A line art drawing of a pirate's hat with a skull and crossbones, a baseball cap, a lobster, and a flag with a skull and crossbones on a textured orange background. The text "Montana Dano" is partially visible at the bottom.

Beyond Design: Levity Files

Sticker featuring a smiling white bear's head with a small bee on its nose, surrounded by the text "BEAR'S BEER" and location "Buffalo, Wyoming" with a phone number.
A colorful graphic design featuring a winged horse, or Pegasus, flying over clouds with butterflies and a small red devil figure. The text reads 'IMAGINARIUM 20' at the top and 'Marching on the Wings of Imagination' at the bottom.
Graphic illustration of a bulldozer with a character riding on it, smashing rocks, on a gray fabric shirt with the text ‘MORTON BUILDING’ below.

Overview // Apparel Design, Insight

Role: Primary Designer, Illustrator

Team: Bighorn Design, various clients

A client collection that channels dry, western-leaning humor into production-ready apparel. Punny lines and playful illustration show range: technique, levity, and creative problem-solving grounded in real production know-how. Light-hearted by intent and practical in execution, it's work built to execute clean and earn grins.

Hand-drawn whimsically aggressive hermit crab for Montana Danger, an outdoor club of old friends whose brief literally asked for "whimsically aggressive hermit crab." Worked "MD" into the shell curves and kept line weights clean for laser engraving while preserving that loose, hand-drawn energy. Because nothing says danger quite like a shellfish with a pirate flag and crossbones. The brief was real, the execution is ridiculous, and that's exactly the point.

A black baseball cap with a tan patch on the front displaying a logo of a turtle with a pirate flag on it, the text 'est. 1965' on the sides, and 'MONTANA DANGER' written below.
Black and white illustration of a turtle with a pirate flag on its back, with the text 'Montana Danger est. 1965' beneath.
Logo for Bears Bees Buffalo, Wyoming with a circular design featuring a smiling polar bear, a bee perched on its nose, and contact information.
A jar of honey labeled 'Bear's Bees' with a bear's face in the logo and a bee flying near the bear's ear. The label indicates it is from Buffalo, Wyoming, with a phone number 307-732-7007.

Illustrated a label for a local honey producer who requested a polar bear (a personal connection) paired with a bee in an unlikely alliance. Instead of the typical bear-raids-hive scenario, they're both grinning like old friends. Kept the palette limited for future screen printing and chose a circular badge format that works across different bottle shapes and sizes. The green background was a deliberate contrast play: makes the honey pop on the shelf while keeping the whole thing light-hearted and approachable.

Illustration of a person riding a mountain goat, hitting rocks with a hammer, with the text 'MORTON BUILDINGS' below.

Drew a construction worker riding a bighorn ram for Morton Buildings, an employee-owned construction company. The illustration nods to Wyoming's big game and the Bighorn Mountains while landing their "Adapt & Overcome" motto: hammer raised, charging into any job site on a ram is ridiculous, but it works. Sometimes the best work happens when you're okay laughing at the absurdity. Kept it single-color for clean screen printing and maximum impact.

Olive green t-shirt with a black graphic of a ram on the front and text 'Morton Buildings' below it. The back has the text 'Adapt & Overcome' above a hexagon logo with the letter 'M', and the numbers '111-193' below.
Illustration for Imaginarium 2024 featuring a winged horse on clouds, a small red creature, butterflies, a lightbulb, and a banner that reads "Marching on the Wings of Imagination."

Designed apparel for Cody High School's marching band show "Marching on the Wings of Imagination." Took their horse mascot, added wings, and built a scene showing creativity in action: lightbulb for ideas, devil for doubt, flourishes for flow. Built the palette around school gold and kept it screen printing ready.