Ari Wagner Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

- Design and develop a wide range of apparel and merchandise that resonates with the brand and the gaming community.- Collaborate with top-tier influencers and social media personalities to create exclusive, limited-edition designs.- Maintain awareness of current fashion trends and ensure all designs are on-brand and appealing to target audience.- Work closely with the marketing, product development, and production teams to bring designs to life from concept to final product.- Manage multiple projects with tight deadlines, ensuring high-quality output under pressure.- Provide input on fabric selection, production processes, and quality control.- Stay updated on emerging trends in gaming and fashion to continuously push creative boundaries.

- Provide design services to clients within a variety of industries, often revolving around anime, gaming, and entertainment.- Projects include work with brands and IP's such as Viacom, Crunchyroll, Kodansha, Independent Twitch partners, and more.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Worked closely with brands to ideate, design, and develop unique content-driven merchandise collections and specialty items from start to finish.- Provided technical designs for all items, and worked with overseas / domestic developers (in tandem with our internal merchandisers) to ensure production quality through sampling and revisions.- Designed / presented pitch decks containing details for merchandise collections; including but not limited to color story, identifying trends, development strategies, graphics, etc.- Project management among internal team of eComm designers for merchandise collections.- Coordinated with merchandisers in planning for each quarter.- Worked with online drop-ship manufacturer for a variety of Print-On-Demand items.

Austin, Texas Area

∙ Designed services for new titles that include but were not limited to logo design, cover design, and series brick for partners.∙ Banner ads to promote new series and/or sales & promotion campaigns. Include various sizes & placements among partners & retailers.

Columbia, Missouri

Domestically and internationally commissioned for custom illustrations.

United States

Graphic Design intern for Mizzou Football Recruiting Design Team

Columbia, Missouri

Supervized lab during weeknights and weekends. Aided students in troubleshooting any technical, design, or software issues they may have had.Responsible for maintaining a healthy work environment.

- Responsible for preparing and serving events at the country club.- Worked events such as: swim meets, large formal dinner events (i.e. weddings, anniversaries, etc.), small private events, golf tournaments, etc.

Prepared food, worked register, drive-through, cleaning, and dishes.