Erica Taylor Email & Phone Number

Napa, California, United States

- Works directly on packaging components for major wine and spirit brands including Sutter Home Winery, Ménage À Trois, Joel Gott Wines, Seaglass and Tres Agaves Productos.- Prepares mechanical files for release to vendors, including corrugated cartons, wine labels, screwcaps, capsules, corks, etc.- Partakes in design and color explorations for new wine and spirits packaging projects, along with line extensions.- Attends press checks for labels and cartons, ensuring products meet brand expectations.- Engages with vendors on facility and production capabilities for flexography, lithography, and digital printing.- Lead graphic designer in a cost savings initiative for cartons transitioning from lithographic to flexographic printing for a top company brand. This initiative is estimated to save over $1.5 million over a 3 year period.- Requests, approves and archives drawdowns. Communicates with quality control to ensure colors of finished products measure up to standard.- Works in a fast paced environment, managing multiple projects at a time.

Napa, California, United States

Alamo, California, United States

- Managed multiple clients and projects concurrently, ensuring deadlines were met and performing quality control on finished products. Products included labels, pouches, tins, boxes, jars, and other custom packaging items.- Compared print vendors to find the best partner for each project, and adapted quickly when new art changes or production issues arose. - Communicated with clients, taking projects through supply chain, making quotes, placing orders with print vendors, and ensuring quality and timeliness from production team. Was praised by clients for attention to detail and quick communication.- Worked on large-scale projects worth up to $50,000. - Attended press checks when able and necessary for projects of concern.- Aided in other areas of the company that need assistance. Updated website, social media account, created government regulations guidelines for design team to follow with ease, organized booth design for national conferences, + more.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Graphic Designer and front end web developer for Cal Poly Student Academic Services, which encompasses multiple programs geared toward equal opportunity and academic support for students of all backgrounds. Creates and designs pamphlets, invitations, mass email campaigns, website updates, event flyers, and more.

Alamo, California

-Created custom dielines for boxes, pouches, and labels.-Communicated directly with clients, pitching and perfecting new packaging designs that followed current brand guidelines.-Adhered to client budget, timeline, and vendor production limitations, and designed with print method, FDA guidelines and state regulations in mind for food and cannabis products.-Adjusted client supplied art to be production ready, according to print method, and monitored quality of the work upon completion. http://www.packagingoptionsusa.com https://www.treeformpackaging.com

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Served as the President of Cal Poly's TAGA Student Chapter for the 2019-2020 school year. The team will be designed and produced a journal of graphic arts research using presses in house at Cal Poly’ Graphic Communication Department. The journal was showcase at the National Conference, which was virtual, in March 2020. Our journal received awards for best production, best design, and best digital implementation out of 7 student journals entered.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Collected student Research papers by contacting alumni and professors to be featured in the 2019 TAGA Student Chapter journal. Also helped with production of the journal, attended weekly board meetings and general meetings to ensure the journal's completion before showcasing the journal at the national TAGA conference in March 2019 in Minneapolis, where our team one the grand prize of the Kipphan Cup.

Trooper, Pennsylvania

Worked production at Shirt & Ink, organizing workflow, weeding vinyl and operating heat presses to apply vinyl to the shirts. Also operated a direct to garment printer, stocked shelves, and helped taking orders and checkout.Was promoted to a graphic designer position in June of 2019, where I communicated with customers, created mockups of designs on various clothing items, and prepped designs for various printing processes (direct to garmet, vinyl, and screen printing).

Schwenksville, Pennsylvania

Worked designing mockups of orders, creating custom logo and shirt designs, and making marketing material to be posted on CPI's social media pages. Also contacted customers with questions regarding orders. Primarily used Adobe Illustrator when creating logos and advertisements. Started unpaid, and was hired as a paying job after the first month.

Kampala, Uganda

Interned at Mango Tree and helped design a layout to be utilized in a textbook for 9th grade children that was published and distributed to schools across Uganda. The chapter revolved around healthy living, exercise and sleep. The text was provided, utilized Adobe InDesign to layout the design, as well as Adobe Illustrator to create infographics to better display the information.