A Hair Love Story
Role
Designer
Duration
1.4 years
Project
Team of 2
Tools
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

After Effects and more
Position
Ideate, create and implement design for social media, external events and internal content. Collaborate with the marketing team to create videos, social media posts, presentations, design and more.
Who are you?
Mielle was created by Monique Rodriguez, a registered nurse, wife and mother of two girls, who desired to share her healthy hair journey using products with healthy ingredients to achieve amazing results. She knew the importance of knowing what is in your products and wanted to create healthier options for the whole family. The result is a brand that delivers products that contain natural ingredients and are effective.

Social Media

My main role is to create engagement through usage of imagery and text, that further the brand narrative of organic, natural, and education. These words are the center of the all graphics that continue the narrative. This includes still graphics, and animated graphics.

An animated logo with a black woman on a email header.
Emails
My main role here is to build emails based off of creative briefs (not shown here), and copy. These elements are used to promote certain products, events, or promotions for Mielle to our audience that signed up for the email listing or are rewards members.
A woman standing and looking away header for an email.An animated email header that says discover you curl type, type  2, type 3, or type 4.An animated gif for email, wishing women a happy International Women's Day.

Campaign

My main role is to create graphics of the campaigns launched with each initiative placed on marketing strategy. These activations include social media post video editing and motion among other items depending on the strategy.

Mielle Organics, unmasked, campaign with a woman in the background and text in the foreground.
Mockup of a phone with a video playing on Instagram interface.
A social media campaign called unmasked by Mielle Organics.Two women on a social media post promoting an unapologetically real.
GIF of unmasked with campaign

Display Ads

Display ads were the crux of sale and promotions as well as reach.
I created many ads for Mielle Organics. The usually involved up to 20 different sized display ads.

A/B testing

A/B testing was done throughout my time at Mielle to test what worked well and what didn’t. This contributed to what was made. From ads to emails A/B testing was held as essential.

Packaging
I helped create and edit packaging and help developed the packaging for production. The packaging varies from actually label packaging on products, box packaging and many more things. * Not all projects pictured here.
A mockup of a box that is pink with a design on the inside.

Creative Boards

I worked with the creative director for shoots and contributed to creating the mood board and presentations come up with inspiration of the future or coming shoots. They give me the ideas of what they want and I produce these creative boards. The results are below each one.

Three Black women standing next to each other, posing in dresses with a wall behind them.
Three black women posing together in dresses.Black woman posing with a wall behind her.
A black woman woman posing in a dress.A black woman in a dress profile of the waist up.
A black woman with a dress posing on a blue wall.
A black woman's profile in a bathroom.
Two black  woman in the frame, one sitting down and one standing up posing. Three black women together laughing and smiling.

Billboards

I worked with the creative for billboards depending on locations and stock needs. These are one of the ones I creeated.

Website

I advocated for a hair quiz from Mielle and also improvements to the website. it was over crowded and full of information and even pulling down the products. The hair quiz can be seen here.

Other work
Zoetis- Petcare and Vet care
Collaborate with the marketing team ideate, create and implement design for social media, external events and internal content.