Studio

My name is Kevin Piazza.

I‘ve been a designer since I was 13—It’s true. The American Lung Association ran a billboard design contest in 1988, and I won. The only parameter was to “tell people why they shouldn’t smoke.” So I drew a skeleton’s arm poking out of a grave scissor-gripping a cigarette. The headline read, “Don’t Smoke.” Nailed it.

Since the billboard contest, I have excelled in artistic and creative settings. I attended the Art Institute of Seattle from 1996-1998 and was hired as a full-time designer at a Seattle design agency in 1997, several months before I graduated. There, I worked on projects for notable companies such as Starbucks, Microsoft, and the Utah Jazz.

In 2007, my brother and I started a creative agency, which eventually became Doodl Creative Studio. I’ve done work in New York, South Carolina, Louisiana, Minnesota, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and of course, my home state of Montana.

At one point, we had five employees. But as life goes—things change. In 2014, my brother moved away and I was left to run Doodl solo. My current business model is to stay small but use a network of qualified colleagues to help with large projects as needed. No project is too big or too small. I love helping people succeed. That’s my story—what’s yours?