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Ryan Conway

Creative Marketing Professional

Crunching Data, Pushing Pixels, Setting Type, Throwing Paint

I am a creative marketing professional with a background in graphic design & video production.
My goals are to communicate effectively, add value to the employer’s/client’s business, and to be accountable.


This is where I share my photos, design projects, and other endeavors. Join me on my journey.

Lightbulb image for Marketing: Strategy, CRM, Personas, Copywriting, Lead Generation, Automation, Paid Search, Branding, SEO, AI, Analytics, Social

Marketing is about using your resources in a strategic way to magnify your client's message.

Design

My career has been spent using type and imagery to deliver a message in a unique, creative way.

Capturing audio is a passion of mine. I love setting up mics, checking levels, and hitting that record button.

Video

Shooting & editing video has been my main focus for the past six years. Multi-cam edits are my favorite.

Photography

I will never tire of shooting photographs. Not just a means to produce images, but a tool for discovery!


Illustration

Illustration is another passion for me. Drawing by hand always brings a part of my personality with it.

Paintings

Painting is where I explore abstract forms and vibrant colors. I enjoy the process of stretching the canvas.

I am a communicator and a story-teller.
Graphic Designer, Video Editor, and a Marketer.


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By Ryan Conway 29 Jul, 2024
Do you have a story that needs to be told, but you're not sure how to make it happen? I can script and visualize your story and deliver it with impact to your intended audience. This video reel features some of my best personal & freelance footage. (duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds). Contact me if you would like to bring your story to fruition and have a video in your marketing/promotion toolkit.
Randy Baldwin Band performing Goin' West at the Salina River Festival
By Ryan Conway 18 Jul, 2024
Before I left Kansas, I did an interview session with all the guys in the Randy Baldwin Band, and I finally got around to going through all sorts of live footage that I had of Randy and the rest of the band. The result is that they have a video that is less than 5 minutes long, and it tells the story of how the Randy Baldwin Band started, and what each person's name is. This kind of video is very important for a band that is trying to get more gigs. When you can send an introduction video to a venue owner, that is a powerful resource to leverage.
By Ryan Conway 03 Jul, 2024
I recently had the opportunity to go up to the Goose Creek campground, outside of Deckers and Cheeseman Reservoir. While I was there I went on some hikes, took photos, and a did few timelapse sequences. When I hiked up to a high point and set up the tripod to begin a timelapse. . . I realized that I was going to have plenty of time to think while I waited for the camera to acquire the sequence. It is inescapable that when I'm near an area that has been burned, I think about the chaos of the fire itself, and how it completely changed the balance of life in that wilderness. I wonder how long it will take to "grow back" and what it might look like then. Those types of cycles are large. Much larger than any of us. While I enjoy forested areas, I also realize that these cycles happen. While it is always regrettable when humans unnecessarily speed up that cycle and ruin things for others. . . burn areas in and of themselves are a part of nature. ( Important to Note: I am careful to obey the posted signs about what is off limits, as I do not want to cause any further erosion ). Many people would just choose to never visit an area that has been burned. But I have realized that there really is a lot of value in seeing nature in a state of recovery. Many of the rock outcroppings in the forest are obscured by trees and you never see them, but after a burn the landscape is revealed in various ways. You see that there is no "forest floor" anymore. It's more like the arid climate reveals that it's very much a mountainous desert. But I also noticed that in the valley where the river was, the trees sustained themselves from the fire by having roots close enough to the water that they were hydrated and protected against the inferno. A portion of this valley was left untouched even though the fire decimated the surrounding hillsides for miles. It is easy to find life metaphors in all of it: birth, chaos, death, rebirth. As I sat waiting on the camera to do its thing. . . I compared the chaos/rebirth cycle of a forest to things that have happened in my own life at times. Sometimes when a major life change happens, it feels like an inferno. But things always begin anew. It just takes time. P.S. I captured quite a few photos of Canadian Thistle blooms (in different stages). I have always loved this plant. They are prickly-as-can-be, but they have absolutely beautiful pink/purple flowers. It's a beautiful plant that says, "Don't mess with me."
16 Jun, 2023
My co-worker (Galen Reinhart) shared this story with me about how he saw a photoshoot with Stevie Wonder in a field of Kansas sunflowers. I asked him if he would be willing to share his story on a video, and he agreed to it.
By Ryan Conway 08 Jun, 2023
I had the opportunity of making this video with the Randy Baldwin Band recently. They trusted me when I asked them to take their instruments out into the river. I think the final result turned out great. Randy's song about Salina made it all possible, and I think the video complements it well.
Blind Melon T-shirt design
By Ryan Conway 16 Mar, 2023
I had the opportunity to do a T-shirt design for Blind Melon recently. Another dream come true.
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