Senior Graphic Designer | Brand Steward | Illustrator
I build visual systems and bring them to life.
For 18+ years, I’ve turned ideas into clear, consistent design across brand, digital, web, print, presentations, packaging, and illustration.
Good design has to hold up after the first deliverable.
A brand rarely lives in one place. It has to work across campaigns, presentations, websites, social assets, packaging, print files, and the inevitable last-minute request. I build and extend visual systems that stay recognizable, flexible, and practical as the work grows.
18+ years of hands-on professional design experience
200+ projects guided from discovery through final delivery
5-10 active accounts managed concurrently while maintaining 95% on-time delivery
A few things I've helped bring to life.
A few examples of brand systems and multi-channel design work built for very different organizations, audiences, and creative challenges.
Stability Enhancement Systems
Role: Enābl | Senior Designer & Creative Lead
A performance and injury-prevention brand extended across identity, social content, presentations, web, apparel, event collateral, and supporting visual systems.
Clear Choice Labs
Role: Enābl | Senior Designer & Creative Lead
An approachable identity and packaging system for an at-home DNA testing brand looking to stand apart from more clinical category conventions.
Kenko Sushi + Teriyaki
Role: Enābl | Senior Designer & Creative Lead
A fast-casual restaurant identity balancing modern convenience with hand-drawn references to traditional Japanese visual language.
Peaceful Family Law
Role: Enābl | Senior Designer & Creative Lead
An approachable identity system designed to bring warmth and clarity to a category that can often feel intimidating.
MetaTravelers
Role: Next Dimension Studios | Contract Brand Designer
A wide-ranging entertainment brand system spanning sub-brands, packaging, presentations, web UI, iconography, custom typography, event collateral, and launch campaigns.
Pathways Consulting
Role: Enābl | Senior Designer & Creative Lead
A professional-services identity balancing corporate credibility with a more energetic visual approach, extended across presentations, web, print collateral, typography, and supporting brand assets.
The part of design you don't see in the mockups.
Stay close to the craft
I like solving the layout, refining the details, building the system, and getting the final asset out the door. Hands-on design is still the center of my work.
Build for repeat use
Good systems make the next deliverable easier. I create templates, organized assets, and practical standards that help teams extend a brand without reinventing it every time.
Keep collaboration easy
I’m comfortable working with designers, marketers, developers, writers, project managers, and leadership. I explain design decisions clearly, take feedback seriously, share what I know, and keep handoffs organized.
A few words from people I've worked with.
One design foundation. A lot of ways to use it.
Brand + Visual Systems
• Brand Identity
• Brand Stewardship
• Brand Guidelines
• Multi-Channel Campaigns
• Template Systems
• Custom Iconography
Digital + Web
• Digital + Social Assets
• UI Design
• Figma Wireframing + Prototyping
• Responsive Web Layouts
• WordPress + Elementor
Print + Presentation
• Print + Prepress
• Packaging Design
• Presentation Architecture
• Infographics
• Marketing Collateral
• Signage
Illustration + Typography
• Custom Vector Illustration
• Character + Mascot Design
• Custom Typography
• Hand Lettering
• Iconography
• Conceptual Sketching
Nearly two decades in, I still make things.
Designer, illustrator, dad, and relentless optimist.
My name is Rick Martin. I’m driven by a simple idea: few things feel better than using your hands and your brain to make something useful, memorable, or genuinely helpful to a business or community.
When I’m not deep in a design file, you can usually find me snacking, over-analyzing ’90s hip-hop, or trying to make my family laugh.
Looking for my credentials?
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Let's talk about the work.
I’m open to hands-on graphic, brand, and visual design roles with in-house and agency teams, along with select project work. If my experience looks like a fit for what you’re building, I’d be glad to hear from you.
Drop a message in the form, or email me directly at rick@rickmartindesign.com
Get in touch with Rick...
Looking for my credentials?
Review my professional history online, or download a curated resume layout tailored to your team’s specific workflow.