Mathew Held Email & Phone Number

Lead Display ads, marketing motion, and Paid Social.design, motion, animation, illustration, data driven creative

Chico / Bay Area

• Illustration - Hand Drawing, Digital Illustration, Photoshop and Illustrator (Apparel - headwear and clothing, brochure, product design, logo illustration, album covers, iOS app illustrations)• Design- Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop (Apparel and headwear, techpacks, album art inserts, iOS apps, UI/UX, HTML/CSS)• Programming - Objective-c, Xcode, Illustrator, Photoshop (Completed everything from concepts, wireframes,UI, UX, design, programming to launch and running ads)• Animation - After Effects, Flash, Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator (Original concepts and stylized music videos for globally known artists)• Clients include: Kaiser Permanente, Yosemite, Mariposa County, Lil B The BasedGod, RiFF RAFF, Soulja Boy, Sk8mafia, Technine Snow, Hustler, Metroskateboarding and more.• The Pizzacat - Created a viral internet character featured on Vogue.com and cable show Epic Meal Empire, licensed birthday card in major retailers and posted all over the internet.

Sacramento County, California, United States

Responsible for • Wireframes• Web design mock ups• Building websites in Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify• Creating web assets• Creating Logos• Motion Graphics• Print materials• Email Marketing• Work with marketing team to create graphics and campaigns• Work with developers to to hand off assets and conceptsTools• Sketch• Photoshop• Illustrator• After Effects• InDesign• Html/Css

Chico, California Area

• Product Design - Photoshop, Illustrator, Hand Drawing (Product design, product concepts, apparel design, tech packs. multiple categories from bags, wine racks, yard inflatables, decor, kayaks, decanters, kitchenware, pet harnesses and more)• Illustration - Hand drawing, Photoshop, Illustrator (Technical, instructional, concepts, apparel, character, iconography)• Web design- Html/Css, Photoshop, Illustrator, Shopify (Website redesigns and updating, shopify sites)• Print design - Photoshop, Illustrator (packaging, instructional manuals, collateral, apparel)Marketing design - Photoshop, Illustrator, Amazon Seller Central (Amazon EBC, email, ads, social media, video editing)• Branding - Photoshop, Illustrator (Work on multiple brands from water sports, kitchen cookware, pet products and holiday decor. Work on rebranding several brands)• Training/teaching new hires.

• Web Design - Photoshop, Illustrator, Html/Css (Responsible for html/css coding new theme for homepage multiple times a month, designing homepage, designing sale banners, ads across multiple channels, email coding and design, creating templates for coworkers, online catalog) • Print Design - Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign (Work on printed catalog, brochure design, instructional manuals) • Illustration - Hand drawing, Photoshop, Illustrator (Editorial, technical, infographics)• Animation (Storyboarding, concepts, intro animations for national tv commercials, marketing animation for app stores, animated gifs for email, video editing for social ads)•Training, mentoring two successful new hires from hire to beyond their evaluation period.

Walnut Creek, California

• iOS Programming - Objective-c, Xcode (All programming from conception to app store launch)• Design - Illustrator, Photoshop (Designing entire app from wireframe to finished product)• Illustration - Illustrator, Photoshop (Creating all illustrations for many illustration based apps)• Marketing - After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop (Creating and running ad campaigns, making animations and viral social content)•Working with clients to create apps for their needs.• BASEDMOJI iOS App - Reached top 24 iOS Appstore, top 2 Lifestyle iOS Appstore.• Pizzacatapp iOS App - Featured on vogue.com as top 5 Instagram Embellishment apps.

San Francisco, California

• Direction - Overseeing telecommuting designers, working with developers and photographers.• Branding - Photoshop, Illustrator (Rebranding company identity)• Product Design - Photoshop, Illustrator (Designing phone and tablet cases, tech packs)• Web Design - Photoshop, Illustrator (Wireframing mobile and desktop sites, website assets)• Print Design - Photoshop, Illustrator (Packaging design, collateral materials)• Illustration - Photoshop, Illustrator (Iconography, technical illustration, marketing illustrations)• Product photography - DSLR, After Effects (Responsible for all in-house product photography and editing as well as product videos shooting and editing)• Marketing - Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects (Ad creation, Email design, social post designs, product videos)

Chico, California

• Illustration and Design - Hand Drawing, Photoshop, Illustrator (Apparel illustration and design, original concepts, work with licensed style guides, cut and sew) • Worked on brands: South Park, Batman, Skelanimals, Miami Ink, LA Ink, Looney tunes, Manchester United, Patron, private labels for WalMart, Kohls, Kmart Target, Delias.• Trend Boards - Responsible for creating trend and mood boards for urban based outlets.

Chico

• Illustration - Hand Drawing, Photoshop, Illustrator (Cover art, editorial illustration, illustrations for ads)• Design - Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator (Layout design, ad design, file prep, proof checking. Local Weekly music magazine, National music magazine, business oriented magazine, home and garden magazine.

Chico

Design, layout, illustration

Chico

Editorial illustration, layout design, weekly opinion cartoons

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, 2D Concept Art For Animation

Ba Communication - Graphic Design, Graphic Design