cotton. GRAPHIC DESIGN
Gene Cotton / Designer & Developer Glendale, Arizona
100% Cotton.

It's Good Material.

I build identities, make graphics, and bring websites to life. One creative partner, from your first idea to the last little detail.

Meet the work ↓
03 / The person behind the pixels

Hi, I’m Gene.

Graphic Designer.
Web Developer.
Creative Partner.

A good eye. A curious mind.
All Cotton.

Glendale, Arizona
Original work. Inherited humor. VOL. 01 / 05

Did you know you can't trust an atom?

They make up everything.

Original work. Inherited humor.

30+ years of making ideas happen. The jokes go back further.

I help businesses find their identity, tell their story, and bring their ideas to life through branding, graphic design, and websites.

My career spans more than 30 years across design, marketing, and software development. I started in print production and graphic design, creating everything from logos and catalogs to technical illustrations and marketing materials. As the web evolved, my work grew to include websites, ecommerce, interactive experiences, and business applications.

Today, I bring that experience together at Cotton Graphic Design—connecting the way a business looks with how it communicates and how its website works.

Small confession Yes, I notice when the logo is stretched. The Cotton Blend Equal parts art and science. Occupational hazard Mentally redesigning the restaurant menu.
Ideas with somewhere to go

From an idea to a working business presence.

Building a business takes creative vision and practical decisions. What makes it different? Who is it for? What should people understand when they encounter it?

I enjoy helping answer those questions and turning the answers into something tangible: a visual identity, a clear message, a website, and the materials needed to introduce a business to the world.

Whether I’m helping a new venture take shape or giving an established company a fresh direction, I approach the work with an understanding of design, technology, and the business behind both.

Creative thinking / Practical experience

What I bring.

01 / Identity

Branding &
Visual Identity

Logos, typography, color palettes, and visual direction that give a business a recognizable personality and a consistent presence across print and digital media.

02 / Digital

Website Design
& Development

Responsive websites, ecommerce experiences, and custom functionality—from early concepts and page layouts through development and launch.

03 / Communication

Graphic Design
& Marketing

Brochures, catalogs, presentations, campaign graphics, illustrations, and promotional materials that make information clear and give people a reason to pay attention.

04 / Experience

User Experience
& Interface Design

Thoughtful layouts and interactions that help people navigate a website, understand an offer, or complete a task with confidence.

05 / Collaboration

Creative &
Technical Leadership

Experience working directly with business owners, leading development teams, and carrying projects from an initial conversation through design, production, and delivery.

Serious
about the work.
Room for
a little play.
A few chapters along the way

Experience
behind the work.

My background includes creative and technical work for businesses in hospitality, restaurants, technology, manufacturing, finance, and logistics.

Hospitality / Digital marketing

Welk Resort Group

I managed websites and digital production, combining web development with brand identity, landing pages, interactive media, search marketing, and ecommerce.

Technology / Manufacturing

Mindspeed Technologies
& Terra Universal

At Mindspeed Technologies, my work included corporate websites, logos, identity materials, presentations, and technical illustrations. At Terra Universal, I created catalogs, marketing materials, product graphics, websites, and 3D renderings.

Applications / Interface design

U.S. Department of Defense, Bank of America, & BJ's Restaurants

My application and interface work for these organizations adds another dimension: the ability to build the functionality behind the design.

Selected stories / From the archive

Many Hats.
All Cotton.

A closer look at earlier work across travel, entertainment, interiors, and healthcare. Each project has its own visual language.

Welk Vacations

01 / Hospitality & travel
Web design / Portfolio archive

A window into getting away.

Destinations, offers, and a sense of possibility. The Welk Vacations archive brings travel imagery and promotional content into a busy, blue-led website composition.

Atlas Cabinets

02 / Home & interiors
Web design / Portfolio archive

Warm materials. Clear choices.

Rich wood tones and interior photography set the atmosphere. The website organizes cabinetry and remodeling content around the spaces people want to create.

Orange County Health & Psychology

03 / Healthcare
Web design / Portfolio archive

A calmer kind of clarity.

Soft blue, nature imagery, and clearly separated information create a welcoming healthcare presentation. Two archived designs offer a look at the project’s visual evolution.

02 / What I do

Serious Skills.
Questionable Sense of Humor.

01

Build your brand.

Business names, taglines, logos, color palettes, and visual identities. A connected foundation for everything your business puts into the world.

02

Make it tangible.

Business cards, brochures, flyers, presentations, and digital graphics. Thoughtful design that feels like your brand, wherever it shows up.

03

Bring it online.

Web design and development, from a focused business website to a custom web experience. Design and code working together from the start.

04

Extend your team.

Freelance collaboration for studios, agencies, and in-house teams. Bring me into a project for design, development, or a combination of both.

The full collection / 17 projects

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Let’s create something
that fits your business.

A new feel, a better website, a fresh identity, or an idea that needs some direction...
I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

Let’s talk
04 / Your next project

Let's Make
It Happen.

A new brand? A better website? An extra pair of hands for your agency? Tell me what you have in mind. Your message comes straight to me.

Just a conversation about your project. No mailing list.

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