charmellow: branding & graphic design

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charmellow timeline

  • 1986 – Charmellow is incubating as a 7 year old that loved drawing NBA team logos with my brother and fashion catalogs at school with my friends. The Scholastic Book Fair was the best thing ever to me.

  • 1993 – High school is hard. Music is my creative outlet. I play clarinet from 5th grade until I graduate.

  • 1997 – I graduated from HS. I took photography, art class and doodled my way through school.

  • 1998 – Went to community college in Traverse City, Michigan for advertising

  • 2001 – See Greensky Bluegrass for the first time.

  • 2002 – Graduate from Northwestern Michigan College with an Associates of Applied Science in Visual Communications.

  • 2003 – Move to Detroit and go to art school at College for Creative Studies

  • 2004 – Take two road trips – one to New Orleans and one to California. Learn I love road trips and travel is life.

  • 2005 – Graduate from CCS with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

  • 2006 – Work for Mars, Campbell Ewald in Detroit.

  • 2006 – Move to Denver, Colorado. I freelance and drive all over Colorado learning about my new state.

  • 2007 – Hired as a publication designer at Weaver Multimedia Group (Now Miles Media) and work on a variety of projects I love like Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways guides, the official Colorado State Map, Official Visitors Guides for Austin,TX; Columbia, SC; Chicago, New Orleans, Colorado and more. I made tons of friends that I still talk to and collaborate with.

  • 2010 – Move back to Cadillac, Michigan, start Charmellow

  • 2014 – Start working with Greensky Bluegrass and other bands because of my work with Hoxeyville Music Festival.

  • 2017 – Acquire entire antique print shop

  • 2018 – Rekindle my love of cactus by going to Arizona and Mexico, and filling a Field Notes journal with illustrations of the experiences.

  • 2018 – Work on Camp Greensky Music Festival collateral

  • 2019 – Started working with Lead Star

    • Started my greeting card enterprise

    • Became Art Fair Coordinator in my town

  • 2020 - Pandemic.

  • 2022 - Give birth to my son!

  • 2023 - Charmellow grows and executes new branding projects, corporate projects and more!

 

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- Dani