Dan Franklin
Strategic Freelance Creative

Dan is a freelance strategic creative with more than 30 years’ experience. He founded Franklin Design Works in 2010 after honing his skills for a couple decades as Creative Director and Partner at a Portland, OR boutique design firm.

He helps craft and grow brands, leveraging agency experience and real-world insights to create that magical connection between the goals and strategies of his clients and the demands and expectations of their customers.

Marketing has a lot of moving parts. I can help make your job easier on a daily basis as your go-to for strategic creative.

A virtual business model allows me to expand and contract based on your needs. What’s more, I don’t use account managers — as your key contact, I serve as your primary strategic, creative, design and production resource. By reducing the operating layers found in most agency/design groups, I’m able to:
• Focus learning on essential information without wasting time and resources
• Increase project efficiencies
• Reduce development and design costs
• Shorten development timelines
• Strengthen accountability and project tracking
• Arrive at more focused solutions