By Ronica Stromberg
Abbey Snyder, graphic designer, received a 2025 Staff Recognition Award at the School of Natural Resources Spring Banquet on April 12, 2025. The award typically recognizes two staff members per year for their positive contributions, and this year, Snyder and Jeremy Hiller, a research manager, each received it.
Snyder has worked about 10 years for the university, designing websites and publications and creating illustrations by hand and computer. Much of her work has been for the Nebraska One Health program and the Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, but more recently, she gained her own service center, which she explained as basically freelancing within the university.
"I get to offer my design services to other programs and departments across the university and am open to new opportunities," she said.
Now anybody within the university can reach out to Snyder to discuss the scope of work on a project and receive a cost estimate. She regularly designs websites, flyers, brochures, publications, signs, posters, social media banners and advertisements. More recently, she has been illustrating scientific concepts for journal articles.
"I've been taking on a lot of scientific figure designs, and that has been pretty rewarding to me," she said. "I find it kind of fun to get to take the science and convert it into something that is accessible to everybody to understand."
Examples of her past work include the Nebraska One Health website, the Buy Fresh Buy Local® Nebraska food guide and figures for the Birth Outcomes and Water study Martha Rhoades leads. She said prospective clients can view other examples of her work at her website, https://asnyderarts.com
An alumnus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a bachelor of fine arts and an emphasis on graphic design and printmaking, Snyder grew up near Milford on an acreage with horses. The rural and agricultural focus of much of her artwork goes back to her childhood.
"I've been really inspired by drawing horses, and since the age of 2, that has always been my go-to thing to draw," she said.
Read the rest of the story and see a picture of Abbey and her horse, Molly at https://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/what/newstory.aspx?fid=1250