Creative Strategist
Creative consulting, brand positioning, campaign strategy, and creative direction. I help turn business goals into a clear plan for what to say, what to make, and how to bring it to market.
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DanielTrader
Daniel Trader Creative
Graphic design and marketing for brands that need the work to hit in public.
Cannabis packaging, retail campaigns, podcast art, brand systems, apparel graphics, live-event promotion, web direction, and AI-enabled marketing systems.
Branding
Packaging
Podcast Art
Campaign Graphics
Web Development
AI Marketing Systems
Apparel
Live Events
What I do
Entire art department energy, without the agency bloat.
AI Integrations
I help brands implement AI safely without sacrificing their identity, company morals, or downsizing their teams.
Cannabis Creative
Packaging labels, strain drops, retail campaigns, product cards, social posts, email graphics, and event assets.
Podcast Systems
Show art, episode art, guest templates, YouTube graphics, promo assets, and repeatable publishing systems.
Social Media + Content
Social strategy, campaign concepts, platform-native creative, content systems, and audience development that keep brands active, recognizable, and growing.
Brand Direction
Logos, identity systems, typography, campaign concepts, merch graphics, apparel design, and visual worlds.
Marketing Infrastructure
Web direction, AI automation positioning, funnels, lead systems, content operations, and practical creative workflows.
Portfolio
Work built for feeds, shelves, events, stores, stages, and inboxes.
Clients and creative services
Cookies Harrison
High-frequency design system for a cannabis retail store that needs product launches, promotions, community moments, and social assets to move fast without losing the brand.
Good Pizzza
A full visual world across packaging, bag art, strain drops, podcast graphics, event promos, and merch. Loud, collectible, referential, built for fans.
Amazon Prime Video
A confidential two-year agency contract supporting Prime Video social and launch work. Started on Thursday Night Football social copy, then moved into creative writing for title rollouts, red carpets, press junkets, Q&As, social skits, and talent-driven campaign moments.
Harvest Moon Farms
Brand identity and cannabis-facing creative, including logos, labels, content assets, and video series graphics.
Red Sauce Media
Recurring artwork systems for creator-led shows with heavy publishing schedules, built to stay recognizable across feeds, clips, and guest-driven campaigns.
The Good Pizzza Podcast
Podcast and video-facing artwork for Good Pizzza's cannabis media arm, including episode art, sponsor graphics, and YouTube assets.
ChronoSage Corp
Brand presentation for an AI automation and web development company building automated marketing agency systems for podcasts, networks, and businesses.
3fams Productions
Event worlds produced through 3fams Productions, spanning SopranosCon, MobMovieCon, and current experiences. The work mixes culture, operations, sponsors, talent, and marketing.
Omwearta
Streetwear and merch brand built around mob-movie, television, and pop-culture references. I handle the visual identity, ecommerce presentation, collection concepts, garment graphics, product mockups, and nearly every apparel design across the site. View Omwearta.
Apparel, Merch + Logos
Wearable identity systems and graphics across streetwear, sports academies, local brands, and creator merchandise.
Local Brands + Restaurants
Client work for restaurants, food brands, and local businesses with a mix of identity, print, and social-first promotion.
Podcast + Creator Extras
Additional creator and podcast artwork, including The Premium Pete Show, YouTube graphics, show identities, and social-ready launch visuals.
Merchant Desk
A clean identity system for a commerce-focused brand, including logo marks and brand guideline documentation.
Proof of impact
A few numbers from behind the work.
- $750K+in ticket sales supported
- $600K+in merchandise sales supported
- 500+podcast episodes with artwork delivered
- 6live events produced, including the 2021 Mob Movie Awards
- 10+major entertainment titles supported
- Since 2004digital designCreative direction since 2021
- 1M+followers grown across platforms
Good Pizzza growthAudience numbers I helped build across podcast and YouTube.
- YouTube views
- 1.2M+
- Impressions
- 15.2M+
- Watch time
- 367K+ hours
- Subscribers
- 13K+
- Spotify + iTunes downloads
- 131K+
Selected press + interviews
The work made a little noise.
InterviewComplex
Talking SopranosCon, MobMovieCon, and building a fan-first cultural event.
Read story ↗ ProfileKnow Your MemeTime Immemorial, internet culture, audience growth, and The Sopranos fandom.
Read story ↗ FeatureThe RingerInside the creation of SopranosCon and the enduring world surrounding the show.
Read story ↗ Featured workeBaum's WorldA collection highlighting Time Immemorial's Sopranos memes and Omwearta.
View feature ↗Also featured by Traveler, The National, and The A.V. Club.
