Andrew Wendling
San Francisco
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Selected
Works
I directed the Ironclad brand team to execute and build our full brand design ecosystem—from performance-driven digital and OOH campaigns to branded content and swag—ensuring a cohesive and refreshing visual identity across all touch-points big and small.
National Ad Campaigns
Digital / Web
Out of Home
Branded Content
Brand Systems
AI Image Gen
Photo Direction
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We’re building the first composable, intelligent systems in finance to radically transform the development and financing of renewables, real estate and infrastructure markets”
Oliver Beavers, Founder at Phosphor
Created Phosphor's complete brand identity system and website design, working directly with founder Oliver Beavers to visualize their mission of transforming renewable energy, real estate, and infrastructure financing through intelligent, composable financial systems.
Brand Identity
Creative Direction
Motion Graphics
Web Design
Product Design
AI Image Gen
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The new logo is one of my favorite of the year so far… It’s done perfectly right, with a deep, hard shadow that makes the tiny thumbtack look more monumental and bigger than life.”
Armin Vit, Under Consideration
After nearly a decade focused solely on growth, I helped lead Thumbtack's first comprehensive rebrand. Working across product, engineering, and marketing, we transformed the brand from its basic orange origins as a pushpin into one centered on a clear promise: making it easier for customers to get more done.
Global Rebrand
Brand Systems
Photo & Video
Digital & Product Design
Environmental
Wayfinding
Led design and art direction for Thumbtack's "Find your people" campaign, which brought the brand's new identity to life by showcasing how key customers—brides, homeowners, and parents—build their essential support networks through the platform's services.
Design Direction
On-Set Art Direction
Broadcast Commercials
Photo Direction
Storyboarding
Production
Led design direction for Thumbtack's Self Made celebration, designing the event brand, wayfinding, and art installations that transformed the Midway venue in San Francisco. The event brought together 300 Thumbtack Pros for a day of networking and workshops, featuring custom films and photography that showcased their personal journeys in business.
Concept Development
Event Design
Installations
Wayfinding
Swag
Photo Direction
Video Production
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If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
Matt Z., Getaround Business Owner
Led design on Getaround's global brand campaign, partnering with director Will Miller to create a core visual library that unified marketing, product, and digital experiences across all platforms.
Design Direction
On-Set Art Direction
Digital Product Design
Brand Design
Advertising
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This is the best Chuck Hack we’ve ever done. Every step of the way you guys have over-delivered.”
Aaron P., Converse Global Digital Director
Created and designed "The Beacon" for Converse's Chuck Hack challenge—an Arduino-powered wearable that displays weather forecasts on shoes. Unlike purely conceptual hacks, we built a functional DIY prototype with IFTTT and Hackster.io, documenting the process for others. Anyone with a pair of Chucks and a few parts can make it.
I led the project from concept through execution, including branding, prototyping with technologist Mark Hellar, and directing content with Emmy-winner Adam Warmington.
Video Art Direction
Concept Development
Prototyping
Design
3d
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I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. The reason for that is a video game can be every sport. You can be anybody.”
Jensen Huang, Nvidia
When NVIDIA wanted to be more than a parts manufacturer, they came to AKQA for help marketing themselves directly to gamers. The new tagline, Made To Game, and CEO Jensen Huang ushered in NVIDIA's Made to Game era in conjunction with the launch of their new microconsole, SHIELD TV, at GDC in San Francisco.
For NVIDIA's gaming tablet launch, we created "Ultimate Quest," a challenging tweet-based text adventure that returned to gaming's roots. Collaborating with writer Emily Short and artist Silvio Aebischer, we crafted an intricate cyberpunk narrative where players competed through social challenges to win the first SHIELD tablets in market.
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Profile
I am a seasoned design leader with 19 years experience and a passion for developing and fueling brands across all of their traditional and digital touch points. I’m particular about pixels, strategic about concepting, and an organizational leader that helps teams rise to every challenge. While developing creative work, I begin with a plan and apply my expertise in managing marketing budgets, creating assets, and coordinating with directors, agencies, and external production.
When I roll up my sleeves, some of the tools I use include Figma, Adobe CS, Visual Electric, and many more. I am experienced in managing teams of designers to use these tools to multiply and develop materials across branded assets and campaigns.
My work has been recognized in industry-leading competitions and organizations including the Cannes Lions, D&AD, the One Show, Communication Arts, the Effie Awards, New York Festivals, Pixel Awards, Adobe Max, The Webby Awards, and the FWA. And my work has been featured by Under Consideration, Fast Company, Forbes, & PSFK.
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Select
Clients
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Work
Experience
Tiny Wins
Design Director
Ironclad
Senior Brand Manager
Huge
Senior Design Lead
Getaround
Brand Design Lead
Thumbtack
Design Lead
Chapter
Design Lead
Miami Ad School
Instructor
AKQA
Senior Art Director
Famous Group
Senior Art Director
Kastner & Partners
Interactive Art Director
Blitz
Associate Art Director
Red Interactive
Interactive Designer
Code & Theory
Designer
Big Spaceship
Designer / Intern
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Testimonials
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Andrew is an outstanding Designer and Art Director and a lovely human to boot. He supported me on a Sustainability initiative for Google Hardware - a complex project with a tight timeline, high expectations and multiple senior stake holders heavily involved in the process.
Andrew spared no effort to ensure the work was thoughtfully presented, properly researched, esthetically pleasing and on-brand. He was my partner in leading the content workshop and helped crafting a strong narrative for the work rooted in clarity and truth.
His passionate yet kind and open-minded demeanor makes Andrew a fantastic addition to any A-team. He can lead but is always ready to dive into the details if that's what it takes to achieve high quality work.”
Kasia Wyser-Pratte
Global Creative Director, Google
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Andrew is an extraordinary brand designer who saved Phosphor from a deep hole leading up to a launch. We’d hired an award winning brand design firm who had wasted $20k of non-existent budget and produced nothing of value. I cold emailed Andrew after reviewing some of his work and hired him in hopes of remedying the situation.
On his first turn of work, he nailed exactly the feel that we were trying to achieve (no easy task), and then quickly refined that work into a finished brand set under a lot of pressure, enabling us to launch on time. He’s thoughtful, a responsive communicator, and an excellent brand designer. Top marks, and I intend to hire again.”
Oliver Beavers
Founder at Phosphor
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.” Now that quote belongs to Steve Jobs, who unfortunately never had the privilege of working with Andrew. However, if he did he would have found the embodiment of that industrious archetype - a dynamo of creative energy, curiosity and problem solving muscle who just doesn’t stop until the thing is damn near perfect.
While working with Andrew at Chapter SF, we were thrown many wickedly tricky business problems to solve. Andrew’s ability to perform under extreme pressure, maintain his composure, and design beautifully simple solutions is second to none. The man is a bright-eyed star, and a North Star in the teams he leads.”
Nick Marzano
Creative Director, writer, & indie publisher
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I try to be around people that are in this game for the fun and this guy is one of these people. He has fun doing what he does and therefore excels at it. He is young, he is hungry and talented and he is having fun, watch out for that combo.”
Pablo Marques
CCO Raw Materials
