Background Have y’all heard of FakeClients.com? Well if you haven’t, it’s neato and spits out some great prompts for people (me) that don’t have a ton of specifically UX work on their portfolio. I popped on over and got this brief: Hey! My name is Tenisha. I’m looking for someone that can…

“Hold up Conner, you aren’t really doing a write-up about a design challenge you did, are you?” Background This is going to be my chronicling of a design challenge that I hopped on, largely because I don’t get to directly encounter a ton of that in my day-to-day (yet?). …

Credits Designer — Connor Blacksher Actually, that’s it? This was largely a spec exploration that died. I’m still stoked on it and that’s why we’re here. Background: “I just want my shake” I’m not sure if this is going to out me or anything weird, mostly because a lot of these revelations happened a while ago, but…

Credits Creative Director: Ryan Neubauer UX Designer: Ali Rich

Credits Creative Director: Tricia Christiansen Designer: Connor Blacksher Client: Camp St. Croix Accolades AIGA MN Design Show — Poster Design Background This project has a gigantic special place in my heart. I was still in MCAD’s post-baccalaureate design program and working at Christiansen Creative as my first studio design job. I was experiencing…

Credits Content Manager: Ada Walton Designers: Connor Blacksher, Joe Aliotto, Andi Fink Writer: Joe Bozic Yogurt Operating Unit aka YOU This all started with a contract to work on the social media team at General Mills. “Connor wait, General Mills is huge, you didn’t work on the corporate social team.” Good clarification. I was specifically on…

Credits Creative Director: Derek Wallen Writer: Stephen Kent Developer: Clay Johnston So we need an update Empower is the certification series that provides a way for group fitness instructors to gain certification in different formats. There are a handful of events each year as an opportunity to serve our Life Time instructors as well as people…

I realize writing and recapping this now is actually mildly funny. This project took place well before any pandemic, and it had some really cool elements, so here we are. Credits Creative Director: Ryan Neubauer Designer: Connor Blacksher Writer: Lindsey Frey Palmquist Background Life Time operates some of the most premium fitness…

Credits Creative Directors: Ellie Alexander and Joyclyn Goldade Illustrators: Connor Blacksher, Hannah Murzyn, Amy Disselkamp, and Noah Langworthy Background I swear I’ve told this story to enough people that it might be getting old, but I’m going to keep going with it. I was a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, Duluth…