One woman design & printing show.
charmellow timeline
1986 – Charmellow is incubating as a 7 year old that loved drawing NBA team logos with my brother and fashion catalogs at school with my friends. The Scholastic Book Fair was the best thing ever to me.
1993 – High school is hard. Music is my creative outlet. I play clarinet from 5th grade until I graduate.
1997 – I graduated from HS. I took photography, art class and doodled my way through school.
1998 – Went to community college in Traverse City, Michigan for advertising
2001 – See Greensky Bluegrass for the first time.
2002 – Graduate from Northwestern Michigan College with an Associates of Applied Science in Visual Communications.
2003 – Move to Detroit and go to art school at College for Creative Studies
2004 – Take two road trips – one to New Orleans and one to California. Learn I love road trips and travel is life.
2005 – Graduate from CCS with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
2006 – Work for Mars, Campbell Ewald in Detroit.
2006 – Move to Denver, Colorado. I freelance and drive all over Colorado learning about my new state.
2007 – Hired as a publication designer at Weaver Multimedia Group (Now Miles Media) and work on a variety of projects I love like Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways guides, the official Colorado State Map, Official Visitors Guides for Austin,TX; Columbia, SC; Chicago, New Orleans, Colorado and more. I made tons of friends that I still talk to and collaborate with.
2010 – Move back to Cadillac, Michigan, start Charmellow
2014 – Start working with Greensky Bluegrass and other bands because of my work with Hoxeyville Music Festival.
2017 – Acquire entire antique print shop
2018 – Rekindle my love of cactus by going to Arizona and Mexico, and filling a Field Notes journal with illustrations of the experiences.
2018 – Work on Camp Greensky Music Festival collateral
2019 – Started working with Lead Star
Started my greeting card enterprise
Became Art Fair Coordinator in my town
2020 – Survived pandemic year.
2021 - Look for more Charmellow products like vector stock, stock photos, and gorgeous letterpress print products.
