Senior Brand Designer Crafting Identity Systems & Marketing Creative
Currently living in Brooklyn, NY Born & raised in the Bay Area, California I have three brothers (and a nephew I'm obsessed with) Got my BFA in Design from University of Southern California Serial museum goer and home goods window shopper I love anything to do with arts & crafts (drawing especially)
Currently living in Brooklyn, NY Born & raised in the Bay Area, California I have three brothers (and a nephew I'm obsessed with) Got my BFA in Design from University of Southern California Serial museum goer and home goods window shopper I love anything to do with arts & crafts (drawing especially)

In-house experience

Senior Designer · 2025–Present

Uncommon Goods

Leading brand systems, marketing creative, packaging design, illustration, and motion for a design-driven e-commerce brand.

Brand Systems Marketing Packaging Illustration
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Senior Brand Designer · 2022–2025

Jonathan Adler

Led creative for campaigns, retail signage, seasonal catalogs, and brand systems for a luxury home décor brand.

Brand Systems Catalog Design Marketing Retail Signage
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Freelance & agency

Wild Signal

Brand identity, iconography, marketing creative, and deck design for an emerging tech startup.

Lalou

Illustration, product wireframes, and welcome screen design for a consumer app.

Quip

Web design, styled product photography, and social animations via Wix Playground.

Chea Seed

Web design, product demo videos, and motion graphics for a sustainable food brand.

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Uncommon Goods

Building cohesive brand storytelling across marketing channels for a design-driven e-commerce company committed to creative, sustainable products.

Senior Brand Designer
2025 – Present
Creative Team of 12
Brand, Marketing, Packaging
Story of YouStory of YouGift packagingStory of You

Overview

As a Senior Graphic Designer at Uncommon Goods, I collaborate closely with art directors, merchandisers, photographers, copywriters, and product managers to develop impactful creative that tells a cohesive brand story across every customer touchpoint.

Uncommon Goods is a Brooklyn-based e-commerce company known for its curated selection of unique, creative, and sustainable products. The brand has built a loyal following through its commitment to independent makers, thoughtful gifting experiences, and design-forward marketing.

My role bridges strategic thinking with hands-on execution—from developing campaign concepts and pitch decks to producing final assets across email, social, web, and packaging.

My Role

Within the creative department, I serve as one of the senior designers responsible for translating brand strategy into visual execution. I work across the full spectrum of marketing and product development needs while also contributing to longer-term brand evolution projects.

Core Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic moodboards and pitch decks for seasonal campaigns
  • Establish scalable design systems for campaign workflows
  • Create and review production-quality templates for paid and organic social, email, and illustration
  • Guide creative direction on major brand initiatives, including member programs and illustration rebrands
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including merchandising, photography, and engineering

Campaign Design

In collaboration with design and creative directors, I conceptualize and produce marketing campaigns that support performance goals while maintaining the playful, thoughtful voice that defines Uncommon Goods.

My approach focuses on a strong, typography-first visual hierarchy aimed to highlight product benefits, personalization opportunities, and gifting sentiment. I test and refine creative regularly, collaborating with marketing teams to inform data-backed decisions while preserving creative intuition.

Valentine's Day campaign creative

Paid Social

Paid social became one of our highest-ROI channels in 2025, and I served as the sole designer producing stopping content for Meta, Pinterest, and Instagram. Working closely with our marketing and analytics teams, I created static ads, animated videos, and dynamic product showcases that drove over $1MM in incremental revenue in 2025—with 65% of conversions coming from new customers.

Product Development: Story of You

"The Story of You" is a customizable keepsake book that guides customers through creating a personal memoir—and one of the most collaborative projects I've worked on at Uncommon Goods. As the primary designer, I partnered with merchandising, engineering, and product management to bring this meaningful product to life, generating $117k in sales in its first months post-launch with a follow-up product already in development.

Project Scope

  • Visual direction and editorial layout for 100+ page book
  • Asset production for print, digital, and marketing
  • Close collaboration with engineering on technical constraints
  • Quality assurance across multiple print proofing cycles

Gift Packaging

I collaborated with senior leadership to concept, pitch, and design new gift bag options for add-on purchases. The redesigned system offers three sizes with a custom pocket for our gift certificates, using sustainable materials that align with Uncommon Goods' commitment to environmental responsibility.

Gift packaging design
Gift packaging design
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Jonathan Adler

Establishing and scaling design systems for a luxury home décor brand known for bold, joyfully chic personality and modern American glamour.

