Ryan Davis

Blue Acorn iCi is an insights-driven strategic consultancy that delivers expertise at the intersection of data science, development, strategy, and design. This was a collaborative project where I worked as a part of our internal design team (visual designers, ux designers, illustrators, architects, and developers)

Conduent Inc. is a technology-led business process services company headquartered in New Jersey. Working with their VP of Brand, I created a visual design and design system that was consistent pushed their aesthetic forward while adhering closely to their brand standards.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health, supportng research and programs targeting some of America’s most pressing health issues—from substance abuse to improving access to quality health care.

These materials were produced quickly, for a pitch where in we would provide UX research and UI design.

Charter uses the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform as the engine to their immensely powerful website, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily. AEM leverages components that site authors can use to construct pages. As such, this project required us to design flexible, robust components that can be used in a variety of ways. These components also had to enforce (as much as possible) ADA compliance while still being visually appealing and on-brand.

In order to showcase Blue Acorn iCi’s mastery over Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Magento after Adobe’s acquisition of the e-commerce platform, we designed and built a site to show our expertise.

Local interior designers Kimberly Coombs and Rima Nasser joined forces to create TEW Design Studio, interior design boutique that focuses on creating beautiful, high-end interior spaces. As such, they needed a website that matched their high-end, contemporary brand. 

Zephyr Manufactoring is a fictional company that sells air compressors and other hardware. This website was designed and developed as a demo to showcase iCiDIGITAL's newly unveiled iCiBLOX product, a powerful tool that developed using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and was stood up as a major component of iCiDIGITAL's ongoing client engagement efforts at the annual Adobe Summit in 2018. 

A local non-profit that specializes in supporting women and their families during and after a cancer diagnosis. They don't focus on fundraising or research. Instead they set their sites on providing practical assistance to their patients as they deal with the run-of-the-mill, day to day pressures that would otherwise become overwhelming while trying to deal with diagnosis and treatment. 

The goal in updating the brand was to communicate a sense of encouragement and inclusive support, not distress, urgency or even clinical work. The use of bright colors and strong contrast serve to invoke vibrancy and a sense of spunk. These women are warriors and continue to smile in the face of adversity and the website needed to reflect that.  

This single-property website was designed to showcase a luxury property in downtown Sioux Falls, SD.  The Fisher Sisters, top producing Realtors® local to the area, hired Dakno to create a website to promote the property.

The design of the site needed to complement the the growing, hip atmosphere of Sioux Falls' revitalized downtown sector.  The client had professional photos taken and the website's design was inspired by, and crafted to accentuate the quality of the images.  High-quality imagery is the cornerstone of all real estate marketing efforts and this site needed to complement that.

Everything ranging from the font choices, to the detailed illustrations for icons, were designed to underscore the textures and style of the loft. 

Starting from the birds-eye view of downtown Sioux Falls, before funneling down to the building and finally focusing on the loft itself, the website uses narrative to entice the visitor into exploring this luxurious property in greater detail.

Explore the Kincade Loft For Yourself.

iCiDIGITAL serves enterprise clients by helping them align technologies and platforms with their organizational goals. iCiDIGITAL clients are well-known, household names including the likes of Charter (formerly Time Warner), Ingersoll Rand, Food Lion, Panera Bread and more. 

As you can see, everything iCiDIGITAL does is high-stakes and redesigning a site that can stand in front of such prestigious clients while pursuing six to seven-figure deals is about as high-stakes as it gets. I was tasked with redesigning iCiDIGITAL's website, as well as providing creative direction for a more extensive rebrand as well. 

A local flooring and home interior installation company needed a new website and new branding. This updated design serves to express the spirit of Rainbow Home Interiors while steering clear of cliche iconography and imagery. 

The client needed a website to serve as the virtual hub for their start-up. RichLine Solutions is a consultancy that focuses on providing organizations overcome whatever obstacles to success that they may face. This website's primary purpose was to promote the services offered by RichLine and to provide potential clients an easy way to contact them.

The vision behind this design was to communicate a sense of opulence and the idea of a lasting-legacy. To achieve this, the design uses rich colors (primarily gold and green) while employing a lot of textures to evoke the sense of longevity. 

richlinesolutions.com

GetPositive is the mantra of Dr. Joey Faucette. It is his personal mission to help people find joy in every facet of their lives. He has helped people integrate their faith into their work in NC, VA and SC. He needed a website to serve as the hub for his organization, as well as a place from which to sell his merchandise. 

This website served as a rebrand and the focus was to create something that invoked the mantra's namesake - positivity. 

This work comes from my time working with Dakno Marketing.  As the Senior Graphic Designer I strived to continually push the beyond industry expectations of real estate web and print design.

Brand Experts, or simply Be,  provides turn-key, out-of-the-box branding solutions for clients who are eager to get their branding materials out to the world, but who may be working with a limited budget. Brand Expert's value proposition is that it is able to provide it's customers with the invaluable ability to stand out from the competition. 

Be Fresh. Be Bold. Be Remembered. 

Boasting high contrast combined and a cool color palette, this design strives to capture those ideals. There isn't a lot of content to the website as the products and services are very standard. As a result, this website is appropriately compact. 

Visit the live site.

Every designer knows this problem. You spend so much time working for the business, you never actually get around to working on the business. Such was the case with the real estate marketing guru's at Dakno. As the company's senior graphic designer, I was charged with re-branding the company.

The goal was to showcase the company's creativity and fresh perspective.  It uses an eclectic collection of imagery as symbolism to highlight the Dakno's out-of-the-box approach to design and marketing. The project began with a website re-design and extended to pay-per-click ads, business cards and other branding collateral. 

Visit Dakno's website for a closer look.

I was contracted to design the cover for a bible-study booklet for King's Park International Church. 

Taking a bit of a departure from graphic design, this was an opportunity to stretch my concept art/art direction muscles. Enyara was a videogame designed as my final project at the NCSU: College of Design. I worked with a team of developers to create a playable game using the Unreal Engine. 

The concept was to create world that pitted magic vs technology. However, instead of going the traditional wizard vs android route, I instead went with more of a tribal vs steampunk aesthetic. 

Starting with solid silhouettes and working my way up (through shape, pattern, and color) I created concepts the Enyara, the main character, as well as the villains and her lovable, furry/winged assist.

This showcases more of my skills in illustration and concept art. Here you will see examples of my ideation process as I work to arrive at final concepts from rough sketches. 

I was hired by award-winning mobile-app developer, CrossComm immediately after graduation.  While in CrossComm's employ, I worked on a still undisclosed project where I was charged with designing characters that would populate a fictional universe. 

I also created animated storyboards for Match.com and CitySearch.com. 

Visit CrossComm for your mobile app development needs.