Chris Leake Email & Phone Number

Flossmoor, Il, Us

36 S. Wabash

Responsible for delivering strategic communication solutions that help clients attain their marketing and communications objectives. Listening, asking, hearing, prioritizing and translating client situations, marketing goals and information into strategic brand concepts.

Chicago

Responsible for the conception, design, and execution of visual marketing materials for integrated, cross channel initiatives including: online advertising, large web initiatives and digital marketing. Art directed photoshoots and marketing promotions. Negotiated contract services and maintained vendor relationships.

Project managed, designed, executed and coordinated print publications such as brochures, annual reports, advertisements, direct mail, logo developments, web graphics and web designs.

Taught and managed intense ten-week courses involving art, design and conceptual thinking. Utilized active learning methods, lesson plans and used a variety of instructional strategies designed to assist students in meeting the objectives of the courses. Reviewed and helped author courses in art and design. Responsible for training and managing new faculty. Ensured that teaching design and methods were in compliance with the educational standards and regulations of the design department.

Instructed college students in the School of Drafting and Design. Taught the visual communication courses. Courses Taught: Digital Type and Image Manipulation, Graphic Illustration, and Graphic Design for the Web.

Designed retail environment graphics for BP (British Petroleum), Wild Bean Café and Subway. Designed monthly promotions consisting of all types of in-store point of purchase graphics; floor graphics, free standing signage, end cap promotions, counter advertisements, window signs, menus, brochures, bi-weekly magazine inserts and large billboards.

Worked as a production artist designing magazine layouts and quarter page ads. Created on-premise marketing for restaurants, bars and clubs.