Get to know the owner + designer behind Lettering Works

Partnering with a designer whose style aligns with your vision for your brand and whose ideas you trust is essential for developing the brand that will serve you best. At Lettering Works, we believe in being transparent ourselves and getting to know our clients to ensure we can provide the best quality service.

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHELSIE TAMMS

1. Family is the most important thing to her. Her parents are her best friends.

2. Chelsie has been lettering since 2010. Her interest in graphic design and lettering was sparked in high school after a field trip to a Chicago advertising agency, Leo Burnett, and taking her first graphics class.

3. She had a spinal fusion surgery to correct her scoliosis in 2007. It left her with two titanium rods, over 15 screws, 150+ stitches, and a removed rib. Her scoliosis actually fuels her passion to succeed in business.

4. Chelsie thinks ice cream is always a good idea. Her first ever sticker design stated just that.

5. She believes positivity is a choice and something that is worked at. Daily.

6. Chelsie is an undeniable perfectionist and 3 wing 2 on the Enneagram. We’re talking straight As in high school and college and all.

7. She started Lettering Works right after graduating from Bradley University, after winning $10k in startup funding from Bradley’s Project Springboard Student Entrepreneurship Competition.

8. Chelsie worked at multiple advertising agencies, a personalization company, in student activities, and as a freelance designer throughout college.

9. Her favorite time to work is from midnight to 4am because she feels like everyone around is sleeping and distractions are lowest. That’s when the real productivity happens.

10. Chelsie’s dream vacation spot is Madrid + Granada, Spain. Despite having traveled there several times already, she doesn’t think it will ever get old because she studied abroad in Granada. While living there in 2015, she deemed it her favorite place in the world.

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