
gillian drier
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Hey! I'm Gillian. But you can call me Gill.
I'm a Designer based in Madison Wisconsin. I currently work as a full-time designer for Shine United. Unfortunately, I'm unable to accept any new freelance clients (it's been busy). But I'm happy to chat about a design project you have in mind as a consult! Send me a message in the form below with any questions you might have.
Work Experience
Jan 2020 - Present
Visual Designer
Campus Sonar
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Graphic and Multimedia Designer
Care Wisconsin
Sept 2017 - April 2018
Graphic Production Artist
Western States
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Developed a brand and sub-brand from the ground-up as the sole in-house designer on a 4-person marketing team
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Design website, digital reports, guides, digital fliers, social media images, Google Slide presentations, swag, a 360-page book, and other deliverables
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Constructed an original visual iconography set with customized avatars
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Revamped website design with a complete website overhaul
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Collaborating in a 5-person marketing team to make design disability-accessible for over 750 employees and +13,000 members in 55 separate counties across Wisconsin.
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Responsible for redesigning and redirecting the company's brand. First graphic designer to work at organization since its inception in 1976. As part of this strategy, I integrated existing design elements into the redesign to make the brand transition a simplified process.
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Create new branding materials and deliverables in a variety of forms including brochures, business cards, Wordpress website, letterheads, envelopes, folders, fliers, print templates, PowerPoint presentations, Sharepoint intranet website, t-shirt’s, billboards, social media, car wraps, and more.
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Planned and designed over the course of 6 months for the All-Staff Employee Conference surrounding the theme “What’s Next?”, in which +750 people attended.
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Collaborated with and advised customers to complete the design, production, and release of printed marketing materials for businesses and organizations
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Assembled and prepared final press-ready files based on supplied specifications for several types of printing.
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Exceeded expectations, by completing an average of 41 jobs per day, performing at 205% of required rate, with 99% accuracy.