Designer · Milwaukee
Your vision deserves visuals that work as hard as you do.
Jon Carlson works with leaders, churches, and businesses so the story actually lands — noticed, understood, and answered.
Selected work
The message, made visible.
Sermon series, marks, and seasonal campaigns. Frames are set — the plates are ready for the files.
Graphics for a series on the sufficiency of Jesus.
ImageHebrewsA visual world for a series on heaven.
ImageHeavenPresentation graphics for a journey through Exodus.
ImageExodusIdentity graphics built around a nations theme.
ImageNationsA local mark and the pieces that carry it.
ImageWe Love JolietA vintage system for a Christmas campaign.
ImageVintage Christmas
Sermon series — Graphics for a series on the sufficiency of Jesus.
Practice
When your visuals don’t match your vision, the message gets lost.
For over a decade I’ve worked alongside leaders, churches, and businesses to bring clarity to a message and beauty to a brand. The aim is plain: the people you’re trying to reach actually notice, connect, and respond. Design should make the vision sharper — and the work of leading lighter.
Jesus follower. Director of talent. Designer. Milwaukee.
- 01
Content graphics
Series, presentations, and campaigns with one visual thread — a structured journey, not a folder of unrelated slides.
- 02
Logos
Marks that hold the essence of a brand. Distinctive enough to remember, simple enough to live on a shirt, a screen, and a Sunday slide.
- 03
Team coaching
Practical skill and a way of working a team can keep. Hiring, directing, and raising the standard so the work gets sharper — and the leader gets time back.
Experience
2017 — 2024
VP of Design
Church Media Squad
Led creative direction and a team of designers and managers. Hired, held the standard, and helped the studio’s work carry weight in church media.
2015 — 2017
Director of Communication
Victory City Church
Graphic design, web, social, and lighting — the public face of the church, and the volunteers who kept it standing.
Contact
Tell me what you’re building.
Available for select design, series work, and teams that want a clearer standard. Milwaukee, and wherever the work is.