ABOUT BRANDON GABLE
I am a multifaceted graphic designer from the midwest, specializing in branding, brand strategy, LOGO DESIGN, art direction, and apparel design/direction.
Mission Statement
Design is my passion. Design isn’t just creating a logo, branding, research, or marketing. Design is an experience you feel when you encounter a brand. Good design takes you from experience, to emotion, to action. This is my passion, to create for you an experience that leads to an action.
My goal is to make your passion mine, and to create an experience for you and your audience that elevates your brand toward success.
Core Principles
Good design will elevate your brand, create trust, and establish loyalty.
I value trust, loyalty, and integrity and my work reflects that. With my experience and knowledge, I will bring that understanding to you. With each project, I will work with you on your vision and goals, to help your ideas come to life and succeed. Pushing you towards a better future.
Experience
THE ORIGINAL RETRO BRAND August 2021 - Present
• Design graphics for various “sub”brands with-in Retro Brand
• Work with various customers to meet their visual needs
• Work with licensed property to create graphics that follow brand guides
TAILGATE/AMERICAN EAGLE July 2016 - July 2021
• Collaborated with the team to design apparel graphics
• Meticulously created conceptual designs for different apparel silhouettes
• Created procedures to make production more efficient and accurate
CFG: CYCLE FORCE GROUP January 2016 - July 2016
• Designed graphics/decals for bicycles and bicycle accessories
• Designed various printed materials varying from direct mail to promo catalog
• Redesigned a promo website to modernize and make relevant in industry
GANNETT/GIADC May 2014 - January 2016
• Worked with Flash and Edge Animate to create high quality HTML5 ads
• Produced ads accurately and efficiently in a high stress environment
MEREDITH CORPORATION January 2014 - July 2014
• Edited images for 3 sites, parenting.com, recipe.com, and divinecaroline.com
• Researched images for articles and blogs for those 3 websites
Bio
My name is Brandon Gable. I am a graphic designer living in Iowa. Growing up, I was always the creative one of the family, drawing all the time, creating imaginative worlds with my mind. I never knew where that creativity would take me or even what to do with it. Eventually, after my first year of college originally going for engineering, fairly unsuccessful I might add, I realized I was bad a math and didn’t like science, so the next year I applied to get into the Graphic Design program, and the rest is history.
Just kidding. I had many ups and downs in college. Dropping out and changing degrees seems like good ideas at first, but eventually I stuck with it, developing skills. I left my first college, DMACC, and transferred to a Grand View University to get my Bachelors of Arts in Graphic Design.
After graduating Grand View, I pursued a career on the digital side of the newspaper industry at Gannett. Working in their ad center, I designed and created a many digital ads.
That lasted about 6 months and took a job closer to home at Tailgate Clothing Company, owned by American Eagle Outfitters. I worked there for 5 years, designing licensed vintage apparel for colleges and pro teams.
I have developed my skills, working in different industries, and have the experience to come up with a creative solution. Reach out, whether its for a project or a question, I would love to hear from you.