Dianne Garcia Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California

I currently work directly with marketing to continue to expand and evolve design and branding for the company and the many products they work with. • Design for collateral marketing, including both print material and digital.• Design for on-the-ground product advertising, including signages that has been displayed at national grocery stores (i.e. Gelson's, etc.) • Creating new logos and packaging for different products.• Concept art for different projects and ideas.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, Ca

• Founded a lifestyle ‘geek’ website that features an all-female writers and entertainers.• Acting as the sole graphic designer plus social media and marketing manager—constantly shaping the brand to appeal to our niche audience while attracting a steady stream of new fans.• Producing, writing, and editing content that are relevant to our audience for the blog, social media platforms and the YouTube channel.• Co-host of an award-winning podcast, using basic audio editing and publishing the show on all relevant platforms including iTunes and Stitcher.• Networking and collaborating with people within the geek community and related entertainment personalities in web, movies and television.• Event planning for parties and popular comic conventions (i.e. San Diego Comic-Con)

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed assets and branding for events, concerts and parties. • Helped client elevate and develop existing artwork for events/parties.• Designed pieces included website design, logos, print work and digital media.

• Hired to be a freelance consultant to work with Ozery’s marketing department in order to bring their social media creative to the next level.• Led the creative on several rebranding projects to help bring a long-time family owned company into a more modern and fun aesthetic, including their store signs and care packages for events such as the Toronto Film Festival.• Worked with marketing team closely to come up with visual concept and copy for their social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Hermosa Beach

• Worked directly with the publisher and art director to elevate branding for real estate companies and agents.• Designed advertisement and editorial for two bi-weekly magazines, South Bay DIGS and Westside DIGS.• In charge of creating agent and property websites with Wordpress and Adobe MUSE.• Led client meetings on digital and website marketing.• Worked directly with an UX Designer to map and design websites from scratch.• In charge of tracking and reporting clients’ Online marketing through Google AdWords and Facebook Ad Manager.• Created social media graphics for different platforms and ad campaigns.• Designed various marketing collateral for real estate companies and agents ranging from postcards, flyers, brochures, signage, listing presentations, digital presentations, stickers, etc.• Trained and managed other designers and digital media specialist.

• Hired to consult and work with their public relations agent in order to design new promotions and collaterals for web hosting events and conventions, including flyers and clothing.• Led the creative in rebranding their print, newsletter and web advertising.

Costa Mesa, California

• Worked with sales and marketing to lead creative for print and web oriented advertising for clients ranging from retail, restaurants, music and club entertainment.• Built micro sites/microapps and various collateral to help promote special issues and company sponsored events, including Artopia, Summer Fest and Decadence.• Magazine layout through the ALS program and led decisions between editorial and advertisement.• Managed the flow of projects for both sales and marketing department.• Managed account executives and helped them turn in their ad orders while making sure that their clients’ brands are represented properly in the magazine and on the website.• Worked efficiently within a tight deadline on a weekly basis, managing several projects and different teams within the company.

• Worked with sales and marketing to lead the creative for print and web oriented advertising— ranging from retail, restaurants, music and club entertainment.• Worked with marketing to create in-house collateral including flyers, sales sheets, postcards and information packets for events, including LA Weekly’s Theatre Awards and Jonathan Gold’s Dish.• Worked within a weekly, tight deadline while managing the design/corrections of several projects at a time.• Laid out different sections and pages of the magazine for the final print.

• Implemented re-branding of the store’s newsletter and logos.• Managed the creative and marketing of the store’s sponsored events and classes.• Designed flyers, sign-up sheets, the monthly newsletter and worked with Ed Hardy to design an exclusive anniversary t-shirt for the store.• Managed the entire design for the store’s annual catalog.• Traveled to Japan and made a very rare visit to the villages that created handmade Japanese paper, also known as washi.

• Assisted graphic designers and art directors with revisions on various printed projects.• Prepared collateral projects for final presentations or print by checking artwork and correcting color and copy.• Prepared presentations for current and potential clients.• Prepared photo shoot concepts for products.• Managed and organized digital media files.

Ba, Fine Arts

Studied within the Fine Arts department.

Japanese Language And Literature

Study abroad program for one semester.