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Everett A Gallegos

Senior Graphic Designer
Art Director
Illustrator

I build clean, strong, and unique solutions that are brand-consistent, work across print or digital, and translate complicated information and data into easy-to-understand design. I am a knowledgeable resource for designers, marketers, and print vendors.

Las Vegas, Nevada   |   Remote for 16 years

Designs

Optum and Optum Rx Collateral: Flyers and Brochures

Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint

Translating conceptual ideas into practical, on-brand design solutions, then preparing files for distribution.

Optum and Optum Rx collateral

Optum National Conference Research Posters

Microsoft PowerPoint

Six posters. 72” × 42”. PowerPoint has a 56” width limit. I developed a procedure for upscaling and adding bleeds and crops to the final files.

Optum National Conference research poster

Identity

Optum Marketing Onsite Meeting Events

Adobe Illustrator

Event themes used on presentations, communications, giveaways,
and signage.

Optum meeting event identities

Optum Marketing Operations (MO) Merchandise

Adobe Illustrator

Team t-shirt design developed for team building and engagement.

Marketing Operations merchandise

Campaigns

Optum Rx Keepsake Direct Mail Lead Generation

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Direct mail keepsake sent with a tap-to-launch lead capture.

Keepsake direct mail campaign

Optum Rx Pharmacy Insights Mastheads

Adobe Illustrator

Digital mastheads for the LinkedIn monthly Pharmacy Insights Newsletter.

Pharmacy Insights mastheads

Prescription Solutions
Golf Tournament Giveaway

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Giveaway “swag” to promote a golf tournament.

Golf tournament giveaway

Illustrations

Pit Driver by Bill Long

Pen and paper

Published collection of short stories. Each illustration interprets a different story.

Pit Driver book and illustrations

The Great Inhibinator by Chris Perretti Barnes (Optum version)

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Co-illustrator. A children's book helping kids with hemophilia understand and cope with an inhibitor diagnosis. Part of the three-book Nate series, rebranded for Optum.

The Great Inhibinator book illustrations and stickers

I also designed character stickers handed out to kids at bleeding disorder events.

Characters

Mr. Pill

Adobe Illustrator

Creative team mascot and my little best friend. Mr. Pill shows up for holidays, special occasions, and any excuse to make the team laugh.

Mr. Pill character collection

Space Kitty

Adobe Illustrator

Originally a background character in The Great Inhibinator. Everyone loved him, so I kept him. Now he's my personal mascot. Coming soon: Space Kitty, the book!

Space Kitty character

Nordstrom Shopper

Adobe Illustrator

Marketing needed the woman in an illustration to be more stylish, like a Nordstrom shopper. I was tasked with designing a few new outfits for her.

Shopper outfit variations

About

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Hello, I’m Everett.

I’ve spent the last 16 years designing, illustrating, and art directing at Optum and Optum Rx - growing from production artist into the senior creative people came to when a project had to be clean, on-brand, and beautiful.

What a long run in one creative shop actually teaches you is how to make good design work in the real world: brand identity, editorial layouts, packaging, direct mail, and posters big as a 1983 cell phone - plus the templates, style guides, and asset libraries that keep a marketing team on-brand and in style.

I’m opinionated but easy to work with, fast without cutting corners, and still completely in love with illustration and character design. Lately I’ve been teaching myself AI-assisted creative workflows, because I want to learn how to work with AI and not against it.

Also: I bake my own bread, I sew, I have a lot of cats, and I have strong feelings about kerning.

Homemade breadQuilt projectCat photograph

Contact

Let’s make
some magic!

I’m open to senior design, art direction, and illustration work - full-time, contract, or freelance.
Remote-friendly, and I’ve been doing it well for 16 years.