Brian Gritzmaker Email & Phone Number

Golden, Colorado, United States

https://www.gritzmakerstudio.com/I work with clients to provide strategic consulting and development services. Applying 20+ years of experience in the industry, I partner with them to create intelligent branding, art direction, art creation, 3D design, photography, and retouching

Highlands Ranch

Lakewood, Co

Effectively used design and art direction skills along with 3D concepts and renderings to increase client and consumer sell-in. Accomplished this by assisting with the visual representation of products, layouts, and space planning for the agency. Over the course of four years, we successfully launched and grew the 3D department, doubling its size while quadrupling it in scope and billing.• Provided 3D visualization for internal and external solutions. We were the “go-to” guys that teams used to get something sold in the first time.• Flexed my Senior Art Director skills daily by assisting all our teams in brainstorming, creating, and presenting effective solutions. While my official title was 3D Visualizer, I utilized my knowledge as a senior member of the creative team by mentoring junior creatives.• Created an extensive library of 2D and 3D assets for use in traditional and online marketing, presentations, television, animation, and digital photo-shoots.• We provided timing and cost savings to our internal and external clients demonstrating the efficiencies of a 3D workflow and the 3D process.• By establishing an in-house 3D design department, we broadened the agency capabilities and expanded all client relationships at Integer.• Supervised, developed, and mentored junior members of our 3D team so they could grow and develop their careers.

Greater Denver Area

Successfully brought to life award-winning creative programs for numerous Fortune 500 clients. As a Sr. AD, I was responsible for all aspects of the creative process including planning, concepting, designing, and supervising. My duties also included presenting to individuals and teams within the agency as well as to external clients.• Developed and Art Directed the “Artfully-Crafted” campaign for Blue Moon Brewing Co. Our innovative approach of marketing a beer in a super-premium category, winningInteger its first national REGGIE Award.• Connected a unique brand position and creative vision to the Artfully-Crafted campaign grew sales of the beer more than 90% its first year. Double-digit growth continued for the next five years while the rest of the industry showed minimal or negative growth trends.• Created consumer and client-facing marketing materials for a diverse group of clients for their print, TV, radio, and online needs.• Designed pro-bono projects for clients such as United Way and Volunteers of America that broke through the clutter of traditional non-profit marketing.• Named Lead Art Director for the 2007 National Coors Light Racing program for NASCAR. Our 2007 program connected with distributors gaining incremental display space and sales at retail.

Greater Denver Area

• Responsible for translating team visions into final production art ready for prepress and print production.• Utilized a mastery of Adobe products for the creation of production-ready files to be handed off to vendors.• Showcased attention to detail by providing consistently high quality files with low error rates.• Developed relationships with my creative counterparts to provide high-resolution comps for programs when needed, under extremely tight deadlines.• dentified a need for high-resolution comps for clients who had no budget for external creative, then worked on a solve to develop an internal solution to service their needs.

Englewood, Co

I worked on a team of marketing and design individuals who were responsible for the ideation, creation and implementation of all things movie theatres including the POP signage, advertising, and in-theatre slide programming to name a few.

Boulder, Colorado

Staff photographer and Designer for Boulder's premier weekly newspaper.

Boulder, Co

Trouble-shooting and help with customer computer issues.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, Photography, cycling

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cycling, skiing, Photo Editor