Hi! I’m Dylan 👋 I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and motion designer currently based in Santa Rosa, CA. I’m committed to the process of thoughtful design — leaning into research, customer insights, iterative testing and revisions, and collaborative problem solving as a means to arrive at successful solutions. If you’ve got a creative project mulling around in your head I would love to chat about how we could make it a reality. You can reach me via email at _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ If you’d like, you can catch up with my latest work on Instagram (@dylan_thurgood), or on my portfolio website (dylanthurgood.com). ✌️ --- **Employment and project experience** **Freelance Graphic Designer** Dylan Thurgood Creative _Jul 2016 - Present_ **Creative Intern** Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) _Jun 2019 - Aug 2019_ **Marketing Project Manager** Five Ultimate LLC. _Mar 2015 - Jul 2016_ --- **Qualifications and education** _AAS in Graphic Design_ at Seattle Central Creative Academy _BA in Fine Arts_ at University of Puget Sound

Hi! I’m Dylan 👋 I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and motion designer currently based in Santa Rosa, CA. I’m committed to the process of thoughtful design — leaning into research, customer insights, iterative testing and revisions, and collaborative problem solving as a means to arrive at successful solutions. If you’ve got a creative project mulling around in your head I would love to chat about how we could make it a reality. You can reach me via email at _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ If you’d like, you can catch up with my latest work on Instagram (@dylan_thurgood), or on my portfolio website (dylanthurgood.com). ✌️ --- **Employment and project experience** **Freelance Graphic Designer** Dylan Thurgood Creative _Jul 2016 - Present_ **Creative Intern** Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) _Jun 2019 - Aug 2019_ **Marketing Project Manager** Five Ultimate LLC. _Mar 2015 - Jul 2016_ --- **Qualifications and education** _AAS in Graphic Design_ at Seattle Central Creative Academy _BA in Fine Arts_ at University of Puget Sound

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Hi! I’m Dylan 👋

I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and motion designer currently based in Santa Rosa, CA.

I’m committed to the process of thoughtful design — leaning into research, customer insights, iterative testing and revisions, and collaborative problem solving as a means to arrive at successful solutions.

If you’ve got a creative project mulling around in your head I would love to chat about how we could make it a reality. You can reach me via email at Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

If you’d like, you can catch up with my latest work on Instagram (@dylan_thurgood), or on my portfolio website (dylanthurgood.com).

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Employment and project experience

Freelance Graphic Designer Dylan Thurgood Creative
Jul 2016 - Present

Creative Intern Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Marketing Project Manager Five Ultimate LLC.
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016


Qualifications and education

AAS in Graphic Design at Seattle Central Creative Academy

BA in Fine Arts at University of Puget Sound

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Experience Level

Adobe After Effects
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Adobe InDesign
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Editorial Illustration
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Procreate
Expert
Spot Illustration
Expert
2D Animation
Expert
Motion Graphic
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Advanced

Education

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Industry Experience

Consumer Goods, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Non-Profit Organization
    uniE621 ZooTunes Poster
    Please view the full project on my website: dylanthurgood.com/ZooTunes My task was to design and illustrate a poster to promote ZooTune’s 2020 lineup. I developed a visual style representative of the unique nature of this event to speak to the mixed audience this series attracts. graphicdesigner illustrator designer branding typographer
    uniE621 Wait But Why Magazine
    Please view the full project on my website: dylanthurgood.com/Wait_But_Why My task was to create a physical magazine that aggregates some of the longer multi-part posts from the Wait But Why blog into a marketable product for the blog’s online store. The magazine should function as a replacement to the unformatted pdfs that are currently sold on the blog, but should also feel like a premium collectible product that adds value to the otherwise free online content. graphicdesigner branding illustrator designer
    uniE621 Seattle Cider Seasonal Packaging
    Please view the full project on my website: dylanthurgood.com/Seattle_Cider Seattle Cider Co. makes small-batch craft cider in Washington State with locally sourced ingredients and an emphasis on quality flavor and stewardship-focused business practices. Their primary retail product falls into two categories: year-round staples, like Dry and Semi-Sweet, and rotating seasonal flavors like Oaked Maple and Berry Rosé. The release of seasonal flavors is an opportunity to engage consumers with unique cider varieties and capitalize on the scarcity mindset of limited availability. My task was to redesign the packaging for Seattle Cider Co.’s seasonal flavors to differentiate it from their year-round offerings and engage new customers. graphicdesigner branding designer
    uniE621 REI Co-op Gift Cards
    Please view the full project on my website: dylanthurgood.com/REI_Gift_Cards Each year REI Co-op updates their gift cards in time for the holiday season in an effort to renew customer excitement and increase purchase rates. I collaborated with the design team at REI to create two collections of gift cards that hit stores in October 2019. We aimed to create collections that were thoughtful, engaging, and delightful — helping remove the stigma of thoughtlessness associated with giving gift cards. By creating unified collections of topical cards that were relevant to how REI customers live their lives we were able to increase gift card purchases both online and in-store by 41% year over year. illustrator designer branding graphicdesigner