Senior Brand Designer
2022 – 2025
Brand Creative Team
Brand, Editorial, Retail
Jonathan Adler campaign 1Jonathan Adler catalog 1Jonathan Adler catalog 2Jonathan Adler B2B 1Jonathan Adler B2B 2

Overview

I was the first hire for the in-house Brand Creative team at Jonathan Adler, a new department directed at unifying and elevating the brand visuals and voice across all customer touchpoints.

Jonathan Adler is a luxury home décor brand built on the philosophy that your home should make you happy. Known for its bold patterns, maximalist approach, and irreverent humor, the brand continues to live up to its iconic, trendsetting reputation.

Joining as the senior designer of a new creative department gave me the rare opportunity to build systems and processes from the ground up while maintaining the high bar of craft the brand is known for.

In addition to keeping up with the weekly marketing production schedule, I worked side-by-side with the department director on longer-term brand-building projects as well as to establish design processes and workflows, implementing best practices to ensure efficiency, consistency, and scalability.

Systems I Built

  • Template systems for promotional marketing campaigns, seasonal print catalogs, and PR collateral.
  • Brand guidelines documentation for internal and external partners
  • B2B program campaign, which included print and digital catalogs, a landing page, and promotional content.

As the team grew, I transitioned from individual contributor to design team lead, working alongside junior designers while continuing to own high-visibility projects.

Seasonal Promotional Design

One of the central roles I played in simplifying our day-to-day workload was making templates and creative for promotional marketing campaigns. These graphics serve email, SMS, web, social media, and retail print needs across all JA stores.

My approach involves building out mini brand identities for each campaign—taking inspiration from eye-catching products in our catalog to create cohesive visual systems that engage customers. Typographic consistency became highly important to make way for bold colors, movement, and decorative flourishes (in the spirit of the brand's maximalist nature.)

Promotional campaign 1
Promotional campaign 2

Selection of seasonal promotional campaigns spanning 2022–2025

Catalog Design

Every season, I collaborated with Jonathan himself, leadership, and the Brand Creative Director to put together a totally customized product catalog exhibiting new, bestselling, and all-time favorite pieces. These 70+ page catalogs go out to over 500,000 existing and prospective customers quarterly with an additional holiday drop.

Catalog spread 1
Catalog spread 2

B2B Program

In effort to increase awareness of our B2B program, I collaborated with senior leadership to create an engaging B2B print catalog and landing page that consolidated and clarified program offerings, resulting in increased partnerships and new client acquisition.

B2B catalog 1
B2B catalog 2

Retail Signage

Beyond digital channels, I designed in-store signage and retail graphics for all Jonathan Adler retail locations—from window displays to interior signage guiding customers through the shopping experience.

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Retail signage 2
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Wild Signal

Full digital brand identity for an AI-native communications agency reshaping how brands communicate in the "Citation Economy."

Brand Designer
2025
Identity, Web, Iconography
Wild Signal Agency
Wild Signal Website

Overview

Wild Signal is a freshly launched, AI-native communications agency founded by experienced industry leaders, aiming to reshape how brands communicate in the "Citation Economy" — blending data-driven insight with creative execution to build intelligent, future-ready brand strategies.

For them, I developed a full digital brand identity: logo, iconography, typography, color palette, and a comprehensive brand kit including usage guidelines. I worked directly with the two founders to ensure the visual system aligned with their strategic vision.

Beyond the core identity, I helped produce on-brand digital assets—from LinkedIn headers and pitch materials—including prepped assets for a pitch with clients (like American Airlines already on their roster.)

Wild Signal Logo Light
Wild Signal Secondary Logo
Wild Signal Logo Midnight
Wild Signal Logo Fire
Wild Signal Logo Sea
Wild Signal Logo Sand

Logo Exploration

From the start, the team knew they wanted the logo to nod to the brand's initials, WS, but without feeling literal or stiff. The brief was all about finding a mark that communicated trust and innovation, with a subtle sense of playfulness—a visual "wink" that matched their talent for simplifying complex data and bringing clarity to chaos.

These first-round concepts explore different interpretations of that idea, experimenting with shape and personality to land on something modern, flexible, and distinctly Wild Signal.

