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Andrew Smith
Professional Summary
Talented, passionate Art Director/Graphic Designer with experience creating persuasive and attractive marketing and communications materials. Technical skills include Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office Suite, and WordPress. Expert at developing advertisements to increase visibility, branding, and business growth & development.
Employment history
Art Director, Gerlach-Buckridge. Vikkihaven, New York
Jan. 2017 – Present
- Perform or direct web site updates.
- Create or maintain database of customer accounts.Open, sort, and distribute incoming email correspondence.
- Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
- Present final layouts to clients for approval.
- Review and approve art materials, copy materials, and proofs of printed copy developed by staff members.
- Assemble final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
- Take pictures of individuals, families, and small groups on location.
- Coordinate services for events, such as accommodation and transportation for participants, facilities, catering, signage, displays, special needs requirements, printing and event security.
- Organize registration of event participants.
- Meet with sponsors and organizing committees to plan scope and format of events, to establish and monitor budgets, or to review administrative procedures and event progress.
Guest Service Representative, Rodriguez-Torphy. West Fairy, West Virginia
Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2017
- Receive and process customer payments.
- Take customer orders and convey them to other employees for preparation.
- Describe menu items to customers or suggest products that might appeal to them.
- Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties.
- Count money and make bank deposits.
Graphic Designer, Funk LLC. Muraziktown, Iowa
Oct. 2014 – Jan. 2016
- Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
- Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming email correspondence.
- Present final layouts to clients for approval.
- Assemble final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
- Maintain archive of images, photos, or previous work products.
Education
North New Jersey Institute, Walterburgh, Georgia
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design, Jun. 2014
Eastern West Virginia College, Port Elizabeth, Minnesota
High School Diploma, Jun. 2010
Personal info
Phone:
(000) 000-0000
Address:
287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000
Skills
Graphic Design
Communication
Organization
Planning/Event Planning
Ability To Work Under Pressure
Self-Motivation
Dependability
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Professional Summary
Talented, unique, passionate Graphic Designer with extensive experience creating persuasive and attractive marketing and communications materials. Technical skills include 3D design, Adobe Creative Cloud, GIMP, and Serif DrawPlus. Expert at developing effective campaigns and advertisements to increase visibility, branding, and business growth and development.
Employment history
Art Director, Graham-Volkman. Lake Astrid, Kansas
Feb. 2013 – Feb. 2016
- Solid success directing and implementing a broad range of revenue-generating design projects, from conception to launch.
- Readily translate business requirements into effective advertising campaigns. All projects met all milestones, deadlines, and budget requirements.
- Formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound.
- Confer with creative, art, copywriting, or production department heads to discuss client requirements and presentation concepts and to coordinate creative activities.
- Intuitively adapted to new technology and innovative processes while ensuring compliance with corporate standards.
Graphic Artist, Mueller and Sons. Hauckview, Alabama
Apr. 2004 – Jan. 2007
- Design, build, or maintain web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
- Maintain archive of images, photos, or previous work products.
- Produce still and animated graphics for web and interactive CD-Roms.
- Research new software or design concepts.
Education
Southern Texas College, West Kirsten, Idaho
Bachelor of Fine Art, Illustration & Design
Accomplishments
Areas of Emphasis
Full Life Cycle Project Management
Targeted E-mail Campaigns
Catalogs / Brochures
Website Design
Advertising Campaigns
Illustration
art director
- Cut and assist in editing film or tape to integrate component parts into desired sequences.
art director
- Manage own accounts and projects, working within budget and scheduling requirements of clients.
- Review and approve art materials, copy materials, and proofs of printed copy developed by staf f members.
- Work with creative directors of licensed products internationally.
- Confer with clients to determine objectives, budget and presentation of branding design.
art director
- Managed an enthusiastic team of designers and copywriters.
- Led the ideation, design and editing process of film-making for the home productions of the company.
- Created marketing and promotional strategies for the films and corporate events for the clients.
- Develop brochures, multimedia presentations, web pages, promotional products, technical illustrations, and computer artwork for use in products, technical manuals, literature, and video training for the pharmaceutical industry.
art director , senior 3d artist
- Design Game Art Environment based on Scenario , game design and desired staff.
