Creative, Analytical, Persistent, Experimental
Throughout this website you will find the innovative and expansionary works within the arts by me, Riley Ann W., with historic levels of collaboration through reading and chatting. Special thanks go to more people than I can begin to list within a website.
I appreciate each person that has contributed to my realm of knowledge to create a better life for myself and others. Thank you to everyone for all of the good yet to occur!
Please enjoy my attempts to share that which I have worked on and intend to continue to work on. Remember to be gentle, generous, & forgiving to one another, we all have life struggles that are difficult to say.
Other than that, please read and discuss as wanted. Don’t forget to be a wonderful person to others. All work here on this site is done without the use of A.I. assistance.
More About Riley
About Riley
Aspirational, motivating, hard-working, disciplined inventor, designer, and artist. Experienced with technology, making guidebooks, designing for print and digital media, traditional and digital illustration, creating and coding websites. There is an aim to assist others with becoming the best version of themselves, within the skill sets they learn, want to learn, and are capable of.
Inquisitive, resourceful, and customer-minded graphic and web designer with experience creating assets, illustrations, branded layouts and media for print and web. An extensive eye for detail and persistence to perfect the final product, with an in-depth understanding of implementing design industry standards that take end-user psychology into account while providing a quality end-user experience. This is backed with a history of psychological and theoretical research behind why designs and marketing work.
Some areas of research I’ve pursued and can learn further specifics per industry are; digital and visual communication, the internet of things and basic networking, the psychology and implementation of design and artistic guidelines, and industry guidelines within marketing and business intelligence realms.
Experience
Skills
- Illustrating Abstract Ideas
- Art Direction
- Experience Design
- User Interface Design
- Product Design and Analysis
- Research and Analysis
- Digital Communication and Marketing
- Digital Illustration
- 3D Designing, Lighting, and Rendering
- Copywriting
- Expert with Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Dimensions, After Effects
- Exceptional with the Microsoft Office Suite of Products
- Expert with Google and social media paid advertising
- Creating analytics reports and dashboards
- Project management and planning
- Automation of marketing and reporting
Certifications
- Google Analytics Individual Qualification
- Google Ads Search and Display Advertising
- HootSuite Social Marketing
- Facebook BluePrint Training – Multiple
- IBM Design Centered Thinking
Education
Masters of Science – Research Design & Analysis
January 2025 – in progress, set to complete December 2026
Masters of Graphic & Experience Design
August 2020 – December 2022
Bachelor of Sciences – Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communications
Minor in Social Media and E-Marketing Analytics
August 2017 – July 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Sculpture
August 2013 – July 2015
Shows and Awards
“The Paranoid Eye” – Painting displayed as part of an Edgar Allen Poe themed exhibition in February 2024.
Invited to Blizzard headquarters to play-test and review an in-game addition in July 2023.
“Eon Wyrm” – Triptych painting displayed in monthly online show for April 2021.
IBM & Habitat for Humanity ReStore – Project to improve the experience of donating through the use of design. Resulted in an app prototype. Spring 2021; Raleigh, NC
Recognized/Rewarded for High Performance Q4 2016 & Q2 2017.
Customer Excellence “Executive” Award for “above-and-beyond work” in operationalizing technology through process & training creation.
My mission is currently to advance the arts within technology, rather than using technology to create art. I am currently looking for capital to begin building, designing, and creating new cellular phones. While smart phones have existed for a long time, there is substantial room for improvement of the internal and external components. This is just one of many goals. -Riley Ann W.