Charlie O'Shields Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri

• Director of Venn49 Creative Lab, a creative boutique that focuses on absolutely anything creative, whether it's packaging design, environment design, or storytelling located in the heart of downtown Kansas City's Arts.
• Packaging Design and Development
• Environments: Retail Design and Trade Shows
• Brand Identity: Positioning, Identity Design, Mission & Voice Strategy, Brand Audits, Concept Development.
• Illustration: Character Design and Character Branding
• Storytelling: Pitch Packets and Concept Development

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Serving as an advisor for various projects including website design and marketing. Host of the annual World Watercolor Month art challenge in July where 100% of profits from souvenir products goes to fund ICAF.

• Creator of Doodlewash® an art blog at doodlewash.com and art movement focused on watercolor painting and sketching that features an online social community for artists, stories, reviews, tutorials, and talented guest.
• Founder of World Watercolor Month in July - a 31 watercolors in 31 days art challenge that has thousands of artists participating each year. World Watercolor Month is a charitable event to help raise awareness for art.
• Founded World Watercolor Group™ which reached over 45,000 members on Facebook in just 9 months. Currently over 170,000 artists are members of the Facebook group.
• Host of the Sketching Stuff Podcast (sketchingstuff.com), an inspirational podcast of evergreen stories inspired by my daily watercolor sketching and writing.
• Published "Sketching Stuff: Stories Sketched From Life", an illustrated memoir and inspirational tool for artists as well as the "Sketching Stuff Activity Book" Series (for people of all ages!), the Sketching Stuff.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Freelance brand consultation, brand strategy, identity design, writing and content marketing services. At Storywize® we help cool people with new and existing brands create meaningful and memorable brand story strategies, visual identities, and social media marketing content that connects with an audience on an emotional level. We’re thrilled to be helping.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Led and mentored various creative teams in visual design and storytelling for the creation of new sustainable brand experience concepts and key item product development. Co-created and creative directed the design and storyworld behind a retail program called Northpole that led to the first-ever retail tie-in movie on Hallmark Channel. Worked across the.

I was an Executive Producer on a successful 2 hour live action movie event called Northpole, and championed the first-ever collaboration of its kind between Hallmark Cards & Hallmark Channel. Working closely on the story from script to completion, I also collaborated directly with production designers, costume designers, as well as the visual effects.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Worked in a newly created Emotioneer role focused on delivering innovative, insight-driven consumer solutions. Created multiple high-level strategies and provided vision for new product programs. Led multiple teams on the conceptual development of everyday opportunities as well as seasonal programs for Christmas and Halloween. I helped craft the concept.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Working as an internal creative consultant and strategist, I worked on multiple brand strategy and prototyping projects, providing creative direction for internal product teams (cards, party, gifts, and keepsakes) as well as subsidiary teams, including Crayola and Sunrise Greetings. I also played a key role in re-envisioning the vision of Hallmark and.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Developed a new evening course in Interactive Multimedia that focused on concept to completion development of a branded interactive project. Using a unique process of storied concept development, students self-selected a favorite brand or existing entity for which they had an interest or passion and created an original marketing concept that they then.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Focusing on storytelling, creative strategy and design, I co-launched a design and marketing agency that worked with larger agencies, established companies, and several new ventures to produce interactive and print campaigns. Harnessing the power of social media, I created viral marketing strategies that increased site traffic and e-commerce revenue for.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Starting with just one brand client, Lee Jeans, I staffed and led a team of award-winning designers and programmers, and rapidly grew the brand portfolio. Within my first year, I led a rebranding and self-promotion strategy for the company which increased site traffic from 250 visitors per week to over 6,500. The site won international acclaim and I.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Managing an interdisciplinary team of designers, copywriters, and programmers, I led the creation of multiple touchpoint e-commerce programs for US colleges and universities, integrating interface designs for websites and kiosks. I also created a custom industrial design for a slimline wall-mounted TouchScreen kiosk, created multiple experience designs for.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Leading a team of designers and copywriters, I managed the concept and creation of custom creative marketing strategies for direct mail, working closely with clients to produce tailored marketing programs. Clients were primarily real estate professionals, but also included other fields such as food and agriculture. All campaigns created under my leadership.