Work — Austin Li

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Sodexo Live!  ·  Downtown LAThe Music CenterFlagship account  ·  menus, wayfinding, cocktail program, team lead
MGM Resorts  ·  Shanghai & Mainland ChinaMGM ResortsMGM Reserve Kids Club  ·  MGM Shanghai West Bund
Sodexo Live!  ·  La CañadaFarmhouse at Descanso Gardens
Sodexo Live!  ·  Hollywood BowlArtists Pavilion Grill
Packaging & publishingJaq Jaq Bird

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2025 – Present  ·  Los Angeles

Sodexo Live!

Marketing Coordinator  ·  previously Operations, Sales & Marketing Intern

Three accounts run end to end: brand execution, launch marketing, and program design.

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The Music Center

The Music Center Food & Beverage Outlets
Hope & Grand Events by Lucques Seasonal Catering Marketing
Campus-wide Campus Wayfinding

A downtown performing arts campus with eight food and beverage outlets under one roof, serving resident companies and a full season of productions.

Onboarded as a new client in under 78 days: collateral and marketing channels for all eight outlets taken over and redesigned inside a single quarter, built directly with the chefs, operators, and client marketing teams rather than handed back to them at the end.

Web and OpenTable onboarding and training for the campus restaurants, including Kendall’s Brasserie, Abernethy’s, and Veneto Lucio. Set-up restaurant web account and listings, staff training, the SOP documents the teams still work from, and the Toast-to-OpenTable integration that keeps the floor and the book in sync.

Kendall’s BrasserieAbernethy’sLa Nena CantinaVeneto LucioConcert Hall CaféPlaza GrillThe Mullin Wine BarCafe CateringHope & Grand Events by Lucques

Marketing management & team lead

The part of the account that isn’t a deliverable: standing up Plaza Grill from construction through opening, writing the internal marketing newsletter that client and resident company marketing teams push out through their own channels — with follow-up the month after — and developing the brand the eight outlets work from.

Plaza Grill Construction Graphics
Client & resident companies Marketing Resources Newsletter
Campus-wide Brand Development

Menus & branding

Printed collateral across the campus outlets — the Abernethy’s Emerging Chefs program, Veneto Lucio, Plaza Grill, the Concert Hall Café intermission bar, and the Wine & Dine wayfinding system.

Installed on campus

The signage system as it actually stands: the Wine & Dine wayfinding in the garage escalator lobbies, the Emerging Chefs artwork on the ticket kiosk, and the intermission bars. Designed to route a guest who has twenty minutes and has never been here before.

Wine & Dine wayfinding Garage escalator lobby
Abernethy’s  ·  Emerging Chefs Ticket Kiosk
Intermission bar Intermission Bars

The cocktail program

A drink for every production, on sale only while that show runs. Twenty-two launches in a season, $135K+ in beverage revenue above the standing menu, across eight outlets.

Each drink starts with the show, and the spec gets built at the bar: what the well already carries, what a bartender can turn out in a fifteen-minute intermission. Name, story, and garnish are designed in the same pass as the recipe.

Every launch ships as a kit — menu insert, table card, screen art, social, staff talking points. The artwork changes, the template does not. That is what let twenty-two launches run through eight outlets in a season.

Crown and Glory
Center Theatre Group Crown and Glory Jaja’s African Hair Braiding · Oct 2025
The Rumble
LA Opera The Rumble West Side Story · Oct 2025
Poltergeist Punch
Center Theatre Group Poltergeist Punch Poltergeist · Nov 2025
Manila Disco
Center Theatre Group Manila Disco Jan 2026
Love on Grand
Abernethy’s · Kendall’s Love on Grand Valentine’s · Feb 2026
Love Notes
Gloria Molina Grand Park Love Notes Sat Feb 14, 2026
The 1958
Kaufman Dance The 1958 Feb 2026
Center Sparkler
Kaufman Dance Center Sparkler Feb 2026
Forever Jung
Center Theatre Group Forever Jung Kim’s Convenience · Mar 2026
Wally's Special
Center Theatre Group Wally’s Special Apr 2026
Santorini Spritz
Center Theatre Group Santorini Spritz May 2026
The Empire State
Kaufman Dance The Empire State New York City Ballet · Jun 2026
Summer-ita & Downtown Sunset
Dance DTLA Summer-ita & Downtown Sunset Jun 2026
Dance DTLA Bar
Dance DTLA Dance DTLA Bar Aug 2026
2023 – 2024  ·  Shanghai & Macao

MGM Resorts International

Marketing Communications Intern, 3D & Graphic Designer

Campaign work across the Shanghai property calendar, followed by identity and environment design that scaled across Mainland China.

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MGM Reserve – Kids Club

Identity & environments MGM Reserve – Kids Club, as built

Identity, logo, and narrative strategy for a scalable kids’ club amenity, followed by the CAD models and renders that secured approval and carried it into construction, including at MGM Reserve Zhuhai.

The process, page by page

Presented 10.25.24

Twelve pages  ·  presented 10.25.24  ·  select any page to read it

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MGM Shanghai West Bund

Campaign work across the property calendar — the New Year’s Eve countdown, the Asia’s 50 Best Bars moment, and the Lunar New Year set-menu program, alongside the “Artist+” collaboration launch.

Adobe-to-CAD training for the in-house design team enabled the three-dimensional work that followed.

Sodexo Live!, continued
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Farmhouse at Descanso Gardens

An upscale farm-to-table dining program in La Cañada Flintridge. Scoping and design of the digital and physical launch collateral, covering both in-house operations and external marketing.

The restaurant’s web and OpenTable accounts were set up end to end — onboarding, staff training, SOP documents, and the Toast-to-OpenTable connection behind the door.

The plate
Launch collateral
Detail

Social & digital media

Running the restaurant’s social and digital channels: shooting the room and the plates, writing the posts, and keeping the feed on the same voice as the printed collateral.

Launch collateral

The menu suite designed for opening — the main card, a two-sided kids’ placemat that doubles as the activity sheet, and the bilingual card for the Japanese Garden Table Dinner.

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Artists Pavilion Grill

Marketing operations on site at one of the most recognizable outdoor venues in the country: auditing existing assets, documenting live operational gaps, and prioritizing the fixes worth making before the next show.

The pavilion’s web and OpenTable setup ran through the same account — onboarding, training, SOP documentation, and the Toast-to-OpenTable integration.

The pavilion
The bar
The food

Menu collateral

Food and wine service pieces for the pavilion, rebuilt to brand standard after the on-site audit.

2022 – 2023  ·  Los Angeles

Jaq Jaq Bird

Digital Marketer & Designer

Packaging, illustration, and publishing for a children’s art brand — a single account, run end to end.

Packaging
Illustration
The magazine
Packaging & publishing

Art kits, illustration, and 105,000 views

Packaging design for the art kits: structure, artwork, and the copy on the box, drawn as a range instead of one product at a time so a new kit could join the shelf without redrawing the system.

Retail display stands were modeled and rendered for buyer meetings — a finished floor unit to point at before anyone paid for fabrication.

A monthly newsletter kept the brand in front of customers between launches. Around it sat a library of supporting graphics for the kids’ art supplies: activity sheets, in-pack inserts, and illustration that held the range together across packaging, retail, and email. Published work passed 105,000 cumulative views.

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