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Austyn McFadden

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Dayton, USA

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Dayton, USA

Cover image for Grip It and Sip It
Grip It and Sip It is an annual two-day golf outing built around friends, competition, charity, and giving back. I was brought in to create an identity that could capture the personality of the event without taking itself too seriously. The final mark combines the two things at the center of it all: golf and a good drink, brought together in a simple, memorable illustration. This logo went on to be selected for LogoLounge Book 15, making it an especially rewarding project to have been part of.
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Cover image for Product UI exploration for Lightwell.
Product UI exploration for Lightwell. A library screen for a digital asset management (DAM) platform, focused on hierarchy, density, search, and making complex asset libraries feel simple. Been working on this for Daniel Overbey (https://www.facebook.com/twizoz?__tn__=-]K*F) for a few weeks now!
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Brand colors motion graphic, from the updated mark for Freedom Church.
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Cover image for A few years ago, I
A few years ago, I was brought in to design the brand identity and visual system for Freedom Church. Recently, we came back to the logo for one more round of refinement. There had always been something about it that felt just slightly off to me. I actually mentioned it during the original process, but at the time church leadership preferred the earlier version, so that’s the direction we kept. This time, we went back and forth on the smallest details and I started digging into the actual geometry of the mark. The curves, spacing, weight, balance, and how each piece interacted with the others. In the Illustrator screenshot, the white fill is the newly refined logo and the black outline behind it is the previous version. The differences are subtle, but when you see them together, they completely change how balanced the mark feels. That refinement eventually became the app icon you see in the other image. And now I genuinely can’t stop staring at it. There are always things you can tweak in design, but this might be one of the rare times where I look at a logo and think: yeah, that’s it. It feels absolutely perfect now.
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