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Develop and enforce brand design standards with a specific focus on illustration and social media.Art direction and Illustration for YouTube’s pilot YouTube Doodles program.-Partner with both internal and external marketing partners to create impactful, delightful animations and illustrations around specific cultural moments and communities within YouTube (ex. Pride, Minecraft 1 Trillion Views, cardbreaking, retro gaming and more)-Meet with identity-focused consultants to ensure relevant community voices are heard and content remains relevant.-Hiring and Art direction of a stylistically diverse range external illustrators and animators-Production of concept, sketch, animatic/storyboard, and final static assets to be shared with animation, engineering, and marketing teams among others. Spearhead the launch and maintenance of a specialized internal roster tool featuring approved design agencies and freelancers tagged by specialty, themes, region, and identity when appropriate.Lead creative direction for YouTube Creator’s Lookbook with specific design systems developed across Gaming, YouTube Black, and Fashion & Beauty flagship communities, as well as an overarching system for all general creator communications.-Direct a team of designers to invent four unique but connected design systems within overarching brand standards.-Provide budget breakdowns, briefs, and feedback decks for multiple concurrent illustration and design freelancers-Present every phase of the lookbook from concept to final cross-company to high-level directors, internal teams, and outside partner agencies.-Create original illustrative assets to be used cross-platform.

New York, New York

-Full time in-house illustrator responsible for the creation of quick-turnaround and long-form editorial illustrations, logos, animations, merchandise, and more for the company’s host of 12 websites.-Lead design on mass merchandise for popular websites such as io9, Jezebel, and Gizmodo.Worked closely and collaborated with writers, editors, wire photo services, photographers, sales teams, event planners, animators, and videographers.-Designed and led multiple classroom presentations, talks, and on-site parties.-“Really good for morale.”

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Lead illustrator for the NPR newsroom, collaborating with reporters and editors to create illustrations that accurately reflect the tone of the reporting. -Responsible for illustrating articles on quick deadlines across editorial desks and podcasts.-Experience in art directing freelance illustrators and reporting original comics-based stories. -Extensive experience in storyboarding and animating videos and GIFs for social media and other promotion.-Social media management and content creation for both NPR’s Instagram and Illustration Tumblr. This includes conducting artist interviews, highlighting illustrated work produced for NPR, and outreach to the broader illustration community.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Illustrating editorial articles for various NPR departments and podcasts- Creating flow charts and graphics in collaboration with writers- Communicate with in-house art directors- Depicting difficult, abstract concepts where a photo would be inappropriate - Pursuing self-directed projects- Social media management (tumblr, instagram)- Writing & Marketing for the new NPR Illustration tumblr

Silver Spring, Maryland

- Designing social media campaigns and series to attract followers to Fillmore instagram- Illustrating 1-4 images a week to accompany acts- Designing gig posters for front of house

Baltimore, Maryland

- Prepping Illustrator files and templates for senior designers- Designing company promotional material and mailers- Naming new patterns for activewear- Researching global trends and compiling inspiration boards- Proposing social media initiatives to higher ups

Baltimore, Maryland

- Worked with wood type on letterpress machines- assisted letterpress courses with machine operation- created lockups for client-based posters - designed series of screen printed hair bows using scanned-in wood type