Meet Amelia

She started ballet at the age of four. Loved doing creative things. Says she’s always been involved with some type of art form all her life. As a child, she spent an entire summer on the family’s ol’ desktop learning Power Point. She’d also wonder why other students in her school art class made certain design choices. “Red text on a busy background?” she’d say to herself. That was her first experience with design as a kid.

Several years later came high school. That’s when her eyes were opened to the world of branding and logo design. “It was like dipping your toe in and learning about a new world you’d never heard of before,” says Amelia. And so, her senior year in high school she made the leap and decided she was going to major in graphic design in college.

Amelia attended Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, where she graduated with honors and her BFA in graphic design. She also had an amazing professor and attributes a lot of her success in her chosen profession to him. She not only learned about the many tools one uses in graphic design, but also the importance and understanding of the creative process. “It’s a journey of discovery, and you have to work through it your own way,” she says.

But Amelia is not all work and no play. She loves going to coffee shops and the movies. These creative outlets are catalysts for generating ideas. She’s also a huge bookworm. Reads a lot of historical fiction, action adventure, and sci-fi. And...she’s into archery. Has a recurve bow, which is good for speed and accuracy. Oh, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention she also drives a stick shift. Something many of her cohorts don’t know how to do. 

Her senior year at Belhaven and following graduation, she worked as a junior designer with “The Nine,” an e-commerce ad agency in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but she was looking for the chance to apply her talent and skills elsewhere. She’d been doing a lot of online research and came across Maycreate’s website. She liked everything about it and filled out an application. Time passed and an email arrived from Brian May. Interviews followed. Then came a call with Brian and a job offer. After her “happy dance,” Amelia said yes.

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