Chelsie Tamms

Designer & Owner
Lettering Works, LLC

Chelsie Tamms is the artist and entrepreneur behind Lettering Works, LLC – a Chicago-based, modern brand design studio that is on a mission to create, inspire, and empower people through art.

Chelsie founded Lettering Works in 2016 while attending Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and winning $10,000 in startup funding from Bradley’s annual student entrepreneurship competition. She spent three years in Peoria growing her business – working with the local museum, airport, city, and countless local businesses – before relocating to Chicago in June 2019 to pursue the same on a larger scale.

Throughout her career, Chelsie has focused heavily on personal passion projects that showcase her interests and attract aligned clients around topics of community building, kidney disease, chronic illness, and arts advocacy. Some of her most well-known projects are 100 Days of Peoria (and Chicago), Cool Beans, and Steph’s Stickers. She has self-published two books: Just my Type of Lettering and 100 Days of Peoria.

In addition to customized visual branding and artwork, Chelsie has a line of art products that are sold in local gift shops in Chicago and beyond, including The Field Museum, Chicago History Museum, Marshall Retail Group’s Lick candy stores, and Garfield Park Conservatory as well as online at letteringworks.com.

Chelsie is dedicated to giving back to the creative community and teaches artists how to build sustainable businesses around their passions through her signature online course Self-Made Artist Academy. When Chelsie isn’t designing, she can be found eating ice cream, traveling internationally, or starting a new passion project.