ICSBOSTON.COM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Partner
- Designer Owner Partner & Creative Director
Adam is the founder and creative director at Image Conscious Studios. He believes great design is as much about communication and solving problems as it is about creating beautiful stuff. Every day, Adam works with both clients and the team to set strategy, provide creative direction, and ensure the work ICS produces is the best it can be. He can even push a mean pixel or two. He also drives the vision of the agency, ensuring ICS is always reaching towards the future.
Before ICS, he started out as a freelance designer and photographer, and cut his teeth at various agencies and start-ups around Boston (back when they were called "dot-coms"). He's old enough to remember when Flash websites were cool (right?), has two hellraisers beautiful little boys, and runs ICS alongside his smarter, prettier other half, Beth. He was a musician in a former life, was instrumental in setting up the studio bar cart, and thinks Twin Peaks should be required viewing.
Adam grew up in the wilds of northern Michigan and had to literally shovel a path for himself downstate to attend college. Along the way he worked at several restaurants and learned enough about dealing with the public that he now enjoys sitting at home with his wife and two cats while writing code.
Outside of work, Adam enjoys cooking, running, and trying to find a camping spot in the woods that is as pristine and free of people as where he grew up.
Job Titles:
- Digital Project Coordinator at ICS
- Digital Project Coordinator Digital Project Coordinator
A Midwest gal takes the East Coast! As the Digital Project Coordinator at ICS, Amelia works on projects from start to finish. While being equally obsessed with both process and plans, Amelia helps guide clients and the ICS team through the various phases of the project. She thrives in any situation that requires her to problem solve in a creative way, and with a background in event planning Amelia is also looking for a reason to get the team together!
When she is not checking off items on a to-do list or keeping the team up to date on her latest snack obsessions in #random on Slack, you can find Amelia binge watching everything on Bravo, bopping around town with friends and family, or roaming the aisles of Home Goods.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner at Image Conscious Studios
Beth is a partner at Image Conscious Studios. She was ICS's first official hire, coming on board early on and helping to shape the studio's direction, as well as its output. She works closely with her partner (and husband) Adam, helping set the strategic vision of ICS. In years past, she's created everything from logos and websites to Viewmaster presentations and super hero illustrations.
These days, she splits up her time between helping to run ICS, and being run down by her two little boys. When she's not doing either of those, she's creating artwork in her studio, or blissfully curled up with a cat and a blankie. She also invented Steely Dan, and never met a cheese she didn't like.
Cayden brings with him a variety of experience in the website development world. From working with a wide array of industries, he has vast knowledge of everything from SEO and accessibility best practices, to pixel perfect front-ends and structurally sound back-ends. An eye for process, Cayden enjoys writing out technical how-tos which guide his work and continually optimize his development strategies. During video calls, you can often spot his dog Loca lounging on the couch behind or standing next to him waiting for some pets.
Outside of work, Cayden is a highly competitive gamer so you'll still probably find him in his office enjoying a fast-paced match of Rocket League or a slower-paced, methodical game of CSGO. Averaging around 75,000 minutes of Spotify streamed per year, he's constantly looking for new music and enjoys almost every genre available. In the roughly 30% of his time that he's outside his office, Cayden is likely binge-watching the newest Netflix show with his partner Brandon.
Chelsea is a recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Native to the city of Boston, she embraced a deep love of web design at a young age. Though trained in graphic design, she has an equal curiosity for front-end development and makes a hobby out of writing JavaScript functions. This experimentation has resulted in creations such as an Instagram simulator game, and a choose-your-own-adventure about the end of the world, real practical stuff.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Manager
- Senior Digital Project Manager
As senior digital project manager, Christine guides projects from beginning to end ensuring transparency, quality, and accuracy in time and budget. She thrives on the left-brain challenge of tasking, deadlines, schedules, and strategic planning layered on top of the right-brain creative and innovative problem solving ICS undertakes everyday, all day. Christine's background in education management, evaluation planning, and mediation allows her to manage that delicate PM balance of cheerleader and taskmaster.
When she's not poring over spreadsheets and sending funny gifs to keep afternoons interesting at the studio, Christine is typically adventuring with her two lads, Liam and Gavin. Although most of her time is spent bike riding, building forts, and cleaning her children, Christine often finds time to spend on her first love- oil painting.
As a Designer at ICS, Danielle develops an array of visual designs for brand identities and digital systems. She is an abstract thinker who strives to create thoughtful designs that align with the creative strategy and user experience. She's also a firm believer in curiosity and has a knack for learning new design skills whenever a challenge arises.
Danielle currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island with her lazy pup, Layla. Outside of work, she enjoys shooting street photography, planning outdoor adventures, playing tabletop games with friends, and mastering the art of tacos.
