I’m a designer with strong foundations in typography and visual systems, with experience across branding studios, advertising agencies, and architecture firms. I balance designing for trends with classic design principles and focus on creating clear, simple designs that solve problems.

Sophie Lietz

I’m a designer with strong foundations in typography and visual systems, with experience across branding studios, advertising agencies, and architecture firms. I balance designing for trends with classic design principles and focus on creating clear, simple designs that solve problems.

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I’m a designer with strong foundations in typography and visual systems, with experience across branding studios, advertising agencies, and architecture firms. I balance designing for trends with classic design principles and focus on creating clear, simple designs that solve problems.

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Work Experience

Junior Designer at Durham Studio
June 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025
Develop and maintain brand identities for national and local companies. This includes: logo conception, brand guidelines, digital media assets, print collateral, environmental graphics, and more.
Design Intern at Order
September 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024
Create and evolve brand identities for both national and local companies, delivering cohesive systems across logos, guidelines, digital media, print collateral, and environmental applications.
Design Intern at Rockwell Group
January 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024
Design environmental and experiential graphics for museum exhibitions. Also assisted in internal and client branding exercises and marketing strategies.
Freelance Designer at A LINE Studio
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024
Develop case study motion graphics and final artwork, animate and conceptualize studio marketing content to engage audiences effectively, and ideate future studio promotion.
Design Intern at Durham Studio
August 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Develop and maintain brand identities for national and local companies. This includes: logo conception, brand guidelines, digital media assets, print collateral, environmental graphics, and more. Invited to spend two non-consecutive semesters with the studio with increasing responsibilities as time progressed.
Design Intern at Empower Media
January 1, 2022 - April 1, 2022
Ideate and produce a variety of digital media assets, print collateral, pre-production documents, brand guidelines, and social campaigns. Also assist in art direction, set styling, photography and videography.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Communication Design at University of Cincinnati
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025

Qualifications

Patricia Kisker Foundation Scholarship
January 11, 2030 - December 26, 2025
National Co-op Ambassador Scholarship
January 11, 2030 - December 26, 2025
DAAP Student Ambassador
January 11, 2030 - December 26, 2025
Dean’s & President’s List
January 11, 2030 - December 26, 2025
American Institute of Graphic Arts
January 11, 2030 - December 26, 2025

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education, Other