About

DESIGNER

Melissa Mensinger

I’m a designer focused on digital campaigns, branding, and advertising, creating thoughtful, visually engaging work across online and in-person experiences.

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

TOOLS

Figma

FIGMA

PHOTOSHOP

ILLUSTRATOR

INDESIGN

Lightroom

LIGHTROOM

WordPress

WORDPRESS

HUBSPOT

MAILCHIMP

JIRA

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SKILLS

Branding

BRANDING

Web Design

WEB DESIGN

Photo Editing

PHOTO EDITING

Social

SOCIAL CONTENT

Print Design

PRINT

EXPERIENCE

wedü, MANCHESTER, NH
2022 – CURRENT

Senior Visual Designer, Web Designer & UI/UX

Strategizing, collaborating and directing a small design team. Working with clients to develop and execute marketing and communication strategies with a focus in the digital to include everything from web design and development, digital advertising, social channel programs, and automated marketing programs.

Notable clients: NH Liqueur Commission, Jabra, USPA, Derry Medical, cldz Cannabis, Casner & Edwards, Mavel and many more.

VITAL DESIGN, PORTSMOUTH, NH
2013 – 2022

Graphic Designer, Web Designer & UI/UX

Collaborate with a small to midsize team to design and craft high-quality branding systems, WordPress websites, UI/UX, social content and collateral material. Additional experience includes photo retouching, large scale signage, online mail campaigns for product based brands.

Notable clients: Lindt Chocolate, Maravilla Los Cabos, New Hampshire Film Festival, Parterre Flooring, and many more.

FREELANCE DESIGNER

Self, Ongoing

Images can be incredibly powerful and compelling tools of communication, conveying not only information but also moods and emotions. My job, as a graphic designer, is to translate the clients needs into successful completed work. This starts with defining the audience and understanding the problem I am being asked to solve. Based on those discoveries, I provide working designs and take you through the process of how I made specific aesthetic decisions, answering questions along the way.

I specialize in branding, marketing, infographics, web design and creative campaigns. Have a project? Contact me here and connect with me on Linkedin here.

EXCELON CORP/OBJECT DESIGN BURLINGTON, MA
1997 – 2001

Now part of Progress Software

Graphic Designer, Content Manager & Web Designer

  • Collaborated with the Director of Marketing Communications on a major relaunch and rebranding of the company from Object Design, an object-oriented database company to eXcelon Corporation, positioning the company in the B2B market.
  • Managed and collaborated with an outside design agency to ensure brand consistency over print and digital advertising, tradeshows, web seminars, email newsletters, and direct marketing campaigns for three product-lines.

SYSTEMSOFT SOFTWARE, NATICK, MA
1996 – 1997

Graphic Designer, Web Designer

  • Designed website, presentations, collateral, tradeshow graphics and integrated software graphics for major PCMCIA Card OEM, System Wizard, SystemSoft’s A.I.

MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART

Bachelor of Art – Graphic Design

A FEW FUN FACTS ABOUT ME

My friends and family call me Mel.

I’m very very tiny.

My bookshelves are organized by color.

I remember Aldus Pagemaker and Adobe Photoshop 2.0

I love the ocean, but don’t like the beach.

I miss the red light, magic and smell of developing in a darkroom.

I love the attitude of a NYC sidewalk, the peacefulness of the NH woods, and the intensity of the ME seacoast.

I enjoy cooking, sewing, knitting, organizing & decorating my home, painting, photography…

I don’t believe in boredom.

I’ve never eaten canned tuna fish. I probably won’t.

I love a warm cozy fire on a snowy day with a dram of good scotch.

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