Hello, I’m Ashley

Digital Art & Interactive Design in Pittsburgh.
Work Experience
Founder/Owner, Game Not Included, LLC. 2023 – Current.
A web-based world building curriculum for developing social-emotional learning skills.
Responsibilities: Web development (Wordpress), brand/style guide development, content creation including the development of projects, worksheets and facilitator instruction for a high school level digital arts curriculum.
Serious Play Conference International Speaker 2024
“Using Concept Art to Build Confidence in Teens”
Digital Teaching Artist, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. 2022 – 2024.
Developing and teaching digital arts curriculum to high school students in an urban setting.
Responsibilities: Mentorship, digital arts curriculum development, project and worksheet creation, class facilitation, safely transporting students.
Illustration/Graphic Design (Freelance, by project publish date).
Illustration and graphic development for print and multi-media projects. Packaging design, preflight prep, rulebook formatting, and sales sheet designs.
Lizard City (ongoing/personal); Pixel Duel Gross Bros Games, 2022; Viewpoints 93 Made Games, 2018; Constellations Xtronaut, 2017
Typesetter, American Economics Association. 2017 – 2022.
Preflight preparation of author-provided manuscripts for print in various periodical journals.
Responsibilities: Formatting of multi-page manuscripts to adhere to journal style guide standards in a fast-paced environment. Proofreading. Reconstruction of complex economic figures as vector images for print. Math and figure typesetting.
Web Design
Ten years of maintaining multiple websites via Wordpress CMS. Strong knowledge of HMTL and CSS. Working knowledge of JavaScript and PHP.
• Responsive design (try this site on multiple platforms!)
• Wireframing/mockups
• User-centered and accessibility focused (WCAG 2)
Visual Development
My background in board and video game design keeps me up-to-date on the latest tools and trends in technology. Adaptive to new workflows and software.
• Layout Design: Figma/Penpot, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• 3D Environments: Blender, Maya
• Interactive Design and Animation: Adobe Animate
• Productivity: Google Workspace, Trello, Microsoft Office Suite, Wordpress
• Miscellaneous: Epilog laser cutting, 3D printing (FDM and resin)
About Me
I’m a visual designer with experience in print and interactive layout design. I’m also a concept artist and illustrator, lending my expertise for polished promotional images as well as previsual development for projects at all stages of production.
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Skills & Expertise
Software & Hardware
(A list of my favorite go-to creative
software environments)
Design
Photoshop • Illustrator
InDesign • After Effects
Animate • Blender • Maya
Productivity
Microsoft Office Suite
Google Workspace • Github
DropBox • Trello
Code & Web
Wordpress CMS • VS Code
HTML • CSS • Javascript
Skills:
K-12 Education
Web Development
Brand Identity
Illustration
3D Design
Board Game Layouts
Prepress
Click on a category to explore my work:
Layouts & UI
Previz & Illustration