AMBER                   CASTRO

[ Multidisciplinary Designer ]

Black and white photograph of a woman with dark hair and a nose ring, posing with her fingers touching her face, looking directly at the camera.
{ Orange County, CA }

Good design should look good.
It should also know what it's doing.

I'm Amber, a multidisciplinary designer bringing together visual thinking, marketing strategy, photography, and a mildly obsessive attention to detail.

SELECTED              WORK

  • Packaging box for SkinEdit skincare products, with product images and branding, placed on a flat surface.

    Skin Edit OC

    Brand Identity
    E-Commerce
    Photography

  • A tablet displaying a website on a wooden table, with a clip holding a note that reads 'Dr. Betty, Clinical Psychologist'.

    Dr. Betsy

    Brand Identity
    Web Design
    Photography

  • A shopping cart with promotional flyers and a paper sign that says 'EAT the MENU' in white letters on a white background.

    Eat the Menu

    Brand Identity
    Editorial
    Digital

  • Two wine bottles placed on sand next to a polaroid-style photo with handwritten notes and a paperclip, with text 'SUB PLOT' at the bottom.

    SUBPLOT

    Brand Identity
    Art Direction
    Packaging

  • VAEL

    Visual Identity
    Creative Direction
    Photoshoot Production

One person.
An unreasonable number of hats.

When you’re responsible for everything from the first strategy conversation to the final website launch, you learn pretty quickly that no creative decision exists in isolation. Running a design studio has given me hands-on experience across brand, web, photography, copy, marketing, and production, and taught me how all of those pieces affect one another.

Black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk with a laptop, camera, glasses, and a USB drive, resting her head on her hand, looking thoughtfully to the side.

WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE

A designer's eye. A marketer's brain. A photographer's habit of noticing everything.

  • GRAPHIC + MARKETING

    Print design
    Advertising
    Email
    Social
    Presentations
    Content

  • DIGITAL + WEB

    Web design
    UX/UI
    Squarespace
    Responsive design
    SEO foundations

  • BRAND + IDENTITY

    Brand strategy
    Visual identity
    Creative direction
    Brand guidelines
    Campaign systems

  • PHOTO + STORYTELLING

    Photography
    Art direction
    Image selection
    Retouching
    Copy refinement
    Visual storytelling

Tools:

Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Squarespace, Canva, Google Analytics, Search Console + enough CSS to get myself into trouble and back out again.

GET IN                 TOUCH

hello@ambercastro.com