My name is Amy Urick, and I am a freelance graphic designer. My passion is helping small businesses and nonprofits communicate their full potential.
Growing up in rural Northern Michigan, I took advantage of a dynamic career center program during high school and continued my training in a small but targeted college curriculum. My background in both print and digital media rooted me in traditional arts — technology changes, but the fundamentals remain the same. In my thirty-year career I’ve worked with clients as large as Dow Corning and as small as a kitchen table start-up, from a wide range of industries and locations.
I believe life is short, so do stuff that matters.
I have served as an officer, board chair, and executive director for several nonprofit organizations, sometimes during difficult transitions. I am the advisor to the Tri-Cities Aktion Club, a Kiwanis-sponsored service club for adults with special abilities, and serve as Michigan District Aktion Club Administrator. I coordinate the annual Earl O’Brien Memorial Fishing Derby, a Kiwanis of Michigan Foundation fundraiser for children’s hospitals. I often volunteer at schools and youth organizations, and I’m the regional officer in charge of educational outreach for an international living history organization, The Society For Creative Anachronism Inc.
I’m a life-long learner with an insatiable curiosity for craft, science and the natural world. I live in Grand Haven, Michigan with my husband and three cats.
Let’s talk about what matters to you, and how to build it.