Experience

Pact Studio

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder + Creative Lead

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Working with innovative and equitable companies to design intentional and engaging identity systems, websites, packaging, environments, campaigns, and more. Working with innovative and equitable companies to design intentional and engaging identity systems, websites, packaging, environments, campaigns, and more.



WIN: Women in Innovation

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SF ambassador + WIN Relay founding team member

  • Dec 2020 - Present



natiko.design

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Creative Director

  • Apr 2019 - Jan 2021

  I assemble and work with teams of kick-ass pros on projects of all sizes and across all industries, including NewSpace, tech, CPG, cannabis, energy conservancy, environmental activism, hospitality, marketing, education, health & wellness, banking/investment, outdoor recreation, non-profit, and more. Clients include: Wolff Olins, VSA Partners, Google, Betterment, Crossover Health, Linked In, Leo Burnett, 826 Valencia, and multiple stealth-mode entrepreneurial ventures. I assemble and work with teams of kick-ass pros on projects of all sizes and across all industries, including NewSpace, tech, CPG, cannabis, energy conservancy, environmental activism, hospitality, marketing, education, health & wellness, banking/investment, outdoor recreation, non-profit, and more. Clients include: Wolff Olins, VSA Partners, Google, Betterment, Crossover Health, Linked In, Leo Burnett, 826 Valencia, and multiple stealth-mode entrepreneurial ventures.



Type West at Letterform Archive

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postgraduate Student in Typeface Design

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019



Play SF

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Director / Partner

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

  Led creative, build identities, oversaw teams and vendors, collaborated on strategies and naming, helped bring and manage clients as well as build out the processes and studio positioning. Designed brand systems, magazines, beer packaging, websites, invites, events, animations, and more — all for clients of all sizes and within a broad spectrum of industries, including tech, art, food & bev, self-improvement, healthcare, hospitality, and home goods. Clients include Intuit, Original Pattern Brewing Company, Ghost Locomotion, Gross Magazine, South Park Commons, Ruby, Trove, DotLab, Mursion, Supergood, Amazon, West Ventures, BBDO and more. Show less



Leo Burnett

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP Design Director

  • Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

  Led teams and rolled up my sleeves on a plethora of projects. Helped develop brands, campaigns, products, publications, initiatives, events, illustrations, animations, websites, movements, large scale climbable installations, fundraising balls, cookbooks, hand-painted murals, 3D mapping projections, interactive laser-cut magnetic walls, beach parties, donut booths, fridge races, and silly quizzes. Collaborated with Leo Burnett's entrepreneurial division, Farmhouse, on creating innovation initiatives for leaders in food & bev, CPG, and entertainment. Clients include Field Musem, Art Institute of Chicago, Marwen, Samsung, Lollapalooza, E&J Gallo, Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, P&G, Allstate, Kraft, Purina, Peace One Day, Whitewave, Delta Faucet, Com-ed, McDonald's, Miller, Marshalls, Celeste, new business and internal initiatives. Show less

• Design Director

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2016

• Senior Designer

  • Dec 2010 - Nov 2012



Arc Worldwide

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior art director

  • May 2008 - Nov 2010

  Art Direction for Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, Coke Mini, Coke Zero, Minute Maid, Vitamin Water, Dasani, and more. Collaboration on new business pitches. Illustration for an elaborate animated internal opera. Art Direction for Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, Coke Mini, Coke Zero, Minute Maid, Vitamin Water, Dasani, and more. Collaboration on new business pitches. Illustration for an elaborate animated internal opera.



Upshot Agency

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Art Director

  • Oct 2006 - Apr 2008

  Art directed print ads, POS, websites, events, and photo shoots, as well as created illustrations for Miller, P&G, Disney, Finish Line, and new business pitches. Art directed print ads, POS, websites, events, and photo shoots, as well as created illustrations for Miller, P&G, Disney, Finish Line, and new business pitches.



Publicom

• Creative Intern / Jr Art Director

  • Jan 2006 - Sep 2006

  Concepts and designs for TV spots, identity, direct mail, and print campaigns. Concepts and designs for TV spots, identity, direct mail, and print campaigns.



Red Cedar Log / MSU

• Photojournalist

  • Jan 2006 - May 2006



Ogrodnicy Krusikiewicz

• Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

• Art Director / Graphic and Landscape Designer

  • May 2002 - Aug 2005

  Summer job during college years. I got my first taste of the business developing identity, web layouts, print, and landscape designs. Summer job during college years. I got my first taste of the business developing identity, web layouts, print, and landscape designs.