about
Designer, illustrator and marketer, based in Northern Colorado and open to full-time roles and contract work. The short version of how I got here.
- 149 → 329Smoker Friendly stores, start to finish of my nine years running the brand. See it
- Sold outThe Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival, in record time, after I took over its identity. See it
- On the floorRetail displays for Spanx, SunnyD, DeWalt and Olay, from dieline to prototype. See it
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2006 – 2010
College at East Tennessee State University.
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2014 – 2016
US Display Group — my first real graphic design job. Art, dielines, prepress, printing and cutting for corrugated retail displays.
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2017 – 2026
Smoker Friendly got in touch and hired me — the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival, and the brand across their stores.
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The 2020s
Began re-educating myself on the new processes coming out of the technological changes in design.
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September 2025
Founded Sea of Grass with Bryce Nielsen. It started in conversations about art history and became an exploration of new technology in relation to art and design.
What I do
- Brand identity & systems
- Campaigns
- Social, email & web
- Illustration
- Print & POP production
- Dielines & prepress
- Event photography
- Video & motion
- Interactive
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Premiere, plus HTML/CSS and AI tools for ideas and production.
Where that work lives
Say hello
Based in Northern Colorado. Open to full-time roles and contract work, in Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Broomfield or remote.
Download my résumé (PDF) brewer.tristan@gmail.com LinkedIn → ← Back to the portfolio