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Versatile designer with a unique blend of creative talents, seamlessly merging print and web design, product & lifestyle photography, creative direction, and copywriting to elevate brands, while excelling in independent problem-solving and rebranding initiatives.

Remote

Helping the Moves growth team speak to their core users through brand development and design.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for leading the development of the 500px brand through web, product, and marketing campaign design.
• Lead creative for a collaborative campaign with Collective Arts Brewery that got our brand and our users' work on beer cans, distributed globally.
• Designed and lead creative for a holiday campaign that generated the highest number of photo submissions to a 500px contest to date.

• Responsible for providing art direction for all print and digital marketing campaigns.
• Designed new logo, brand identity, and brand guidelines.
• Led the design of new retail spaces, including way finding design, video walls, and artwork.
• Oversaw creative development of multiple video series to help boost social media presence, including helping to write scripts, select talent, and sometimes direct.
• Oversaw creative direction and helped develop content for in–store magazine “The Lens."
• Re–branded in–house brand Cameron, including helping to design and select new products, and shooting lifestyle photography for ads.

Toronto

• Re–designed menus, homepage layout, and product list pages on company's eCommerce site to improve the usability and customer experience.
• Created templates for web banners and Google Display Network ads to cut down on production time for web design team.
• Designed and coded web pages and e–Newsletters.
• Re–named Henry’s School of Imaging to Henry's Learning Lab as well as created a new logo and colour scheme for the brand.
• After less than 2 years was promoted to Art Director and made responsible for overseeing all creative.

• Re–branded the company by creating a new logo and identity.
• Was lead designer on all projects where clients needed new branding, logo, and identity design.

Newmarket

• Worked with in-house CMS adjusting PHP and writing CSS and HTML to bring PSD designs live to the web.

• Graphic designer working on high profile clients.
• Lead marketing initiatives for Pepsi, and Breyer's Icecream.

• Created video segments and comedy skits for online.
• Acted as a graphic designer on other creators videos.
• Wrote scripts for skits and videos.
• Edited and shot video segments.

User Experience Design

Web Development

Graphic Design

Advanced Television & Film

Bfa, Fine Arts (Visual)

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual)