A campaign for Hill Country Oakworks, a Texas whiskey barrel maker, from billboards down to phone wallpapers. Sun-washed color, the silhouette of an oak, and the land the barrels come from.

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Art Direction · Campaign Design · Illustrator
Hill Country Oakworks outdoor banner, color-blocked whiskey barrel composition with TEXAS BORN OAKCRAFT tagline at scale
2Travel Posters

Flat color, a tree silhouette, and a heavy geometric sans set big.

The brief asked for heritage that stayed clear of the Western cliché, so the reference pile was travel posters and old highway signs.

Stylized mid-century landscape with teal sky, white cloud, orange foreground hills, and a live oak silhouette anchoring the right
HILL COUNTRY OAKWORKS wordmark in mustard yellow on burnt-orange color-blocked field
Hill Country Oakworks campaign poster, oak silhouette against teal-orange-red color blocked sky in mid-century print style
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Campaign poster
Oak silhouette, blocked sky
Teal, orange, red

Scroll. It fills the mat, then travels the frame

Live oak silhouette set against an orange sun on cream textured ground
Brand tagline OAK BARRELS. MASTER CRAFT. HERITAGE WHISKEY. set in heavy geometric sans, orange on cream

The Hill Country, an hour before sunset

3Billboard to Phone

The same three parts hold from a billboard to a lock screen.

Color blocks, silhouette and type, at every size.

The Hill Country Oakworks billboard standing against bare winter trees, the tree silhouette and colour blocks running the full width
The billboard, outdoors
iPhone mockup showing the Hill Country Oakworks poster on the lock screen, hand-held against an open Texas sky
Portrait of a cowboy-hat-wearing man in a HILL COUNTRY OAKWORKS branded t-shirt with the brand tagline below

The palette had to say Texas without red, white, and blue, so it comes from the landscape at last light.

Burnt orange, mustard yellow, brick, teal sky, cream paper, charcoal silhouette. Orange and mustard do the color blocks and the wordmark, cream is the paper, and the charcoal is every silhouette and most of the type. Greatdome does the vintage part, on the headlines and the posters, so Avenir Next can just do its job everywhere else.

MarkMark: The markThe mark
TypefaceGreatdomeGreatdomeHeadline display
Palette
4Texas, Printed

There's a distressed texture over everything, and that's the only nod to age. The rest is flat color, a tree, and plain type.

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Art Direction
Campaign Design
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How it starts

A real conversation and a brainstorm, and a direction we both agree on. The work moves quickly from there.

What I take on

The brand, the thing people use, and the back of house that keeps it running. Not just a handoff, and not just a tool.

When it's done

A brand, a piece of software, a room. None of them are ever really done. There's a time to launch, let it sit, see how people use it, and decide what's next. You can't keep working on it in the background forever.

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Brand Systems
  • Digital Design
  • Interiors

Practice

  • Independent, Texas
  • Design and build
  • I love the work
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HCredits

  1. Crate & Barrel
  2. Nordstrom
  3. Ivy Park by Beyoncé
  4. Neiman Marcus
  5. Rejuvenation
  6. Lostine Home
  7. Visual Comfort
  8. Floor & Decor
  9. Kingston Brass
  10. Design Within Reach
  11. Vivir Homes
  12. Haven
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Creative technologist. AI development. Brand systems. Digital design. Interior design. Independent, Texas. Design and build. I love the work.
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Digital Experiences
Sites, stores and platforms, designed and shipped.
App Development
Native tools and AI products, built end to end.
Campaign/Creative
Art direction and campaigns for retail's big names.
Interiors
Rooms designed like products, down to the hardware.
Staples
Saved pictures and kept lines. None of it mine.
Aug 22

The homepage is three columns now: the wordmark left, the sentence and the question in the middle, the address right. They sit on the nav bar rather than under it, so the bar carries the page's own type instead of a strip of empty rule. Everything came down to two sizes, 32 and 12, inside a 50px frame on all four sides.

RHS
Aug 22

Image editing takes twelve inputs instead of four.

Sally
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