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DIYvinci Media Kit
A creative wellbeing company built for the people most creative spaces overlook.
DIYvinci helps neurodivergent, chronically ill, low-energy, and overwhelmed adults reconnect with creativity in ways that fit their actual lives.
Founded in 2016 by Jen Parr, DIYvinci combines creative tools, products, community, storytelling, and adaptive approaches to making.
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Founded
September 2016
Based in
Peoria, Illinois
Founder
Jen Parr
Ownership
Woman & Disabled Owned
Focus
Creative Wellbeing
Founder file · Jen Parr
Before DIYvinci
Creative systems rarely fit the way her brain worked.
September 2016
Jen started DIYvinci.
Later diagnosis
Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia reframed the story.
Today
DIYvinci builds more flexible ways into creativity.
The founder story
DIYvinci started with a question: what if creativity worked with you instead of asking you to push through?
Jen Parr spent years navigating creative, educational, and professional systems that didn’t make much sense for the way her brain worked.
She was later diagnosed as autistic, along with ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia, while also living with chronic illness.
Creativity was different. It gave her somewhere to put the intensity, curiosity, pattern-spotting, tangents, and ideas that didn’t always fit neatly elsewhere.
In 2016, Jen started DIYvinci. What began as a creative business gradually became a platform for people who still want creativity in their lives but can’t always access it through traditional advice about discipline, consistency, productivity, or talent.
There should be more than one way into the creative process.
Story angles
A few conversations we’re especially interested in having.
Ready-made entry points for interviews, profiles, podcasts, features, and expert commentary.
Neurodivergence
Late diagnosis and rebuilding your understanding of yourself
How adult diagnosis can rewrite years of assumptions about work, creativity, identity, and what support actually looks like.
Creative practice
Why “just be consistent” doesn’t work for everyone
A look at what creative practice can become when stable energy, predictable attention, and easy task initiation are not assumed.
Wellbeing
Creativity as regulation and reconnection
Creativity as a way to slow down, externalize what’s happening internally, shift attention, process experience, and reconnect with yourself.
Accessibility
Designing creative spaces for the edges
What changes when you design first for low energy, shaky hands, executive dysfunction, sensory needs, or limited time?
Business
The anti-hustle creative business
What it looks like to build products, community, memberships, and marketing without treating constant output as the price of admission.
About DIYvinci
A short company description you can actually use.
Approved boilerplate
DIYvinci is a creative wellbeing company helping people reconnect with creativity in ways that work with their brains, bodies, energy, and lives. Its ecosystem includes creative products and tools, The DIYvinci Studio community, the Archive of Lost Ideas, educational resources, and the Adaptive Creativity framework. Rather than asking people to become more disciplined before they can create, DIYvinci focuses on changing the way in.
Press & features
DIYvinci in the media
Spotlight on DIYvinci: One Business With a Mission to Elevate the Arts
VistaCreate
Woman Wednesday: Jennifer
Woman Wednesday
DIYvinci: Creating Space for Art and Connection
Chronically Cozy Life
Awards & recognition
Recognition along the way
Finalist, 2023 EDDIE Creativity Award by Synergies Work
Skip 2025 Grant Recipient
FedEx Entrepreneur Fund and Boost Camp participant through Hello Alice
Audience & reach
A creative audience that doesn’t always see itself reflected elsewhere.
DIYvinci reaches people interested in creativity, wellbeing, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and more accessible ways of making.
Creative ideas and community
Community and brand updates
Creative discovery and search
TikTok
Short-form creative content
YouTube
Video and storytelling
Founder and business perspective
Current audience figures and platform-specific information are available for relevant media and partnership requests.
Brand assets
Logos, colors, and approved materials
Please use the approved DIYvinci logo files when referencing or featuring the brand. Don’t stretch, recolor, distort, or alter the logo proportions.
Core brand palette
Deep Purple
#4F0060
Magenta
#CC3398
Charcoal
#322C32
Founder bio
A short bio for articles, show notes, and introductions.
Approved short bio
Jen Parr is the founder of DIYvinci, a creative wellbeing company built around more flexible and accessible ways of creating. A late-diagnosed autistic entrepreneur with ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and chronic illness, Jen created DIYvinci after years of experiencing how poorly traditional creative and professional systems can fit people with different brains, bodies, and levels of capacity. Her work focuses on adaptive creativity, creative wellbeing, neurodivergence, and building creative spaces where people don’t have to earn their way in through productivity or perfection.
Approved founder photos
Portrait
Clean vertical image for profiles and speaker introductions
Creative environment
Jen working or making in a lived-in space
Horizontal editorial
Wider image with room for publication layouts
Looking for something specific?
We can usually help.
If you’re working on a feature, interview, roundup, podcast, or profile, ask for whatever would make the story easier to tell.
Founder photos
DIYvinci logos
Company background
Written interview responses
Quotes for editorial pieces
Product or platform screenshots
Studio background
Archive or CREATE Method context
Media inquiries
Want to talk?
Jen is available for select written interviews, editorial features, expert commentary, podcasts, and conversations related to creativity, neurodivergence, disability, chronic illness, accessible design, and creative entrepreneurship.
Please include the publication or show, topic, deadline, and what you’re looking for.
Press & Media
Send inquiries to
hello@diyvinci.comFor partnerships, collaborations, affiliate opportunities, or co-creation, visit the Work With DIYvinci page.
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