Graphic Designer · Alameda, CA · Open to Remote & Bay Area roles

I design the things
your brand actually runs on.

Fifteen years shaping how brands show up in the world: from enterprise strategy to the campaign, the deck, the wrap, and the trade show floor. Whether building creative functions from the ground up or scaling high-stakes collateral under tight deadlines, I bridge the gap between big ideas and flawless execution. I show up with my sleeves rolled up, and I finish what I start.

Print Production Presentation Design Email Design Identity Systems Signage & Environmental Social & Motion
Dana Constance Dana Constance
Selected Work

Real deliverables, real deadlines.

Every piece below shipped for a real client or employer. Click any tile for a closer look.

01 Davis Street 350 square foot infographic exhibit wall
Exhibit Design

A 350 sq. ft. wall, built to explain a $500M plan

Wireframe through fabrication: a full infographic exhibit wall mapping a major facility master plan for public-facing tours.

02
WM EarthCare truck wrap WM EarthCare vineyard leave-behind postcard WM EarthCare full-page newspaper ad WM EarthCare trade show booth signage
Print Production

WM EarthCare: the full print run

Truck wraps, a full-page newspaper ad, trade-show signage, and a vineyard leave-behind postcard for a sustainability brand built from scratch, still running 12+ years later.

03
City of Oakland Zero Waste Services proposal binder, open spread
Publication Design

City of Oakland proposal binder

A tabbed, photography-driven proposal for the City of Oakland's Zero Waste Services contract: layout, art direction, and photo direction across a 100+ page binder.

04
Enterprise proposal deck cover
Deck Design

Two decks, two brand systems

Enterprise proposal and conference decks built to two different client brand standards, turned around on tight deadlines.

05
IDEA alumni recruitment email header and hero
Email · HTML/CSS

Inline-safe HTML email

A recruitment email built around real case photography and a client's maroon-and-gold brand. Coded, not just designed.

06
NBTC visual identity sheet, logo and color palette
Identity System

A cooperative's identity, from scratch

Logo, color palette, and typography spec sheet for a healthcare cooperative's brand, built from a blank page.

07
Cognizant brand migration before and after
Brand Migration

51 documents, one rebrand, zero typos

One of 51 client-facing documents rebuilt from Collaborative Solutions to Cognizant in 12 months: same content, new brand system.

08
The Blood Count PSA video still
Video · PSA

A PSA that ran in 8 theaters

Wrote, storyboarded, and produced a horror-tinged donor PSA that screened in 8 South Bay theaters.

09
Rock and roll themed conference booth signage
Conference Signage

A rock-and-roll booth, printed

Backdrop panels and station signage for a rock-themed conference booth, specced to fabrication and proofed on-site.

Self-Directed Speculative type and editorial projects, built on my own to show range beyond client work.
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Meridian brand type system documentation, dark hero page
Self-Directed · Type System

A three-typeface system, from scratch

A speculative brand type system: a 12-step modular scale, a five-color palette, and pairing rules documented well enough for someone else to pick up and run with.

11
Halcyon type specimen page, weight waterfall
Self-Directed · Type Specimen

A weight waterfall, live

A speculative specimen for a grotesque typeface: full weight range, scale, figures, and character set, built as a living reference instead of a static PDF.

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On Exactitude in Science editorial layout, three-column annotated page
Self-Directed · Editorial Layout

A three-column annotated page

A speculative literary review layout, a Borges short story set with a 560px body column, a left rail of type notes, and a right rail of production notes, built to see how much apparatus one page can carry.

About

Hands on the work, whatever the title said.

Fifteen years, three industries, one job description that never changed. I've led brand and creative operations at a proptech startup, driven brand and experiential design for Cognizant's Workday practice, and managed marketing and design at Stanford Blood Center. The title moved. The work didn't: partner with a marketing team, shape the system if it's still taking form, and produce what makes it real.

I've built proposal binders by hand, coded HTML emails, spec'd trade-show signage to fabrication tolerances, and turned two enterprise decks around in the same week. I don't just execute the brief. I read the room it's going into (a boardroom, a conference floor, an inbox) and design for what that room actually notices first.

I'm fluent in the full Adobe Creative Cloud stack, comfortable in Figma, PowerPoint, and the rest of Microsoft Office, and I use AI daily as a research assistant and first-draft generator. It has no taste. That part's still on me.

Disciplines

Print Production Presentation Design Email Design Identity Systems Publication Design Environmental & Signage Motion & Video Typography & Layout

Software

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere Pro After Effects Figma Canva PowerPoint Word / Excel / Outlook Google Slides / Keynote HTML/CSS Email

AI Tools

Claude Midjourney Firefly DALL·E HeyGen

Let's talk about
your next project.

Based in Alameda, CA. Open to remote, hybrid, and Bay Area in-house or agency graphic design roles.