Howdy there, I’m Reece.

It’s nice to see you around these parts.

Reece Paten is an American illustrator, graphic designer, and creative storyteller whose practice lives at the intersection of image-making, brand, and culture. Working from her studio in Savannah, GA, she holds a B.F.A. in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design and approaches every project with the curiosity of an artist and the intention of a designer.

A wearer of many hats, Reece works across illustration, brand identity, graphic design, and social media marketing. Whether she is building a visual identity from the ground up, developing a campaign, creating content for a hospitality brand, or piecing together an illustration, her work is rooted in the same question: how can visual language make the story feel real?

Her design practice is grounded in storytelling, texture, and a strong sense of place. She is drawn to brands with something to say, whether they be businesses, people, or just ideas with history, personality, and a point of view. Through typography, color, image-making, photography, illustration, and composition, she creates visual systems that feel intentional without feeling overly polished or removed from the people behind them.

In social media and marketing, Reece brings the same creative sensibility to the way brands communicate day to day. She combines strategy with visual storytelling, developing content that feels native to a brand rather than simply promotional. From art direction and photography to copywriting, campaign concepts, and content planning, she enjoys finding the small details that give a brand its voice and turning them into moments people want to engage with.

Illustration remains at the heart of her practice. Rooted in folk art, history, and connection, her personal work gathers familial, historical, and personal stories and transforms them through realism, collage, symbolism, and printmaking. She is particularly interested in fragments… the things we collect, inherit, remember, and carry with us, and how they can all but make us into who we are.

Across all of her work, Reece is interested in the space between the handmade and the intentional. She gravitates toward vintage ephemera, tactile textures, expressive typography, imperfect details, and visual language that feels as though it has lived a life before arriving on the page. Her creative process is ultimately one of collecting and connecting: gathering images, ideas, stories, and references and finding the thread that brings them together.

Beyond the studio, Reece finds inspiration in a great song, the ritual of a morning matcha, well-worn leather, a long hike, and the quiet reflection of yoga, which she teaches. Travel continually informs her understanding of place, culture, and connection.

Ultimately, Reece sees herself as a creative with the opportunity to travel many avenues, but storytelling is the thread that holds them all together. Whether through a brand, a campaign, a social feed, or an illustration, her work is about giving ideas a visual identity: something with character, intention, and a story worth remembering.