Ryan Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

My role at Cull Group is senior designer. As part of the creative team, I worked closely with my account manager, creative director and clients to create and deliver strong, compelling marketing, advertising,branding, and product design solutions that fit their strategic needs. Some of the projects I am responsible for: branding and brand implementation, B2C marketing and promotional materials, packaging design, tradeshow experiences, and website design.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

My role at ddm was senior designer. As part of the creative team, I worked closely with my project managers, account managers and clients to create and deliver strong, compelling, and cohesive sales and marketing solutions that fit their strategic goals. Brand consistency and uniformity throughout our design executions was paramount, especially when implementing a large brand roll out for one of our large financial clients. Some of the projects I was responsible for: branding and brand implementation, B2B marketing and sales tools (including sales presentations, brochures, fact sheets, and interactive sales collateral) social media campaigns, packaging design, internal marketing social campaigns, and building and fostering client relations.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

While looking for a full time Job after transplanting from Minnesota to Michigan, I worked on a side hustle, creating custom labels and bottles for the essential oil community. This side hustle turned into a full time gig as we endured the covid crisis and a large uptick in online sales. Also during this time, I work as a freelance art director/designer, creating t-shirt designs for the Lodge at Giants Ridge.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

My role at Yamamoto was senior art director. As part of this impressive creative team, I worked closely with my copywriters, creative directors, project managers, account managers and collaborated with my clients to create energetic brand campaigns infused with strong messaging, strategy, and visual style. From ideation, concepting, and presenting these ideas to my clients, to bringing these ideas to life and working with my creative team to shoot, execute, and distribute these executions across our omni channel environments, we created strong and compelling campaigns that elevated our clients brand recognition and showcased their capabilities and offerings. Through these projects, my main responsibility was to collaborate with my copywriter, creative director and strategy team, ideate, concept, and present rational to internal and external team, define and establish the visual language, build out main concepts, work with photographers and video productions partners to execute the vision we have approved, work with our digital team to create and troubleshoot any digital and social assets, work with our production team to execute print and social assets, and work in tune with my PMs and AMs to deliver everything on-time and on-budget. Some of the projects I worked on: branding and brand implementation, omni-channel advertising campaigns (print, TV, OOH, and multi media), B2B marketing and sales tools (including new product presentations, brochures, fact sheets, infographics, icons, and interactive sales collateral) social media campaigns, digital marketing and advertising, and building and fostering client relations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

My role at Padilla was senior designer. As part of this creative team, I worked closely with my copywriters, creative directors, project manages, account manages and collaborated with my clients to create impactful brand and marketing collateral that had creative messaging, a solid strategy, and utilized a branded visual style. From brainstorming and creating conceptual options that translate complex or technical ideas into a easy to understand branded package, to bringing these ideas to life and building out the omni channel experience , we created strong and compelling assets that elevated our clients brand, and showcased their offerings. Through these projects, my main responsibility was to collaborate with my copywriters, creative directors, and account executives, communicate and collaborate with my clients, brainstorm new concepts, present rational to internal and external team, define and establish the visual look and feel, build out assets from concepts, work with photographers and video productions partners to execute the vision we have approved, work with our digital team to create and troubleshoot any digital and social assets, work with our production team to execute print and social assets, and work in tune with my project managers and account executives to deliver everything on-time and on-budget. Some of the projects I worked on: branding and brand implementation, B2B marketing and sales tools (including product brochures, fact sheets, infographics, icons, and interactive sales collateral), annual reports, social responsibility reports, tradeshow booth design, tradeshow video displays, sales presentations, digital marketing and advertising, internal marketing campaigns, and building and fostering client relations.

I work as a freelance graphic designer. I specialize in corporate identity, packaging design, marketing material, B2B solutions, and front-end web design. My passion is to give my clients a great experience as well as a strong design solution, creating a strong working relationship along the way.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Contract designer for Ameriprise Financial’s in house design firm specializing in the strategic priorities, and insight into Ameriprise’s goals of creating a strong, cohesive, and branded identity for all products and services created by Ameriprise Financial.Assignments include: Consumer and advisor facing sales and promotional materials, annual reports, launch kits, network and franchise logos and icons, interactive sales and promotional PDFs, front end web design and advisor sales tools.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

My role at Koechel Peterson and Associates was senior designer. Koechel Peterson specializes in the christian publishing market. We worked with the top christian publishing houses such as Thomas Nelson, Harvest House, Hachette Book Group (Time Warner), Hallmark, and others. We specialized in creating gift and inspirational books, self reflection books, bibles and journals, and magazine and monthly reviews. Assignments include: Book design, surface design, CD and DVD package design, POP and banner displays, advertising and marketing pieces (brochures, ads, flyers, promotional pieces, etc) corporate identity, and design for web, just to name a few.

Graphic Designer for in store POP, Brochures, flyers, and event graphics. Marketing Director for radio and advertising spots