Graphic designer with 12+ years of experience creating brand identities, marketing collateral, motion graphics, video assets, and UX/UI designs for finance, technology, gaming, and small businesses. Known for clean execution and fast turnarounds while maintaining high-quality delivery across print, digital, and video. Comfortable working independently across the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, quickly switching between brand work, social content, and motion design within the same week. Skilled at collaborating with marketing, copy, and business stakeholders to translate goals into polished, on-brand creative deliverables.

GRAYSON GARRETT

Graphic designer with 12+ years of experience creating brand identities, marketing collateral, motion graphics, video assets, and UX/UI designs for finance, technology, gaming, and small businesses. Known for clean execution and fast turnarounds while maintaining high-quality delivery across print, digital, and video. Comfortable working independently across the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, quickly switching between brand work, social content, and motion design within the same week. Skilled at collaborating with marketing, copy, and business stakeholders to translate goals into polished, on-brand creative deliverables.

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Graphic designer with 12+ years of experience creating brand identities, marketing collateral, motion graphics, video assets, and UX/UI designs for finance, technology, gaming, and small businesses. Known for clean execution and fast turnarounds while maintaining high-quality delivery across print, digital, and video.

Comfortable working independently across the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, quickly switching between brand work, social content, and motion design within the same week. Skilled at collaborating with marketing, copy, and business stakeholders to translate goals into polished, on-brand creative deliverables.

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Work Experience

Art Director at ScanSource
November 1, 2025 - Present
Produce visual assets for integrated marketing campaigns, tradeshow booths, live events, and product launches with cohesive brand presence across customer touchpoints. Design and edit video, motion graphics, and static graphics for social media, digital advertising, internal communications, and email campaigns from concept through final delivery. Collaborate with copywriters, marketers, and stakeholders to translate campaign goals into polished, on-brand creative. Balance multiple concurrent projects while maintaining quality, brand consistency, and delivery timelines.
Graphic Designer / Videographer at American Credit Acceptance
April 1, 2022 - November 1, 2025
Created multi-channel marketing collateral including digital ads, brochures, and sales decks, contributing to a 10% sales increase and $300K in added value. Designed onboarding handbooks and animated training videos that standardized new-hire ramp-up, improving efficiency by 5% and generating $1.3M in value. Redesigned UI for internal loan processing tools in Figma, reducing navigation complexity and improving efficiency by 6%, generating $1.5M in value. Produced full-cycle video content from concept through final edit and introduced storyboarding as a standard pre-production step, generating $500K in business value and saving $40K+ annually in revisions.
Concept Artist / Storyboard Artist at Spitfire Interactive
March 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022
Designed characters, weapons, and armor concepts aligned with narrative goals while adapting to the project’s established visual framework. Produced animation-ready character assets with clean rigging structures, balancing technical limitations with artistic vision. Storyboarded the intro cinematic and helped define overall visual storytelling style, collaborating with directors and animators on pacing and cinematography.
Graphic Designer / Production Manager at Renntech Graphics
March 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022
Designed logos, signage, and branding assets for new business clients. Trained staff in Adobe Creative Suite. Produced end-to-end production of large-format signage, apparel, and promotional items with 100% on-time delivery.
Freelance Graphic Designer at Grayson Garrett Designs
August 1, 2012 - Present
Built an ongoing freelance practice delivering brand identity, signage, apparel, and print design for small businesses and startups, starting with a long-term partnership with Crisp and Son. Served as an ongoing design partner for ArcLabs, a trade school, shaping its visual language across print collateral and brand materials. Built a complete brand identity for ARTHAX Gaming (logo, color system, typography, and brand guide) and designed a tiered subscriber icon system for loyalty and custom merchandise. Designed full brand identity for Kabob Kingdom from client pitch through final delivery. Maintained 100% on-time delivery and increased repeat business by 25% across 12+ years of ongoing freelance work.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Media Arts) at University of South Carolina
January 11, 2030 - July 10, 2026

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Industry Experience

Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Software & Internet