Name: Lance Flores
Position: Art Director, Photographer & Muralist
Currently at: Hillsong KC & Self-Employed
Previously: BALDWIN, MMGY Global & Barkley
Location: Kansas City
College: Kansas City Art Institute
Email: Lancetflores@gmail.com
Lance currently works part-time as a content designer at Hillsong KC and is also a freelance creative currently “creating” mainly in the Kansas City area. He has a heart for people, office supplies and chicken tenders. He’s an avid instagrammer and identifies his introverted self as a designer, photographer, muralist, letterer, traveler and illustrator. He’s been passionately pushing his craft the past six years throughout shops including Barkley, MMGY Global and BALDWIN – each place helped him sharpen different aspects of skills.
His client experience includes Nike, Budweiser, KC Royals, MLS & COPA90, WeWork Dairy Queen, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Ball Canning, Cole Haan, Music Bed, Sprint, Lufthansa Airlines, Crossroads Hotel, Manifesto, Bldwn, Ruby Jeans Juicery, Fine Folk and more.
His work has been published in Cannes, Communication Art, Vanity Fair UK, Branding Served, Designsponge, Oh So Beautiful Paper, Trouvé Mag, Film + Music Magazine, Interior Design Magazine and others.
10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I carry band-aids in my wallet
2. My first job was at a fireworks stand
3. I once bowled a 279 in my youth bowling league
4. I was born with a hole in my heart
5. I'm allergic to guacamole (avcados) but I eat it anyway because it's delicious
6. Chicken tenders are probably my favorite food
7. I love miniature objects, especially miniature globes
8. I'm Hawaiian, Guamanian, Greek, German, Spanish, Chinese & Italian (or so I'm told by my parents)
9. I trained myself to not dot my "i"s in my handwriting
10. I'm a recovering hoarder
APPEARANCES
COPA90 US - Mural for Sporting KC
Interior Design Magazine - Photography/Murals @Baldwin
Trouvé Mag - Murals
Oh So Beautiful Paper - Photography
Designsponge - Apartment Feature
Period Magazine - Photography
Sarah Snodgrass Blog - Designsponge Feature Reblog
SPEAKING EVENTS
2017 AAFKC Gas Can Conference
AAFKC Influencer Marketing: The New Age of Social Media
AIGAKC Design Futures
2018 Made in the Middle Conference | Mural Workshop