Brendan Wray Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

I lead the design and art direction for a variety of brands at Fact & Fiction, specializing in combining my loves for content creation and compelling design to create standout work. From redesigining packaging to creating merch to directing photo and video shoots, I have embraced every part of the creative process for national brands including Halo Top, AAA, Ranch Rider Spirits Co. and Voodoo Ranger IPA. I am actively involved in productions from concept to shoot to post-production: creating shotlists and moodboards, collaborating with internal and external production teams, and actively providing feedback for editing and post-production tasks. At the end of the day, I lead with intention to make the work the best it can be.

Leawood, Ks

A hybrid creative, I spent my days at MBB as an art director, designer,occasional prop master, guac-maker, and overall go-to guy. During my four years at MBB, I worked on a bevy of brands, with a focus in the beverageand CPG space including TILL Vodka, Rossville Union Rye, Bon Ami cleaner,and Chinet disposable tableware. Many of my projects with these brands included developing and expanding their overall brand elements and identity to applyin strategic advertising campaigns.

Leawood, Kansas

As a designer for at MBB, I worked on a variety of clients throughout the agency including pro-bono work, but my mouse predominately fell on TILL Vodka, Bon Ami powder cleaner, and the local Coca-Cola bottler. During my daily grind, I concepted and created posters, social posts, landing pages, banner ads, t-shirts, print ads, keynotes... and well you get the idea. Fun fact: I was a jr. designer for about two months before my skills (or skillz) kicked that abbreviation away.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Summer art director intern for a full-service advertising agency in Kansas City on their Merial® team. I create, concept and implement everything from social media posts to websites to email marketing materials to even designing a coffee cup, who knew? All these projects and more come with real world experience, a heavy dose of collaboration, and even some moxie.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Lead Designer for the True/False's fundraising event, the annual Boone Dawdle, a day of biking, drinking and watching a great documentary. As the lead designer, I created all the materials for the event including passes, shirt designs, sponsorship plans, and any other thing that came across my desk (or couch, if I'm being honest).

Columbia, Missouri Area

Art director for MOJO Ad, a full-service agency with campaigns targeting the Youth and Young Adult market. I lead the visual design of a campaign for a client and work with a team of nine others to imagine and make impactful, strategic advertising. I created interactive banner ads, a website, social media posts, videos, pre-roll, in-store displays and merch. It was an intense semester. Ask me about it sometime.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Member of the small design team creating the program book, advertisements and supplemental design materials, including event passes and merchandise, for True/False Film Fest, a celebration of the art of documentary filmmaking.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Designer and teaching assistant for a community-focused newspaper in Mid-Missouri. Evolving from my previous semesters at the paper, I was the lead designer for Tiger Kickoff, a special sports insert for the Missourian before all Mizzou home football games. I also continued my role as a TA for student designers.

La Hulpe, Belgium

Strategic Communication internship through the Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels Internship Global Program. I immersed myself for three months in a European workplace and culture and gained life-long experiences and memories. I utilized my current skills and grew to meet the challenges that came with living abroad.At SWIFT, I created infographics and documents explaining aspects of SWIFT's products, internal and external documents and company-wide announcements. I was a photographer for the company, and I took portraits of employees and created stock images for use in internal material.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Designer and teaching assistant at a community-focused newspaper in Mid-Missouri. At the paper, I designed front and inside pages for both the news and sports sections. I worked in tandem with section editors and copy editors to compile pages, write headlines and finalize designs on deadline. I faced multiple time-sensitive events including midterm elections and college football games that created fun and unique design challenges.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Worked as an RA in a residential hall at the University of Missouri. As a Peer Advisor, I taught a one-credit college course covering topics in film studies including diversity in film, shooting and editing techniques, and storyboarding. Along with the other RAs in the same hall, we created programs and events with a focus on topics in fine arts. Working as a Peer Advisor allowed me to grow my interpersonal skills by mentoring and advising primarily freshman students at the University of Missouri.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Prepared and exported daily print edition for the printerCompiled weather information and downloaded wire comics to complete templated designsDesigned inside news and sports pages on deadline while completing nightly tasks

Columbia, Missouri Area

Oversaw the entire design process at a student-led newspaper that published twice-a-week. As a freshman, I led other student designers to create a professional, award-winning printed newspaper. Personally, I created covers of special sections and the front pages of every issue I oversaw. I also created covers for MOVE Magazine, a weekly arts-focused insert for the paper.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Wrote weekly columns for MOVE Magazine focusing on pop culture and video games. I worked with a section editor and copy editor to improve my writing skills and adhere to AP style while maintaining a unique (and, in my opinion, comedic) voice.

Bachelor Of Journalism, Strategic Communications – Art Direction

Activities and Societies: The Maneater Newspaper, Residential Life, Columbia Missourian, MOJO Ad Walter Williams Scholar Multicultural.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, El Arroyo Yearbook, The Cardinal Newspaper, UIL Academic Competition Teams