Pierce Murphy

Pierce began working as a designer in 2005. He studied jazz guitar at Metropolitan State College of Denver and he worked as a freelance designer for bands and local businesses throughout and after college. Work included logos and branding, print and digital collateral, advertising campaigns, social media posts, digital newsletters, merchandise, and many other projects.

In 2018, he began working as the in-house graphic designer for the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. There he expanded his wheelhouse into animation and video editing. This included assets for video like lower thirds, intro/outro animations, special effects, vector based character animation, and traditional frame-by-frame and rotoscoping techniques.

Pierce is a dedicated professional with an eye toward authentic representation of a brand or concept. He is a student of art and design history with detailed understandings of where things originate and how they’ve historically been used :

This typeface is called Neue Kabel, based on the original that was introduced in1927, but modified in 2016 for better readability on digital platforms. #nerd

Overwhelmingly, Pierce is guided by the philosophy that things should look cool. He believes design is really just a formalization of the notion that it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. And he takes great care to strike the right tone in every situation.