I'm Chris.
My career in art and design began around 1980, when I found a bright blue ballpoint pen and, in the pages of my family’s collection of World Book Encyclopedia, decided confidently that my favorite entry…”Tornados” in the “T” volume…needed a good deal more pictures of Batman filling up the margins. My family probably assumed this was a phase. They were spectacularly wrong.
I’v been a professional graphic designer and illustrator for 20 years, with 15 as a senior graphic designer with one of the world’s oldest and most iconic apparel brands, Fruit of the Loom. During that time, I had the pleasure of working on collaborative projects with talented people, companies, and brands from around the nation and the world, both in my role at FOTL, INC and on my own as an independent designer & illustrator.
My work has been seen in magazines, on television & film, and on many, many t-shirts…and on quite a lot of underwear. I’m happy to report that I no longer restrict myself to drawing in encyclopedias. Well, not only, anyway.
In addition to my illustration & design work, I’m also currently very proud to be Director of Art & Design for Vid Monster Productions, a video & creative studio in Bowling Green, KY specializing in video, design, web, and social media content.
25 Years of Art, Design, & Creative Teams
Logo and branding design
Web design and development
Creative direction and concept design
Team leadership and project management
Cross-functional collaboration (working with video, social media, and web teams)
Process development for creative workflows
Social media content creation and scheduling
Brand strategy and visual storytelling
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Premiere
Fresco for iPad
Microsoft 365
Web Design
Webflow
Relume
HTML & CSS
Project & Collaboration Tools
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Trello
ToDoist