A creative director and designer with over 10 years of experience elevating brands with strategic visuals.
Hi, I’m Jivan.
I’m passionate about design that enriches a brand’s presence and message in the world. I collaborate with advertising and brand teams to take their visual communication to a level that feels both effortless and meaningful. Leading and empowering others fills me up, and I’m always looking for opportunities to obsessively craft details myself.
I live in Greenville, SC with my copywriter wife and three charming boys. I’m a sucker for stylish sports, boozy Italian aperitifs, bad puns, and keeping the dying art of hosting alive. My wife is charming too.
Currently Director of Brand & Creative at Progress Lighting.
I’ve worked with some great brands
People-first process.
Communicating is at the heart of creating—whether that’s building client relationships or coaching team members to grow their skills. I measure my own success by the growth and output of the people I work with.
Identity Design
Art Direction
Campaign Creative
Brand Guidelines
& Tools
Design Systems
Branded Spaces
& Exteriors
Wayfinding
& Signage
Brand Architecture
What I believe drives how I work
Translation, not invention.
Design is like journalism. Brand stories already exist, they just need to be told in a more attractive way to mean something to people. I don’t settle until those stories are expressed in ways that feel both effortless and inevitable.
Well-crafted concepts.
I approach ideation and big sky thinking with a knowledge and expertise in fine-tuned execution. I guide every stage of an idea with an obsessive amount of attention to the output quality and the details that matter.
