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Hi, I’m Alise henscHen. I’m a determined and intuitive design professional with a passion for brand identity, creative direction, and 8 years of experience in branding, illustration, and color theory. I love building cohesive visual systems that work across print, digital, and merchandise, and I enjoy collaborating with teams to bring ideas to life with clarity and personality. I’ve led design for Jacobs School of Music at IU, helped rebrand Central Indiana DSA, and contributed to campaigns for Indiana state representatives. I combine strong typography, color, and layout with illustration and motion graphics to create engaging experiences for social, print, and web audiences.…Hi, I’m Alise henscHen. I’m a determined and intuitive design professional with a passion for brand identity, creative direction, and 8 years of experience in branding, illustration, and color theory. I love building cohesive visual systems that work across print, digital, and merchandise, and I enjoy collaborating with teams to bring ideas to life with clarity and personality. I’ve led design for Jacobs School of Music at IU, helped rebrand Central Indiana DSA, and contributed to campaigns for Indiana state representatives. I combine strong typography, color, and layout with illustration and motion graphics to create engaging experiences for social, print, and web audiences.

Alise henscHen

Designer, Graphic Designer, Brand Designer, +2

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Hi, I’m Alise henscHen. I’m a determined and intuitive design professional with a passion for brand identity, creative direction, and 8 years of experience in branding, illustration, and color theory. I love building cohesive visual systems that work across print, digital, and merchandise, and I enjoy collaborating with teams to bring ideas to life with clarity and personality. I’ve led design for Jacobs School of Music at IU, helped rebrand Central Indiana DSA, and contributed to campaigns for Indiana state representatives. I combine strong typography, color, and layout with illustration and motion graphics to create engaging experiences for social, print, and web audiences.…Hi, I’m Alise henscHen. I’m a determined and intuitive design professional with a passion for brand identity, creative direction, and 8 years of experience in branding, illustration, and color theory. I love building cohesive visual systems that work across print, digital, and merchandise, and I enjoy collaborating with teams to bring ideas to life with clarity and personality. I’ve led design for Jacobs School of Music at IU, helped rebrand Central Indiana DSA, and contributed to campaigns for Indiana state representatives. I combine strong typography, color, and layout with illustration and motion graphics to create engaging experiences for social, print, and web audiences.

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Hi, I’m Alise henscHen. I’m a determined and intuitive design professional with a passion for brand identity, creative direction, and 8 years of experience in branding, illustration, and color theory. I love building cohesive visual systems that work across print, digital, and merchandise, and I enjoy collaborating with teams to bring ideas to life with clarity and personality.

I’ve led design for Jacobs School of Music at IU, helped rebrand Central Indiana DSA, and contributed to campaigns for Indiana state representatives. I combine strong typography, color, and layout with illustration and motion graphics to create engaging experiences for social, print, and web audiences.

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Work Experience

Graphic Design Intern at Fort Wayne Children's Zoo

June 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021

Developed infographics for zookeeper demonstrations and social media; Designed a series of enamel pins; Created a graphics library experience

Graphic Designer at IU Bloomington’s Jacobs School of Music

March 1, 2024 - Present

Designer for JSOM materials including socials, print, web, and graphical; Created a new poster template series for the 1,000+ performances a year held at Jacobs to help modernize and align with the current Jacobs identity through updated branding; Led the design of several annual projects such as JAZZ@JSOM, Summer Music Festival, and Resonance; Lead designer on a yearly publication titled ‘Resonance,’ which featured 36 pages of content and was given out to hundreds of students both on campus and internationally; Created 100+ poster, banner, program, mailer, and flyer designs; Developed animated graphics for videos and social media posts

Lead Designer and Brand Manager at Central Indiana DSA (formerly Greater Lafayette DSA)

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2025

Chiefly carried out a full rebrand complete with a new chapter logo, several committee logos, and a full design guide in tandem to achieve greater cohesion, consistency and professionalism when collaborating with other designers and streamlining our creative process; Coordinated with local print vendors to distribute posters and brochures throughout Indianapolis, promoting mutual aid efforts and launching a recruiting campaign with print media; Expanded the brand’s identity into the physical footprint by designing tabling banners, buttons, and shirts for better membership engagement through merchandise; Designed materials made for communications with our following, including social media, mailers, email/website, and custom graphics/illustrations for specific campaigns and events

Campaign Designer Commissions at Campaign Designer Commissions

January 1, 2025 - Present

Helped develop the branding and campaign materials of several Indiana State Representative campaigns; Designed logos, fliers, t-shirts, business cards, etc.