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.

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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