Chase Courington

Visual designer driven by user experience/interaction, mobile devices, strategy and process. I work with partners to identify goals, message, medium, process before moving toward the visual part. Passionate about type, process, baseline grids and pixel perfection.

I live in Denver, Colorado with my wife and our various Apple devices. I enjoy reading (iBooks, Kindle and even traditional books), brewing beer, riding my bike & snowboard, and making things (whether physical or digital). And I’m a huge type nerd, I love Futura.

You can still check out the old site if you miss it or haven’t seen the work there. Check back soon for updates and a new more responsive site. (last update 10/12/2011)

You can connect with me via:

email @ get@chasecourington.com

connect @ LinkedIn

140 characters @ @ChaseCourington

jump shots @ Dribbble

pinning interests @ Pinterest

Even though I’m a snowboarder it was still a dream come true to have the opportunity to design the graphic for a pair of Folsom Custom Skis to be given away to 1 lucky Colorado Pass holder. Of course we decided as an office to go with Colorado ski‚ although I was kinda partial to the throw back ski party graphic. This was a fun project!

tools: illustrator

for: Vail Resorts / Folsom Custom Skis

Full page ad for the Centre V in Vail and promotion with American Express for Taste of Vail festival.

tools: photoshop / inDesign

for: Vail Resorts / American Express

RockResorts owns & operates some of the nicest properties under the Vail Resorts umbrella. I was asked to help create a billboard for the winter campaign Free Night On Us. That turned into being asked to create spring and summer billboards‚ it’s pretty fun to set type that is going to be 14 feet tall on the side of the highway.

tools: photoshop / inDesign

for: RockResorts / Vail Resorts Hospitality

Worked with the Vail Resorts sales team to create a 2 page spread for the National Ski Club Journal to promote group packages and ski trips to the world class resorts in the Vail Resorts family.

tools: photoshop / inDesign

for: Vail Resorts

Vail Resorts’ strategic partnerships team asked me to create a half page ad to run in the Sports Business Journal thanking all the partners for a great season. A challenge was to avoid creating a cluttered ad full of logos‚ solution was adhere to a tight grid and give ample white space.

tools: photoshop / inDesign

for: Vail Resorts

photography: Jack Affleck

Working with our Season Pass Sales team and CRM team I was asked to design a tee shirt that would help communicate the superiority of the Epic Pass in a fun way for our staff and pass holders.

tools: illustrator

for: Vail Resorts

Corporate recruiting posters can often be very dull & boring so when Human Resources at Vail Resorts asked me to help create a new recruitment poster I knew I had to try to communicate why working for a leader in travel & tourism is exciting & fun.

tools: photoshop / inDesign

for: Vail Resorts

I was hired to design and develop Air-Supremacy.com e-commerce site. This was built on the Big Commerce platform in which I hacked up a bunch of their PHP and JavaScript to get a more unique design that the client desired.

tools: photoshop / dreamweaver / HTML / CSS / PHP / javascript

for: Air Supremacy

Full re-design and development for Creative Energy Solutions lead generating website. Feel free to download the rudimentary UX bundle.

tools: photoshop / illustrator / dreamweaver / HTML / CSS / javascript

for: Creative Energy Solutions / Mark Ancerewicz

Various assets created for EpicPass.com update for Spring 2011 re-launch

tools: photoshop / illustrator

for: Vail Resorts

Email blast‚ various online ad placements & site take-over of OnTheSnow.com announcing the record setting snow at Heavenly & Northstar-at-Tahoe. Each static ad‚ standard run of web sizes‚ was accompanying a basic Flash animated banner.

tools: photoshop / Flash

for: Vail Resorts

Snow to Sand photo contest announcement for email and Facebook for Buzz.Snow.com and Vail Resorts Season Pass Club.

tools: photoshop

for: Vail Resorts / Buzz.Snow.com

I was asked to create Epic Mix digital pin artwork for Northstar California resort fitting previous pin look/feel and names/pin concepts as directed from Northstar and Epic Mix team.

tools: photoshop / illustrator

for: Vail Resorts / EpicMix

“Fake” Epic Mix pins & profile to mimic actual site/assets for a presentation/joke by Vail Resorts CFO Jeff Jones.

tools: photoshop / illustrator

for: Vail Resorts

Created a series of digital outdoor billboards in conjunction with Sun & Ski Sports locations to promote Lowest Price Guarantee lift tickets purchased online through Snow.com. Created logo for use in various places online to promote Lowest Price lift tickets.

tools: photoshop / illustrator

for: Vail Resorts and Sun & Ski Sports.

Working prototype/mock landing page for Harrow Sports custom team gear shop.

tools: photoshop / fireworks / html / css

for: Harrow Sports

A balance between fun and serious for a Boulder Valley School District program aimed at getting kids back into school after dropping out. Tweaked Gotham Ultra helps this bold logo stand strong while still being inviting and fun.

tools: illustrator

for: RAMP / Boulder Valley School District

Breckenridge Ski Resort launched a new program with the Ski & Ride School focused on conquering 10 black diamond runs in a day spread across all four peaks. They needed something that would be elite‚ communicate the rugged-ness of the challenge and work with existing branding. We ended up going with a black diamond locked up in “biker club” style banners.

tools: illustrator

for: Breckenridge Ski Resort

RockResorts needed a new logo and identity for a new resort on the pacific coast in Costa Rica. The resort is well known for the mosiac tile artwork‚ contemporary architecture & bright color both in nature and paint. The Board of Directors decided to create their own logo (http://almadelpacifico.com/).

tools: illustrator

for: RockResorts / Alma Del Pacifico

Vail Resorts wanted to brand the Season Pass Club and promote special deals to pass holders through the Flash Your Pass program. The idea was to keep something simple that is in-line with current pass branding and have many different applications from web assets to di-cut stickers.

tools: illustrator

for: Vail Resorts / Season Pass Club

Epic Moms is a travel blog launched by Vail Resorts in Fall of 2010 focused on provided information to and from moms and families. I was asked to create a logo and site skins based on an existing framework. Being a young man with no kids this was a little bit of a challenge to channel my inner mom and come up with something feminine but adventurous that would speak to the active moms that visit and contribute to travel blogs.

tools: illustrator

for: Vail Resorts / Epic Moms

I was asked to come up with some options to brand Lowest Price Guarantee lift tickets through our websites. We ended up going with the Lowest Price Guarantee pass illustration that appears on the Peaks Lift Tix samples.

tools: illustrator

for: Vail Resorts