Dusty Sumner Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

I assist agencies & companies across the globe in the field of Design & Art Direction. Projects range from 6-month integrated rebrands to your one-off burner request needed yesterday. I work at a high-efficiency that is smart, on-strategy, on-time, on-budget and pixel perfect in detail. I work in a variety of mediums for multiple industries in the B2B and B2C environments.Industries I've assisted include: Enterprise Solutions, Pharma, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Insurance, Financial, Fast-Casual, Higher Education, Sporting Goods, Technology and more.Mediums I've Designed & Art Directed for include: Visual Design, UI, Wireframes, Social Media, Motion Design, Brand Identity and Development, POS, POP, In-store, UI Reskinning, CMS storefronts, Concept Design, Pitch Creative, Presentation Deck Design, Responsive Web Design, Layout Design, Concept & Ideation, Mood boards, Story boards, Visual Design Styles, Packaging and Design Standards.I always have a smile on and work seamlessly with any team. I can take the lead, mentor up-coming-designers, or get my hands dirty. Would love to tell you more in-person. - Cheers, D

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Mentor of younger creatives. Worked daily with PMs, Strategy, Copy, UX and Account teams helping lead innovative work for Fortune 100 to 500 companies in. Worked hands-on to set Design Direction, assist teams, and help with any tight deadlines whenever needed. Lead Design presentations to Executive Client Leadership teams and Stakeholders across multiple internal client teams. Creative Directed and led visual design, UI and UX teams on Cisco webpage builds using Cisco's Visual Design Standards. Assisted on the Global Nike Media Pitch in Innovation Marketing. Creative Directed and Designed presentation decks & pitch creative for Nespresso, Pepsi, HUB International, Popeyes & Region’s Bank. Directed 3rd party vendors to ensure success. Primary fields of focus were Visual Design, Motion Design, Social Media, Presentation Deck Design, Pitch Creative, Email Design and internal marketing creative efforts. Helped develop Omni-Channel Marketing creative ideas for pitches as well as assist on current clientele.Leader, team player, and go-getter with a light-hearted sense of humor, who loved solving problems to produce smart, innovative solutions that helped clients sell and succeed.

Overland Park, Ks

I worked with DEG on a project-centric basis. I was their go-to contract ACD and Senior Design Freelancer. I pivoted seamlessly on a wide-range of projects for DEG clients ranging from: web design, pitch creative, presentation deck design, email design, social media creative, production design, lightweight motion design, brand development, production and more. Whatever was needed of me I jumped in with two feet and a smile, and assisted a variety of cross-functional teams deliver on tight timelines weekly with positive results.I worked directly with teams from Resources, Traffic, Creative, Strategy, Account, SFMC, Front End, Dev, UI, UX and Production. I presented on-site when applicable to multiple teams. I was accountable, organized, fast and precise. I juggled 5+ different client projects in different mediums per week.We ended up working so well together that DEG hired me full-time at the beginning of 2022, a win-win for both of us.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Behind Every Hero Lies a Villain™. This was the tagline for the Design Studio I founded, Villain Design Company, which I oversaw for more than a decade. I helped lead top brands such as Jockey International, Chilis Grill and Bar and Bellagio Foods in Digital transformations as their Digital AOR. We lead Planet Sub on a fresh, ground up fast-casual rebrand. I led retail and wholesale catalog design and in-studio and in-store photoshoots for Indigo Wild. We also assisted in-store and environmental graphic package displays and window banners for Jockey International.Villain also partnered with big agencies across the U.S.A. such as Dentsu NA, Firehouse Dallas, Barkley, Bernstein, Callahan Creek and The Escape Pod. We were their hired gun of sorts, bringing in our arsenal of creative, to team up with their analytics, strategy, account and dev teams.I confidently presented our creative team's project work to C-Class leaders, Marketing Directors, ECD's, GCD's, Account Teams and 3rd party partners. Running my own business taught me the importance of your bottom line, people and being fearless. You must know how to see the bird's eye view down to the tiniest microscopic details.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

At CHRW, I helped developed visually compelling campaigns for a wide range of clients, ensuring brand consistency in print, motion & digital mediums. This is where I learned photography direction and developing great relationships with 3rd party vendors.I was tasked with bringing innovative design concepts to the table daily, that met whatever client objectives we were working on effectively. I worked daily with writers, strategy and account teams pushing the envelope on creative concepts and ideation. Responsible for press-checks, motion design, graphic design, and art direction. Directly reported to the Creative Director.First taste of being fortunate enough to garner international acclaim for various client work.