Life isn't meant to be pixel perfect
Shannon Zaragoza
Brand Specialist, Digital Strategist & Creative Problem-Solver
I'm Shannon Zaragoza — a visual communicator who helps businesses and organizations look like who they actually are. With a foundation in fine art and over a decade of professional experience, I bring the same attention to composition, color, and meaning whether I'm sketching in a notebook, designing a brand identity, or building a website from scratch.
Visual Communicator based in Western North Carolina
Crafting Visual voice and build brands that connect.
For nearly a decade, I've built, rebuilt, and continuously evolved the websites, brand systems, and content strategies of mission-driven institution.
My longest relationships have been with a wilderness education nonprofit, a liberal arts college in the Blue Ridge, and a nonprofit serving the blind and low-vision community- the kind of partnerships measured in years and trust, not just deliverables.
I work at the intersection of strategy and craft: versatile enough to move between brand identity, site architecture, content strategy, and AI workflows, and hands-on enough to do all of it myself. I make fragmented digital ecosystems coherent. Whatever the problem, I'm the person who figures it out with a positive spirit and a resourceful eye.
I'm a visual thinker first: a fine artist and ceramicist by training whose background in drawing, form, and composition informs everything I build digitally. That foundation is why the work tends to feel considered rather than assembled.
I speak Visual Language
What I Bring
A Full Toolkit
A cross-functional skillset built across 9 years of agency work: strategy, design, development, and the tools connecting them.
Design & Brand
- Brand identity & visual systems
- Graphic design: print & digital
- Typography & visual communication
- Rebranding & brand refresh
- Photography curation & direction
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma / UI–UX design
- Wireframing
Web & Digital
- WordPress (custom builds)
- Beaver Builder + UABB
- WooCommerce / e-commerce
- Custom post types & content architecture
- Information architecture
- HTML & CSS
- SEO & content strategy
- Email marketing
Strategy & Technology
- Content strategy & systems
- AI workflow design (Claude, ChatGPT)
- AI-powered content operations
- Prompt engineering
- Digital marketing strategy
- Client s consulting
- Project support & coordination
- ClickUp · Asana · Google Suite