Senior Graphic Designer | Brand Steward | Illustrator
Hi, I'm Rick. I build visual systems — and stay hands-on bringing them to life.
For 18+ years, I’ve helped brands turn ideas into clear, consistent work across identity, digital, web, print, presentations, packaging, and illustration. I’m most useful where strong craft, practical systems, and dependable collaboration all matter.
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
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A performance and injury-prevention brand extended across identity, social content, presentations, web, apparel, event collateral, and supporting visual systems.
Clear Choice Labs
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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
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A fast-casual restaurant identity balancing modern convenience with hand-drawn references to traditional Japanese visual language.
Peaceful Family Law
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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
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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?
Review my professional history online, or download a curated resume layout tailored to your team’s specific workflow.
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.