Corie Cox

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Hello! My name is Corie Cox and I love all things design. Here are a few things I’ve worked on–illustration, photography, and layouts–and maybe a few personal art projects.

I love the way illustrations speak to the viewer in the viewer’s own language. My hope is that people see themselves in the drawings.

I love the way a solid layout both directs the viewer’s eye and allows spaces for discovery and surprise.

I love problem-solving through design.

I’ve worked in design/advertising/communications/and creative work for almost 30 years. But my love of letters and lines began long before that. I grew up around fine and graphic artists–visiting studios, printshops, and museums.

This site is a work in progress, so I hope you’ll come back from time to time. And if you need more information or would like to work together, I’d love to hear from you!

simplifying (and beautifying) the complex

Tight budgets, mountains of text, and dry data can be tamed with a few creative solutions. I love the challenge of staying on message, sharing the necessary information, and making the final product something people want to interact with. Annual reports do not need to be boring, mandatory reports. Infographics are a way of contextualizing complex themes or numbers. And working within brand guidelines keeps all the messaging related, reiterating every story you share.

These projects were conceptualized by me and the teams I worked with. I created these projects in Adobe InDesign.

drawing the reader in

Illustrations allow the viewer to connect with an image in a deeper way. Age, gender, skin color–all the physical attributes that pull us in or push us out–can seem to disappear with illustration, allowing the viewer to “see themselves” as part of the brand story. And custom illustrations stand out in a sea of stock photography and clip art.

I created these in either Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.

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creating marks with line art

Design can build community. By using parts of the environment an alum or visitor spent time in, illustrations can connect them back to time spent in that particular environment. Creating designs around crowd-sourced memories (“give us a quote your favorite professors always used”) makes those willing to share their memories part of the design strategy. By using simple lines and branded colors, I was able to achieve designs that left no doubt as to what the viewer was seeing.

These were created with Adobe Illustrator.

  • In one of the most active social media posts to date, alums were asked to contribute favorite quotes from their professors. Those quotes became the basis for the design.
  • By creating a traditional “church fan” we were able to provide guests with some relief from the heat during an outdoors, warm-weather event, give them something to take home, and make them part of the overall messaging through their contributions of quotes. The piece was well-received and led to conversations among guests.
  • This is a stylized drawing of a stained-glass window all alums would be very familiar with. It is, however, very dark. The distinctive shape was recreated with lighter, more festive colors and used for the annual alumni reunion.
  • Each element in this illustration can be found on a building around the campus for this Christmas card. Alums and visitor alike recognized these familiar shapes.