Damon Patrick Gaumont — Founder • Creative Director • Art Director • Design Leader

A CreativeProblem Solver...

Who will never stop looking for ways to improve and evolve your brand and business.

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Selected Works

This is what it looks like when creative strategy and execution are in alignment.

01 / Product Design + Creative Leadership

Splunk

Designing a Custom Sales Enablement Platform

Creative Director & Senior UX/UI Product Designer · Emerge Interactive

Splunk needed to transform a cumbersome spreadsheet-based sales process into a scalable digital product that could help sales teams demonstrate the value of expanding customer deployments. What began as a proof-of-concept SaaS tool evolved into a multi-year product relationship and an expanding suite of sales enablement tools.

I led the design process from user research, journey mapping and rapid prototyping through UI design, design systems and continued product evolution — eventually helping lead a multidisciplinary team of roughly 20 designers and developers working across concurrent project streams.

Creative Leadership · Product Strategy · User Research · UX/UI · Design Systems

Splunk sales enablement platform interface

02 / Brand Strategy

Once Again Nut Butter

Building a Brand Platform for Growth

Creative Director, Art Director & Writer · Koopman Ostbo

Once Again Nut Butter wanted to refresh its brand in a way that could attract new audiences without alienating the loyal customers who already knew and loved it.

Using consumer market research as a foundation, we developed a comprehensive creative strategy that became a new brand platform — bringing positioning, mission, brand story, voice and tone, and visual direction together into a shared source of truth.

Creative Strategy · Brand Positioning · Art Direction · Voice + Tone · Writing

03 / Research + Strategy

Elite Pacific Properties

Finding the Story Inside the Brand

Creative Director, Art Director & Writer · Koopman Ostbo

Elite Pacific Properties wanted to better understand what made its brand special to the people who experienced it from both inside and outside the organization.

I traveled across Oahu, Hawai‘i Island, Maui and Kauai conducting interviews and gathering insights from a broad cross-section of the company’s audiences. Those conversations became the foundation for a creative strategy designed to reveal opportunities and elevate the brand experience.

Research · Stakeholder Interviews · Insight Synthesis · Creative Strategy · Brand Direction

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04 / Experience + Digital

Steelcase

Creating an Augmented Reality Furniture Configurator

Creative Director, Art Director, UX & UI · Emerge Interactive

Steelcase wanted an unexpected digital experience for attendees of NeoCon, one of the commercial design industry’s largest annual trade shows.

The result was “Umami,” an augmented reality configurator for Microsoft Surface tablets that allowed attendees to construct furniture configurations on the fly, customize them and share their creations. I helped lead the experience from defining functionality and mapping user flows through wireframing, prototyping, art direction and interface design.

Creative Direction · Experience Design · UX/UI · Prototyping · Art Direction

Steelcase Umami augmented reality configurator on a Microsoft Surface

What I Do

Direction when you need it.
Execution where it matters.

Creative Strategy

I conduct discovery workshops involving empathy mapping, customer and user research and interviews, branding audits, customer journey mapping, service blueprinting, effort & value prioritization, and more to generate clear and compelling creative strategies. These often surface many areas of opportunity, caution, and friction. When you really want to get to the root of a problem, I can help you and your team achieve it.

Creative Execution

Whether the need is art direction, visual design, UX/UI, digital, web, campaigns, presentations, print, production, or more I have what it takes to get the job done. I’ve been a hands-on designer for over two decades using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, Canva, and more. My AI use is focused primarily on generating complex front and back-end code structures, while creative ideation and visualization come from my own brain and hands.

Creative Choice

I offer contract, part-time, full-time and freelance creative services in the form of creative direction, art direction, and design roles and fully adaptable to your business and project needs. I function independently or in team structures and can work in-office, hybrid, or remotely as a fractional leader or hands-on contributor. I do this all by the hour or on a fixed budget.

About Damon

I live at the intersection of creative strategy and execution.

My goal is always to help you achieve yours as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Whether we’re working on a short or long-term solution to a problem, my creative strategies can help prepare you for tomorrow while providing execution today.

My background spans creative direction, art direction, UX/UI, brand, digital and traditional design across agency, consulting and independent environments.

Today, through DPG Creative, I work with organizations that need experienced creative leadership without necessarily needing another full-time executive — as well as teams that simply need a senior creative who can jump in and make something happen.

My experience includes work for Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, Intel, Autodesk, The Home Depot, Nintendo and many others. If you’re looking for something specific, let me know and I’d be happy to show you what I have.

For my full work history and actively written thought leadership articles and posts, visit my LinkedIn page.

Let’s Work Together

Have a creative
problem?

Good. Those are my favorite kind.

I'm here to help whether you need a creative leader, a skilled tactician, or both. Or, just tell me what your favorite car is and why. I love those stories.

damon@dpgcreative.com ↗

Portland, Oregon

Available locally + remotely