Ginger Jarvis Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

As Creative Director at Rael, I lead brand creative across all touch points, including web, email, social, print, packaging, photography, video, installation and copywriting. I manage the in-house team of designers in the US, as well as our network of creative freelancers. It is a hands-on role, working collaboratively with the marketing and sales teams to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Los Angeles

Develop and teach courses within the Graphic Design and Social Media departments. Responsible for designing course outlines, generating lessons, assignments, and grading structure for courses taught.Developed course, “International Strategies for New Media”. Students learn how to successfully design and navigate global campaigns for brands, using a variety.

• I maintain freelance contracts and ongoing agreements with a number of networks, studios, agencies, and independent parties. I offer creative services specializing in graphic design, art direction, brand & identity.
• Art Director with experience leading creative teams within agencies and fashion brands, with a special focus on developing powerful brand aesthetic + identity, and teaching designers.
• Accomplished graphic designer with a thorough understanding of quality and layout standards for both digital and print production.
• Compositor and motion designer with experience in both television and film.
• Brand identity designer and strategist.
• Experienced photo retoucher and digital illustrator.

Los Angeles

• Conceptualized, pitched and lead the team to design all Shoes of Prey branded touchpoints and marketing materials, website, print, social media and other forms of advertisements.
• Developed new logo, visual identity, and brand standards guide for the Shoes of Prey brand - elevating the brand aesthetic and modernizing the overall look and feel of the brand.
• Art directed and managed photoshoots, including model casting, scheduling, budgets, location scouting and styling.
• Worked with in-house and 3rd party CMS systems using HTML/CSS to code basic web pages.
• Partnered with Marketing and Merchandising teams to evolve the brand strategy across all channels through content calendar management and creative outputs.
• Directly managed internal creative designers, as well as a team of external freelancers, including copywriter, illustrator, retoucher and print vendors, coaching and managing all creative timelines and workflow to keep.

Toronto

Taught design principles, and the technical production of print, web, animation, compositing and special effects in the Media Production undergraduate program, as well as advanced workshops for masters students in the Masters in Media Production program. Developed lessons, assignments, and grading structure for courses taught.Courses include: Digital Media.

Toronto

Developed and taught courses within the Graphic Design program at Seneca@York. Responsible for designing course outlines, generating lessons, assignments, and grading structure for courses taught.Courses include: Interactive Design I & II, Motion Design and Animation, Photography & Video Effects, Web Software II, Typography.

As Art Director at Haft2 Inc., a branding agency that focuses on the strategic use of colour, I drew on colour research to make design recommendations and guide the creative team to create a multitude of graphics for client’s brands. I was also responsible for the company’s digital offering: designing media and strategies for online and mobile.

Toronto, Canada Area

Designed and animated original title sequences, transitions, advertisements, logos and contest promos for broadcast, web, print and mobile devices.

Worked in the Segmentation Dept, rotoscoped people and objects, composited coloured layers within shots using After Effects and Shake.

Performed postproduction animation and green screen compositing using Photoshop, After Effects and Flash on "Big & Small" for BBC and YTV.

CBC and Nickelodeon's "Mr. Meaty" and Disney's "Ooh, Aah and You"Painted and helped to build set walls and set pieces using wood, vacuform, foam and more. Worked in Photoshop and Illustrator to create large posters for set walls, episode specific logos, labels (for bottles and other items), banners, signage, and stickers – for a puppet-size set.

Ma, Media Production

Wrote and designed a 100-page, full-colour research magazine exploring Technicolor technology during the 1940s, and it's influence on.

Ba, Radio & Television Arts

Specialization in Digital Media Production Recipient of TARA (Television & Radio Award) for Best Art Direction Member of the Golden Key.