Graphic Designer
Nate Creed
Design Manager · Brand systems · Digital & ecommerce campaign creative
- Portfolionatecreed.com
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/natecreed
- Emailnatecreed@outlook.com
- Phone774.222.0300
- LocationBremerton, WA 98310
Experience
Swanlund & Associates
May 2025 — June 2026
Director of Operations / Creative Systems Lead · Silverdale, WA
- Led full brand and digital system development for an independent retail furniture business, including the EHF refresh, Swanlunds identity exploration, website redesign, email campaigns, product presentation, and customer-facing sales materials.
- Designed and improved ecommerce, website, product image, email, pricing, POS, and showroom workflows to create a clearer connection between brand expression, customer experience, and daily sales execution.
- Built custom backend/admin tools and sales workflows that reduced salesperson order-calculation time from ~40 minutes to ~2 minutes.
- Created retail and ecommerce campaign assets across Wix, Constant Contact, Lovable.dev, and Adobe Creative Suite — web banners, email graphics, sale promotions, product visuals, and customer-facing communications.
- Translated vague business needs into practical creative assets, internal tools, visual systems, and staff-ready workflows that helped a small team operate with greater clarity, consistency, and speed.
BDA
May 2023 — April 2025
Senior Graphic Designer / Creative Production Lead · Woodinville, WA
- Created and reviewed high-volume brand, ecommerce, merchandise, product, digital, presentation, packaging, and campaign-support assets for national and global clients under tight timelines.
- Built proofing and production workflows that increased daily proof output from roughly 4 to 20 proofs per designer while maintaining brand accuracy and production quality.
- Translated creative briefs, client direction, and brand guidelines into polished, production-ready artwork across multiple formats, vendors, manufacturing processes, and ecommerce/product needs.
- Designed for selected brands including Corona, Modelo, PACCAR/Peterbilt, Peanuts, Zamboni, F45, Dell, Cirque du Soleil, Roblox, and major professional sports leagues.
- Concepted and designed character-led merchandise and product creative, including Peterbilt's Petey and Piper children's mascot system.
Evergreen Goodwill
August 2021 — December 2022
Creative Services Manager · Seattle, WA
- Led a cross-functional creative services team supporting 24 retail locations, job training centers, ecommerce initiatives, internal communications, and regional marketing needs.
- Helped lead the Evergreen Goodwill rebrand — brand book, logo lockups, color and usage guidance, templates, email, social, web/blog visuals, retail signage, and internal communications.
- Created visual direction for a new ecommerce experience, including layouts, banners, product/promotional graphics, email signage, store signage, and digital campaign assets.
- Partnered with executive, marketing, retail, ecommerce, and operations teams to align creative output with business needs, audience expectations, and field-level constraints.
- Improved creative workflows, clarified ownership, reduced bottlenecks, and helped the team deliver more consistent work across a complex multi-location organization.
Committee for Children
August 2018 — October 2020
MarCom Creative Manager · Seattle, WA
- Managed and mentored a team of designers supporting mission-driven educational campaigns, brand initiatives, social-emotional learning programs, and organizational communications.
- Helped lead the Captain Compassion campaign — a character-driven anti-bullying campaign spanning concept, visual direction, posters, digital assets, microsite design, video, OOH, educational resources, and campaign extensions.
- Co-developed the Captain Compassion character system, concepted the Kid Kinder sidekick, directed video execution, and designed/coded an interactive decoder-wheel experience for the campaign website.
- Supported Committee for Children and Second Step brand systems by maintaining visual consistency across campaign, digital, print, presentation, email, and internal materials.
- Improved team workflows, review processes, and delivery standards to support consistent execution across concurrent campaigns, programs, and brand systems.
Lantern Press
July 2016 — March 2018
Creative Director · Seattle, WA
- Led a nine-designer team in a high-volume consumer product and wholesale environment supporting national retail accounts.
- Scaled quality creative output by roughly 3x through clearer workflows, stronger review standards, team development, and production discipline while maintaining visual quality.
- Directed creative execution across product artwork, retail collections, production files, and brand-sensitive design systems.
- Oversaw scheduling, resource allocation, quality control, and creative review to maintain consistent output across large volumes of concurrent work.
- Mentored designers through feedback, training, and development while maintaining accountability, morale, and standards.
Kotis Design
February 2011 — July 2016
Creative Manager · Seattle, WA
- Managed and supported a team of designers in a high-output branded merchandise and apparel-adjacent production environment.
- Improved design department turnaround from a typical 2-day cycle to consistent same-day delivery by rebuilding workflow expectations, proofing standards, team habits, and production processes.
- Oversaw day-to-day creative workflow, task assignment, quality control, and production-ready artwork across fast-moving client requests.
- Developed deep experience in brand expression, product knowledge, apparel and merchandise graphics, and practical design execution.
- Built long-term leadership, team management, and production design skills through sustained tenure and consistent performance.
Selected Campaign & Brand Work
Captain Compassion Campaign
Character-driven integrated campaign for Committee for Children that translated a serious anti-bullying message into approachable, memorable visual storytelling across digital, OOH, video, posters, web, and educational touchpoints.
Peterbilt — Petey & Piper
Concepted and designed character-led children's merchandise and product creative for Peterbilt, extending a legacy transportation brand into a playful mascot system.
Evergreen Goodwill Rebrand & Ecommerce
Helped translate a large organizational rebrand into field-ready assets for 24 retail locations, ecommerce, email, web, social, job training centers, internal teams, and regional communications.
Swanlund / EHF Retail & Ecommerce Systems
Led brand, website, email, product presentation, sales workflow, and ecommerce system improvements for an independent furniture retailer, connecting customer experience with day-to-day sales execution.