Nicholas Mccann Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx

Outcomes:• llustrated for a podcast geared toward children (Saints Alive Podcast)• Create concept art animation storyboards (Real+True)• Discover brands, created assets, and produced marketing collateral alongside clients, thereby meeting clients’ needs friendly and professionally (8VC, Diocese of Austin, Mary's Meals)Responsibilities:• Producing apparel design, logos, graphics, hand–made artwork, and illustrations.• Brand discovery, visual identity design, and artwork creation alongside clients

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Outcomes:• Led the creation and refinement of a design program that founded an in-housebrand design studio with clearly defined design systems.• Created and improved design systems that includ branded data visualization,production design, illustrations, motion graphics, video, books, and other assets.• Expanded and improved cross–platform utilization, including presentations, web,video, print, email, social, podcast, and ads in English, Spanish, and Italian.• Established agreed upon interdepartmental communication and process standards.• Designed and improved the brand and strategies for demand generation, therebyincreasing our audience by 30,000 and increased user retention by 1,000.Responsibilities:• Managed design, media, and marketing talent and worked with development,researchers, and event teams and directors to create and execute designs +strategies for the institute’s reports, podcast, website, videos, and social media.• Collaborated with and delegated tasks to directors, designers, developers,copywriters, marketers, videographers, and audio engineers to complete projectsthat communicated complex concepts with accuracy and clarity.• Created compelling stories using motion graphics, video, interactive data, and design.• Presented project updates and brand stewardship opportunities to stakeholders.• Trained 5 interns in design and marketing tools.• Worked with researchers to create compelling graphics for a wide range audiences.• Cultivated lasting rapport with colleagues, directors, stakeholders, users, and donors.Leadership:• Initiated and grew the brand, marketing, and product initiatives by eagerly learning newprocesses to produce the best, timely outcomes that fulfill job demands.• Proposed and spearheaded innovative ideas that communicated a developing storyof a long-term, decade-thinking institution.

Austin, Texas Area

Graphic Design• Creates assets, layouts, and libraries for:• Collaborates with directors, designers, copywriters, and translators to execute projects.• Negotiates with vendors, performs press-checks, and audits orders.My impact has:• Increased brand awareness, thereby increasing event attendance by nearly 300%.• Organized asset libraries, thereby making design production 2x faster.• Brought our content to both English and Spanish speaking populations.Art Direction• Incorporates shot lists, creates storyboards, directs and operates cameras, audio, andlights, edits photos and videos, and creates motion graphics and illustration assets.• Collaborates with videographers/photographers and communicates with talent.My impact has:• Created our first how-to videos on preparing brunch foods, thereby expanding ourbranding into a new subject, i.e. recipes for apple turnovers and mini-strata.• Established our branding for various kinds of videos, thereby diversifying the stylesof our videos that conform to our branding.

Austin, Texas Area

• Collaborate with Executive Director, Associate Directors, contract designers, copywriters, and translators to produce print, web, and video materials• High attention to detail to brand standards when designing multipage documents, data visualizations, brochures, printed marketing materials, and web materials and when creating videos and taking photos• Negotiate with vendors, perform press checks, and audit orders

Austin, Texas

• Create infographics, illustrations, social media content, booklets, reports for print and some for web• Monitor social media events and update front end of website.• Organize workload among team of designers

Austin, Tx

• Direct visual brand with international team for a film series• Organize and lead meetings with Directors• Recruit graphic designers, web developers, animators, and illustrators