Hello! My name is Jocelyn Stewart. I am a Finnish American illustrator, designer, and cartoonist. I love cute, girly, and chic things!If you would like to learn more about my work, please consider clicking my portfolio link! If you would like to learn about me, check out my about me link!

* All About Me...

Jocelyn Stewart is a graphic designer and illustrator with a defined background in fine arts. She began drawing as soon as her hand could carry a pencil, and was encouraged by her mother to always keep drawing. She will be graduating Spring 2026 from Kent State University with her bachelor's in Visual Communication Design.Her illustrative work is an homage to her love of animated movies, like Paprika and Mind Game. Meanwhile, her design work reflects her love for 1990s “Heisei Retro” cuteness and chunky typefaces. In her free time, she loves creating custom handmade prints for video games she enjoys, watching old movies, and listening to her large collection of CDs!Born in Pennsylvania and raised in over five states, Jocelyn wants her work to inspire people to decorate their lives with vibrant, bright color regardless of where they are from. According to her, life is too short for beige, black, and white. Life should be polka dots, cute mascots, and striped multicolor lines. Having lived in and visited so many different places, Jocelyn works hard to ensure that all different types of people are represented and seen in her work. Through her designs, she wants to create a world where kindness and empathy are matter-of-course — where saying “hello, how are you” to a stranger feels like second nature.

For information about her work history, please refer to her portfolio! She also posts her art to Instagram and Bluesky!

BAGGED: The Plastic Bag Museum is a fictitious branding project focused on bringing attention to the history of design followed through plastic shopping bags. In this project, I wanted to develop my Photoshop skills through editing and playing with layers by pushing elements in the photography forward and back. The pops of color are meant to replicate digital printmaking like riso, and the photos themselves are photoshopped to be more textured and real.

* Informational Pamphlet

The informational pamphlet is a piece that would be included in our guerilla advertising efforts. Our plans involved going into stores and replacing their plastic bags with our own that had these pamphlets inside of them.
This pamphlet displays all of our brand colors, our type based logo, as well as all our information about the fictitious art gallery!

* Set of 3 Posters

These posters were done with tons of Photoshop and Illustrator work! The photos are manipulated to be more textured with the black and white half tones. Then, certain elements are pushed back or pulled forward to create a background/foreground with the type and other graphic elements. Each poster displays one pop of color from the brand style guide.

Twice Loved Teddy is a fictitious teddy bear restoration company that focuses on repairing stuffed animals as a solution to excess toy waste in landfills. It's goals are to reduce waste and breathe life back into teddy bears that have been loved through generations.

* Twice Loved Teddy Style Guide

To begin this project, this fictitious brand needed some identity. I created the logo from sketches of cute teddy bears, and found his solemn expression to really tug on heartstrings. For the colors, I brought in warm, traditional browns and modernized them with bright pops of pink and red.
The type is more handwritten, almost like it is written with crayon or chalk. It brings back that nostalgic, childhood feeling.

In this project, I focused on creating exciting, eye-catching typographic book covers for three very different pieces of writing. I learned so much from this project, and I love to look back on it as the moment where type design really "clicked" for me. Through this project, I learned how to match type faces with overall mood. Also, I learned about how composition works in typography.

* Crime and Punishment

For this cover, I wanted to push my understanding of colors and how "simple" shapes can create more complex compositions. I wanted to showcase my ability to create foregrounds and backgrounds with shapes. The skull, in red, almost just appears to be simple blood splatters. It really requires an extra second to look at and digest! I went even more into the blood splatter look by separating pieces of the skull into abstract pieces on the back panel.

* Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw

For this cover, everything but the type is entirely hand sewn by me. The cows are handsewn with felt, and I thrifted all the fabric and buttons. The other fabrics used on the page are all thrifted, then scanned. The type is meant to look like cross stitch patterns.

* A Death in the Family

This was the cover that made me fall in love with typography. For this cover, I wanted to explore both extreme compositions and color. I created this very dramatic composition with the dark grey completely overpowering the page. The white at the bottom acts as a point of visual interest, but also doubles as a sort of ground to the black sky.
There's tons of repeating patterns here with the coffin shape.

Apple Farm is a Youtube variety channel made up of several artists. I played a massive part in the channel's art direction - from creating the introduction to creating the logo to making character designs!

* Creating the Logo

For the channel logo, I wanted to take massive inspiration from Aranzi Aronzo's felt stitch work. In his felt work, seeing the stitches is part of the charm! I drew out an apple shape, fit the "farm" word inside of it, and then stitched it together with felt. Then, I scanned it, and it became real!

* Introduction

At the beginning of every video, this introduction will play. It centers the channel logo, and relies on the music and sound to propel the motion design forward. For this changing background, I took photos I had lying around in old SD cards and doodles. Their softness and pastel look really helped amplified the channel's cuteness and overall aesthetic.

Supermega is a comedy duo podcast and Youtube channel. In this fictitious brand reimagining, I focused on the pre-existing colors of their brand and emphasized it in illustration. I was able to showcase my ability to create exciting, dynamic compositions. In this project, I got to experiment with mashing together illustrative elements with real world photography. By the end of the project, I had learned an entirely new way to incorporate illustrations into photography, creating this animated look.

Fusion is Kent State University's LGBTQ+ magazine. Founded in 2003, Fusion remains the region's only student magazine focusing on LGBTQ+ issues. I worked with Fusion from August 2023 to January 2026, illustrating and designing for both print articles and digital articles.

* The Dating App Dilemma by Alex Miller (Spring '25 Issue)

I was given the honor of illustrating Alex Miller's article “The Dating App Dilemma” in the Spring 2025 issue of Fusion Magazine. I was able to work within the style guide in regards to typography and color palette, but still was given tons of creative freedom on the exact illustration. I wanted to do this with an intense green/pink color palette from the style guide with ghost apps floating around the page to represent the disorienting reality of dating apps. The ghost patterns are very abstract and off the page.

* How Kent State Recordkeeping is Putting Student Safety in Jeopardy (Online Article)

For this project, I needed to create a visual that was simple but heavy. In order to do this, I limited myself to only three colors. Then, I relied entirely on silhouettes until I added small details! The type on the letter was almost more important than the illustration itself. I made it super grungy and kind of off center in order to represent something darker.