Mara Quinn

June 7, 2026

Dear Devon,

A logo is the easy part — the hard part is the system that keeps it alive on a shelf, a phone, and a billboard at the same time. That's the work I've spent nine years getting right, and it's exactly what Marlow & Field is hiring a Senior Brand Designer to lead. I build identities, not marks: the typography, the rules, and the launch story that carry a brand long after the first reveal.

At Field Notes Studio, I led the full rebrand of a national beverage line — identity, packaging system, and launch campaign — that drove a 34% lift in shelf conversion. I art-direct a team of three designers and a rotating roster of illustrators across six to eight client engagements a year, and I built the studio's reusable brand-guideline framework that cut handoff time per project by roughly 40%. I care as much about the spec sheet the next designer inherits as the comp the client sees.

Before Field Notes, I designed editorial layouts, campaign keys, and social systems at Mensch & Co., where the work was selected for the Communication Arts Typography Annual and shortlisted for an ADC Young Guns cube. More recently, the Lumio Beverages rebrand earned an AIGA "50 Books / 50 Covers" selection — proof, I hope, that rigorous systems and work with real personality aren't a trade-off. You can see the through-line across all of it at maraquinn.design.

RISD trained me to defend a concept and sweat the kerning in the same breath, and I'd love to bring both to your roster. Thank you for considering my application — my resume is enclosed, and I'd be glad to walk you through the packaging and identity case studies whenever it's useful.