Employee Spotlight:
Joshua Copeland, Creatis Studio Designer

Joshua Copeland graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) in 2018, having dipped a toe into freelance branding and design for clients. Joshua was then hired to be apart of the Creatis Studio team in the summer of 2019, where he's since been growing as a talented and versatile designer on our team. Part of the unique skillset that Joshua brings to Creatis is a knowledge of web design and front end development as well as expertise in creative and graphic design. These digital skills led to a unique opportunity supporting our 2020 Creatis Cares Honoree, UpTurnships. Joshua has done exemplary work helping the UpTurnships team reimagine and refresh the design of their website. Check out the images below to see some of Joshua's work for UpTurnships. 

And learn more about Joshua, from Joshua! Here's a Q/A:

What's your background in design?

As a graduate of the Minneapolis college of art and design I was exposed to a lot of different outlets for design. I spent the first half of my college experience focusing on print and book design but really fell for branding, digital and web design by the end of my time.

How would you describe your professional design style?

When designing for clients I really try to think about how we can fill the clients' design needs with a minimal approach.

Can you go into some detail about the project you’re doing for UpTurnships? + Why you’re enjoying it?

Upturnships presented us with the need to have their website design updated and the content reorganized. It was fun to work on this project because I knew there weren’t a lot of rules and I could really get creative with the asks from the client. You can see an example of the work I did for UpTurnships below. 

What kinds of work do you do for other Studio clients?

Day to day what I do varies from working on emails to annual reports to mailers and flyers.

What are your loves outside of design?

When I'm off the clock I take care of a vegetable and an herb garden. I like to grow ingredients that I can make things from and this years theme is cocktail recipes.

Any other equitable causes or volunteer opportunities you’d like to promote?

I just started working with a group of volunteer advertising folk to help out small businesses (primarily BIPOC owned) on lake street effected by last year’s civil unrest. We ask the owners what/where they think they need design/web/photography assistance and we take it from there! I also volunteer at the LGBTQ+ Quatrefoil library both in a graphic design capacity and helping among the stacks.

 

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