Hi, I’m Destini, also known as visual.destini.
I’m a freelance designer, artist, photographer, and generally creative being.
I am a freelance artist and designer working from home office (and from coffee shops, convention centers, etc…) who is single handedly running my own one-woman-business as a jack-of-all-art-trades, constantly trying to make bigger and better opportunities for myself and my clients.
I started my business in 2012, fresh from college that offered to place me in retail as a “design career”. Instead, I invented my own job, found clients, self-funded, expanded to weekly and monthly services, and eventually, moved to NC in search of new clients that would allow me to grow my skills.
I’ve grown over the last 10+ years. I’ve been across the country, across the border, and ‘across the pond’ to meet and work with my clients in person. As a self-employed designer, artist and photographer, I’ve been managing multiple (profit and non) clients, all with many on-going projects, tight deadlines, and in a variety of mediums, programs, and platforms.
I can switch from perfect-to-the-millimeter packaging to captivating social media graphics to bold billboard design to book layouts in seconds, with ease – and always keeping cohesive branding (which I also design).
I love freelancing because I thrive on a wide variety of design styles, clients, and industries. It’s this variety in projects that keeps my freelance work compelling and challenging. I’ve always been one to rise to a challenge, and meet a deadline with high quality and creative work.
My Skills:
I’m confident I can utilize my master-level skills in Adobe Suite, traditional art mediums, Office, HTML/CSS, and beyond to bring beautiful design to your business.
- Photoshop 98%
- Illustrator 93%
- InDesign 90%
- Email Marketing 80%
- Social Media Marketing 91%
- HTML & CSS 85%
- Digital Illustration 70%
- Acrylic Paint 97%
- Oil Paint 60%
- That’s Not Paint, That’s Food 68%
- Make-Up Latex 81%
- Hot Glue 99%
- Fake Blood 82%
- Ink & Pencil 98%
I’ve been building my skills (and my library of stock photos, fonts, footage, etc) for over 10 years while building my freelancing business.
I have experience designing websites, web graphics, and for print, with projects in everything from large scale signage to book layouts, to packaging and complete branding including vector work and product design, and everything in between.
Let's Get to Work
Fun Stuff About Me
I’m chaotic creativity.
I love Supernatural, Harry Potter, Outlander, fantasy, DnD, binging movies and TV, making cosplays, reading, playing video games and tabletops, being a professional SFX makeup artist, traveling, GISHing, and designing obscure pop culture references for fun. For more information, please see my published works.
Featured Clients
Graphic Design
Branding & Logo Design
Whether I'm creating custom logo designs for Raleigh, NC or around the world, I start branding projects with sketches, and work through a process with the client to create a functional vector logo design.
Website Design
As a web designer near Raleigh, NC, I start with a discussion of functionality. Using a wireframe or sketch as a guide, we bring the website online with on-brand design, interactive features, and beautiful design, all responsive for flawless mobile browsing, while drawing in customers with functional SEO.
Packaging & Layout Design
Packaging & layout design is one of my favourite areas of design! For both product packaging design, I begin with sketches to create engaging, informative custom packaging in Raleigh NC and beyond.
Doing point-perfect layout design for indie authors, compilation works, magazines, documents, etc, are the projects that allow me to be a perfectionist! Being a book designer allows me to get creative for a cover designs that jumps off the shelf!
Web Graphics
Social media graphic design, plus graphics for your website, product listings and more.
Print Materials
Whatever needs printed, I can (and have) designed it. Large-scale graphics, brochures, flyers, all on brand, on message, and beautiful to read.
Traditonal Artist
Chalkboards & Signage
I really enjoy creating colourful, surprisingly detailed chalkboard art! I also do hand painted signage for resturaunts, stores, and more.
Painting
I've been a set designer and backdrop painter and I love the work. Painting signs, photo ops, special effects, and more for my clients is a nice chance to get back to basics.
Sketching & Concept Work
If you need to get your ideas down on paper, I can help you merge creativity and function.
Crafting and Creating
As a prop designer, set designer, and creator, I can mold, sculpt, and create almost anything.
Illustration
Digitally or with traditional mediums, I love doing illustrations for small businesses, for fun, or for informative documents.
Photography
Wedding Photography
As a wedding photographer in NC, I take time to get to know the couple and their photography wish list and add to their big day. View my wedding photography portfolio and contact me for availablity, with affordable rates and easy scheduling!
Event Photography
My event coordination and art direction leads to being an on-demand event photographer for weddings, corportate events, event coordinators and more.
Photo Manipulation
Creating and re-imagining reality using stock photography or my own images and combining them. I love doing photo manipulation and often do it for client's product photography.
Product Photography
Creating crisp, perfectly light product photos is essential for my work. As a product photographer, I use a lightbox, editing tools, and specialty lighting for perfect product photography.
Photo Restoration
I can take antique, vintage, or just plain old photographs and make them like new. As a photo restoration artist, I can use any medium from Super 8 and 35 mm to existing physical photographs and restore them, for digital or print use.