Amy Parker Email & Phone Number

Portland, Me, Us

Woods Creative is a design consultancy. It was founded in 2014 by Amy Parker and Chris Bransfield to develop brands; visual identity systems, digital products, research studies, and Design Through™ workshops with subject-matter experts. It’s this social science research, connections strategy, and multi-disciplinary collaboration to make design that uniquely suits Woods to lead organizations through the brand development and the product design process. While working with both large and small innovative brands over the years, our approach has always been the same: We strategize, research, and create with you: We design through. Client Work: Pegasystems, Evenflo, EVERSANA, Total Expert, Patient Funding Alternatives, Noble Biomaterials, Rising Bear Foods, Arbor Works, Heartwood Tree and Shrub, Daily Table, 240 Strings, John Hancock, SPACE, Fendler PR (Material Wise Podcast).

SPACE is a nonprofit organization that supports contemporary arts projects, champions artists, and encourages an open exchange of ideas.Grounded in the belief that vital communities are activated by experimentation, conversation, and camaraderie, SPACE engages a wide audience with provocative arts programming and category-defying events. As a nexus for curious minds, we collaborate with original thinkers and invite the public to participate in the ongoing pursuit of adventurous ideas.As a sitting member of the Board of Directors, Amy works on both the Governance and Communications Committees to support the SPACE staff with ideas to help the organization move forward with goals set by staff leadership.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Message Amy if you're interested in realizing your design programming idea with AIGA.Amy leads the Programming team at AIGA Boston as VP of Programming to focus the chapters attention on initiatives such as Innovation in Design, DEI, Business of Design, Emerging Designers, UX/UI — all within the extensive Boston design scene. This chapter attracts Creatives from around New England and has a global audience with virtual programming. In addition to building creative community leader relationships and securing partnership sponsorships from both local agencies and Adobe, Amy has co-lead programs such as: ICA Boston Design Lecture Series, GENUX Symposium, V.0 Mentorship, OpenAir Gallery Boston, Portfolio Reviews, various workshops, events, and larger scale celebrations including naming and co-leading the branding team for our 35th anniversary celebration and programming series; D35IGN.Education opportunities have included chapter leadership retreats in Baltimore, MD and Washington D.C. Through these and local programming, Amy has valued workshops, programming and collaborative sessions: Certified IBM Design Thinking training, AIGA National visioning sessions, IDEO Design Thinking training, and Public Speaking training.Prior programming positions: August 2020-August 2021 | Director of Visual UX/UI Design, January 2017-August 2020 | Director of EMERGE, AIGA Board of Directors.

Portland, Maine, Us

SP23, SP24, SP25 (pending) | Branding and Visual Systems focuses design students to observe, critique, and make within the world of all things brand identity development! We build on constraints of existing identity into expansive systems to ensure the representation of current products, services, and ideas is strong enough to persuade and grow enormous audiences and motivate new brand advocates.FA222, FA23, FA24 (pending) | Professional Studio introduces design students to different working models of professional practice. Design students examine the evolving role of what it means to be a “Creative” and leave this class prepared with a professional toolkit for how to find job opportunities as a team member with an agency or in-house role. Designers take on a 'real world' project with a local organization to practice design entrepreneurship and learn how to run business for their own practice including project management, copyright law, and finance.FA21 | Motive, Method, Making tunes students' practice on methods to help solve creative problems with design. During this course we cover best practices to define brand strategy and visual identity development, understand who we are designing for, create brand touchpoints, and make UX/UI product design with both thoughtful function and intentional form. Students learn how these processes and frameworks apply to their future design practice and how this helps work well with clients/collaborators. Together, we embrace big ideas!

London, London, Gb

As a leader within a team of Creatives, Amy helped shape brand experiences: From design and technology research, concept development and collaboration, art direction within the team, to design creation. With focus on digital work, she collaborated with copywriters, UX designers, art directors, motion graphic designers, film makers, illustrators, production designers, and tech-developers to make vision come to fruition. Focused work included: brand activations, online advertising, short form video and animation, reel video, site design, and application design for mobile, tablet and wearables.Client Work: Bank of America (Enterprise), The State of Massachusetts, Puma, Merrill Lynch, Cradles to Crayons, Cessna.

Ma, Us

During this course, Amy co-taught a summer workshop class to continuing education students at the SMFA. Specifically, Amy brought expertise and exercises to teach visual problem solving and specific tool capabilities in Adobe Illustrator.

Zürich, Icon Worldwide, Ch

As a designer on a small team, Amy worked directly with leaders of Icon Worldwide to help execute on vision for Swiss clients. Her role explored user experience and user interface design for digital applications and websites before responsive design was part of the vernacular. Additionally, Amy created identity design and supporting marketing collateral for small business and entrepreneurial endeavors. Client Work: University of St.Gallen, Mettler Toledo, Sigma-aldrich, Zentrum für Angst und Depressionsbehandlung Zürich (ZADZ), Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Angst und Depressionen (SGAD).Agency leads studied under | Lorian Lombardi (co-founder), Jonathan Glicksberg (co-founder)

Boston, Ma, Us

As Amy's first launch into the professional design field, she worked as a design intern under award-winning designers at Alphabet Arm. Her role was to create logos for non-profits and small businesses, design and produce business cards, make marketing collateral for partnering businesses and design album covers and t-shirts.Client Work: BzzAgent Inc., Scott's, Venus/Braun, Dove, Ipswich Ale, Silk Soy Milk, McCain Foods Limited.Designers studied under | Aaron Belyea (founder), Ryan Frease

Boston, Ma, Us

Amy realized her love for helping people practice their own way of seeing and making through tutoring. She mentored peers who sought help in a better understanding of the fundamentals of design. Subjects of focus: Drawing, 2−dimension design, 3−dimension design, color theory, typography, and computer applications.Communication expert studied under | Laureen Simonetti

Amy worked as a studio artist assistant with fascination in spatial design. In addition to studio space preparation tasks, she constructed elements of sculpture under artist direction and hung work to help define placement and mechanisms of hardware stability on ceilings and walls. Additionally she assisted in production of work installation in gallery spaces, photographed the work and designed a portfolio look-book for the "With or Without You" work series.Fine artist studied under | Bebe Beardbebebeard.com

Bfa, Graphic Design, Minor In Fine Art

Basics Of Book Design Class, Book Design

Workshop, Typography Design

Workshop Certification, Photography