Agency work, 2020 to 2021

ZAG Interactive

For about six months I was a Senior Graphic Designer at ZAG Interactive, a digital agency that builds websites for banks and credit unions. Most of my work there was for financial institutions, and I was the lead designer on each project below.

Role
Senior Graphic Designer
Clients
Banks, credit unions and a health startup
Certified
Kentico 12 Content Admin

Brand identity

BlueBackHealth

I designed this identity on my own. The mark is a blue bubble with a path cut through it, paired with the line Know the way. A six-page guide sets the rules for logo use, color, type and imagery, and a stationery set carries it onto paper.

  • Logo
  • Guidelines
  • Stationery
BlueBackHealth horizontal logo with the Know the way tagline
Primary with tagline
Stacked BlueBackHealth logo with tagline
Stacked
BlueBackHealth logo without tagline
Without tagline

The guide, all six pages

BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 1
BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 2
BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 3
BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 4
BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 5
BlueBackHealth brand guidelines page 6
BlueBackHealth letterhead, envelope and two-sided notecard
Letterhead, envelope and notecard

Website redesign

Four Points Federal Credit Union

I assisted on the Four Points redesign, designing page templates for savings, the member blog and seasonal auto loan offers. Every brand color got a darker partner for small text, so the bright palette still passed contrast.

The finished site was named a Kentico Site of the Month, August 2021

  • Web design
  • Accessibility
  • Landing pages

Page templates hover to scroll

Four Points savings accounts page with a comparison table
Savings, comparison table
Four Points savings accounts page with product cards
Savings, card layout
Four Points blog index with a featured article and category cards
Blog index
Four Points blog article, The right way to buy a car
Blog article
Blue spring auto loan landing page with a photo and lead form
Auto loan landing page
Orange auto loan landing page variant with piggy bank illustration
Illustrated variant
Four Points color ramp showing large text and normal text shades of red, green, orange and blue
Accessible color ramp

Social campaign

Home Equity Heroes

A home equity campaign for a community bank, which I designed on my own. Each hero is named for the project a loan could pay for, from Backyard Ben to Vacation Victor, and every post is framed by the outline of the cape-and-house mark.

  • Campaign identity
  • Social
  • Web banners
Home Equity Heroes hero image of a boy flying with a sheet as a cape
Web hero
Home Equity Heroes wide web banner
Web banner

Nine heroes

Backyard Ben social post for Home Equity Heroes
Backyard Ben
Bathroom Bella social post for Home Equity Heroes
Bathroom Bella
DIY Dan social post for Home Equity Heroes
DIY Dan
Kitchen Khloe social post for Home Equity Heroes
Kitchen Khloe
Laundry Lauren social post for Home Equity Heroes
Laundry Lauren
Pool Time Paula social post for Home Equity Heroes
Pool Time Paula
Rainy Day Don social post for Home Equity Heroes
Rainy Day Don
Road Trip Ryan social post for Home Equity Heroes
Road Trip Ryan
Vacation Victor social post for Home Equity Heroes
Vacation Victor

Also at ZAG

Explainers and certification

I made explainer graphics that walk clients through logo files: compression, raster versus vector, and transparent backgrounds. I also earned the Kentico 12 Content Admin Essentials certification in March 2021, the CMS behind sites like Four Points.

  • Client education
  • CMS
ZAG logo on wood shown with no compression and with high compression
Compression
Zoomed ZAG logo comparing raster pixels to a clean vector edge
Raster vs vector
ZAG logo on a white background and on a transparent background
Backgrounds
Kentico 12 Content Admin Essentials certificate for Ryan Thorp, March 2, 2021
Kentico certificate