Lucas Beck Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Discussed design requirements for each project in coordination with the owners, partners, and marketing managers. Planned and developed new ideas specific to client requests and desires. Managed a wide range of day-to-day operations, including project management and billing to drive consulting business. Tactfully negotiated and secured all terms and conditions of vendor contracts and services to meet budget requirements.• Credited with delivering high-impact creative projects from concept to completion, including trailers and promotional content for company campaigns.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Devised and delivered marketing concepts and sale programs to internal clients and departments,while ensuring high quality work on tight schedules. Designed design pieces to clearly and effectively communicate marketing and merchandising efforts, including, but not limited to newsletter, brochures, promotional signs, poster, banners, graphics, logos, and advertisement. Engaged directly with printers and third parties to ensure timely completion of design projects. Formulated sign making procedures, as well as maintained sign making software and equipment, order supplies, and signage files.• Optimized product-specific sales by designing and producing eight awardwinningdisplays in national trade and vendor-sponsored contests.• Created and maintained store signage templates/guidelines for in-store signagein collaboration with the scanning and merchandising staff.• Built sign hierarchy program that adopted by national marketing consultant firm.

Capella Education Company, Minneapolis

Saint Paul, Minnesota

• Designed innovative and creative concepts for clients’ marketing and branding strategies.• Served as “in-house” designer/art director for majority of firm’s clients, which required meeting client-defined timelines by managing multiple projects with overlapping schedules. • Collaborated with clients and marketing consultants to assess client needs and wants.• Provided initial concepts, working prototypes, and final designs for clients’ websites and multimedia content.• Created processes and procedures for new in-house creative department and how it operates and relates with established departments.• Managed graphic designer and oversaw the complete creative process, from project’s concept to completion.• Coordinated with vendors of paper, printing, web hosting and others.Special Accomplishments• Speaker at the AAM Submit 2011 in Chicago: “Recognizing Design and Content that Sells.”• Art-directed and produced the layout of the “BWD,” Rehmann’s quarterly, 28-36 page magazine/newsletter.• Art-directed and produced the corporate identity, print collateral and website for KFI Engineering, a major engineering firm.Awards• First Place, AAM-MAA 2011, category: Print Newsletter (Over 15M in Revenue firm), client: Rehmann

Minneapolis, Mn

Invite/Project Designer• Consulted hundreds of brides-to-be through the wedding invitation design process.• Identified the needs of the client and coordinated costs and supervised negotiations of the budget.• Advised clients through the selection of paper and supplies.• Established an extensive knowledge of paper and its industry.• Developed a Project Manual used by in-house staff.• Created informational handouts and instructional worksheets for clients.• Created promotional materials, including coupons, brochures, postcards, and magazine/newspaper advertisements.

Art And Theater / Dance

B.S., Graphic Design