Logo Exploration 1

Pulse/radio wave, Scribble, direct messages, both S and W present in mark

Logo Exploration 2

Pulse/radio wave, Scribble, direct messages, both S and W present in mark

Logo Exploration 3

"W" and "S" present in mark, pen-like strokes, can be used as an abstract font / extended background pattern

Logo Exploration 4

Arrow directing to specific point, abstract "W," snowflake imagery represents uniqueness of insights

Logo Exploration 5

Growing radio/signal wave, paint marks, scribbled "W" and "S," can be made into hand-drawn pattern

Logo Exploration 6

Growing radio/signal wave, paint marks, abstract "W"

Logo Exploration 7

Organic shape, growth, abstract "w"

Logo Exploration 8

Arch signal element, connecting journeys, "S", puzzle pieces coming together to make a clear image

Wayfinder Mark

The Wayfinder is a secondary brand element representing their intelligence "AI brain" that distills the spirit of the Wild Signal identity into a compact, versatile mark. It serves as a navigational icon, badge, and standalone symbol across brand touchpoints.

Wild Signal Wayfinder Mark

Brand Guide

The completed brand kit delivered to the team includes comprehensive guidelines for logo usage, typography hierarchy, color applications, and iconography. This cohesive, flexible identity system gives Wild Signal a visually professional and unified brand foundation that supports future growth and client-facing touchpoints.

Visit wildsignal.agency →

Primary Palette

Sea HEX: #00B5BF
Fire HEX: #FA5F22
Sand HEX: #F3DB99
Light HEX: #F2FDFD
Dark HEX: #191A1B

Secondary Palette

Sea Dark HEX: #005C5F
Sea Light HEX: #B4E5E3
Fire Dark HEX: #C74A15
Fire Light HEX: #FFE4DE
Sand Dark HEX: #C9A86C
Sand Light HEX: #FFF1CD

Gradients

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Lalou

Brand identity, illustration system, and product design for a storytelling platform that empowers families to create personalized bedtime stories.

Designer / Illustrator
2025
Illustration, UI, Animation
Lalou
Lalou hero

Overview

Lalou is a new storytelling platform that empowers families to create personalized bedtime stories for their children. I partnered with the agency behind Lalou's product and brand to help establish the visual and creative foundation for this early-stage platform.

My role included developing the brand identity, creating a flexible illustration system, and designing core product and marketing assets. The goal was to build a warm, expressive visual world that felt simple for parents to use and child-appropriate.

Part of this work involved exploring how AI could enhance the emotional quality of the product. Lalou uses ElevenLabs to generate personalized voiceovers, and I shaped the visual and product direction to support this technology in a natural, intuitive way. The result is a system that combines handcrafted illustration with AI-driven storytelling, giving families a tool that feels both playful and personal.

Illustration Exploration

I explored a wide range of illustration directions to find a balance between expressive, childlike spontaneity and a clean, modern sensibility suitable for a digital product. Early sketches tested variations in line weight, proportions, and styling to define a system flexible enough for story prompts, character moments, and UI surfaces.

Illustration exploration sketches
Illustration exploration
Illustration exploration
Illustration exploration

Final Illustrations

With the visual direction approved, I translated the chosen style into a complete illustration set. Each asset was refined for consistency, clarity, and usability across the product ecosystem. The final suite balances personality with functional simplicity, supporting both in-app moments and broader brand storytelling.

In the final product, the app generates custom illustrated scenes for the created stories, referencing the established style and pulling themes from the story itself.

Final illustration 1
Final illustration 2
Final illustration - Hug
Final illustration - Kid Hero
Final illustration - Plants

In-App Mockups

Once the illustration language was established, I brought it into early product mockups to visualize how the system would operate within the app. The screens pair simple, intuitive UI with playful visual moments to create an experience that is clear for adults and visually engaging for children.

The inclusion of AI voice generation plays a meaningful role here, giving users a sense of magic and personalization while keeping the interface approachable and lightweight.

App screen - Welcome
App screen - Single story
App screen - Finish Onboarding
App screen - Success

Landing Page

The landing page extends the brand identity into a full marketing environment. It introduces Lalou's purpose, highlights its AI-driven storytelling approach, and guides users through the platform's core features. Layout, typography, and illustration work together to create a friendly and trustworthy first impression.

Lalou Landing Page
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Quip × Wix Playground

Landing page design, styled product photography, and social animations created as part of the Wix Playground Academy.

Web Designer / Photographer
2020
Wix Playground Academy
Web, Photo, Animation
Quip hero — styled product shot with clean background

Overview

As part of the Wix Playground Academy, myself along with a team of other select design interns learned skills in studio photography and styling, coding, animation, user experience design, production/art direction, and marketing.

