Mike DeSart
DESIGN LEADER & CREATIVE THINKER
Design style
CLEAN—MODERN—MINIMAL
Design approach
CURIOUS—INNOVATIVE—METHODICAL
Design leadership
ENCOURAGING—COLLABORATIVE—INCLUSIVE
Great places I've worked at full-time
2007 - Present
Lead Visual Designer
Performing Art Director and Lead Visual Designer duties including managing designers, directing photo/video shoots and pushing the Vacasa brand forward in a variety of mediums.
Lead Visual Designer
I worked with all aspects of the company to raise the visual brand identity to be the best in the industry. I was daily focused on managing freelancers, owning marketing design, and directing our brand image.
Senior Design Contractor
I contracted with the LSS team to design Tradeshow Graphics, Social Ads & posts, Sales Presentations, and content design such as eBooks, Sales Sheets and more.
Senior Designer
As the first design hire & 20th employee at this fast growing startup I built out the brand look & feel and delivered high quality assets like a live action commercial, illustrations, Marketing templates, UI/UX and hand coded HTML/CSS.
Designer, Growth & Marketing
Designer on Growth & Marketing initiatives including SEM LPs, SEO Pages, Emails, Re-targeting Ads, Brand Guidlines, CRO, Responsive Web Design, A/B Testing and Integrated Campaigns.
Graphic Designer
At this small but mighty design firm I completed over 370 projects. I handled clients like Netflix, PayPal, HP and others. I did branding, print, web, UI, trade show graphics, packaging, flash, animation, HTML emails and online ads.