Christopher Mcdougall Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Walnut, Ca

Promoted to Senior Production Artist after 4 years with wet n' wild Beauty. Additional duties include: • Reports directly to the Creative Director, serving as second in command managing projects for designers and production artists.• Project lead for beauty product segment encompassing primary and secondary artwork, including mockups, renders, samples, and final production. • Takes design concepts into production for countertop displays, POPs, and wall fixtures. • Functional lead for artwork deliverables collaborating with Brand, Merchandising, Product Teams, and project manager to ensure timely delivery of quality artwork.• Collaborates with Merchandising to create artwork assets for wall fixtures featured in major retailers such as Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Target. • Liaison with international manufacturing firms in China ensuring production deliverables remain faithful to the original design and concept.• Conducts press checks with vendors.

Walnut, Ca

Markwins International is a cosmetics company that manufactures the wet n' wild, Black Radiance, Physicians Formula, and Lipsmacker brands. I work under the wet n' wild.

Burbank, Ca

A reusable bag company that specializes in eco-friendly products for retail & grocery stores.• Charged with illustrating and developing new seasonal design concepts including product packaging for large grocery retailers such as Kroger and Supervalu. • Managed quality assurance of design process and bag production, ensuring all images are high quality artwork, redesigning low resolution images as needed.• Served as website administrator updating and maintaining the company’s content management system (CMS) Wordpress.• Ensured proper set up of templates for manufacturing in China. • Created content for promotional/advertising materials, including catalog layout and photography.

Los Angeles, Ca

United States branch of Broccoli, a Japanese company that caters to fans of anime & manga (Japanese animation & comics, respectively).• Fashioned packaging and menus for DVD animation projects such as Di Gi Charat, Aquarian Age, and the highly acclaimed FLCL.• Laid out and supervised the localization of several Japanese graphic novels and magazines under the Broccoli Books imprint.• Created and maintained websites using the Drupal/Joomla CMS and HTML/CSS.• Designed promotional materials for Square Enix’s line of Japanese graphic novels that were used at San Diego Comic-Con.• Made catalogs, promotional items, and advertising.

Greater Los Angeles Area

A US media company that specializes in localization of Japanese anime & manga (Japanese animation & comics, respectively).• Hand coded the animation news website “Akadot”.• Laid out advertisements, promotional items, and packaging.

Ba, Art History, 3.43

Studied Art History while working part time as a graphic designer for Digital Manga, Inc.

Graphic Design, 3.7

Transferred to UCLA.