Hi, I'm Stephen Summerlin.
Award-Winning Creative Director & Head of Design
Top 10 Creative Directors ★ Best Design Winner ★ Highest Client Satisfaction
"Stephen has been an uplifting and profound leader. His wisdom and expertise foster growth and excitement. Highly recommend him for personal and team growth."
Brian P. Creative Director // Designity
"Stephen is an exceptional Creative Director. His collaborative approach, attention to detail, and outstanding presentation skills make him a valuable asset."
Melissa H. Interactive Art Director // Ceros
"Stephen quickly understood our business and made fitting recommendations. A thoughtful and fantastic creative director."
Sean B. Chief Operating Officer // MB&A
"Stephen is thoughtful, passionate, kind, and creative. He readily shares wisdom and insights, making him a great leader and colleague."
Catherine F. Creative Director // Designity
"Stephen was the consummate professional, quickly understanding our needs and guiding us with expertise. A talented, organized, and personable creative."
Sean B. Vice President Biz Dev // HOC
"Stephen is an exceptional Creative Director with remarkable problem-solving abilities. His positive attitude and willingness to go above and beyond are unparalleled."
Joy B. Vice President HR // gWorks
"Stephen consistently received rave reviews for his pleasant and professional demeanor. I really enjoyed working with him."
Jayme R. Sr. Manager // Thomson Reuters
"Stephen is a world-class creative director, team lead, and design manager. He leads teams producing incredible content. Highly recommended!"
Joseph C. Head of Design // Designity
"Stephen's team and process make it easy for us to engage at the necessary level for any project stage, delivering quickly or generating ideas as needed. We've been very happy with our experience."
Aaron L. Chief Technology Officer // VerifiedInk
Explore just a few of my hundreds of projects
Creator of Aluvean
The Interactive Ambience Experience Platform
Aluvean was developed as a solo project, driven by a passion for creating immersive, inspiring, and encouraging experiences. With hand-crafted visuals, audio, animations, motion graphics, visual effects, environments, and immaculate attention to detail, Aluvean allows you to design the perfect space for working, dreaming, relaxing, focusing, or exploring.
My goal was to create an experience you won't forget with attention to detail down to the pixel level. Users get to choose between 10 hand-crafted worlds and experience the joy and peace of crafting their own experience. Try it today!
About Aluvean
Aluvean is the result of passion for crafting serene and inspiring experiences. With Aluvean, you can design the environment that is best for you. Whether you’re there to work, dream, relax, focus, or explore, Aluvean is there to help.
Magic Village
Join me behind the scenes of my enchanting Magic Village biome, where creativity meets immersive design. Watch as I discuss this biome brings a touch of magic to your world!
The Cove
Explore the serene beauty of The Cove, a tropical biome designed to inspire creativity. Dive into this behind-the-scenes look at how the cove biome was created.
NFT Product Design, Mobile App, Animation & Video Production
VerifiedInk Sport & Blockchain NFTs
As the Creative Director for VerifiedInk, I revolutionized the user experience, product design, mobile application, video, and motion content, ensuring a dynamic and immersive experience for audiences.
From rebranding to UI/UX to fully animated 3D videos I wanted to showcase and provide the end user with an amazing NFT experience. We utilized storyboards, VFX, animation, motion graphics, interactive prototyping, After Effects, Figma, and much more to accomplish the new user experience and provide a dynamic and engaging interaction.
Product Commercial
Every element was meticulously crafted from the ground up. We utilized After Effects, Photoshop, and a suite of advanced software to create dynamic 3D movements, intricate particle effects, and more. The production process was guided by comprehensive moodboards, detailed scene sketches, and carefully planned production timings.
Filming took place against a green screen, enabling the seamless integration of motion tracking to synchronize hand animations with real-time gestures. Frame rates were perfectly matched to maintain fluid and consistent motion.
Mobile Commercial
A tailored mobile version of the original desktop commercial, designed specifically for mobile users. This version includes optimized animations and enhancements to ensure a seamless and engaging experience on smaller screens, all while maintaining the high-quality visuals and fluidity of the original production.
Calendly Event Booth
Calendly.com Event Experience
Calendly is a very prominent brand in the technology industry. As the Creative Director for Calendly, it was my responsibility to ensure the event booth design and overall user experience was exceptional, leaving a lasting impression on users while strictly adhering to Calendly's guidelines.
I led my talented team of designers, artists, illustrators, and printing experts in extensive moodboarding, exploration, and development of multiple concepts to ensure the highest quality booth options for the Calendly leadership team.
We successfully designed and executed Calendly's booth in just a couple weeks while still managing multiple other projects, impressing event participants with the creativity, ingenuity, and engaging approach. Helping Calendly achieve an amazing and successful event experience.
Outdoor Network Multi-Channel Ad Campaigns
Web and Print Campaigns for Ridezilla and Boater's World
Outdoor Network requested multi-channel campaign designs for web and large format advertising for two different in-house brands. Our Ridezilla highway billboard was designed to captivate passing motorists. To deliver an impactful and dynamic visual, we elevated the concept by incorporating an action-packed design, showcasing an SxS bursting through the billboard with both energy and attention-grabbing elements.
For the Boater's World ads, we wanted them to show how Boater's World could restore a damaged boat. One of the challenges our team had to face was how to make the billboard showcase both destruction and restoration at the same time. Every detail was important to me, so we sculpted the destruction details down to the finest point to provide a truly unique and captivating ad experience that turns heads.
Partzilla Global Branding
Commmercials, Media, Ads, Print, Merchandise, Sponsorships, Social, Mobile and Web
Outdoor Network tasked me and my team with developing a comprehensive global brand guide from the ground up. As the Creative Director, I led every stage of the project - ranging from in-depth research, persona and concept development, to creating mood boards, selecting colors, fonts, and imagery, all the way to the final official brand guide for go-to-market. Partzilla, a key brand within Outdoor Network's portfolio, serves a diverse audience with an expansive product range.
One of the primary challenges was unifying these diverse elements into a cohesive, visually engaging, and easily navigable brand identity. Through strategic collaboration and innovative design solutions, my team succeeded in creating a brand guide that not only addresses these complexities but also serves as the definitive resource for all things Partzilla branding and design.
Creator of the Havyon Platform
Proprietary CRM and CMS Platform
My solo designed and developed event planning CRM and CMS platform. I utilized the latest responsive web design techniques, APIs, propritery tag manager, branded PDF generation, automated email system, upgrade/downgrade system, vendor management, automatic image optimizations, and many more custom built features to create an amazing user experience.
This is the ultimate propritery tool for wedding planners, event planners, and more! Built from the ground up, Havyon utilizes the latest technologies to ensure a lightning fast speed, simplicity, and ease-of-use. Every user gets a free 30-day trial.
Havyon Product Commercial
I created the Havyon commercial using After Effects to showcase the contrast between the chaotic, unorganized nature of traditional event planning and the simplicity of the Havyon Platform. Simple, easy, fast.
Behind The Scenes
A glimpse behind the scene at the complexity of the Havyon video build in After Effects.