t a stage performer but I knew I enjoyed art and design, so I invented Amp’d Designs and started working with local bands to create logos, album covers, and gig posters. Fast forward a few years, I decided to study design and landed an amazing internship at Atlantic Records.

During design school, I realized that my true passion was branding. While most of my projects now are collaborations with businesses, I still absolutely love opportunities to apply my value-based design process in collaborations with bands, artists, and music industry professionals, helping them grow and translating their unique sounds to visual design.

I actually gave a talk at PechaKucha Asheville on how music led me to my current business and branding projects!

Atlantic Records

During my time in the Art Department at Atlantic Records, I had opportunities to work on projects for many of the label's artists and internal programs.

I enjoyed using illustration and typography inventively to enhance the voice of each project.

716 Local Music

In college, I founded 716 Local Music, an online magazine featuring musicians from my hometown of Buffalo, NY, to help them expand their audiences. I developed the identity for the publication, and each month I interviewed bands, wrote articles, designed the layout, managed the social media, and managed communications.

The response to 716 Local Music was wonderful, and I had opportunities to publish extended editions, outsource writing, print special issues, release a music compilation of included artists, appear on a local radio show, and look inside different areas of the music industry.