Creative and Marketing Agency AoE Creative has hired veteran designer Evan Eckard as its new Creative Director.
Eckard has collaborated with 100 Thieves, worked on the branding and merchandise design for streamer Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, and helped with the branding, user interface, and user experience for music streaming app Pretzel Rocks.
Markel Lee, Co-founder and CCO of AoE Creative, is excited “by the parts of Eckard’s skill sets that tend to get overlooked or underutilized by the industry in the status quo.” With esports being around for years but very much still in a formative stage, Eckard’s experience may create an opportunity to “redefine best practices” and help construct tools for the creative agency to fit the demands of the esports and the wider gaming industry.