Lissa Mathis is our art director.
Official Bio:
Lissa Mathis is the Art Director at Brand Cool Marketing where, for the past four years, she has provided a full array of creative direction and execution work for clients. Her design strengths include company and product identities, print design, advertising, web design, Flash design, interactive marketing, and any means of strengthening and communicating the client's brand.
She is an accomplished illustrator, creating both elegant and whimsical work—and every variation in between—to enhance marketing messages. She has done work for a wide variety of clients including Fortune 500s, medium and small businesses, non-profits and start-up enterprises.
Before joining Brand Cool, she worked as an independent designer and illustrator. She has two bachelor's degrees—a BFA in Illustration from SUNY Fredonia and a BFA in Design from RIT.
Unofficial (And More Interesting) Bio:
Why did you choose this career?
To put it simply—I just have and will always love to color, cut and paste things. And if it benefits business, culture and society as well as generates great relationships with people/clients, then this is the job for me :-)
Favorite food?
My Italian grandmother's spaghetti sauce and homemade pasta.
Favorite song?
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Nick Drake (I think he sings it?!)
Favorite movie?
The Princess Bride
Favorite recreational activity?
I love the summer! Enjoying it to its fullest.
You think the world would be a better place if:
If instead of following a path of fear, we all could follow a path of love. If we could all give a little more. Oh, and if all reality TV shows were cancelled!
The most profound thing you've ever heard or seen or experienced is:
(this is pretty fresh in my mind!) being pregnant and giving birth. Where do we come from? We come from nowhere, then we are now here, and then in the end we are nowhere again. So really we are always in some form of n o w h e r e! (whoah….deep.)
It would surprise people to know that you:
Are taller than my dad, and have a phobia of earthworms. They give me the heebeejeebies.
Besides (branding / marketing / writing / designing, etc.) your other passions are:
Gardening, art, reading, playing the piano, being outside in the summer, spreading peace and happiness in anyway that I can and watching Nathan (my son) grow and develop each day.
Favorite joke?
Don't have a favorite, but lately the political jokes have been helpful in getting me / a lot of us through these crazy times…
Suddenly blessed with a day off and no limitations of time, space or cash, you would:
Oh that's easy. First I would take a nice warm trip to Fiji. Then I would do my best to end all suffering in the world.
The web site you think everyone should have in their favorites file:
www.idolonfox.com and, of course, brandcool.com