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Candace Buchanan

Candace Buchanan

Graphic Designer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director, Product & Experience Design Program

  • Education

    • Texas Tech University

      1985 - 1989
      Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Design and Visual Communications, General

  • Experience

    • May & Co.

      Nov 1989 - Nov 1993
      Graphic Designer

      Graphic designer collaborating with team on projects that include financial institutions, development companies, retail, telecom and event companies. Experience in all phases of the creative process: design, production, photo shoot direction, client presentations, print management.

    • Brandation (formerly Foundation)

      Jan 1992 - Jan 1993
      Lead Graphic Designer

      Lead designer with focus on fashion industry print advertising, identity, and trade shows. Clients included Ralph Lauren, Tommy Bahama, Bill Blass. Worked within extremely tight, ever-changing deadlines with an amazing team of multi-disciplined creatives.

    • Fitch (formerly The Leonhardt Group)

      Jan 1994 - Jul 1999
      Senior Graphic Designer

      Lead and team designer on corporate collateral projects, retail identity, packaging, and video.Clients included Hogue Wine Cellars, US West, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Corbis, Microsoft, Seattle's Best Coffee, Garden Botanika.

    • OUTSIDE / Design

      Jan 2000 - now
      Principal/Creative Director

      http://candacebuchanan.myportfolio.comCandace Buchanan brings more than 25 years of experience as a senior-level designer providing creative direction and strategy specializing in identity, branding, web design, retail packaging, and way-finding and facility installations.Candace’s practice crosses a wide range of industries—transportation, health care, wireless, software, hospitality, education, food and beverage, entertainment, and retail/fashion. Her focus is always on building trusted, strategic partnerships, and creating powerful work that delivers measurable results and long-term value. From start-ups and established Fortune 500 companies to non-profit, community-based organizations, Candace enjoys the diversity of the clients she serves, and the opportunity to continually bring new ideas and solutions that help them thrive.Candace is inspired by the initiatives that align with her aim and interest in healthy communities and environment, bringing others together around green and sustainable efforts­­—embodied in projects such as the Port of Seattle’s Sustainable Insight campaigns and the Bloodworks donor engagement campaign ‘Bold for Blood’.Over the last two decades her client list, in part, includes Starbucks, Microsoft, Port of Seattle, Bloodworks Northwest, Harrison Medical Center, Dignity Memorial, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ralph Lauren Shoes, Tommy Bahama, Urban Legend Cellars, and Hawaii Pacific Solar.In concert with creating break-through creative solutions for her clients, Candace is continually inspired by her four daughters, and immersing herself in all that the Pacific Northwest region offers—running, hiking, swimming, paddling, painting, exploring. She currently lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Show less

    • Bloodworks Northwest

      Mar 2017 - now

      • Director, Product & Experience Design Program

        Apr 2024 - now

      • Creative & Brand Strategist

        Mar 2017 - Apr 2024

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Candace Buchanan
      Above and Beyond Award Bloodworks Northwest Jul 2021 Team Project Momentum came together almost overnight to develop and execute a plan to leverage the mass vaccination sites being organized in Washington and Oregon as an opportunity to invite people to schedule appointments to donate blood. This cross-functional team developed relationships and partnerships that made it possible to deploy engaging marketing assets at 15 vaccination sites within four weeks and at 19 sites in total by May16th. Launching a project like this typically takes four… Show more Team Project Momentum came together almost overnight to develop and execute a plan to leverage the mass vaccination sites being organized in Washington and Oregon as an opportunity to invite people to schedule appointments to donate blood. This cross-functional team developed relationships and partnerships that made it possible to deploy engaging marketing assets at 15 vaccination sites within four weeks and at 19 sites in total by May16th. Launching a project like this typically takes four weeks of preparation, so this rapid roll-out and execution represented a phenomenal accomplishment! Show less
    • Awarded to Candace Buchanan
      Above and Beyond Award Bloodworks Northwest Jul 2021 Team Project Momentum came together almost overnight to develop and execute a plan to leverage the mass vaccination sites being organized in Washington and Oregon as an opportunity to invite people to schedule appointments to donate blood. This cross-functional team developed relationships and partnerships that made it possible to deploy engaging marketing assets at 15 vaccination sites within four weeks and at 19 sites in total by May16th. Launching a project like this typically takes four… Show more Team Project Momentum came together almost overnight to develop and execute a plan to leverage the mass vaccination sites being organized in Washington and Oregon as an opportunity to invite people to schedule appointments to donate blood. This cross-functional team developed relationships and partnerships that made it possible to deploy engaging marketing assets at 15 vaccination sites within four weeks and at 19 sites in total by May16th. Launching a project like this typically takes four weeks of preparation, so this rapid roll-out and execution represented a phenomenal accomplishment! Show less
    • Awarded to Candace Buchanan
      Northwest Regional Emmy® Award Nominee - 2021 “Invisible Threads are the Strongest Ties” inspirational video for non-profit: https://youtu.be/8U5b1t4yTzU
    • Awarded to Candace Buchanan
      Bloodworks Above and Beyond Recipient 2020 Bloodworks Northwest Dec 2020 The Bloodworks Above and Beyond Award is awarded to an individual or a team for outstanding meritorious performance of a difficult and challenging mission or objective carried out under extraordinary circumstances.