ABOUT THE DESIGNER + art director
Michelle Silver has 14 years of experience creating thoughtful and engaging design. She is an accomplished branding designer and art director, developing visual identities for a wide range of clientele from large corporate brands to startups and brick and mortar businesses. She works closely with her clients to fully understand brand conflicts and goals, and guides them from the early stages of brainstorming through the implementation of a cohesive and unique identity across digital, print and 360 marketing campaigns. Her background in advertising and fine art have facilitated a well-rounded approach to design: clean consumer-driven design with a funky, illustrative touch.
Silver grew up on the edge of the Catskill mountains in New York and spent her early adulthood in a vibrant art community in Boston, where she graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in 2009. She then moved to Brooklyn, where she surrounded herself with inspiration, collaborated with amazing clients and creatives, developed her design voice, joined a band, and painted obsessively. Desiring a peaceful place to create and raise her family, she moved to a woodsy home on the side of a mountain in the lower Hudson Valley, NY in 2019. Silver currently co-owns a combined art gallery and tattoo studio in Beacon, NY called Distortion Society with her tattoo artist husband Bradley Silver, in addition to managing her own design and painting studio.
SERVICES
Art direction + creative direction
Branding + identity
UI/UX design
Web design or customization: Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, etc
Marketing campaigns
Email + social campaign graphics
Print design
Brand decks, look books + presentations
Editorial + book design
Packaging
Environmental graphic design
Illustration + lettering
select CLIENTS
HOSPITALITY, FOOD + BEVERAGE
Padma Lakshmi NYC
Wolfgang Puck Worldwide
Giada Catering USA
Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate NYC
Patina Restaurant Group NYC
estiatorio Milos NYC
David Burke Group NYC
Craveable Hospitality Group NYC
Understory Market Hudson Valley, NY
Half Time Beverage Hudson Valley, NY
agency + corporate
Hudson Creative NYC
Movers+Shakers NYC
Stuntman PR NYC
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices NYC
Keller Williams Realty Hudson Valley & Catskills, NY
non profit
Surface Design Association USA
Haldane School District Hudson Valley, NY
arts + entertainment
Live Nation USA
Jim Kempner Fine Art Chelsea, NYC
Chase Contemporary NYC & East Hampton, NY
Copper Cup Entertainment USA
Lifestyle + wellness
Campbell & Campbell Salon Hudson Valley, NY
Wyld Hudson Valley, NY
Love Letter Cold Spring Hudson Valley, NY
White Rabbit Tattoo Studio NYC
Ritualist Hudson Valley, NY
Dink Ink Downingtown, PA