Job Titles:
- ICS 's Senior UX Strategist
- Senior UX Strategist
As ICS's Senior UX Strategist, Justin uses research and design to create a user experience that aligns business goals with best practices in modern user-centered design. He also heads up the ICS Apprenticeship program.
Since 2011, he has presented numerous talks on freelancing, typography, and printing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, AIGA Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and for the National Chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild.
Justin is a native Floridian (get the jokes out now) and before his life as a designer, he worked in a tiny restaurant making fried rice and loose-meat sandwiches and spent two years teaching third grade in a small border town in South Texas. He now resides in Melrose, MA with his wife and two kiddos. He spends his spare time road and mountain biking, taking photos, cooking, and being the token old guy at the punk show.
Originally from southern California, Katie has traded coasts after a pit stop in St. Louis where she studied Communication Design at WashU. She gravitates toward digital design work, because she likes the added puzzle pieces of interaction and guiding an experience. She loves resourceful, creative problem-solving, whether it's consolidating code or using a paper clip as a belt hanger. Outside of work, she's either eating Annie's mac and cheese at a campsite, scoping out homemade ice cream shops, or taking sunny naps in a hammock.
Job Titles:
- Digital Project Coordinator
- Digital Project Coordinator Digital Project Coordinator
This is Kwame! He is a Digital Project Coordinator here at ICS. Kwame assists in all aspects of ICS. He can help you with everything from serving clients to scheduling meetings and events. He enjoys helping others and ensuring others can work to the best of their ability.
When Kwame isn't working he enjoys things that bring him joy! Whether that's biking, traveling, or listening to his favorite music!
Logan has 12+ years of experience developing enterprise level websites and web applications. He is a well-rounded developer with a robust knowledge of WordPress and Gutenberg which he uses to build high-quality Content Management Systems. He is responsible for leading the development of all our projects, while also providing guidance and counsel for other developers on the team.
Logan leads a life of perpetual globetrotting as a full-time digital nomad. For him, music is a form of self-expression, which often translates in his constant singing, humming and whistling. Furthermore, he is deeply passionate about adjusting traditional recipes to be catered to his vegetarian wife's dietary needs.
Matt is a lover of film and music who prefers B movies and B-sides to hit singles and big blockbusters. He's also a basement-based gamer, a native of the net, and a total space cadet.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager at ICS
Ryan is a Senior Project Manager at ICS and his role is to help teams deliver successful projects. He is passionate about all things organization and problem-solving. Previously working in the film industry, Ryan has spent time on a wide variety of projects in his career ranging from interactive museum exhibits to Shark Week episodes.
Ryan was born in Texas but considers himself a New Englander at heart. He can usually be found hanging out with his wife Amelia and Westie dog named Maggie. He loves to travel (preferably somewhere near the ocean) and try different local foods. One time he pet a baby grey whale in the wild and hasn't stopped talking about it since. When not traveling, he's typically at home drinking questionable amounts of cold brew. Unashamed Taco Bell fan.
Job Titles:
- Art Director
- Art Director at ICS
As the Art Director at ICS, Shannon leads the design team in developing engaging brand identities and user-interface systems while ensuring alignment of the visual experience across multiple platforms. She helps push the design vision by executing solutions that are smart, memorable, and user-centered. She is equally passionate about designing elegant visual experiences as she is in using design research as a source of insight while solving complex problems.
Shannon finds comfort in a classic New York bagel (sorry Boston, you'll never compare) old-timey music, and a good peated scotch. When she's not obsessing over typography, she spends her time perusing vintage markets for unusual antiques, folk art and ephemera.
Stefanie brings a laundry list of management experiences and skills from working with international marketing companies in Europe and Eastern Europe. She strives to maintain healthy relationships between both parties for current and future projects.
A girl from Connecticut, Stef has traveled the world. She spent several years living in Eastern Europe, picking up her second language along the way. Stef's #1 job is raising her two girls and busy with her mini zoo of rescues, 2 dogs and 4 cats. In her minimal spare time, she enjoys some quiet moments with some bubbly!
Originally from Maryland, her first introduction to web development was customizing her Tumblr blog with pictures from photography class. Eventually finding her way into UI/UX design, she developed a love of creating cool things for cool people.
Job Titles:
- Account Director
- Account Director at ICS
Zoe is the Account Director at ICS. She helps clients dig deep to uncover innate truths about their brand and then works with the super talented strategists, designers, developers and project managers at ICS to bring those brands to life. She's a firm believer that a strong, research-based, strategic foundation results in the best work-whether that's a website, a messaging framework, or a customer journey.
When she's not learning all there is to know about her clients and their industries (she's specifically focused on clean energy and biotech), Zoe likes to take walks with her dog George (where she listens to ALL the scammer podcasts), hang out with her kiddo and hubs, and drink a lot of coffee. She swears she's not as boring as this sounds … but maybe she is.