Owner / Creative Director at Loodles Coffee, Books & Art

Conceived, built, branded, marketed, and operated an independent coffee house, roastery, studio, and gallery. Directed the brand identity, customer experience, product mix, marketing, and visual direction from the ground up.

Marketing Director at Capri Coffee

Directed brand identity and creative marketing across a 14-location coffee franchise. Established a consistent visual direction across locations, packaging, print, advertising and customer touchpoints.

Creative Director | Owner at Mark Ludy Books & Art

Created, published, illustrated, designed and brought to market 10 picture books, managing everything from initial concept through production, distribution and marketing. • Developed original product lines including books, artwork, puzzles, games, greeting cards and gift products. • Built wholesale distribution and long-standing relationships with retailers, distributors, manufacturers, publishers and licensing partners. • Developed creative work for outside companies and publishers, including branding, illustration, game design and product concepts. • Licensed original artwork and intellectual property internationally, working with agents and licensing partners in multiple markets. Consulted, taught and mentored creatives, publishers and organizations in creative development, publishing and bringing ideas to market.

Creative Director at Peek-A-Book Press

Created, illustrated and designed The Flower Man, taking the book from original concept through finished production. • 105,000+ U.S. copies sold, with additional international editions and sales.

Industrial Design at Curventa Designworks

Contributed to consumer product design projects for Procter & Gamble (Tide, Oil of Olay) and Toyota. • Collaborated with an international team on the Scootchi Scooter, which received a Honda design award. Worked across concept development, industrial design, 3D visualization and presentation.

Creative Director | Co-Owner at Green Pastures Publishing

Co-founded and operated an independent publishing company. Authored, illustrated and designed two picture books, helping manage production, marketing, distribution and sales.

Worked as an independent illustrator.