I started as an Art Director at a promotional marketing agency, then went independent. What began as freelance work grew into Larkspur Creative Studio — fifteen years of leading brand strategy, campaigns, digital, and environmental design for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

 

I bring a perspective shaped by that range: systems thinking, an eye for scale and prototyping, and a commitment to creative processes that produce work with real character.

 

Running my own studio taught me things I couldn't have learned any other way: how to earn trust fast, navigate ambiguity, mentor designers, and make creative decisions that hold up under real business pressure — not just client feedback.

 

One relationship from that era is still going — sixteen years and counting. That's not an accident. I treat every project as the start of a relationship, not a transaction — which is probably why so many of my clients have stayed for years, not project cycles.

 

The work itself spans more ground than most creative careers: brand identity, integrated campaigns, executive presentations, UI/UX, and large-scale environmental design — from a multi-million-dollar pharmaceutical campus build to national Pride campaign work to a magazine I redesigned cover-to-cover for three years.

 

The medium changes. What doesn't is the goal — work that earns enough trust to get asked back.

 

Outside the Studio

When I'm not designing, I'm probably deep in a history book, rearranging furniture that doesn't need rearranging, or coaching youth basketball. I have a deep obsession with mid-century modern design — the kind where function and beauty actually agree with each other. Above all, I'm a mom, which turns out to be the most humbling creative challenge of all.