Tom Smith

A marketing system the team could use

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I embedded with Growth Marketing to make campaigns, landing pages, and a reusable Figma system that colleagues could work with themselves.

West End Ghost Tours

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A self-guided ghost tour of Portland, Maine’s West End, built as a digital experience people can explore on their own schedule.

Creative operations with code in the mix

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As an early team member and Director of Creative Operations, I built the first two marketing websites and worked across brand, marketing, and product.

StoryBrags

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A browser-based editor that turns daily accomplishments into a shareable social story.

Room for 20+ brands to grow

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As Creative Director at an early healthcare startup, I connected brand, product, and marketing with a reusable website infrastructure.

Tusque

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An online art gallery developed with a collaborator, with a Parisian-Bohemian visual sensibility.

Creative support built into the team

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I work alongside Growth Marketing on customer-facing creative, reusable design resources, and tools that help the team handle recurring work.

A year of brands and first versions

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Through my Savannah-based agency, I led launches of more than 10 brands and minimum viable products in 12 months.

A place to look closer at historical photographs

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A digital archive for a historical photograph collection, developed through Hatrack alongside Olivia Maday’s art project, The Darkroom.

A few turns along the way

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I’ve worn a lot of hats throughout my career: graphic designer, freelancer, creative director, developer, agency owner, and now founder of a small venture studio. My path has been a tad unorthodox, but each turn has given me something I still use.

After graduating from SCAD in 2015, I worked through a series of corporate and agency assignments in New York and New Jersey, many through Robert Half / The Creative Group. One week I might be picking up an unfamiliar brand system; another, preparing packaging for production. Working with organizations like Verizon, Quidsi, and EngenderHealth taught me to pay attention to the details and get up to speed quickly.

Experience

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Earlier assignments

In 2015 and 2016, I worked on corporate and agency assignments in New York and New Jersey, largely through Robert Half / The Creative Group.

Organization	Role and dates	Work
Quidsi, an Amazon subsidiary	Freelance Production Designer, July to September 2015	Seasonal e-commerce and advertising assets across seven consumer brands.
Verizon	Freelance Graphic Designer, October 2015	50 vector illustrations following the company’s Pentagram-developed identity.
EngenderHealth	Interim Senior Graphic Designer, February to August 2016	Advocacy and public-awareness posters, flyers, emails, and presentations under the Creative Director.
Horizon Group USA	Freelance Packaging Designer, September 2016	Consumer product packaging for Walmart Canada.
Sakar International / Vivitar	Freelance Packaging Designer, October to November 2016	Electronics packaging, physical mockups, and production-ready dielines.
RadicalMedia	Freelance Graphic Designer, November 2016	Digital assets for an American Express UNSTAGED campaign.

Speaking

I’ve spoken at UMass Lowell on two occasions about “Freelance Creative Work 101,” sharing practical experience from working independently.

Let's talk

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I’m based in Portland, Maine, and work with distributed teams. A little background on your company, what you’re trying to do, and the kind of help you have in mind is plenty to start with.

What I can help with

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These capabilities show up in different combinations. I might join a marketing team as an embedded creative partner, help a founder bring an idea to market, or take responsibility for a website from design through development. Tell me about the work, or start a conversation about joining your team.