Lena Carey Design
My name is Lena Carey, and I'm a graphic designer. I'm 23 years old and from Naperville, Illinois. I'm passionate about art, music, video games, and dogs.
Portfolio
Projects
On this page you'll find projects that I did for my BFA highlighted. My creative process is outlined clearly, and there are photos of the end results. There are also other examples of my work, as well as links to view the rest.
Museo Logo Overhaul
The assignment to redesign the logo for a famous museum in Brazil was challenging, but satisfying. I approached this project with the desire to retain some aspects of the original logo - a rainbow flower - and that influenced the end result.
Yogi Tea Redesign
Package design was a field that I always wanted to explore, so I jumped at the opportunity to test my own abilities for class. I decided to redesign the packaging for a tea company that I enjoy. My reasoning for choosing this company is that I love their tea, it's the best tea that can be bought at a grocery store. However, their original package design looked like almost every other tea company's packaging. I decided to create a box design that would make it stand out on shelves. Inspiration for the box's unique shape came from Abuelita hot chocolate packaging. I created all the graphics on the packaging myself from scratch. My full design process can be seen in my process book, linked below.
First Trust Internship
During the summer of 2019 and winter of 2019-2020, I interned as a graphic designer in the marketing department of First Trust Portfolios. Designing printed as well as digital documents within the parameters of the company's desires was a welcome challenge. What is shown here is only a tiny fraction of the work I created while working there. More can be viewed through the link below.
Web Design Prototyping
On top of my other design skills, I'm also proficient in prototyping web design and functionality on Adobe XD. Below are links to view videos and pdfs of website pages I created from scratch.
Misc. Print Work
Here are a few projects that were smaller and don't justify having their own sections.
SVG and Logo Making
One of my favorite things to do in design is create elaborate vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator. Here are a few examples of my work. To view them and others at full size in Google Drive, click the link below.
Contact
Get in touch with me!
[email protected]
(630)470-2974
Skills
Technical Skills
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe XD
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
HTML and CSS
Fields of Expertise
Drawing
Social Media
Marketing
Computers
Lena Carey's Resume
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BFA in Graphic Design
• 2017 - 2022
Experience
Paid Intern at First Trust Portfolios
• Late May 2019 - Late August 2019
Worked with the head of marketing to redesign every single fact sheet from the ground up.
Created enormous posters to be displayed in the lobby and small flyers to be posted around the office advertising the annual First Trust Cares charity marathon.
Redesigned PowerPoint presentations.
Paid Intern at First Trust Portfolios
• Early December 2019 - Late January 2020
Created templates for company emails.
Cooperated with coworkers on multiple projects.
Worked with deadlines in mind.
Manually inputted important financial data.