I am VaporDave (you can find my portfolio at vapordave.com), a dedicated creative professional specializing in graphic design, brand identity, and product packaging. Over the years, I have developed extensive expertise in creating compelling print and digital projects, from product catalogs and brochures to striking packaging and label designs. My work experience spans various sectors including cannabis, non-profit, legal, and media with clients both local and international. I have a strong passion for visual storytelling and delivering designs that effectively communicate brand values and essence. I am always excited to take on new projects and collaborate with diverse teams to bring creative visions to life.…

Dave Emrich

I am VaporDave (you can find my portfolio at vapordave.com), a dedicated creative professional specializing in graphic design, brand identity, and product packaging. Over the years, I have developed extensive expertise in creating compelling print and digital projects, from product catalogs and brochures to striking packaging and label designs. My work experience spans various sectors including cannabis, non-profit, legal, and media with clients both local and international. I have a strong passion for visual storytelling and delivering designs that effectively communicate brand values and essence. I am always excited to take on new projects and collaborate with diverse teams to bring creative visions to life.…

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I am VaporDave (you can find my portfolio at vapordave.com), a dedicated creative professional specializing in graphic design, brand identity, and product packaging. Over the years, I have developed extensive expertise in creating compelling print and digital projects, from product catalogs and brochures to striking packaging and label designs.

My work experience spans various sectors including cannabis, non-profit, legal, and media with clients both local and international. I have a strong passion for visual storytelling and delivering designs that effectively communicate brand values and essence. I am always excited to take on new projects and collaborate with diverse teams to bring creative visions to life.

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Work Experience

Creative Director at International Cannabis Business Conference
December 31, 2020 - August 11, 2025
Led the creation of brand identity including logo design, print and digital advertising, conference schedule, website design and maintenance, conference signage, social media campaigns, apparel and badge designs. Worked closely with exhibitors and sponsors to enhance the conference brand over multiple international locations such as Berlin, San Francisco, Barcelona, Zurich, and Vancouver, from 2014 to 2020.
In-house Graphic Designer at Home Power Magazine
December 31, 2014 - August 11, 2025
Designed and laid out articles including photo correction, typography, technical schematics, and advertisement placements for a national magazine on solar power and renewable energy. Managed assembly of 144-page issues for commercial offset printing over a ten-year period.

Education

Bachelor's of Arts at University of Oregon
January 11, 2030 - August 11, 2025
Certificate of Computer Graphics at Philadelphia College of Art
January 11, 2030 - August 11, 2025

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Consumer Goods, Non-Profit Organization, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Agriculture & Mining
    Chocolate Bar Packaging Design
    This upscale client wanted hand-drawn art for their line of apricot seed chocolate bars. Shown here is the vector outline of the dieline and art, the finished PDF, and the printed piece. I had a lot of fun with this project, and the perks of free chocolate always gets my attention lol... packagingdesigner…
    Package Design for 10-Pack Cannabis Joints
    Using the custom shape dieline supplied by the commercial printer, I created the background in Photoshop and then imported the dieline shape as a solid fill, saved that shape as a selection, then used that selection to mask out the background, resulting in the pixel-perfect shape I wanted to drop back into the Adobe Illustrator file containing the dieline of the finished box shape. From there I created the typography and added the state required cannabis warnings. The back of the box was intentionally left mostly "blank" because the finished box has additional state-required stickers in that area. The finished box turned out beautifully and the client can't keep this item on his shelves it sells out so fast.…
    32-Page Brochure
    Using Adobe InDesign, I created this 32-page mountain bike guide for one of the Red Bull X Games judges (the legendary Josh Bender). The cover image I created by combining three separate photos in Photoshop and then converting to sepia to both eliminate the various differences in original color density as well as to provide the mood of the piece.…
    Alternate logo for ICBC
    In addition to creating the currently used ICBC logo (which you can find elsewhere here in my portfolio section or on my website at vapordave.com) I also created this version, which I personally like better than the one currently in use (which I also created). logo branding designer…
    Logo for Matt Emrich Photography
    This photographer specializes in wedding photography and needed a logo specific to that field.…
    Trade Show Booth Design
    Using imagery from the print brochure I also designed for this client, I created this backlit trade show sign in Adobe InDesign for use in the client's booth at the Barcelona event for the International Cannabis Business Conference.…
    Jamaica Joel's logo
    Pardon the low resoluton of this image, it's from a video screenshot. I created the Jamaica Joel's logo (shown here with Snoop posing next to it, for which I was incredibly honored) using a headshot photo of the namesake for the logo as a reference for the pared down vector illustration. Jamaica Joel's is an independently owned cannabis dispensary in Eugene, Oregon.…
    Logo for International Cannabis Business Conference ICBC
    This logo evolved as the company grew bigger and added more cities to its list of conferences; I started with the Golden Gate Bridge illustration for the San Francisco event, then added the white tents of Vancouver BC for the Canada event, and finally added the Berlin Fernsehturm Tower for the event in Berlin. Although there are now additional events in Zurich and Barcelona it was decided that the logo would become too busy if more city icons were added, so the final (and current) version is this one.…
    Caldera Brewing Beer Label
    Using a hand-drawn illustration which I created in pencil, including both the hop characters and the product name Hopportunity Knocks IPA, I converted the illustration to vector in Adobe Illustrator and added the 6 spot colors required by the can company (Ball cans). This is one of several can designs I created for Caldera, more can be found on my website at vapordave.com…
    PapaBuds website
    I created this WordPress website, PapaBuds.com, for a cannabis dispensary in Portland, Oregon. A fully functional cannabis website including an embedded Dutchie store, with work including logo design and all website design.…
    Package Design Adult-Use Cannabis Vape
    Using the dieline supplied by the printer, I created the illustration and graphic design for this line of adult-use cannabis vape pen cartridges for a licensed farm in Oregon.…
    Jerome Baker Designs logo
    The first vector graffiti logo ever created, still a legendary brand repped by Tommy Chong, Snoop Dogg, Seth Rogen, and more.…