Michele Ripp Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Milwaukee

• Over 140 hours of dedication over an 11 day period managing a 20+ person beverage tent. • Responsible for training employees during the duration of the fest.• Provided excellent customer service to all patrons.• Designs menus for all events. Creates designs for special projects including tap handles and hand drawn artwork.

- Provided final, print-ready marketing collateral including: chainsaw manuals, packaging, landing pages and sell sheets. - Prepared creative pieces in up to 30 different languages.

• Works regularly with ad agencies, design firms and in-house design studios. Demonstrated expertise in creating original solutions to visual marketing and branding. • Analyzes the needs and product requirements to create a design solution to best fit the clients’ needs. • Relied upon to work as a collaborative team member producing graphics along with the production of files for final print publications and other media. • Fresh, clean, innovative approach to the clients’ needs and requests, that specializes in layout and digital manipulation.

Photo Retoucher for Kohl’s Omnichannel.Retoucher of both on and off figure images.

Kohler, Wisconsin, United States

Kitchen and Bath DivisionCreates packaging and labelsDesigns sell sheets, large format prints and merchandise displays

Glendale, Wi

• Digital designer for Subaru, Toyota, Duracell, Intel, Nissan and more. • Provides creative direction for UI/UX design for digital kiosks. • Creates print collateral for trade shows, brochures and magazines. • Delivers projects with quick deadlines on time.

• Prepares illustrations and photography for corporate collateral materials, packaging/labeling and environmental graphics, which require some originality while maintaining brand guidelines. • From concept to completion, prepare corporate sales and marketing brochures, catalogs, advertising, tradeshow materials, product packaging and labeling.• Collect and pre-flight documents for CTP or digital equipment using graphic design software• Creates engine illustrations for a web-based portal.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Develops graphics, icons and card art for the Apple Pay project. Modifies and creates new artwork from mock-up prototypes. • Reviews designs for errors before submitting to the analysts. • Responsible for accurately checking information submitted by the client.

Kohl'S Corporate Office

Creates weekly mailers and insert ads for Kohl's Department stores.

Waukesha, Wi

Bajer Design is the inventor of the pop open hamperCreates the packaging and sales presentations for Sports Pet products and Bajer items. Concentration on pet products: sports division, whiteboards and household supplies.Our clients include, but are not limited to Target, Wal-mart, Walgreens and Dollar General.Played a guest star role in photo shoots, commercial shoots, as a hand model and created quality control videos.Developed new concepts for new and existing divisions of the company. New concepts include illustrations for pull-apart dog toys, college themed hampers, etc.Creates die-lines, mock ups and packages for plan-o-grams

Creates marketing plans, initiatives, artwork requests, menu creation and B2B partnershipsPlans events and promotions, price quotes and reserves ad spots.Onsite messaging, effectively communicates with management and the corporate office.Trailer reporting, designs artwork, coordinates events and books venue space for partiesFocused on monthly KPIs, ROIs, goals and builds circuit-wide marketing campaignsEffectively hit quotas by following action plans and motivate staff to exceed goals & objectives with effective marketing initiativesProvided weekly reporting both on-site and to the corporate office

Social Media Guru.Planned special events for Breast Cancer awareness and secured sponsors to increase awareness.Worked with the Milwaukee Wave as a business partner.B2B- Networked with local business and built strong relationship helping to increase both parties revenue.Created marketing collateral both onsite and in local ads with a monthly presence in M Magazine.

Design portfolio includes: packaging, catalogs, logo development, signage, brochures, newsletters, and marketing collateral. Also, created content and designed promotional materials for trade shows, distributors and retailers, including print, web advertising, package design, flyers and press releases.I also pride myself on building client and vendor relationships and responsibly balancing multiple projects, which are just as important in the process as the design itself. Experience with photo shoot direction and ad campaign design and developmentDemonstrated knowledge of designing clean, press ready files to vendors.Responsible for writing and editing copy for all marketing materials.

M.A., Visual Studies, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Intramural Sports- Soccer, etc.

B.A., Advertising

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi, Ad2 Milwaukee