Chelsea Wood

Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Hand Typographer

Nashville, TN, USA
Chelsea Wood is a designer, letterer, and illustrator born and raised in Nashville – Music City, USA. Growing up in a musical city, going to concerts with her parents, as well as listening to the music they grew up with, has greatly influenced her work. Her love of design stemmed from admiring the album covers of records she would listen to as a child, with her father. She has been drawing her entire life and has channeled that love into learning everything she can about drawing in various mediums from experimenting with watercolor, to digital renderings.

Her background is in art/illustration, but she has studied and has a working knowledge in HTML5/CSS3 coding as well as history in marketing. She has worked with Fortune 100 clients while at past employers and has rebranded one of those clients.

Chelsea is happiest when designing or drawing, but when she’s not, you can often find her catching a local concert in town, searching for the best hot chocolate in Nashville, watching The Office while quoting it, or listening to her ever-growing record collection.

To get in touch with Chelsea, email her at woodchelsea13@gmail.com, or connect with her online. Chances are she will be talking about her favorite bands.

Work Experience

The Creative Group

Graphic Design Contractor

Creating digital and print assets for local companies around Nashville as needed.
August 2018 - Present Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Premise Health

Graphic Designer - Onsite Engagement

Created digital illustrations, icons, and infographics to be used on printed and digital flyers for various clients.

Created logo prototypes and made full-packaged ZIP files of the final logo in all file formats and color variations.

Re-branded one of Premise Health’s client’s onsite clinic from initial concepts, color scheme, layout, and typography for flyers, posters, and digital slides.

Advanced the design and layout of templates used for varying flyers, banner stands, posters, postcards, digital slides, door signs, wall signs, brochures, and table tents.

Adapted the company’s branding for print and digital materials to the branding of some of Premise Health’s clients and worked efficiently in multiple brand standards.

Developed a design package for one of the lines of services the clinics offer which included a postcard, two versions of a flyer, poster, two versions of a table tent, two sizes of digital slides, and an appointment card.

Designed an employee recognition card using hand typography. This card is utilized company-wide by executives and managers to recognize employees upholding company values and high performance.

Coordinated with the corporate marketing team and designed print materials used at the company’s annual meeting.
October 2016 - June 2017 Tennessee, United States

Premise Health

UI/UX Designer

Formatted and color-corrected photographs for provider photos on the web portal, e-mail headers, and website banners.

Used Illustrator and Sketch to wire frame and prototype the work flows for new portal features and concept new phone app ideas.

Coordinated with the development team and business analyst to wire frame and design work flows in the configuration tool for an in-house web portal.

Mocked up designs and work flows using Paper by FiftyThree on an iPad for the configuration tool.

Branded and designed the marketing materials for the web portal including digital slides, postcard, pass along card, table tent, and poster.

Created a digital e-vite for the company’s client forum.

Coordinated with the department head, corporate marketing team, and outside agency to develop a client guide to the in-house web portal, as well as creating an adaptation of that guide into a product one-pager.
December 2014 - September 2016 Tennessee, United States

Premise Health

Design Intern

Designed four desktop backgrounds used company wide on all machines.

Hand illustrated, and animated a 30 second animatic advertising the in-house web portal using After Effects.

Updated and redesigned various PowerPoint presentations for department team leaders, department VP’s, and the CEO.

Recorded and edited a video for one of the VP’s to present at the annual meeting.
July 2014 - December 2014 Tennessee, United States

The Maine Street Team

Social Media Promoter

Created illustrations, typography pieces, or craft projects to promote new material and news for The Maine primarily centered around new music releases, new music videos, or tours.

Nominated and awarded Most Innovative out of an exclusive team of 200.

Promote The Maine using custom artwork through various forms of social media including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, and YouTube.

Designed e-mail banners for the weekly newsletter.

Take concert photographs to help promote The Maine leading up to, and during, new tours.

Promote other bands and projects on the 8123 label started by The Maine, using custom artwork through various forms of social media.

Designed the t-shirt exclusive to street team members
December 2016 - Present Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Chelsea Studios

Head Creative Director

We are a groovy gang of freelance graphic designers that create everything from far out brands to screen printing. We are ace at drawing creations by hand, and using art from the past to greatly influence what we create.
August 2007 - Present Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Cardinal & Cream

Design Editor

I help layout and design the print editions of the paper, as well as make graphics for both online and printed stories.
August 2013 - May 2014 Jackson, Tennessee, United States

Tusculum Hills Baptist Church

Graphic Designer

I designed a few logos for classes that were being offered, as well as designing the building's floorplan that is currently posted on the website and will be posted in the church.
January 2011 - December 2011 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Tusculum Hills Baptist Church

Camp Counselor

My home church runs a two-day-a-week day camp during the summer for ages 5-13. I have been one of a few counselors to work there at a time.
May 2005 - Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Education

Union University

Bachelor of Arts

I majored in Digital Media studies with an emphasis in Art (Graphic Design) with secondary emphases in Communication Arts and Computer Science.
August 2010 - May 2014 Tennessee, United States

Languages

English (Native),
Spanish (Conversational),
Korean (Beginner),

Awards

The Maine Street Team

Most Innovative

2018

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro , Ceramics, Confluence, CSS3, Darkroom, Digital And Film Photography, Digital Editing, Film Editing, Final Cut Pro X, HTML5, Illustrator Draw, IMovie, Invision App, Jira , Lighting, Lightroom, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Word, Mobile App Icon Development, Mobile Wireframe Development, Mobile Wireframing, Motion Graphics , Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Sketch, Procreate, Reductive Carving, Screen Printing, Web Wireframe Development, Website Wireframing,