Evan Backstrom Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, In, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Design and print all tactics for the company on our restored 1909 letterpress• Manage, run all social media outlets, websites, and other web stores including Etsy• Handle all client interactions, design requests, and fulfillment • This company serves as a creative outlet, passion project

Greenwood In

• Develop, design bespoke, compelling story-driven brands• Serve as in-house design and creative subject matter expert• Design, develop all creative materials for all business lines• Work as part of marketing and residential teams to open and launch apartment communities• Manage social media accounts for all business lines• Oversee the creation of all brand assets including collateral packages, maps and floorplans, virtual tour technology, websites, and photography•… Show more • Develop, design bespoke, compelling story-driven brands• Serve as in-house design and creative subject matter expert• Design, develop all creative materials for all business lines• Work as part of marketing and residential teams to open and launch apartment communities• Manage social media accounts for all business lines• Oversee the creation of all brand assets including collateral packages, maps and floorplans, virtual tour technology, websites, and photography• Develop events, initiatives for our award-winning culture• Maintain central purchasing portal for all print, promotional products across all units Show less

Gannett Design Studio

• Creatively present stories and data across multiple daily publications• Identify target audience and present content to them using diverse art methods• Generate graphics, images, and layouts to drive reader engagement • Assist in the development of an interactive tablet app for The Des Moines Register• Copy edit and write headlines for stories to accurately convey issues to readers• Generate content, graphics, images, and other collateral for print and digital use•… Show more • Creatively present stories and data across multiple daily publications• Identify target audience and present content to them using diverse art methods• Generate graphics, images, and layouts to drive reader engagement • Assist in the development of an interactive tablet app for The Des Moines Register• Copy edit and write headlines for stories to accurately convey issues to readers• Generate content, graphics, images, and other collateral for print and digital use• Maintain brand identity across multiple publications while advocating for readers• Produce/edit video projects for The Des Moines Register• Stay up to date on current design trends and creative processes • Manage team of 15 designers while team leader is out Show less

• Collaborated with editorial team to design news, sports and features pages for regional daily publications• Copy edited, corrected stories for grammar, context, accuracy, and fairness• Design information graphics and other visuals for web and print

• Lead a major overhaul and redesign of online curriculum for Agronomy Department • Created, designed and copy edited graphics, slides, and videos for online course• Compiled slides into video-based lecture segments

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Lead designer for The Oshkosh Northwestern• Design news pages for The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen• Assist in the development of a tablet app for The Des Moines Register• Copy edit pages, charts, and graphics

I and a team of 10 other students sent out to help the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial library. Our project had 5 assets- a digitization of Vonnegut manuscripts; a film archive of the author for display; a traveling exhibit; new products for its gift shop and a marketing plan to help the KVML become self-sustaining• Collaboratively designed a traveling exhibit to teach about Vonnegut• Designed two interactive iPad-based kiosks containing over 40 pages of history• Presented progress… Show more I and a team of 10 other students sent out to help the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial library. Our project had 5 assets- a digitization of Vonnegut manuscripts; a film archive of the author for display; a traveling exhibit; new products for its gift shop and a marketing plan to help the KVML become self-sustaining• Collaboratively designed a traveling exhibit to teach about Vonnegut• Designed two interactive iPad-based kiosks containing over 40 pages of history• Presented progress updates, project to CEO, board and major stakeholders Show less