design
With over a decade of experience designing for high profile clients and small businesses, Pilar can easily create a look and feel for most any company. Her expertise includes website design, web banner ads (she's created over 1000!), identity and logo design, print advertising, software usability and interface design, character design, and print collateral including postcards, brochures, and business cards.

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design work: web
Pilar has worked on over 20 sites, and built several from start to finish. in addition to working on websites, she's created images for mobile phones, web games, banners, pop ups, landing pages and HTML email campaigns.


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Circuit City: art direction for in store interactive kiosk
Designed interface using new brand guidleines for touch screen directory
Shockwave programming: cyberian design




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Charles Schwab: web pages, banners, html emails & infographics
Designed icons, intranet pages, buttons, print collateral, presentations, and more.
Worked on site with this client on a project basis for 7 years.
schwab.com

infographics: web page: banners:

html emails:




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chickclick.com: web pages, banners
Concepted, wrote copy & designed over 1000 ad banners for this sassy womens / teens site. Also created web pages, illustrations and icons. Often created several sizes of each banner which conformed to itty bitty file size requirements. Worked "on retainer" as this client's main freelancer for over a year, with a super fast turnaround time.

banners: 

graphics for chickshop's boutique home page:


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Tara Cabinets: art direction, web design & production
Designed and built site to reflect clients print collateral. developed user interface, coded HTML and handled all graphics production.




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Ad Hoc Consulting: art direction, web design & production
Designed and built site to reflect clients print collateral. developed user interface, coded HTML and handled all graphics production.
adhoc.cc



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Artabunga.com: art direction, interface design
Freelance art direction for this award winning online kids drawing and writing application, aimed at 8-12 year olds. Worked closely with programmer to create graphics within the application specs & managed production artists and designers.






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Shockwave.com / Macromedia: web game art direction
Interface and character design, copywriting, graphics production, and art direction for 2 games. Worked closely with programmer and game designer to make game play more consumer friendly.
shockwave progamming: cyberiandesign.com, puzzle creation: scottkim.com

PLAY GAME

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Cloudmark: email & application design
Created a more friendly look and feel for this anti spam technology company. Designed HTML emails to work with interface look and feel. Worked under extremely tight deadlines
cloudmark.com



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Keen.com: web design
Worked with this client for 4+ years as a freelancer and employee. Created high performing web pages, banners, emails, and print pieces.
keen.com

web landing page:



emails:


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Cyberkids: art direction for web and print
Worked as in house art director for this kids zine. designed interfaces, print brochures, logos, buttons, and all visual communications. This site won several awards.
cyberkids.com



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Accompany.com: banner design created with the art direction of dichotomy.com




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Gotmilk.com: production art
Design & interface by sf interactive
gotmilk.com



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Keen.com: icon design
These little guys were designed for a web application.
keen.com


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print & identity
Pilar has designed & illustrated calendars / journals, sales sheets, direct mail postcards, business cards, and more. Her awesome illustration skills have brought in response rates on direct mail that are 2x-3x the national average! Also check out her illustration work to see lots more print samples.


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Blue Devils: tshirt design and illustration for marching band.
Creative Direction and image courtesy of Rock and Feather Graphic Design




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Keen.com: direct mail design and character illustration, custom font design
Art direction and additional imagery: rob sandusky
keen.com

summer promo mailer


winter postcard

spring postcard




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Keen.com: journal design & illustration.
Created 100 page journal with custom illustrations and inspirational quotes. You can also see more of the artwork in her illustration portfolio .

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PUFFY P : identity design, website and store design, product design, art licensing, trade show graphics, branding.
Created a brand of art and entertainment properties for licensing, aimed at the teen/tween market. Designed all print and web materials, cafe press and constant contact visual integration, wrote copy / managed press and PR. Developed 6 properties, managing all creative and strategic aspects of the brand. Launched at 2006 licensing show in NYC, receiving much press. imagery and animated content currently being licensed internationally for mobile phone wallpapers, stationery, and stickers.
PUFFYP.com




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Kirsten Beuthin, LMFT: identity design, website design
This therapist needed a cohesive identity system to reflect her expertise and professionalism. Her logo was inspired by her initials, KB. The website design is kept simple and relying on HTML and minimal graphics (only 2 in the whole interface) to maintain her high search rankings.





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Patricia Carroll : identity design
This knitter needed a fun & professional business card and hangtag.




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Cybercash : corporate identity re-design
This client needed to modernize their logo.



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Cyberteens : logo design



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Lola : logo design
This nutritionist wanted a fun, playful logo. I created the typeface "by hand".

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Ypulse : identity design, blog design
This blogger needed an identity package to reflect her hip blog's subject matter : teens and media. Ypulse has become a go-to source for many people in the teen media industry for their daily dose of whats happening in youth culture.
ypulse.com


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Global IP Sound: magazine ad
2 verions of a print ad that i also developed into a trade show graphic.
globalipsound.com