Add me to your
design roster

I specialize in strategic branding, illustration and digital-forward design systems
— whether I’m helping to create new brand experiences or strengthen existing ones.

I’d love to work
with agencies who:

Have more client work than internal design capacity
Need creatives who can integrate seamlessly into collaborative teams and processes
Are looking for flexible, multi-disciplinary creative contractors
Want an experienced, senior design perspective without a full-time hire
Need to respect and follow their clients’ brand guidelines with a creative mindset
AgenAre interested in bringing an artistic or illustrative approach to a design projectcy Spotter

What I offer as an agency partner

Reliability and confidentiality

Especially in my work with film clients, I’m comfortable with contracts and NDAs and serious about keeping client-side work and data confidential. Agreements and clear boundaries are important when collaborating on complex and high-priority work — I’m committed to clear communication and no (avoidable) surprises.

Smart design execution

Effective design systems and campaigns are built on creative consistency. I love creating and delivering modular and highly-functional brand assets to my clients, weaving in brand presence from website to pitch deck to blog header to email template. I don’t default to “cookie cutter” approaches and keep the bigger picture in mind, no matter how small the asset.

Familiarity with animation and web design

I’ve worked on motion, website and film projects at every scale and stage of delivery. This means I can not only deliver finished motion graphics and clean website builds, but I understand how to prepare, format and hand over components and design elements to support projects already in progress. I know what questions to ask and what specs you need from me to create digital work that actually works properly.

Original, AI-free art

Alongside more commercial and corporate design work, I’m also experienced in pen and ink drawing, vector illustration, mural-painting and watercolours. I love using artistic and illustrative brand elements to add heart and personality to brand systems and am comfortable delivering commissioned sequences or sets of themed illustrations to enhance campaigns.

What others have said...

"It is difficult to have an outsourced resource quickly jump into your projects without a huge onboarding burden. Tony makes it easy. Zero burden, all high quality deliverables."
Katherine Adamkowski
Digital Marketing Director for Finn AI's Software Development
"The visual design system Tony created helped to galvanize the vision the founding team had for the company. This contributed to the excitement the whole team felt about bringing this vision to life."
Heather Ballachey
Marketer at Change Bomb and Marketing Advisor for The Fresh Perspectives Group Rebrand
"Tony’s illustration work added that missing dimension. It was both refreshing and impactful, quickly becoming an essential part of Absolute’s visual identity."
David Crompton
Consulting and Creative Director for Absolute's rebrand project
"It is difficult to have an outsourced resource quickly jump into your projects without a huge onboarding burden. Tony makes it easy. Zero burden, all high quality deliverables."
Jen Cole
CEO of The Fresh Perspective Group
Tony created the animated map graphics for our documentary and  wall graphics for our premiere. His work was delivered under tight timelines and integrated into both the film and the event.
Jamila Pomeroy
Writer (WGC) & Director represented by Integral Artists

A Snapshot

Experience

15+ years providing brand and digital design for clients

Incorporated Kempen Design in 2019

Print production and pre-press experience

VFX and GFX credits for Telus, CBC and Neon productions

Custom CMS web development skills

Industries

Non-profit

SaaS

Film

Publishing

Higher education

Retail / POS

Software / Platforms

Webflow

Illustrator

After Effects

Kajabi

Hubspot

Retail / POS

Collaboration

Slack

Google Suite

Teams

Trello

Hive

Project management workflows

Let’s connect face to face

If you’ve been interested in working with me but ran into confusion or suspicion because I don’t appear on LinkedIn, I apologize for the inconvenience and I really appreciate your patience. Feel free to book a meeting with me via Calendly and I’d be happy to prove to you I’m a real person and not a suspiciously Australian-sounding scam bot.