laura cook

I help with all production work for the Spencer Museum of Art for new exhibitions and other activities. I am also currently the Creative Director for the Spencer Student Advisory Board. I work with the students to promote different activities happening at the museum.

For my last semester at The University of Kansas, I worked in Kansas City at a design firm called Design Ranch. I interned under four graphic designers and two Principals, Ingred Sidie and Michelle Sonderegger. Many of my tasks included design comps, branding, blogging, photographing of past projects, and company mailers and marketing materials.

Before graduating from the University of Kansas, I started my own company collaborating with a freelance designer in Los Angeles, CA. We worked on retail brands, websites and marketing collateral for dozens of clients. I continue to work with past, as well as new, clients to continue to grow my skills as a designer.

At Dyal and Partners, I worked on a collaborative team that redesigned Blanton Museum of Art's brand as well as created JW Marriott's Austin hotel signage and Austin Bergstrom Airport's new wayfinding. Along with environmental graphics at Austin Community College and storefront designs for EDENS, I implemented work that is being used in Austin and across the United States and in Canada.

I helped with design work for Grapevine's clients to market the organizations that they promoted. Working primarily with Photoshop, I staged photo shoots for different products and edited those products to be marketable for different audiences. Designed work going out to their clients and created presentations that would be presented to the clients for new products.

On a daily basis, I enhance the User Experience of Rallyhood's product through user testing, refining information architecture and always referring to the data we receive from our users. As well as User Experience and User Interface, I design Marketing campaigns and sales decks to encourage organic growth, and bring current users back to the product. My goal is to create and promote a product that helps communities be efficient and collaborative which ultimately builds stronger human-to-human connections.

On a daily basis, I enhance the User Experience of Rallyhood's product through user testing, refining information architecture and always referring to the data we receive from our users. As well as User Experience and User Interface, I design Marketing campaigns and sales decks to encourage organic growth, and bring current users back to the product. My goal is to create and promote a product that helps communities be efficient and collaborative which ultimately builds stronger human-to-human connections.

All day course about the basics of User Experience and how it relates to the world. Learned to wireframe, create user personas, evaluate current UX and be able to recommend refinements.

Activities and Societies: Minor in Art History, Service Learning Certified, Prototype Documentarian, Prototype Member, AIGA Student Member, Episcopal Christian Ministries