photo by The Self Portrait Project
About
Rachel Stevens is a New York City-based art director and designer with over fifteen years of experience across brand identity, editorial, digital, and web. She has worked with clients ranging from global corporations to independent artists and cultural organizations, bringing the same rigor and creative investment to each. Her background in fine art and media — and years teaching at the college level — informs a practice grounded in visual thinking, concept, and strategy, with a close attention to audiences and engagement.
Rachel Stevens
Skills
Art direction and visual design
Brand identity: logos, wordmarks, identity systems, communications
Editorial design: print and digital
Marketing design: digital, email, social, print collateral
Web and interface design: responsive layouts, wireframes, working with developers
Photography: curation, editing, retouching
Environmental and event graphics
CMS: WordPress, Squarespace, Drupal
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom, After Effects, Premiere Pro) · Figma · PowerPoint · Google Slides · Basic HTML/CSS
Clients
Bumble and bumble, Coach, Condé Nast, Estate of Gandy Brodie, Follain, Hearst Publishing, JPMorganChase, LAB Series Skincare for Men, Millennium Film Journal, New York Stock Exchange, Newsweek Interactive, Prescriptives, Wiley Publishing, Women's Wear Daily + artists, nonprofits, and small businesses
Education
MFA, Visual Art — UC San Diego
BFA, Photography — Rhode Island School of Design
Certificates
Red Balloon Projects
Fun With Branding
Inspiration
The name “Red Balloon Projects” is inspired by the French film The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse — particularly its qualities of enchantment, longing, simplicity and play in everyday life.