Austin, Texas  ·  Available for work

Courtney
Hopkins

I build brand systems that hold up in the real world: on a wall, in your hand, at sixty miles an hour. Fifteen years of identities, wayfinding, and environments for hospitality, workplace, and consumer brands, from the first mark through fabrication-ready files.

Founder, Chop Shop Design

15+
Years Experience
Systems Built

Selected Work

For Employers

Open to full-time and contract roles in brand, environmental, and experiential design.

15+ years building brand identity and environmental systems for hospitality, workplace, and consumer brands, from strategy through fabrication-ready production. Full experience, capabilities, and resume details live on a dedicated page.

About

Brand systems that hold up at every scale, from a business card to a building.

I’m a senior brand systems and experiential designer based in Austin, Texas. For 15+ years I’ve been building visual systems that translate across signage and screen, hospitality and enterprise, printed matter and physical space.

I’ve designed across editorial, advertising, print production, and large-scale environments, both independently and inside large organizations. That’s meant national campaigns for public sector and healthcare clients at a Toronto agency, environmental graphics and bilingual wayfinding across a five-million-square-foot Amazon facility, and identity systems for hospitality and consumer brands through my own studio. That work has taken me through New York, Toronto, Melbourne, and now Austin. All of it shapes how I work today: precise, durable systems built to hold up in the real world.

AI is part of how I work now. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney, and Firefly sit inside my concepting and production process. I direct and iterate on those outputs rather than shipping them as-is, which means faster exploration without giving up craft or control.

I work best with clients who want something that actually functions as a system, not just a logo.

Chop Shop Design is my Austin-based studio. I take on direct client relationships: brand identity from strategy through delivery, environmental and wayfinding work, and the print and fabrication-ready files that make it real. No layers, no hand-off.

Courtney Hopkins
Quick Facts
BasedAustin, Texas
StudioChop Shop Design
Experience15+ years
EducationBA, Graphic Design & Writing
NYU Gallatin
FocusHospitality, Workplace,
Consumer Brand
SoftwareAdobe Creative Suite, Figma
AvailabilityOpen · full-time & freelance
Currently available

Archive

Gallatin Arts Festival poster, front View
Gallatin Arts Festival
Identity, Branding, Print · NYU · 2011
Gallatin Review, two covers View
Gallatin Review
Books, Identity · NYU · 2010–2011
Down & Out magazine cover View
Down & Out
Magazine, Identity · NYC
Wired poster series, print 1 View
Wired
Poster Series · Print
HopOil business card, front View
HopOil
Identity · Denver, CO
Choice Brands business cards View
Choice Brands
Identity · Edmonton
Yermus & Associates stationery View
Yermus & Associates
Identity · Toronto
Go Throw beach blanket, Ares pattern View
Go Throw
Patterns, Postcard
Pop print piece View
Pop
Print
A graphical ode to the classic slasher flick View
Halloween
Print

Services

01
Brand Identity

Full identity development from strategy through system delivery. Built to work across every surface, at every scale, indefinitely.

  • Brand strategy & positioning
  • Logo, wordmark & symbol
  • Color, type & imagery systems
  • Brand standards documentation
02
Environmental & Wayfinding

Physical brand environments: signage systems, wayfinding, large-scale graphics, and materials ready for fabrication or install.

  • Signage system design
  • Site navigation & wayfinding
  • Environmental graphic design
  • Fabrication-ready files
03
Print & Editorial

Packaging, menus, printed guides, collateral: anything that has to look as good in your hand as on a screen.

  • Packaging & label design
  • Menu systems
  • Print collateral & lookbooks
  • Guest experience materials
04
Campaign & Creative

Concepting and creative direction for campaigns that need to run across channels, languages, and formats without falling apart.

  • Campaign concepting & art direction
  • Advertising & out-of-home
  • Social & presentation templates
  • Multilingual campaign production

Most engagements are direct, with no account layers and no junior hand-off. Work is scoped by project or retainer depending on the relationship.

Let’s make the thing
feel inevitable.

Tell me what you’re building, where it’s stuck, or what it needs to become. I review every request personally.

Prefer email? hello@chopshopdesign.com

I usually respond within 1–2 business days.