A creative director and designer with over a decade 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 Coleto Brands.
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.
