Hey there. 👋🏻 I'm Darsey Landoe, an art director and designer in Portland, Oregon. I make useful things for folks who are doing interesting and important work.

I’m currently looking to partner with creative studios, solo designers, or one-on-one with clients.
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PUBLICATIONS

I love creating page-turning, hand-held print pieces that linger on a coffee table. For both Oregon Humanities magazine and University of Portland’s Portland magazine, I’ve collaborated with loads of illustrators, led and attended photo shoots, and art directed talented creatives, all while designing and managing production from start to finish as the sole designer.

I’ve also created gallery exhibition catalogs, annual reports, long-form brochures, booklets for events, and a cookbook. Way back in my early days as a designer, I wrote content and took photos for a non-profit’s quarterly newsletter, which I also designed—it was humble work that probably set me up for a love of tender storytelling.

My love of publications is ultimately a love of print, an expertise that I continue to lean into while so many others seem to move the other way. Print is slow design, in a way. It’s a good fit for me.

ENVIRONMENTS AND EXHIBITS

Large-scale design projects give me the opportunity to exercise my detail-obsessed tendencies, because I have this sense that the stakes are higher when the final product is bigger. 😂 I’ve created exhibit designs for Portland Japanese Garden, Mercy Corps and Oregon Historical Society. I’ve designed billboards and apartment building signage. I’ve even branded and built out a coworking shop that I founded, expanded, and sold.

I’m probably most proud of the environments I’ve helped create for The Women’s Bakery, a social enterprise based in East Africa. Because of the challenging time difference and my limited language, I have passed off files for completion or production to folks based in Rwanda, and I’m always blown away by the results and plain old ingenuity they employ to bring something to life.

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COLLATERAL AND BRANDING

WEB AND DIGITAL