J. "Frey" Hilliard

Designs with more than the sum of their parts.

An engineer turned interactive designer. Making art from start to finish, whether it ends online or in your hands. Let's make something happen together.

Experience

Adasina Social Capital │April 2025 — Current

Contract Graphic Designer

InDesign document creation and templating quarterly reports, infographics, and other documents.
Email templating within Mailchimp including custom HTML/CSS and graphics for email campaigns.
Communicating with multiple departments on project requirements, feedback, and project timelines.
Custom graphics and illustrations made in Illustrator.

Greater Restoration │March 2020 — Current

Art Director and Event Coordinator

Speak with volunteers to gather feedback and foster healthy communication between event staff and participants.
Create batch illustrations and graphics necessary for live event and promotional materials.
Delegate work amongst art team members with an expected standard of quality for deliverables.
Coordinate with core staff members to plan and execute new ideas for the organization.
Maintain a cloud drive of available materials with documentation and organized file architecture.
Update the org website as needed to reflect the organization’s mission.

SKILLS

Graphic Design
Design Systems & Style Guides
Front End Web Development (HTML / CSS)
User Experience / User Interfaces
Typography
Motion Design

Education

Millersville University │May 2024

Bachelor of Design in Interactive and Graphic Design
Graduated Magna Cum Laude — 3.84 GPA

Thaddeus Stevens │May 2020

Associate of Applied Science in Engineering CAD Technology
2019 A.D.D.A. Student Chapter Treasurer

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Graphic Design

Recent and ongoing projects. Graphic Design and Illustration.
All done by hand.

GOAL

Create usable, polished assets that reinforce Adasina's Theory of Change and Social Justice Investment Criteria.

SOLUTION

Document templates were created to refine and build on Adasina's design system, quarterly reports were given a new workflow for .CSV integration and automation, email templates were made in Mailchimp that were received by investors, and custom graphics were made for both presentations and in marketing materials.

(Other materials subject to N.D.A.)

Quarterly Impact and Investment Reports
Email Templates

Icon Set One
Icon Set Two

GOAL

Create the visual identity of this consulting firm with an elegant, clean image.

SOLUTION

The logo mark for Liyria was created with usable variants for web and print, and is an ongoing project for creating a light brand kit including a Style Guide, logo, and more.

Logo Variations
Style Guide

GOAL

Illustrate and capture the brand image of a small cafe.

SOLUTION

Berry Sweet Cafe required an understanding of using product mockups, visual branding, and creation of an adaptive logo emphasizing a cute, playful tone.

Logo Variations
Mockup

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Illustration

Recent and in-progress illustrations made in Clip Studio Paint. All done by hand. Character key art, concept sketches, prints, and rendering practices.

Impathic - Cove
As Above - So Below
Ingris - Token
Kay - Token
Yune - Token
Eri Sketch
Eri Concept

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Well hello, hello!

Call me Frey. I'm a digital illustrator with an academic background in CADD and Interactive and Graphic Design. My work ranges from Digital Media Production, Branding, bespoke Illustrations, and Content Creation.I enjoy spending my free time caring for or learning about animals, playing indie RPGs, or analyzing creative media projects. There's plenty of trivia I can share about animals from polar bears to specific subspecies of turtles.

If you'd like to contact me for business purposes, or have any questions, I'm happy to chat! Let's just do each other a favor and not use any chat bots, yeah? I respect your time, please respect mine in return. Thanks!