A handsome portrait of Hobbs Bell

Hi! I'm Hobbs; a designer in Washington, D.C.

Welcome to my website thing.

It's a work in progress.

Things that spark joy:

skateboards | bass guitar | film photos | cats

The only stupid question is the one not asked.

Portfolio

I'm still building this section—

patience is a virtue.

r/dcunited

2021 Subreddit Scarf Contest

Cherry blossom themed scarf designed for the DC United subreddit community

r/dcunited

2019 Subreddit Scarf Contest

Anti-NewYorkRedBulls scarf designed for the DC United subreddit community

National Automobile Dealers Association

Customer Relations Comic Strips

Comic strips for an online course aimed at improving dealership customer relations

Design Manager
National Geographic | Disney Entertainment
Washington, D.C.
March 2021 – Present
  • Build, manage, and maintain pages and articles on the national geographic website
  • Provide design and development support to the email marketing team in deploying new efforts and campaigns
  • Support the membership renewals team in print production and direct mailing efforts
  • Generate branded image and video content for social teams
Multimedia Designer
National Geographic | 21st Century Fox
Washington, D.C.
June 2016 – March 2021
  • Designed and developed responsive marketing emails, order pages, landing pages, and other web assets
  • Produced magazine inserts, direct mailing campaigns, and other print materials
  • Created promotional catalogs and brochures for National Geographic trips and tours
  • Designed static and animated digital assets for online advertisements
Graphic Designer
National Automobile Dealer's Association
Tysons Corner, VA
February 2015 – February 2016
  • Worked with NADA Acadmedy SME's in collaboration with the instructional design team to redesign classroom course material, and develop a new UI/UX for online classes
  • Updated over 2,000 pages of course material with new layouts, charts, and graphics, migrating all files from Microsoft Word and Powerpoint to Adobe InDesign in the process
  • Created a series of instructional comic strips aimed at optimizing dealership operations
Designer
Freelance | Dewey Creative
Washington, D.C.
February 2015 – March 2021
  • One-stop-shop for graphic design, desktop publishing, video editing, animation, UX/UI design
  • Advised clients on branding, identity, marketing, and creative direction
Digital Media Assistant
National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C.
June 2013 – February 2015
  • Served as project manager and primary administrator in the development of an internal, permissions-based squarespace site to house all logos, style guides, and other brand assets
  • Worked with the print production team to design and deploy direct mail and magazine insert campaigns to drive new subscriptions for five different titles
  • Designed web banners, social and search ads, logo treatments, style guides, presentation materials, internal directories

Education

B.A., Communications
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

Skills

Brand Identity | Creative Direction | Marketing | Social Media Strategy | Graphic Design | Print Production | UI/UX Design | Video Editing | Animation | HTML | CSS | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe InDesign | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe After Effects | Adobe Premiere Pro | Adobe Dreamweaver | Microsoft Word | Microsoft Powerpoint | Microsoft Excel | Keynote | Instagram