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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.