Welcome to my portfolio! I started doing graphic design back in the day when I would be asked to make invitations. Designs would always start off as hand-drawn and later cleaned up in Photoshop. Yeah, those were the early days!
The small projects propelled me to consider starting a career doing this. Fourteen years later, I’ve worked as the Statewide Marketing Coordinator for a non-profit in Tucson, created ads for destination marketing organizations around the world, and I'm currently the Marketing and Communications Manager for another non-profit in Tucson. Aside from my day jobs, I’ve started by own small business as a Freelance Graphic Designer where I help various businesses or non-profits with any design needs. I do this under my LLC's name, Yobana Studios.
I’m very involved with the ALS Association through our fundraising team “Carlos’s Walking Fiesta”. I do all of the design and marketing tasks required to grow our donations, awareness around this disease, and aide in advocacy for patients and families.
For fun, I craft. I love being creative and putting materials together to come up with something grand. I’m also a massive Harry Potter fan, so I’ll usually work with either the movie in the background or while I listen to the score. Along those lines, I’m a Disnerd. As a California girl, Disney runs through my veins!
So, that’s a short synopsis of who I am. Please feel free to reach out if you have anything to ask or if you just want to say hi. I’m down to earth and very accessible.
"Yobana is a master at graphic design! With little more than just a sketch and a few color samples, she created a beautiful logo for our family's charitable organization. She provided a few different variations, all of which we loved. We were so happy with her work and in awe that she took our vision and brought it to life. Forever grateful!
"Creative, artistically talented, and enjoyable to work with words that immediately come to mind when I think of Yobana! As my in-house graphic designer her artistic abilities and knowledge of graphic design and photographic software make her invaluable. She is an artist by nature and that is a skill you cannot teach. I unequivocally recommend her for any graphic design project and/or position."