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.

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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
Government RFP · Publication Design · Art Direction

City of Oakland Zero Waste RFP — We Are Oakland

Two simultaneous government RFP responses, $1B+ in municipal franchise contracts. Oakland ranked #1 by staff. Won in court.

 04
IPD Santa Monica proposal — recovered cardboard cover, first LEED parking structure in the US
AEC Proposal · Sustainable Design · Won

First LEED Parking Structure in the US

Proposal for the City of Santa Monica 4th Street Parking Structure — cover made from recovered cardboard and discarded blueprints, 100% recycled paper throughout. IPD won.
05
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
Equitide homepage and live offering card built from the design system
Brand System · Founding Creative Director

A brand system, built to ship

Identity, palette, and design system for a real estate investment platform, built from zero as founding creative director and carried through to a live site and investor materials.

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
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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
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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.

10
Motion Design · Social

A LinkedIn ad, animated

Multi-panel motion ad for a life-sciences lab program: animation built in After Effects, exported and format-optimized for the LinkedIn feed in Canva.

Self-Directed Speculative and personal projects, built on my own to show range beyond client work.
11
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.

12
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.

13
Barn owl in flight, wings fully spread, looking directly at the camera
Self-Directed · Photography

A barn owl, caught mid-flight

A personal photograph shot at the Guadalupe Mines Landfill in San Jose — later selected as the centerfold image for a 2012 "Wildlife of American Landfills" calendar.

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Equitide pre-seed investor overview deck cover WM EarthCare brand guidelines deck cover Harborview Health Partners campaign readout deck cover, fictional brand Parallax Technologies keynote recap deck cover, fictional brand
Self-Directed · Presentation Design

Four decks, four brand systems

Speculative pitch, brand-guidelines, and keynote decks, each built to a different brand system, to show range in deck design beyond the proposal work above.

About

Hands on the work, whatever the job 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 Web Design

Software

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

AI Tools

Claude Gemini Microsoft Copilot Perplexity Midjourney Firefly DALL·E HeyGen Monday

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.

dana.constance@gmail.com 510 206 8222 Download resume