Dallas, TX

Brand
Design
Storytelling

Innovative creative leader shaping brand identity systems and integrated campaigns for consumer-scale brands — translating business objectives into brand expression that performs, and building the teams that sustain it.

Experience
20+ Years
Brand scale
$2B Portfolio
Expertise
Design · Storytelling · Results
Recognition
ADDY · HSMAI Adrian
Selected work
12 Projects

Selected Work

Featured · 01–06
A Reputation, Redrawn — Reputation Ink brand identity
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A Reputation, Redrawn

Reputation Ink · Brand Identity System · Website · Digital · Social · Experiential
The brand system and rep-ink.com relaunch that finally made a content-led PR agency's brand match its creative capability — now winning clients on design alone.
Headline Result+23% active users in Year 1
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A Part of Reconnection — Omni 'Stay A Part Of' recovery campaign
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A Part of Reconnection

Omni Hotels & Resorts · Brand Recovery Campaign · Paid · Owned · Earned
Omni's pandemic-recovery campaign — a modular "Stay A Part Of" message that broke through the sea of sameness across paid, owned, earned, and on-property.
Headline Result255M earned-media impressions
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Every Superhero Needs a Sidekick — Reputation Ink Inkredibles ALA campaign
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Every Superhero Needs a Sidekick

Reputation Ink · Experiential · Email · Social · Web
An experiential ALA trade-show campaign built on superhero archetypes — turning a limited booth budget into qualified, ownable relationships.
Headline Result2× category-benchmark LinkedIn engagement
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Omni Cookie Cocktails — art-directed holiday cocktail photography
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Celebrating Holiday Spirits

Omni Hotels & Resorts · Integrated F&B Campaign · Photography · Video · PR
Holiday cookies reinvented as craft cocktails — an editorial-quality Omni Originals program that earned national press.
Headline Result105M earned-media impressions
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Where There's Smoke — Omni Season of Smoke culinary campaign
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Where There's Smoke

Omni Hotels & Resorts · Integrated F&B Campaign · Identity · Video · PR
A smoke-and-fire culinary identity in red leather, gold, and whisper-thin smoke — built to earn press for Omni's fall menu.
Headline Result33.5M earned-media impressions
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Shaking Things Up Online — Reputation Ink Holiday Magic Snowball interactive campaign
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Shaking Things Up Online

Reputation Ink · Interactive Campaign · AI-Enabled · Email · Social
An AI-enhanced Magic 8-Ball holiday experience that broke a decade-old habit — playful, and measurable.
Headline Result2.5× prior-year email click-through rate
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More Work

Additional Projects · 07–12

About

Brand · Design · Storytelling
Jessi Bruton — brand and creative director, Dallas, Texas

Over 20+ years I've directed brand identity and creative for large consumer brands: a $2B hospitality portfolio at Omni Hotels & Resorts, national campaigns at Imaginuity, and the full agency rebrand at Reputation Ink. I move fluidly between setting creative direction and doing the work myself, and I treat design as a strategic business driver rather than a downstream service — translating business objectives into brand expression that performs.

I'm known for strategic storytelling, audience-first thinking, and building scalable creative operations that let a team move faster without losing craft. My work has earned ADDYs — including Best of Corporate Creative three years running and a brand's first gold and silver — plus an HSMAI Adrian Award, alongside measurable results for the businesses behind the brands.

Based in Dallas. Fluent in AI-enabled creative workflows, applied across concepting, production, and creative operations.

Brand Identity SystemsCreative DirectionIntegrated Campaigns StorytellingExperientialUX / Digital Team BuildingAI-Enabled Workflows

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