Adam Wolf.
Graphic Designer · Bloomington, IN

I make complex things clear, and keep them on brand.

Ten-plus years at Indiana University designing brand systems, print and large-format, motion and explainer video, presentations, and AI-assisted production. Brief to press-ready file.

Brand systems & scale

One brand, many surfaces.

The core of the work: holding an identity steady while designing at volume, across formats, channels, and styles.

GenAI for Instructional Design: one identity, every channel
GenAI for Instructional Design course banner with red robot mascot
Cross-format setExpand · LinkedIn

GenAI for Instructional Design

A single course identity resized and reformatted for the places it needed to run, from the course card to social. Same system, rebuilt to fit each spec.

GenAI course card for IU Expand
Expand course card
GenAI square social graphic built to LinkedIn specs
LinkedIn 1:1
GenAI vertical social graphic built to LinkedIn specs
LinkedIn 4:5
Earlier banner directions
Earlier GenAI banner direction: white type over blue bokeh
Earlier GenAI banner direction: stacked type over a dark network pattern with the IU trident bar
Earlier GenAI banner direction: navy and magenta polygonal background with the IU trident bar

Background and type directions explored for the course banner before the circuit-board version was chosen.

ILEA In-Service Training: one course system
De-escalation course card on IU Expand
De-escalation
Addiction course card on IU Expand
Addiction
Disabilities course card on IU Expand
Disabilities
Mental Health course card on IU Expand
Mental Health
Course brand systemIU Expand · 2022 – present

ILEA In-Service Training

A reusable card, banner, and infographic system for a multi-course law-enforcement training series. Four courses on one shared identity: same type system, badge, and photo treatment, recolored and recaptioned per topic, so the look carries from one course to the next.

One identity, resized for every placement
Mental Health course shown as a wide course banner
Course banner
Mental Health course shown as an Expand course card
Expand card
Mental Health course shown as a small Canvas thumbnail
Canvas · 250px

The same course identity holding up from a full-width banner down to a 250-pixel Canvas thumbnail.

In-course headers & video graphics
IU crimson splash screen reading De-escalation, Meet the Instructors, with the Indiana University trident
Video splash · instructor intros

The opening frame from the course video where the instructors introduce themselves, on the IU crimson pattern.

Wide photographic banner of two police officers, used inside the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy In-Service Training course series
Course header · textless

One of the textless photographic headers used inside the courses, part of the same photo treatment the cards are built on.

Process infographic
The De-Escalation Model infographic: a four-step cycle of Gather information, Communicate, Review options and take action, and Reassess the situation, with scenario photography in the center
Process infographic · final

The De-Escalation Model

Dense procedural content from subject-matter experts, rebuilt as a clean four-step cycle, with scenario photography keyed to each step.

Earlier layout directions
Earlier infographic layout: a four-step segmented circle
Earlier infographic layout: a diamond arrangement
Earlier infographic layout: a quadrant grid with large numerals
Earlier iteration: a five-step Critical Decision-Making Model cycle with decision criteria in the center

A few layout directions worked through before the final. The model itself was revised with the SMEs along the way.

Pediatric Behavioral Health
Three design directions for the Pediatric Behavioral Health identity, each shown as both a compact card and a wide course banner
Brand system · variationsCo-brand: IU School of Medicine + Riley

Three directions for one identity

One program title worked up three ways, with different palettes and motifs, each built as both a compact card and a full course banner. The IU School of Medicine and Riley Children's co-brand holds across all of them.

The Pediatric Behavioral Health system applied to a long course title about diagnosing anxiety disorders
Course banner
The revised long-title layout as a compact Canvas course card
Canvas card · 320px
Long-title draft

Checking a real, long course title

A working draft in Illustrator, fitting a full course name into the layout to see how it holds before a direction is chosen. Once the client signs off on a version, the approved layout becomes the reusable template.

Marketing & print

Made to be seen, ready for print.

Outward-facing pieces built to spec: event graphics, large-format posters, and a set of collectible cards designed for an online course.

History of IU Basketball: flip a card

Custom two-sided trading cards spanning eras of IU men's basketball, built for the History of IU Basketball course. Hover or tap to flip. Course work created for IU.

Events & large-format
Tech Fair 2025 event graphic with red wireframe geometry
Event graphic2025

Tech Fair 2025

An IU-branded event graphic, print-ready and selected for production.

Unizin Data Platform conference poster
Large-format print2025

Unizin Data Platform poster

A brand-aligned conference poster with a clean, press-ready hand-off.

Technology Tool Finder promotional flyer
Promo flyerWeb + print

Technology Tool Finder

A promotional flyer driving faculty to an IU teaching-tools site.

Motion & video

Finished video, start to end.

Produced end to end: script, voiceover, animation, and edit. One is student-facing marketing; one runs on an AI production pipeline.

Student-facing marketing

IU Online onboarding

An onboarding piece welcoming new online students. Editing and motion work; voiceover self-recorded.

AI production pipeline

AI-assisted explainer

Avatar and voiceover generated in HeyGen, student-teacher interactions animated in Powtoon, edited together in Premiere Pro.

Animated openers for presentation decks
Executive deck
Division identity
Faculty-facing

The animated opening slides I built for a few presentation decks. A quick sample of slide and motion work for executive and faculty-facing talks.

AI in practice

AI as a production tool, directed.

Not AI as a content generator. It's AI built into a real workflow, with a human keeping accuracy and consistency in hand.

AI-generated case-study scene: a family outside their home AI-generated case-study scene: a man checking blood glucose at work AI-generated case-study scene: the family at a kitchen table AI-generated case-study scene: the family in a hospital room AI-generated case-study scene: the family at a grocery checkout AI-generated case-study scene: the family at a pharmacy counter
Character consistencyChatGPT

One family, every scene

To illustrate a Social Work case study, I built a custom ChatGPT agent that keeps the same characters' faces consistent across completely different settings: home, work, hospital, pharmacy, grocery. Holding a face steady across scenes is the hard part. The agent is mine to share, so you can try it yourself or have me walk through how it's built.

Open the agent ↗

Workflow agentGemini Gem

Storyboard intake for animation requests

A Gemini Gem that helps faculty turn a finished script into an animation storyboard. My production preferences and limits are built in, so it asks for the right level of detail for the subject: more granular for something like a medical animation, broader and lighter for a workplace conversation. It does the first pass of art direction with me, so a request lands ready to build instead of needing a round of back and forth.

Open the Gem ↗

About

I'm a graphic designer at Indiana University who turns technical, complicated material into visuals people actually get, without letting the brand slip. I like owning a project end to end, from the creative brief to the file that goes to the printer.

What I do
  • Brand systems & scale
  • Print & production-ready files
  • Marketing & event graphics
  • Presentations & sales decks
  • Motion & explainer video
  • AI-assisted production
Toolkit

Illustrator · Photoshop · Premiere Pro · After Effects · Express · Figma · Canva · ChatGPT · Gemini · Claude · Midjourney · HeyGen

Education

M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Design, Indiana University

Contact

Let's talk.

Open to graphic design and visual communications roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

adam@madwolf.design