MFA graduate, Summa Cum Laude, from Savannah College of Art & Design. Twenty years of in-house and freelance experience. Thrives at the intersection of user experience, branding, and meaningful beauty.

tonyrcarpenter@gmail.com
208.403.4360

Creative Management, Brand Management, Brand Development, Art Direction, Data Visualization, Illustration, Motion Design, Storyboarding, User Experience, Interface Design, Typography, Environmental Experience, Print, Packaging, Presentation Design, Marketing + Advertising Strategy, Wayfinding, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap Framework

English (primary)
Spanish (secondary)

Figma, XD, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Miro, Procreate, and the Microsoft Suite.

MFA, Graphic Design and Visual Experience, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2022
BFA, Graphic Design, BYU-Idaho, 2005
AA, Graphic Design + Illustration, BYU-Idaho, 2004

Adjunct Online Instructor / Adjunct Campus Professor
BYU-Idaho Art Department, Art 235 Graphic Design
2013 – Present

➝ Teach undergraduates the strategies, principles, and conceptual design methods. Provide comments, feedback, and encouragement to several class sections at once. Generate supplemental course material to aid in student understanding and success. 

Assistant Course Lead
BYU-Idaho Online Learning
2015 – Present

➝ Built the online version of Art 235. Maintain the course through regular updates and fixes. Facilitate the communication between online instructors, the Course Lead, and the Course Designer. Assists Course Lead in the grade norming between online and on-site courses. Develop course materials and training for other Art 235 instructors.

Adjunct Professor
BYU-Idaho Art Department, Art 336 Book Arts
2023 – 2025

➝ Teach undergraduates how to make traditional books, what a concept is, and how to create books as a work of art. 

Art 235 Consultant
BYU-Idaho Online Learning
2024

➝ Adapted Art 235 from a full-semester online course to a block format, in collaboration with the course lead and online teaching specialists.

Teaching Assistant Internship
Savannah College of Art and Design
Professor Shawn McKinney
GRDS 201 Introduction to Graphic Design
Fall Semester, 2021

➝ Provided comments, feedback, and encouragement to enrolled students. Weekly meetings were held with the professor to discuss the class and learn teaching techniques. Developed four teaching videos with corresponding PDFs to help supplement the existing teaching materials.

Creative Services Manager / Brand Manager
BYU-Idaho University Relations
Sep 2019 – Present

➝ Manage BYU-Idaho’s Creative Services: branding, design, and content creation teams. Art direction and high-level design projects for the university under the oversight of the executive offices. Develop, maintain, and communicate the university’s brand strategies and visual identity guidelines to the campus body.

Creative Partner
Mission Brand
2023 – 2025

➝ Mission Brand is focused on supporting companies that aim to make a positive impact. Owner Shay Spaulding brought me on to assist with a range of client projects, primarily developing branded collateral for organizations on retainer.

Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Freelance
2002 – Present

➝ Develop brand strategy, logo design, print design, UX design, motion design, posters, storyboards, and illustration for businesses including Johnson & Johnson, MassMutual, Gravy, Dignity Health, Stotion, Northeastern University, Bottomline Technologies, Confused.com, Citrix, Spaulding Brand, 7 Gypsies, PerformanceArts Magazine, the City of Rexburg, Spaulding Brand, and the State of New Jersey.

Senior Art Director
BYU-Idaho, Creative Services
2008 – 2019

➝ Art directed a team that serves the president’s office, administrative departments, and academic colleges through various media and marketing collateral—regularly designed and art-directed content featured in the university’s online publication, Upward, which would reach an audience of 142,000 alumni. Contribute regularly to the development of branding guidelines for the university.

Data Visualization / Graphic Design / Illustration
Column Five Media
2013 – 2014

➝ Created information graphics, data visualizations, interaction design, and motion storyboards. Clients include Entrepreneur Magazine, Intuit, Confused.com, and MassMutual.

Senior Graphic Designer
BYU-Idaho, Graphic Services
2006 – 2008

➝ Served the President’s Office, administrative departments, and academic colleges by designing various media and marketing collateral. Designed content featured in BYU-Idaho Magazine, reaching an audience of 142,000 alumni and contributing to BYU-Idaho’s current visual identity.

Junior Graphic Designer
Chatterbox
2005 – 2006

➝ Developed advertising collateral, product design, font design, packaging design, environmental design, unique illustrations, and custom prototypes. Designed products for Michael’s Crafts and Walmart.

Junior Graphic Designer
Stone's Marketing Group
2004 – 2005

➝ Updated logos and brand collateral for online advertising.

Junior Graphic Designer
BYU-Idaho Graphic Services
2003 – 2004

➝ Created custom designs for campus events such as Center Stage.

Junior Graphic Designer
BYU-Idaho McKay Libarary
2002 – 2003

➝ Focused on advertising design for faculty and the McKay library. 

➝ Solo Show. Art Bungalow Gallery. Rexburg, ID. February 2025.

➝ Print Exchange Plus. Rexburg City Offices. Rexburg, ID. April 2023.

➝ Teton Dam Flood Art Exhibit. Romance Theatre. Rexburg, ID. June 2021.

➝ Art Grows Rexburg Art Show. Rexburg, ID. July 2018.

➝ Art Grows Rexburg Art Show. Rexburg, ID. July 2017.

➝ Alturas Parade of Homes. Boise, ID. May 2017.

➝ Art Grows Rexburg. Rexburg, ID. July 2016. Received Merit Award.

➝ The Everywhere Project by Adrian Walsh. 2013.