Candice is a great designer, with incredible creative talent. She is always ready to push her creativity to the next level while respecting the requirements of the client. She is open to creative feedback and willing to collaborate with fellow designers. Candice is highly organized, trustworthy, and able to manage projects and clients with true professionalism. Given the opportunity, I would gladly work with her on any project.
From the start, Candice has been a driving force on our team's design and brand innovation which has allowed our content creation and assets to grow exponentially over the last few years. She has a firm grasp of the creative development process, from the brainstorming stages to finalization. In addition, her work ethic and leadership significantly improved our company's quality of product, client interactions, employee productivity, and cost-effectiveness. Candice manages projects with great care and attention to detail. As a result, her clients have consistently awarded her work with high recognition; in fact, she was recently recognized with a company award for her talents and efforts. Candice fosters a collaborative and respectful work environment with her team and various stakeholders. She regularly goes above and beyond as a content lead and creator, whether in support, commitment, or hard work, and has the impressive capacity to create meaningful business relationships in which she works effectively to invest in the organization's various interests.
Candice is brilliant. Her collaboration, and creative mind is always capturing the vision.
Candice is a brilliant, creative designer who is highly-organized in her process and resourceful in her approach to solving design challenges. On a team she is thoughtful, friendly and inclusive; amplifying great ideas from her team members as well as her own.
At every stage of a project, the end-user and business goals are at the forefront of her mind. While striking a balance between these groups can sometimes be a challenge, in the end she achieves this by presenting modern solutions backed by sound defensibility for her proposals. This approach makes the success of the project easier to measure. Her beautiful, elegant art direction would compliment any organization that values a clean, modern look and feel.
Candice is a "designer's designer"; the pride and care that she takes into everything she works on is inspiring to junior and senior designers alike, as is as her constant push to elevate her craft through workshops and formal education. She is a hard working professional, an in-house powerhouse that would be a valuable resource and strong contributor to any creative team lucky enough to have her onboard.
Candice provided creative design services to Tampa Magazine/Rain Publishing in a freelance capacity. She was a consistent communicator and presented deliverables in a timely manner. Candice’s design files were always packaged and error-free. A true professional, her work was always in-line with the creative brief/client needs for each project. I look forward for the opportunity to collaborate with Candice again in the future.
I had the pleasure of working with Candice while I was head of Rollins College's Marketing & Communications team. I found her to be extremely creative, detail-oriented and deadline-focused. A wonderful person to have on your team, I can't recommend her enough.
I have worked with many Art Directors and Senior Designers in my career, but none of them have ever compared with Candice Stevens. Candice combines her incredible design talent and communications skills with an extraordinary sense of strategy and execution. As Marketing Manager at Arlon Graphics, our promotions were successful due to Candice's talent. Whether working on digital design, creating large-scale booth designs for global trade shows, or planning strategic approaches to position our brand creatively, Candice did it all on short timelines with a positive attitude. I cannot recommend Candice enough. She truly is a creative mastermind, and anyone would be lucky to have her.
Executive Director of ZORA™ Festival and Magazine
I am pleased to provide this unqualified endorsement for Candice Stevens as a graphic artist. Her creative energy and work effort combine to produce a superior result. I am the executive director for The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community which sponsors the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA! Festival). [Please place the trademark appropriately.] During the lead-up to ZORA! Festival 2016, we lost our original graphic artist due to a family health challenge. Her project was the designing our signature publication, the 80-page annual, the ZORA! Magazine. Candice Stevens had to assume responsibility for this project one week before Christmas and approximately three weeks before our deadline.
I believe what has impressed me most about her work is that it is her intellectual curiosity that serves as the driving force for her creative energy.
It has been a privilege to work with her and I look forward to future opportunities for us to collaborate.
I worked with Candice during her time as a graphic designer at Rollins College. In that role she was a vital partner in helping to shape the visual language we used to promote the programming from the History Department and Africa and African American Studies program. Candice was able to work closely with me to create unique posters and publication templates that added meaning and context to our effort to reach out to community on and off campus. Her skill at identifying how our uniques content could presented to the public was a major asset. In an environment that many voices trying to get attention, she was able to help us package our content in a way that engage our potential audience. In addition to the creative thought she brought to our projects she was timely, creative and professional. I can recommend her without reservation.
Candice is a very talented and creative designer. She is able to turn something average like magazine covers into beautiful works of art. Candice put so much effort and attention to detail into her projects at Rollins, and the end results were stunning. Her positive energy, ideas, and talent would be a true asset to any agency or organization.