Rj Dugan Email & Phone Number

United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois

Razorfish is back

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

Worked with a solid team on a short engagement to ideate blue-sky campaign concepts for traditional and digital advertising. Super savvy group lead by Deepak Mehmi and Jon Mahalak.

Chicago, Illinois

Rejoining a team of design leadership that I knew very well from my previous years of working at Isobar Chicago & NYC. Working with UX and VD leadership to produce pitch work (resource planning, strategy and UX/UI) in response to client RFPs.

While at Ignition by Razorfish I worked primarily on the NSX Build & Price (configurator) page as well as the Acura MLPs (MMC/FMC model release) redesign effort. This was the first major site redesign in several years.The NSX project was a fantastic experience that spanned 10 months. The early part of the project was focused on concepting for the website UX design and developing story telling while the later portion and bulk of my time was spent directing CGI/content creation. For the MDX digital experience and content creation I worked with a larger team. The GCD lead the larger redesign effort while I focused on working with the client to understand the most important focal points of the vehicle and help guide the art direction (of that MLP) to bring that to life. This effort included directing CGI content creation and agency partners via sharing my shot lists for photography and a/v content.

I acted as a guiding force as a part of leadership for product development and creative services with a user-centered focus. In collaboration with talented engineers and biz-devs I used my background in product design to coalesce the technology potential and business opportunities into a digital product for (B2B) buyers and planners. The product was built with licensing (white labeling) as well for larger clients and strategic partners.

Nyc

My experience working at Roundarch Isobar was unique, challenging, and rewarding. I worked for a broad variety of clients with needs that spanned the gamut of the digital media sphere. As a company we looked beyond the realm of advertising to connect brands with their audience—our focus was to create experiences that people would remember and come back to. We looked at each new project as an opportunity to exploit the latest technology to bring an innovative fresh experience across multiple touch points—transmedia. I worked on a variety of projects from marketing initiatives to product design (consumer-facing, internal, and b2b).Clients: -- HBO, State Street, Bloomberg, Healthways, Cinemax, Heidrick & Struggles, Avis, Chartis, Nystrom: Stratalogica, Club Corp, RBC, ANG, Tesla, Marc Jacobs, and USAF.

I'm currently working as a freelance art director. My core competencies include brand identity design, GUI design for new media, and print design including marketing collateral, etc. Most recently—I've launched media pieces for Yahoo!, TXU, Sun Micro, Warner Bros. Records, Droga5, Vanguard Animation, Media-Fuse, InvertedCreative, and GoGreen Online.

Chicago, Il

MediaRiver was a Chicago based software development company. In pursuit of a better targeting solution to help major publishers and advertisers reach engaged users by efficiently tapping search, display, and content distribution networks—MediaRiver developed proprietary algorithms and technologies to drive content monetization and ad buy enhancements. We worked with a talented group of designers and technologists to partner with each of our clients to solve the known needs and challenges—as well as surfacing new issues that stood between our partners and a greater level of success. I have fond memories from my experience working with the incredibly talented group, including: Dave Hills - CEO, Jay Budzik - CTO, Badri Narasimhan - COO, Brian Atwood and Andy Crossen. We developed solutions for CNet, MSN Money, Motley Fool, Revolution Health, Travel Channel, ePals, Finding Dulcinea, NowPublic and more. I also learned from the experience of pitching concepts to: Time Inc., AOL, People, NYTimes, Ebay, Target, BestBuy, CapableNetworks, CBS Networks, CNN Money, Intel, LookSmart, Pixsy, RollingStone, Sports Illustrated, etc. Media River was acquired by Perfect Market in 2008.

For Music Direct the majority of my time was spent working with the VP of marketing on web design, advertising design, marketing material design, and catalog design. I also worked on album art and marketing for a historic record label for mastering high fidelity recordings (which the company owned and managed). I managed and produced new artwork for recordings of major artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and indie music demigods like the Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc.

Working as a small design studio catering to digital creative services and branding there were a lot of hats to wear: new business acquisition, account management, project management, art direction, brand identity design, logo design, typeface design, web site design, ad design, album cover design, environment (trade shows and retail showroom space) design, experience design, and material collateral design.