Hi, I’m Dani β€” a multi-interested designer, writer, and creative director kickin’ it in Brooklyn. Currently, I'm a Brand Creative Director at Headspace.

I have over ten years experience working with in-house brand teams and independent clients leading design strategy, brand identity, brand marketing, creative campaigns, art direction, and copy.

I've been a part of the wonderful teams at Oscar Health, Stink Studios NY, Intercom, and Vox Media. Freelance clients include Airbnb, Impossible Foods, Webflow, Gem, Our Place, and more.

I have a BFA in graphic design from RISD, I recently wrote a kids' book, and I highly respect good people and bad puns.

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As Oscar's national network expanded, its brand strategy and visual identity needed to grow as well. The brand team worked alongside pals at Franklyn to build a brand that resonates with members of all ages, locations, + languages, and is vibrantly human within the humdrum health insurance industry. This includes an illustration style showing real people with real emotion, a color palette that extends from marketing to product, typefaces that can deliver hard news along with good news, and a lifestyle photoshoot that highlights care.

Role: In-house Design Director
Agency partner: Franklyn. Illustrations: Tess Havas. Brand photography: Kyle Johnson.
Oscar team: Cat Lee, Kate Apostolou, Topher Lorette, Libby Denault, David Mikula, Craig Damrauer, Carmela Ciuraru, Jonathan Wilson.
Franklyn team: Ashley Van Belle, Michael Freimuth, Tess Havas.

If you'd like to read more about how we built the brand, hop over to the Design Team Blog.

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