About.

Micael Smith is a visual artist based in Asheville. He is professionally certified in the Adobe Creative Suite, and has 8 years of experience in digital illustration and core design principles. With great passion for conceptual work, he was awarded the New Media 2023 Student Exhibition Best in Category for Storyboards/Animatics at UNCA, and the 2020 Golden Ratio Award for Graphic Design at Northwest School of the Arts.

Outside of work, he enjoys reading, photography, and engaging with media in online communities. You can find him creating fan-art and other collaborative works on Artfol, Tumblr, YouTube and Instagram.

Graphic designer at unca highsmith student union

Storyboarded, designed, and produced graphics for campus events; designed for-print flyers, stickers, posters; 1:1 Instagram posts. Collaborated with a team to ensure work released in a timely manner

diversity over division speaker

Conducted research for specialized field and presented in an organized thesis; spoke concisely and clearly to a public audience; worked with professional audio equipment and collaborated with a group to edit and produce finished product including audio files and supporting website

resident assistant

Sketched, designed, and printed flyers, corkboard posters & digital signage for on-campus events; provided on-call resource services for students; responded to and logged incidents to ensure campus safety; fostered community within the on-campus student body