Francie
Taylor
Design

Hi—I'm an independent art director and visual designer with 10 years of experience driven by curiosity, research, and intuition to create mindful business solutions.

Branding
Marketing
Experiential
Environmental

About

Me in an orange life jacket floating in clear blue water in Mexico, making a peace sign.

2025

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Analog photography and print assets for a romantic wedding in the Italian Dolomites, using fonts from Bolzano-based, independent type foundry CAST.

Branding

Animated demonstration of Columbus Museum of Art website mega menu navigation redesign. Shows homepage transitioning through organized grid-based menu structure with prominent sticky header featuring ticket purchasing and membership links. Menu displays consolidated department sections ensuring all content is accessible within single clicks, optimized for both desktop and mobile experiences.

Marketing Director: Lydia Simon
Digital Communications Manager: Amber Wacker
Website Build: Speak

2024–2025
LEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Case study and internal art direction for Columbus Museum of Art website refresh focused on storytelling and accessibility. Designed and built by Speak.

Case study prototypes:
↗ Desktop Homepage

↗ Mobile Homepage

Branding

2023–2025
LEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Select experiential designs for Columbus Museum of Art including applied branding of events, marketing, and environmental assets.

↗ Digital Impact Report 23/24

Branding

Marketing

Experiential

Environmental

Red stencil-style letters spelling 'POWER TO THE PEOPLE' arranged in a grid on a dark background. Central letters are larger and bolder, creating a focal point, while outer letters fade into smaller sizes.

ONGOING

CREATIVE CODING

Stills from playful experimentations of one-off interactions coded with CSS, HTML, and Javascript via SuperHi.

Live interactions (best experienced on desktop):

↗ Reactive Text

↗ Card Flip

↗ Gradient Rotate

↗ Layered Photos

↗ Image Rollover

↗ Mouse Move Appear

2023
FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR
Logo and identity rebrand for Swantide, a woman founded, AI-assisted CRM optimization and integration startup.

Branding

2022

MARKETING DESIGNER

Marketing designs–email, social, and sales–for Truepill; a telehealth, diagnostics and pharmaceutical startup.

Marketing

2020

ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Anamorphic 'InBug' logo with Media Objectives studio for LinkedIn's community-themed Sunnyvale campus, made of upcycled materials produced by Antlre, plus wayfinding graphics.

Environmental

Close-up of blue material samples and geometric forms including woven mesh, solid panels, textured surfaces, and curved elements in various shades of blue, displayed against a white background as material studies for environmental graphic design.

Creative Director: Joe Lawton
Co-Experiential Designer: Rafael Barontini

2019

EXPERIENTIAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER

DIY kaleidoscope-making activation with Imprint Projects for method's Glass for Good gala hosted by SFMOMA, celebrating a limited edition bottle made from 100% post-consumer recycled glass.

↗ View gala recap video

Experiential