Senior Brand & Visual Designer · Art Director

Priya Maruthapillai

I lead integrated brand experiences across campaigns, digital, motion and emerging AI—combining strategic thinking with 13+ years of multidisciplinary creative experience.

13+

Years of creative experience

20%

Campaign engagement lift

50+

Videos & animations produced

5

Awards & recognitions

About

I'm Priya Maruthapillai — a communications and brand manager who writes, designs and ships. For thirteen years I've built communication plans and then executed every piece of them: the messaging, the social calendar, the email, the website updates, the report, the video and the brand standards that keep it all consistent.

Most of that work has been public-interest — veterans programs, addiction medicine advocacy, animal welfare, nonprofit and government-adjacent teams.

  • Strategic Communications
  • Content & Editorial
  • Social & Email
  • Web / CMS
  • Brand Standards
  • Video & Multimedia
  • Project Management

Highlights

Projects

Campaign and design work across social, events, video, print, advertising and identity — plus a personal 2D and 3D artwork archive of 52 pieces.

Digital Campaign

Multi-channel campaign systems built to convert, with AI-assisted research, scripting and scheduling.

Event Promotion

Identity and collateral that fill the room.

Animation & Videography

Motion work for social, web and stage.

Conference Marketing

End-to-end visual programs for large conferences, from theme art to on-site signage.

Print Design

Reports, brochures and editorial layouts prepared press-ready to spec.

Digital Ads

Performance creative sized for every placement.

UI Design

Web and app interfaces, wireframes and design systems.

3D Work

Character, product and environment modeling, lighting and texture.

2D Work

Illustration, concept art and character studies.

Capabilities

What I do

One person covering the full communications stack — strategy through production — with a designer's eye for how it lands.

Strategic communications

Communication plans with clear objectives, timelines and deliverables — then the assets to land them across every channel.

Veterans Week Campaign, 2019–2022 · CALIBRE Systems

Content & editorial

Messaging, talking points, campaign copy, presentation narratives and long-form reports written for public audiences.

2023 Annual Report · Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA

Social & email

Content calendars, channel strategy and creative sized for every placement. Hootsuite certified.

15+ posts per campaign · +20% engagement · +10% at AUSA

Web & digital content

Website content management and rebuilds with accessibility and accuracy front of mind — SharePoint, HTML, CSS, jQuery.

Intranet rebuild, +10% adoption · Stanley Black & Decker

Brand consistency

Style guides, templates, palettes and a governed asset library so every team and outside partner stays on brand.

Brand standards program · JD Advisors

Multimedia storytelling

Video and animation from concept to delivery — documentary, explainer, event and social cutdowns.

20-minute NGEF documentary · 50+ videos produced

Toolkit

AI in the workflow

The tools I reach for to shorten research, drafting and production cycles — so more of the time goes into craft.

Selected impact

Mission-driven work

Campaigns for organizations serving veterans, patients, animals and communities — where clarity and accessibility matter more than cleverness.

  1. Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA

    2023 Annual Report, 2025 Calendar, Fall Festival identity

    Full annual report from content structure to print production, praised by the client and delivered on schedule.

  2. American Society of Addiction Medicine

    National Addiction Treatment Week · Opioid Aware Chat

    Public-health awareness campaign that won Gold at the 2017 Association Trends All-Media Contest for social media.

  3. CALIBRE Systems · U.S. Army programs

    Veterans Week Campaign 2019–2022 · AUSA Conference

    10+ videos and 15+ social posts per year lifting engagement 20%; AUSA social content added another 10%.

  4. ASAM Hill Day 2017

    Advocacy day branding and materials

    Digital and print toolkit supporting clinicians advocating on Capitol Hill.

  5. Vetha Innovations (nonprofit)

    Digital presence, UI/UX framework and identity

    Defined how a volunteer-run organization shows up online from scratch.