Tyra Nicole Dumars

Visiting Instructor

M.P.S., Pratt Institute - Design Management
B.F.A., Northwestern State University - Graphic Communication

Hybrid designer, with both business acumen and a creative spirit, who loves to collaborate and make complicated things simple. I truly enjoy collaborating with principals and managers to develop and execute holistic brand and design strategies across multiple user experience touchpoints. I consider myself an optimistic thinker, a hard-worker and a designer with relentless curiosity. I like to blur the lines between design, strategy and technology while exploring their relationship to social innovation and entrepreneurship. This is where my passion lies as it marries creativity and business revealing opportunity for innovation — and designing for that is half the fun!

I have enjoyed 8 years of professional experience working as a brand and communications designer. Including: design editor at Northwestern State University; brand designer at Plattform Advertising; Founder and design strategist at tyra.nicole LLC, where my clients include: American Cancer Society, Chimp Haven, ACE, Colgate-Palmolive, Extra Space Storage and NAACP.