Diego Melendez is an award-winning art director/designer, illustrator, and occasional copywriter based in Southern New Hampshire. With 16 years of experience, he's passionate about typography, catchy headlines, color, texture, and paper (loves to smell it!).
Diego's career spans the education, tech, and insurance industries, with freelance work in fitness, startups, performing arts, restaurants, among others. He brings a creative flair to every project, excelling at crafting engaging and memorable brand experiences.
Experience
- Liberty Mutual/Safeco - Copper Giants Team (Liberty Mutual’s In-house creative agency)
- Workgrid Software
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- St. Johnsbury Academy
- Carl Miner Idea Group
Freelance
- Planet Fitness HQ
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
- St. Paul’s School
- Boston University Academy
- Vermont State University
- Opus Design
Industries: Theater, Accounting, Event Planning, Real Estate, Fitness, Marketing Consultants, Design Firms, Photographers, Restaurants, Jewelry Retailers,
Education
Vermont State University (Formerly Lyndon State College), BFA Graphic Design
Awards
- HOW Magazine, Merit
- Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s Showcase Awards
- CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, Gold, and Grand Gold
- Graphic Design USA
- CASE District 1, Gold
- Marcom Awards, Platinum and Gold
- DotComm Awards, Gold
- AIGA Vermont, Merit