Julia Y Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Currently creating illustrated icons and social media graphics for Flyhomes. Artwork is viewable in the "How the #@¢?! Do I Buy a House?!" blog series.

Seattle, Washington, United States

I'm experienced with many tasks, skills and technical knowledge involved in photo retouching including color matching & color corrections, creation of photoshop actions, optimization of work flows, file formatting for print & web use, asset management, quality assurance, compositing, restoration... basically if you need anything done to a photo, I can fix it up.My clients benefit from my experience and the speed, accuracy, and quality of the work that I do. I've been working remotely for clients throughout my freelance career, so I've been able to easily meet the challenges of working remotely during the pandemic by using FTP and VPN to transfer data and keeping clients updated regularly through email, slack, zoom, or discord.Freelance clients have included: Bevel Spectacles, Blue Nile, Christopher Conrad, Janet Klinger Photography, Pencilbox Studios, Signature Eyewear, Tara Gimmer, and Voda Studios.

Greater Seattle Area

Created digital artwork for branding materials, media packaging, and apparel graphics to drive small business priorities, formatted for print and digital needs. Services have included: 2-D animation, t-shirt design, event poster art, book cover illustrations, and icon & logo design.Area of specialty: hand lettering and illustrative designs.Clients include: Ackley Pharmaceuticals, FlyHomes, Living Dead Records, What’s This?, Flour Bottom Sweets & Treats, Rising Body Care, Freakshow Deluxe, Southern Sideshow Hootenanny, and more.Published Work Includes:• Portland Mercury – Illustrated magazine cover- November 2019• Leadlights – 2019 – Illustrated book cover.• Spectacle of the Extension – 2014 – Illustrated book cover.Portfolio & more information available on www.JuliaY.com

Greater Seattle Area

•Established design direction, aesthetic, and color palette for use across all in-game and promotional assets for Astronaut: The Best, producing engaging, readable icons and user interfaces.• Collaborated with writers for visual world-building that matched their intended narrative.• Developed concepts for 2D characters and environments, prepared assets for implementation in Unity.• Animated character reactions and game trailer in Adobe Flash.• Graphic design for icons and user interfaces. Worked with wire frame layouts from developers.• Print design for logo, postcards, booth signage, cardboard cutouts, temporary tattoos and otherpromotional materials for conventions and website.• Game has been featured at GDC Indie Megabooth 2016 & 2018, Seattle Indies Expo 2017, PAX West Indie Megabooth 2016, and EGX Leftfield Collection 2016. Artwork was included in the Industry Art Gallery at DreamHack Anaheim 2020."The art design is striking, landing somewhere between Tex Avery and John Kricfalusi." – Ars Technica Review More information at AstronautThe Best.com

Greater Seattle Area

• Trained and led team of 11 Image Production Technicians, handling both high-touch image manipulation and high-volume processing of 1K+ images per day for Nordstrom.com.• Collaborated with Tech Team on development of asset management system, and created automated script processes that delivered annual savings of $50K.• Initiated, designed, and maintained 75 pages of documentation for previously unrecorded processes, streamlining team workflows and employee onboarding.• Promoted from Image Production Technician in April 2013.

Greater Seattle Area

• Provided leadership and creative direction to a team of photo retouchers in a high-pressure flash sale environment. Managed priorities and tight deadlines to ensure assets were ready for online sales.• Trained, managed performance, and delegated work to a team of fifteen Photo Editors. Created Photoshop test for prospective candidates. Reviewed applications, conducted interviews. Scaled team from 2 to 30 people. • Retouched product & editorial images. Performed color corrections, composited images, advanced Photoshop problem-solving. Provided art direction to photographers and stylists to create imagery for special sales and events. • Promoted from Photo Editor to Lead Photo Editor in February 2011.

Tukwila, Wa

• Taught Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign and Dreamweaver.• Topics included graphic design principles, animation, print and web design, production design, digital prepress, typography, text and image integration, and self-promotion.• Mentored students in Capstone project at completion of their AA degree.• Completed training on effective teaching and different models of learning.

Huntington Beach, Ca

• Taught Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and traditional drawing techniques.• Topics included lighting, graphite and ink rendering, character design, movement and narrative.• Created courses with scalable projects to engage and challenge students with mixed skill levels.

• Conceptualized and designed graphics for high end clothing lines Raw 7, Gramm, and Royalty.• Directly communicated with buyers on creation of new content for Gramm and innovative usage of licensed characters for Warner Brothers and DC Comics.

Master'S Degree, Illustration, 4.0

Limited Residency program Received MFA in Illustration in July 2015 4.0 GPA

Bachelor'S Degree, Illustration, 3.34

• BFA in Illustration. Also studied Photography, Graphic Design and Digital Media. • Attended via full scholarship with a 3.34 GPA.