- Model and Texture 3D Environments in dead lines.
- Research to achieve the best pipeline for game art production.
- Prepare and revise initial game sketches using two- and three-dimensional graphical design software.
- Model and Texture 3D Hard surface (Cars , Instuments ,…) assets.
- Review artists works to get to the best quality in dead lines.
- Level art design every levels.
art director
- Project managing for the biggest department on film and television – the art department.
- Facilitate the production designer’s creative vision for all the locations and sets.
- Supervise crew and unify the overall visual appearance of a film or television show.
- Responsible for assigning tasks to art department coordinator, keeping track of the art department budget, scheduling, and overall quality control.
- Liaison to other departments; special FX, property, graphics, transportation, and locations departments.
- Attend production meetings and tech scouts in order to provide information to other departments to have a visual floor plan of each location.
art director
- Use sales forecasting and strategic planning to ensure the sale and profitability of products, analyze market trends
- Create marketing strategies for promotional events
- Confer with manager to identify target market, discuss concerns and to provide advice on business decisions.
- Create promotional materials that require graphic design, web design, and photography skills
art director
- I formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound.
- I confer with creative, art, copywriting, or production department heads to discuss client requirements and presentation concepts and to coordinate creative activities.
- I would like to hire, train, and direct staff members who develop design concepts into art layouts or who prepare layouts for printing.
- I often research current trends and new technology, such as printing production techniques, computer software, and design trends.
- I can review illustrative material to determine if it conforms to standards and specifications.
- I will be able to confer with clients to determine objectives, budget, background information, and presentation approaches, styles, and techniques.
- I would love to create custom illustrations or other graphic elements.
art director
- Solid success directing and implementing a broad range of revenue-generating design projects, from conception to launch.
- Readily translate business requirements into effective advertising campaigns. All projects met all milestones, deadlines, and budget requirements.
- Formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound.
- Intuitively adapted to new technology and innovative processes while ensuring compliance with corporate standards.
art director
- Facilitated the production of the creative vision of the client and director on many big campaigns and TV ads.
- Prepared sets and gave each set its unique visual identity.
- Planned, organized and controlled artistic aspects of film, or television productions.
- Prepared a budget for the set design and build.
- Hired an art department team.
- Supervised the building of sets to ensure it happens on time and within budget.
- Hired equipment such as specialized props.
art director , senior 3d artist
- Review all 2d concepts from concept artists.
- Research and create production pipeline.
- Review all 3d assets from 3d artists.
- Design and supervise games UI and UX .
- Manage sound design team (music and SFX).
- Create Posters and Trailers for mobile games.
art director
- Review illustrative material to determine if it conforms to standards and specifications
- Manage and put together the website
- Preparing the catalogues, flyers and brochures
- Select the right social media platforms for advertise and promote
art director, senior designer and illustrator
- Actualized client’s promotional initiatives, based upon initial creative briefs aligned with overall brand messaging and envisioned conceptual ideas quickly to this end.
- Increased firm’s revenue, by consistently awarded contracts over competing approved vendors – leading to long-term accounts from Digital, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard.
- Winner of a long-running multiple-submission contest, for the creation of a new ‘Lion Logo’ for MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and prevailed with my sole entry – having only learned of the challenge on its very last day. This, in turn, allowed us to work on further lucrative design projects for Disney and MGM.
- Assuring all content produced is in line with brand guidelines for voice, style and tone
art director/graphic designer
- Developed graphics and layouts for company logos, and websites using latest Adobe software.
- Presented drafts to clients for approval.
- Photographed products for advertising campaigns.
- Writing advertising copy and content.
- Copy editing
- Photo editing
- AutoCAD drafting of illustrations for patent and trademark applications.
art director
- Research current trends and new technology, such as printing production techniques, computer software, and design trends
- Confer with client to determine objectives, budget, background information, and presentation approaches, styles, and techniques
- Deciding the brand name and tagline
- Create the logo, choosing the right colour palette and typography
- Create engaging and visually appealing assets
- Ensuring that the written content is consistent with the visual content
- Originate design concepts and layout for materials including photo selection and digital manipulation