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Stitch Fix rebrand

Stitch Fix rebrand

2019-2020

My role:

Designer, Art Director

The project:

Stitch Fix brought me on as to work alongside their Creative Director to execute a full rebrand of the company, covering every aspect of the brand’s identity from its name and logo to packaging and digital presence.

Credits:

Creative Director: Aaron Brown

Designer: Madi Krause

Brand Consultant: Marc Shillum

Illustrator: Mark DeLorenzo

Catch&Release

Client:

Catch&Release

Website:

catchandrelease.com

My role:

Art Director | Designer

What I did:

Directed and executed a complete re-brand of a modern content-licensing technology company from the ground up, from their website to brand guidelines and marketing.

 

Credits:

Marketing Manager:
Gianna Fornesi

 

San Francisco Bay Coffee

Client:

San Francisco Bay Coffee

My role:

Senior Designer | Art Director

The project

A staggering 40% of coffee drinkers use a single-cup brewing system. As coffee’s one of the most consumed products in the world, this leads to mountains of waste, with statistics that would leave your jaw on the floor.

San Francisco Bay Coffee’s fighting back with plant-based pods you can compost, and needed help getting the word out. We teamed up with talented illustrators Remus & Kiki to create a statistics-based campaign that reveals the truth behind coffee pod consumption and the greener alternative you now have.

Credits:

Creative Director:
Amy Su, Teddy Miller

Illustrators: Remus & Kiki, Psyop

The One Show

My role:

Senior Designer | Art Director

The project

The One Show is the world’s most prestigious award show in advertising and design, recognized for honoring groundbreaking creativity.

The award is especially meaningful because it sits at the core of the creative industry, devoid of politics or outside influence. An award put on by and for other creatives.

Cutwater was tapped to creative the branding for their 2025 awards, and thought what better way to honor the creative process than highlight the making of their very own award, which we captured through the use of grids, diagrams, and industry lingo.

Credits:

Creative Director:
Amy Su

Skyview

Full case study coming soon.

Zuora Re-Brand

 

My role:

Zuora

 

The project:

Ever think about how many business are switching their business model to a subscription platform? Chances are they are using Zuora to manage their logistics. 

Re-branding a company as big as Zuora was no small feat. The enormity of their company required intensive research and top to bottom organizational exercises to get to a place were we could start fresh, and display them in a light more palatable to the public.

To do this, Butchershop flipped the script and told the story of a modern subscription business through the eyes of the subscriber. 

Over the course of 6 months, I worked with the Butchershop team of copywriters and project managers to take a complex company model and make it refreshingly simple. A clean logo, subscriber-based imagery, inviting colors and a breezy illustration style worked together to show consumers how fun and simple it can be to switch your company to a subscription model. 

 

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

Head of Operations: Katherine Cambouris

Project Manager: Cody Beard

Copywriter: Marshall Worsham

Photography: Filterless

Developer: Sasha Vladimirskiy

 

Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

Different works

Alaska + Virgin acquisition

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The campaign:

During my time as Art Director for the Alaska Airlines account at Mekanism, Alaska dropped the bomb (a good bomb) on us that they decided to acquire Virgin. The result was a campaign called Different Works, that aimed to calm the frustrations of Virgin America lovers who had no f*ing clue why they were teaming up with the much less street-cool Alaska Airlines.

The idea was this: sometimes two things that you wouldn’t normally picture together produce extraordinary results.

 

Credits:

Agency: Mekanism

Creative Director: Matt Stafford

The North Face

My role:

Art Director | Designer

What I did:

First and foremost, the success of this campaigns visuals weighed on the type treatment. The goal was to create a layout that interacted simply yet dynamically with outdoor lifestyle-action photos in the background. I developed a diagonal grid with ample spacing, allowing imagery to shine through, and for new words to easily replace the tagline using the same system.

 

Credits:

Agency: Mekanism

Creative Director: Tommy Means

The Gotham Club

 

Client:

San Francisco Giants

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The project:

The Gotham Club isn’t your grandpa’s baseball club— well actually it probably is. But it can also be yours. Its history is rooted in the Giants original name, the New York Gothams.

The SF Giants came to Butchershop to brand a very exclusive, high-end club among various corners of AT&T Park. Among the club venues were a bowling alley + game room, on-field bull pen, and private bar.

To keep the club’s authenticity, heritage rained the most important influence in the brands identity. This meant that a healthy dose of historical research had to be done before design decisions were made. 

To introduce the club, I designed 2 custom mailers to send out to 10,000 season ticket holders, former players and VIPs. The mailer explained the origins of the name and timeline of the NY Gothams to SF Giants, and led you to a website where you could learn more and sign up for membership. 

 

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

Head of Operations: Alex King

Project Manager: Cody Beard

 

Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

The San Francisco Shipyard

 

Client:

Lennar Urban

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The Project:

Developing an identity for San Francisco’s newest district and largest redevelopment project in over a century.

To say the SF Shipyard had a rich history would be an understatement. Formally Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard,  it was important than the brand built would both honor the area’s storied, maritime past while laying the base for a new chapter. 

The new logo for the Shipyard became the heart and soul of the area’s story- the iconic Hunters Point gantry crane— to some an eye sore— acts as the areas industrial icon. It felt only right to glorify it. 

Included in this branding initiative was a fully interactive website, a leasing office, iconography, marketing collateral and a branding system set up for the release of future residences. 

 

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

Copywriter: Marshall Worsham

Head of Operations: Alex King

Project Manager: Cody Beard

Developer: Sasha Vladimirskiy

 

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Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

Finca Santa Teresa

 

Client:

Finca Santa Teresa

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The project:

While Finca Santa Teresa was one of the worlds respected coffee growers, it lacked a noteworthy brand identity that spoke of the quality and authenticity of its passionate Panama origin. The result was a sophisticated, geographical design that stood out from the sea of hip coffee start-ups.

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

 

Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

Fernet Francisco

 

Client:

Fernet Francisco

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The project:

Fernet Francisco, a new amaro liquor that was in the works, came to Butchershop with hopes of a label design that could compete with industry giants like Branca. Although a common goals of designers creating a label is “make it stand out on the shelf” it rarely does because everyone is doing the same thing.

I ran with the wild personality of the two makers themself, and created Frankie, the literally in-your-face, dapper spokesman for the company. You can’t miss him if you tried. Pair that with bright colors not typically scene on the Fernet shelf, and you’ve got a brand that now sits amongst its peers as one of the top Fernet brands in the world.

 

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

Project Manager: Cody Beard

Copywriter: Marshall Worsham 

 

Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

SP2 Restaurant

 

Client:

SP2

 

My role:

Art Director | Designer

The project

SP2 is San Jose’s most sought after communal bar and restaurant. They came to Butchershop for a complete identity before opening their doors, and we delivered everything from a their website to their bar coasters.

The soul of SP2 is communal and friendly. I made sure to remove elegance from my vocabulary on this one and create a raw, inviting persona that people could relate to.

Credits:

Agency: Butchershop Creative

Creative Director: Trevor Hubbard

Photography: Filterless

Developers: Sasha Vladimirskiy

 

Visit the website

 

Legal

Work carried out while employed at Butchershop Creative. Agency responsible for this client work.

Stitch Fix rebrand

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Catch&Release

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San Francisco Bay Coffee

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The One Show

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Skyview

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Zuora Re-Brand

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Different works

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The North Face

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The San Francisco Shipyard

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Finca Santa Teresa

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Fernet Francisco

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SP2 Restaurant

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