This project focused on Quip, a dental company specializing in electric toothbrushes and raising awareness about oral health. Our roles involved creating assets for their product photography, as well as sample landing pages based on a formal brief.

The homepage design offers a look into how Quip can be an amazing gift—not only as a toothbrush, but as a set which includes additional dental tools in beautiful packaging. All photography, animation, and web design is original work.

Product Photography

I styled and photographed the Quip product line with a focus on clean, elevated compositions that highlight the product's minimal aesthetic. Shots range from detailed close-ups to lifestyle arrangements with complementary props.

Product shot — toothbrush on solid background
Product shot — full set with styling propsFeatured on quip's official instagram page
Lifestyle shot — product in bathroom setting
Detail shot — close-up of brush head

Sample Landing Page

The landing page concept positions Quip as an ideal gift, showcasing the product's elegant packaging and subscription value. Clean typography and generous whitespace let the photography take center stage.

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Chea Seed

Website design and digital marketing for a modern app delivering expert, personalized career coaching on a 100% digital platform.

Web Designer
2022
Chea Seed
Web Design, Marketing

Overview

Chea Seed is a modern app that delivers expert, personalized career help accessible on a 100% digital platform. In essence, it's a career fitness tracker. The goals and possibilities range from learning to talk yourself up to asking for more money, starting a new job, nailing a performance review, and getting more career satisfaction.

In collaboration with the CEO and lead developer, I got familiar with the app structure, design, and brand personality to create a crisp website including information about the product, the company's inspiring backstory, a blog, and useful resources for those passionate about making the most of their career goals.

Visit cheaseed.com →

Wireframes

The wireframing process established information hierarchy and user flow before moving into high-fidelity design. Each page was mapped to serve both new visitors learning about the product and returning users seeking resources.

Chea Seed Wireframe 1
Chea Seed Wireframe 2
Chea Seed Wireframe 3
Chea Seed Wireframe Overview
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Natural History Museum

"Being Los Angeles" — a conceptual exhibit campaign representing LA's diversity through public installation and wayfinding design.

Executive Team Lead
2021
USC Senior Project
Brand, 3D, Art Direction
IMAGE: Being LA hero — deck cover slide or installation render

Overview

My senior year of college, I was nominated alongside three other students as part of the "Executive Team" for the senior class, Special Projects, to spearhead that semester's partnership with the Los Angeles Natural History Museum.

We were presented with a brief from the Museum titled "Becoming Los Angeles" which outlined our aim to represent LA's diversity and wide variety of residents through a temporary exhibit. Historically, the aim of this class is to create real assets and campaigns for clients/partners, but because of the pandemic, our project was purely conceptual.

This allowed us to go all-out. We made LA our gallery space, and the native city architecture and objects as the items on display—seamlessly weaving our message into LA's very residents and everyday lives. The following is the deck we presented to the representative at NHM, which we titled in turn, "Being Los Angeles."

IMAGE: Deck slide — mission statement or approach
IMAGE: Deck slide — project goals

Brand Identity

The visual identity draws from LA's architectural vernacular and cultural diversity. Color and typography choices reflect the city's energy while maintaining museum-quality sophistication.

IMAGE: Style guide — color palette, typography, visual language

Entry Shelter Design

The centerpiece of the exhibit is an architectural entry shelter designed to be placed throughout LA neighborhoods. These structures serve as both wayfinding elements and mini-exhibits, introducing passersby to the "Being LA" narrative.

IMAGE: 3D render — shelter in urban context
IMAGE: 3D render — shelter detail view
IMAGE: 2D plans — shelter technical drawings and graphics application
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Picked Fruit

A personal brand and online store selling handmade crocheted and tufted garments, bags, artwork, and rugs — founded upon honoring the wellbeing of California's farmworkers.

Founder / Designer
2022 – Present
Brand, Web, Photography
10% to CFF
IMAGE: Picked Fruit hero — product flat lay or lifestyle shot

Overview

Picked Fruit is an online store I started over 2 years ago, where I sell my crocheted and tufted garments, bags, artwork, and rugs. Crocheting, and more recently rug tufting, have become obsessive hobbies of mine, and I started this store to share my passion with friends while supporting a cause that's really important to me.

