Hi hi, I’m Megan Eckersley 👋
Just a checker-obsessed girl who’s a novice tarot card reader, sci-fi nerd, foodie, & gamer. Currently, taking freelance as a designer & art director in New York City.🗽
Resume
Experience
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Feb 2024-Present
Currently available and taking new clients.
Worked with agencies like Brand New School on pharma, small business like Squigs Beauty, fintech startups like Titan, and full time tech contracts with Adobe and Frame.io
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Senior Visual Designer | Remote | June 2022- Jan 2024
As part of the Global Brand Studio I have been able to work on various projects that help our global marketing initiatives.On the AD/Design part of the team I have been able to flex my skill sets in multiple ways. I have helped work on art direction and branding for Forward. Square's business accelerator for black and latino entrepreneurs. This grant program reached thousands and had celebrities like Dwayne Wade, Rosario Dawson & Ayesha Curry. This project involved social design, motion graphics, web design, and environmental design.
I have also been tasked with helping with more internal initiatives and helped storyboard motion and worked with external partners to produce videos and more. I have also taken interest in taking the initiative to find opportunities in which I can flex and grow. I helped brand our 2023 Design Summit. It was a complete probono task that was done on top of my regular work load. With branding the summit I also helped organize that programing and speakers for it. It was a wonderful way to connect with designers throughout the org and an opportunity to work on something different from my day-to-day.
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Brand Designer | New York, NY | May 2018- June 2022
A graphic design job involving print, digital, and art direction. I have worked on the Instagram refresh and strategy. Since I started the Instagram refresh we have gone from 131k followers to over 200k followers because of our diverse and unique content. I have worked on emails and concepts + designs for microsite experiences. There has been many opportunities for me to work with partnerships at Squarespace. I also worked on the branding for our Ladies Get Paid partnership, worked on assets for a NYC x Design event, and worked on a website featuring African American female entrepreneurs with WePresents . I have also worked on art direction and designs for a variety of ads. I also was part of a creative team that executed a digital out-of-home campaign that included art direction, branding, and poster design. It ran in Toronto, New York, Chicago, London, and Dallas. I also recently worked on branding and UI for commercial spots for our Launch it campaign. I worked on a cult skate brand logo, apparel, and website, as well as, branding for a celebrated art career.
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Freelance Graphic Designer | Provo, UT | Nov 2017-Apr 2018
A full-time freelance position involving print, environmental, and digital. Worked on internal posters for corporate nationwide office use. Worked on storyboard illustrations pertaining to CES.Flushed out visuals for a Valentine's Day campaign for retail. Designed printed mail collateral for Utah and Texas. Designed a Vivint.Internet website landing page and emails in Sketch. Worked on environmental graphics for autism awareness for 3 office locations.
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Graphic Design Intern | New York, NY | May 2016-July 2016
This was mostly a print design internship with a global beauty brand. I worked on print assets for MAC Star Trek events that were used at Comic Con San Diego as well as other events. I also worked on storyboarding for over 100 lipstick colors. I helped my senior designers with their work and found photography to inspire photoshoots.
Education
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
2014-2017
GPA: 3.77
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Associate of Applied Science in Web Design and Development. Emphasis in Design
2012-2014
GPA 3.78
Awards
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Student Project: Redesign of Casabella Magazine
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Student Project: Redesign of Casabella Magazine
Skills
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InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Lightroom, Figma, HTML5, CSS3
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Team player, collaborator, strategist, optimistic, time management, communicator, flexible, leadership qualities, empathetic, listener, and decisive in times of high pressure
If you made it this far, ask me to make you a Spotify playlist ;)