Megan Sullivan - Art & Design

I'm an avid art and design lover passionate about creating well-designed, easily understood, accessible and ultimately beautiful graphics for any project. I have experience editing images and creating work in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator as well as designing work for clients within specific design parameters.

I love vintage typefaces and typographic design, particularly from the Art Deco and mid-century eras and keep an eye out for color, patterns and typeface inspiration wherever I go! I have a BFA in Studio Art and am currently working on a Graphic Design Certificate from the Community College of Denver.

Magazine Design Project

Created a magazine concept in InDesign with graphics and images created in Illustrator and Photoshop. Invented the magazine name, wrote titles and captions paired with photographs from Italy taken and edited by me.

Type Specimen Book for Univers

Designed a booklet to showcase the classic sans-serif typeface Univers designed in 1957 by Adrian Frutiger.

Josef Hoffmann's Vienna Logo

Client: Kirkland Museum

For the exhibition Josef Hoffmann's Vienna (scheduled to open at Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in the summer of 2021) I designed the main graphic and logo. The exhibition would feature designs from artists of the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte movements from Vienna in the 1900s so for my design, I selected the typeface, colors and design elements reflective of the style of the time while still legible and usable for social media posts and other printed materials.

Original graphics from the Wiener Werkstätte and Vienna Secession used as inspiration:

Event Design for Volunteer Celebration

Client: Kirkland Museum

I was responsible for creating the theme and all related printed materials for our annual volunteer celebration at Kirkland Museum. Project required me to use vintage clocks from the exhibition at the museum, "Pastime/ Past Time". The exhibition flyer was designed as the invitation and announcement flyer for the volunteers. Related materials included 50 personalized nametags, tent cards for food labels, signage for the doors, gift labels and other signage needed for the party to create a cohesive theme.

Art in Small Bytes

Client: Kirkland Museum

For the Art in Small Bytes virtual exhibition, I selected the typeface, created a signature logo and made the accompanying graphics to highlight specific objects from an image of the Italian Modern vignette at the museum.

Signature graphic:

Original image of exhibition:

Images on the Museum's website:

Personal logo for Make It Sew

I've been creating patterns and handsewing characters from Star Trek, The Next Generation series as gifts for friends and family for the past few years which then grew into a small business. I created the name and logomark in Illustrator combining a custom Star Trek insignia shape with a needle and thread.

Logo design for event

I was asked to create a logo design for a beer-themed party called Bitter About Beer Fest (BABF) that reflected the theme of the night - beers of Colorado served in buckets! I drew the bucket, bottles and mountains by hand and converted it into a vector graphic adding the text in Illustrator. The design was printed on complimentary glassware used at the party.

Logo proposal for Central Park United Neighbors

Client: Central Park United Neighborhood Association

The Central Park Neighborhood Association (formerly Stapleton United Neighbors) asked for proposals to redesign their logo to reflect their new name. The challenge of the design was to include the entire name while making it legible at small and large sizes and can be used for signage, website and printed materials. I focused on the letters and words of the organization for my submission and chose colors to reflect the greenway and park in the neighborhood. I used repeating letters to abstractly reflect the people that create a neighborhood and my goal was a design that would work both in black and white and color.

Original Logo:

Collateral for Bauhaus Event

Client: Kirkland Museum

I was asked to create programs, signage and accessories worn by presenters and staff for the "open haus: celebrating 100 years of the bauhaus" annual fundraiser event at Kirkland Museum. Project requirements included using Bauhaus colors and shapes: a yellow triangle, blue circle and red square, and the Bauhaus typeface to create materials. The challenge was to include all the necessary information for the event while preserving legibility and consistency within the style guidelines.

Custom Maps

Client: Kirkland Museum

I created custom maps for the Kirkland Museum Studio move project in 2016. I built a custom map of downtown Denver in Photoshop to show the path of the the Vance Kirkland Studio move. Requirements were to include museum typeface and colors in several versions as mobile friendly, printed in the newspaper and for handouts for the neighborhood residents and businesses.

Recreating a poster in Adobe Illustrator

I recreated one of my favorite mid-century posters of the city of Zurich, Switzerland using the pen and gradient tools in Illustrator to practice my skills in Illustrator.

Vectorizing hand-drawn images

Vector Graphic

Original scan

Client: SheRise Productions

I converted hand-drawn and scanned low-resolution images into vector graphics that could be resized to any dimension without losing quality of imagery.