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Union City, California, United States

• Design lead for wide range of projects, including brand and seasonal campaigns, email and social campaign, landing page experience, look books, and digital advertising.• Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary team including copywriters, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors.• Direct photoshoots.• Brainstorm, design and execute on concepts and content across digital channels.• Collaborate with art directors, copywriters, UX and graphic designers… Show more • Design lead for wide range of projects, including brand and seasonal campaigns, email and social campaign, landing page experience, look books, and digital advertising.• Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary team including copywriters, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors.• Direct photoshoots.• Brainstorm, design and execute on concepts and content across digital channels.• Collaborate with art directors, copywriters, UX and graphic designers to bring stories and concepts to life.• Present work to creative leadership, selling ideas with excellent presentation skills.• Give and receive feedback to peers through design critique.• Bring the latest industry trends, new ideas, inspiration, and creativity to all areas of Ariat's work. Show less

Brooklyn, Ny

• Co-founded a media company that has grown to include an art & culture webzine, a publishing imprint, an ecommerce site and a podcast production company. • Apparel design, logo design, marketing design, product management, branding, copywriting, website design, video editing, print layout and market research.• Learned valuable lessons in running a profitable web-based media business, influencing, web publishing, digital design, collaborating and planning.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Lead the redesign of three of the company's flagship supplement products, overhauling the product packaging and product labels to create a design scheme that was modern, bright and informative.• Used Adobe Illustrator to design and layout the product box packaging and supplement bottle labels.• Used Adobe Dimension to create 3D Mockups of newly redesigned products, eliminating the need for product photography and time-consuming editing.• Used Adobe InDesign to create… Show more • Lead the redesign of three of the company's flagship supplement products, overhauling the product packaging and product labels to create a design scheme that was modern, bright and informative.• Used Adobe Illustrator to design and layout the product box packaging and supplement bottle labels.• Used Adobe Dimension to create 3D Mockups of newly redesigned products, eliminating the need for product photography and time-consuming editing.• Used Adobe InDesign to create promotional materials for redesigned products, including print advertisements for trade catalogs and digital newsletters, web banners, paid advertisements and organic social media.• Worked intimately with web development team to update company's Wordpress-built eMarketplace website, bringing the spirit and energy of the new product designs to the storefront.• Advised company founder on design issues as they pertained to branding, marketing, and promotional campaigns for the redesigned products and the company in general.• Became a trusted ear for the company founder to discuss plans with, brainstorm promotional and marketing campaigns, and offer advice when needed. Show less

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Helped launch customer loyalty program. Devised original branded illustrations, built out email marketing templates, created graphics & animations for paid and organic social media, marketing & email.• Designed company logo, built company website and created a brand style guide.• Product photography, branding, animation, illustration, video editing, 3D product mockups, product packaging, email design and AI-based subtitle generation.• Used Adobe Dimension to create 3D… Show more • Helped launch customer loyalty program. Devised original branded illustrations, built out email marketing templates, created graphics & animations for paid and organic social media, marketing & email.• Designed company logo, built company website and created a brand style guide.• Product photography, branding, animation, illustration, video editing, 3D product mockups, product packaging, email design and AI-based subtitle generation.• Used Adobe Dimension to create 3D renders of promotional materials for company campaigns.• Used light boxes and lighted scenes to shoot and edit product and lifestyle photographs for use in paid and organic social media campaigns. Edited photographs in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.• Created original promotional videos using mock-ups of smartphones and tablets showing scrolling webpages using Quicktime and Adobe Premier.• Used Adobe InDesign to create print-ready materials including 4x6 postcards, informational product inserts, thank you cards, and die-cut stickers. Show less

Portland, Oregon

• Design Lead for digital & print graphics, apparel, social media and marketing. Worked closely with social media, marketing and video teams to plan, execute, and launch products and marketing campaigns. • Lead the re-launch of NiaWear, the company's apparel & lifestyle brand, through the successful design and art direction of Nia’s 2019 “Love Your Body” apparel collection.• Co-lead the re-design of Nia’s flagship website, from the ground up. Worked closely with webdev team to… Show more • Design Lead for digital & print graphics, apparel, social media and marketing. Worked closely with social media, marketing and video teams to plan, execute, and launch products and marketing campaigns. • Lead the re-launch of NiaWear, the company's apparel & lifestyle brand, through the successful design and art direction of Nia’s 2019 “Love Your Body” apparel collection.• Co-lead the re-design of Nia’s flagship website, from the ground up. Worked closely with webdev team to problem solve, provide page mock-ups and deliver creatives to build out site. • Creative efforts helped Nia Technique gain positive returns on promotional campaign investments, expand into new branding arenas and further develop the brand message. Show less

United States

• Created original, age-appropriate illustrations and graphics using Adobe Illustrator to support the content creators. Graphics were aligned with company educational themes.• Contributed to an increase in sales and business exposure through creative contributions, promotional content and a re-design of Let’s Babble On’s ecommerce site.