Chris Apap Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Offering freelance and/or contract design services. My clients have ranged from startups, to well-established institutions. I provide my wealth of skillsets for UX, Brand Design, Production Design, and Product Design, Design systems, and Templates in Figma and Adobe, PowerPoint and Keynote Design.Select clients: Shaw/Scott, Kopperfield, Inc, Exasol, TDG.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Served as an integral part of Amazon Halo’s design team with ongoing production design needs, and brand building.
• Worked alongside Marketing, Production, UI/UX, and GTM teams on brainstorming, ideation, export and delivery of all branded assets. Including App assets, packaging design, UX and Product Design.
• Partnered with the packaging team for both Halo View and Halo Rise products to sign off on accuracy and providing keylines and press-ready artwork.
• Owned the development of the Digital Asset Management System (DAM) with over 5,000 visual assets.
• Managed and mentored contract production designers.
• Senior Designer of Presentations for the annual MARS event in 2022 and 2023. Duties for this exclusive event included working with production team to ensure Keynote presentations ran smoothly on a very large 4K screen..

Chicago

• I was brought onto the team to create and manage a clients DAM system, and assist the design team wherever needed.
• Developed and executed a file organization structure for both internal processes, and on the new Dealer Resource Portal (webdam) for LION Protects. Then trained the clients on how to use it along with a one-sheeter.

Greater Chicago Area

• As Senior Graphic Designer I helped drive the agency branding and visual voice for the general public, to boost stakeholder engagement.
• Planned and designed social media posts, website visuals, email campaigns, layout and design of dense community plans, reports and strategy papers including the ON TO 2050 regional vision.
• Creation of and staff training sessions of easy-to-use internal templates (including, InDesign and PowerPoint).
• Creation of infographics and data visualization to help tell a complex story through simple, easily understood visuals.
• Environmental design, lobby displays, and special event signage.

Chicago

• Served as the sole staff designer to handle invitation and program designs for 50-60 non-profit fundraiser events per year.
• Partnered with each client’s event chair or committee, and created concepts and designs for all digital and print materials for the events. Including: save the date’s,invitation and RSVP cards, e-vite, PowerPoints.

• I sat on multiple teams during my time here, making myself an integral part of the New Business pitch team, and earning the trust of the our clients, and C-suite executives.
• Design and build - InDesign and Keynote templates for creative teams.
• Create and finalize presentation decks
• Create comps and layouts
• Provide Art Direction and Design expertise when needed
• Aid the new business pitches

• Design and build - InDesign and Keynote templates for creative teams.
• Create and finalize presentation decks
• Aid Designers with comps and image sourcing
• Team Photographer, documenting all materials produced by the team, for award show submission boards, and the company website.
• Aid the new business team in building decks
• Aid in brainstorming sessionsSelect Clients: Samsung, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Allstate, Esurance, Firestone, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Ideas Week, Marwen, Leo Burnett (internal), New Business Team

My main account at Leo Burnett was the Hallmark team. I handled layout and design of web banners, resizing, original facebook content, video endframes and supers, idea comping, and building presentation decks.Select Clients: Hallmark, Always, Allstate

• Contract Designer for Life Fitness
• Prep files for printers
• Heavy Photo manipulation
• Design and layout all print materials and some web assets, including - catalogs, sell sheets, brochures, invitations, trade show graphics, magazine ads, POP, POS, facebook page graphics, e-newsletter headers and web.

I was originally contracted to design an annual catalog, the client extended extended to multiple projects including sell sheets, display graphics for KBIS trade show, multiple other catalogs product photography and other duties.

• Selected Contributions:
• Contracted to do design and layout for Crystal Mountain Resort and Spa’s“Mountain Life” magazine and “Winter Fun” brochure. An integral part of thedesign process from start-of-projects to completion.

• My first official job in Advertising, this role taught me the fast-paced lifestyle of working on multiple clients simultaneously, and learning how to jump in and help the team in whatever role was needed. Selected.
• Developed the look and feel for many healthcare websites, including the 4th largest Catholic healthcare system in the nation
• Designed, illustrated and created layouts for key internal/external branding and platform campaigns – print, collateral, billboard, online and broadcast executions
• Utilized graphic design, HTML, CSS proficiencies in the implementation of websites
• Product photography for national brand products
• Concepted and designed brand identities/logos for several key clients

• Selected Contributions:
• Concepted and implemented cover designs and layouts for thousands of publications, including monthly newsletters and holiday editions.
• Retouched, edited and selected all photography featured in publications.
• Managed over 400 accounts throughout the Midwest.