Ben Schwartz Email & Phone Number

Rehovot Area, Israel

Results-Driven Digital Marketing & Web Design Agency providing strategy, branding, design, development & marketing services to increase customers revenue.Recruited by the CEO to establish the new graphic design department, allowing the company to have better control of the finished product, and for the first time ever offer a full branding process, attracting 30% more new clients.In charge of communication, relationship building and account management for new and existing clients, from the first meeting to the finished product delivery, working closely together on needs assessment, defining requirement, budget and scope, and reviewing the proposed and finished products. Ensuring the best results both for the company and the client’s business goals, resulting in higher client satisfaction and client retention percentage for the company.Building and managing the first in-house graphic design department from the ground up, including selecting & procuring all equipment, managing an interdisciplinary team and creating & implementing new and improved internal work processes, achieving a cohesive branding experience for the client encompassing all products - from strategy, name and logo, through website & all digital and social assets, to print and offline products.Hands-on responsibility for the full branding process and the associated design products from conducting the market research needed to define the name & logo and producing the first hand-drawn sketches, through settling on the right typography & colour-palette, to producing the finished digital and print products, ensuring the right branding for each client, done in the best quality on time and on budget and fitting with both the spirit of the company and its business goals.In charge of designing all marketing materials both for the online and offline campaigns, including banners, slogans, animation, social media ads & posts, newspaper ads, flyers, infographics, motion graphics, and title design.

Israel

Established and ran a successful graphic design business, building it from the ground up and working with national organizations in the education and art sector as well as different companies, artists and small & medium businesses.Working with Tel Aviv University and the Ministry of Education on the design, development and artisticmanagement of the new science & technology book series for primary school children. Working closely with the writers, the editors, the Illustrator and the photographer, ensuring all written materials are divided into books in accordance with their content and that together with the illustrations and photographs they each create a cohesive and holistic book. Supervising the printing operation of all books.Working with leading organizations and people in the art & cinema areas in Israel, including the Israeli Film Fund, artist Michal Rovner, and others, in charge of designing all assets needed for the Israeli booth and the movies appearing in Toronto, Cannes and Berlin film festivals, as well as all assets needed for the national & international press, working on film posters and title designs for different movies, and working closely with artists on editing art books and videos.Working with large national & international companies like Aran Group, where the responsibilities included all visual aspects of the company from website & web-app through marketing to business cards and packing instruction, and companies in the industrial kitchen design like Palbam, Systhema, Nachshon Kitchen Design, and others, where the responsibilities included creating unique high-quality sales-presentations in accordance with the company’s brand and graphic direction, designing websites and rebranding.Working with small & medium businesses across the country on branding, including the name, logo and graphic brand strategy for print, web and mobile.

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Promoted to be the first Art Director for the studio, managing the creative team & leading the studio to growth.Managed the creative team for the studio, including graphic designers & copywriters, generating ideas and ensuring the production, on time and on budget, of effective products that are in the highest standards and according to the client's requirements.In charge of business development activities, opening the studio to new clients from different fields, including title-design for movies, Israeli Film Fund, and cooperation with Tel Aviv University book publishing.Managing the relationship with the clients, from the first meeting onwards, ensuring their satisfaction and increasing retention and lifetime value.Coordinated the work with the client’s team, third party suppliers, and the studio creative team, to ensure the client's needs are met.Developed concepts, models and work processes allowing small & medium businesses to enjoy the studio’s branding services at a competitive price, building branding-packages, strategies & launching processes, to ensure both the studio and the clients derive the best business results from the new branding process.

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Promoted to Senior Designer, leading the creative team & process, and in charge of the assets & products.Introduced the studio to new fields, including packaging, animation, banners, digital, animated presentation, cinema & music, enlarging the studio’s scope and opening it up to new clients, leading to the studio’s most profitable years in 2003-2004.Introduced the studio to cohesive branding processes, improving clients overall brand & performance, strengthening the relationship with existing clients and creating up-sell & cross-sell opportunities for the studio.In charge of technology, from selecting to implementing new technology, software and hardware.Professionally managed directing Junior and other Designers to complete large projects on time and on budget, and in accordance with the studio’s standards.In charge of the complete production life cycle, from meeting the clients to understand & gather requirements, through conceptualizing and design from beginning to end, taking control over entire advertising campaigns.

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Working closely with the manager on creating full campaigns & projects, from concept to design to layout to the final artwork sometimes independently.Account management for medium & large clients in the theatre & publishing sectors.

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Focused on design fundamentals, like hand sketches, layouts, drawing & redrawing logos, correcting typefaces & doing color corrections.Working closely with the manager on brainstorming ideas & mock-up designs.In charge of all technical aspects of the studio, hardware & software alike.

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Co-founded and ran a successful graphic design business, specializing in running full branding processes for small & medium businesses working in various fields.In charge of the relationship with the clients.In charge of the consulting process, from the market research and analysis through the design concept & strategy, to the creation & implementation of the assets.