Picked Fruit is founded upon honoring the wellbeing of California's farmworkers. I contribute by donating 10% of all profits to the California Farmworker Foundation (CFF) and continuing to raise awareness for workers' rights.

Visit pickedfruit.com →

Product Photography

All photography is shot and styled in-house. The visual approach emphasizes texture, color, and craftsmanship while maintaining a warm, approachable aesthetic that reflects the handmade nature of each piece.

IMAGE: Product shot — crocheted bag or garment
IMAGE: Product shot — tufted rug detail
IMAGE: Lifestyle shot — product worn or in context
IMAGE: Process shot — making or materials

Website Design

The website balances e-commerce functionality with storytelling about the brand's mission and the handmade process behind each piece.

IMAGE: Website mockups — homepage, product page, about page
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I'm Talia, a multidisciplinary brand designer based in Brooklyn, New York. I've worked in-house for brands such as Uncommon Goods and Jonathan Adler, with additional experience across freelance and contract roles dating back to my time as a student at USC.

Much of my work centers on brand identity, marketing design, and art direction, but I'm deeply engaged in all aspects of the craft — from print and digital production to data-informed creative thinking and visual systems that scale.

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Things I love

Quilt

Masterful baby quilts handmade by @into.the.fold

Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks' meditative textile work; "Some people think I'm working, but they don't realize I'm thinking."

Eames Miniatures

Miniature versions of my favorite iconic Herman Miller chairs.

Peter Funch

Peter Funch's photography project capturing the same NYC commuters, on the same corner, at the same hour, over a nine year period.

Shelton Art Co

One of my favorite current painters whose pieces just hit every time. In awe of his technique.

Shishi San

Tufted vases. INSANE work by Shishi San.

Female Alchemy

@female.alchemy's ceramic pieces are judging you.

Craighill

Craighill is an excellent design agency with even more excellent design process videos.

Sam Evans Art

Painter Sam Evans who captures some of my favorite TV moments in romantic acrylic scenes.

Silver Springs

Stevie Nicks belting Silver Springs directly at Lindsey Buckingham in their debut post-breakup performance.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Philosophical, semi-fictional novel based on author Robert Pirsig's real life and search for the meaning, and definition, of life.

Fhirst Branding

True, unadulterated, no BS 2000's core actually well-captured by modern day branding. You had to be there.

Suzuki Jimny

Something about how boxy, compact, macho and cute this thing looks...

Jonathan Hoefler

Type design master and subject of one of my favorite Abstract documentary episodes on Netflix.

The Creative Independent

Some high quality, digestible, design-centered blog posts and think pieces.

Teenage Engineering EP-1320

Already iconic Teenage Engineering's limited edition medieval themed sampler.

Esperanza

Maria Medem's illustration style matches perfectly with this Hermano's Gutierrez's song. Sometimes things *are* perfect.

Quilt

Masterful baby quilts handmade by @into.the.fold

Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks' meditative textile work; "Some people think I'm working, but they don't realize I'm thinking."

Eames Miniatures

Miniature versions of my favorite iconic Herman Miller chairs.

Peter Funch

Peter Funch's photography project capturing the same NYC commuters, on the same corner, at the same hour, over a nine year period.

Shelton Art Co

One of my favorite current painters whose pieces just hit every time. In awe of his technique.

Shishi San

Tufted vases. INSANE work by Shishi San.

Female Alchemy

@female.alchemy's ceramic pieces are judging you.

Craighill

Craighill is an excellent design agency with even more excellent design process videos.

Sam Evans Art

Painter Sam Evans who captures some of my favorite TV moments in romantic acrylic scenes.

Silver Springs

Stevie Nicks belting Silver Springs directly at Lindsey Buckingham in their debut post-breakup performance.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Philosophical, semi-fictional novel based on author Robert Pirsig's real life and search for the meaning, and definition, of life.

Fhirst Branding

True, unadulterated, no BS 2000's core actually well-captured by modern day branding. You had to be there.

Suzuki Jimny

Something about how boxy, compact, macho and cute this thing looks...

Jonathan Hoefler

Type design master and subject of one of my favorite Abstract documentary episodes on Netflix.

The Creative Independent

Some high quality, digestible, design-centered blog posts and think pieces.

Teenage Engineering EP-1320

Already iconic Teenage Engineering's limited edition medieval themed sampler.

Esperanza

Maria Medem's illustration style matches perfectly with this Hermano's Gutierrez's song. Sometimes things *are* perfect.