Takeshi Watanabe Email & Phone Number

Hermosa Beach, CA, US

W Design Studio LLC offers small to mid size organizations with visual communication strategies, including branding and corporate identity consulting, sales collaterals, and product prototyping (UX/UI).

San Mateo, California, US

Los Angeles, California, US

New York, NY, US

Working closely with executives and marketing team to establish new brand communications and visual storytelling via website, social network channels, blogs, and various marketing and sales collaterals.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Responsible for recognition experiences for top level distributors, such as President’s Club and Chairman’s Circle. Overseeing the overall visual directions for corporate events, such as annual Honors, Investor Day, and global Extravaganza events. A Hall of Fame, a highest achievement a Herbalife offers, was conceptualized based on my visual directions.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Refresh marketing materials and various product-marketing communications. Involved in designing and launching various campaigns and projects such as introducing new products, sales pitches and template building as well as trainings and webinars.

Irvine, California, US

Working directly with the CMO, successfully launched rebranding of the SecureAuth. The application of the new branding extends from website, product UI, marketing materials, through the launching of the new office in Buenos Aires.

New York, NY, US

• Tasked as acquisition team to prepare for internal and external announcements and communication materials
• Adapted marketing and sales materials to Foursquare branding
• Worked with PMMs, Sales, and Comms teams to crate training materials during and after the merger to help visualize products and features
• Participated in the Foursquare rebranding project

Los Angeles, California (Southern), US

• Made the brand shift from startup “friendly” tone to more mature enterprise tone for possible IPO or M&A
• Initiated revenue focused visual rebranding through marketing and product marketing and kept them consistent through product UI
• Automated sales collaterals, identifying bottlenecks and implemented the cloud based creative processes and templatizing presentations
• Customized quarterly market report as well as managed daily social engagement

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Worked on brand refresh of the Currency and established design system for sub brands and products
• Created brand guide and corporate identity book for the organization
• Templatizing marketing communications and sales collaterals based on the revised brand
• Website refresh with updated brand messages and style guides

New York, New York, US

• Worked on the rebranding project of a major Japanese conglomerate
• Developed design systems and prototype applications of the systems to guide and direct client's internal design teams
• Helped the agency with presentations in Japanese and communicated feedbacks from the client to designers and production artists

Playa Vista, CA, US

• Evolved Rubicon brand from start-up through IPO (NYSE:RUBI) and elevated as company grew.
• Oversaw creative services by providing art direction and project objectives to design teams.
• Created corporate identity bible and brand guidelines for internal marketing and external vendors.
• Conceptualized event themes and managed the production of 20+ international events annually.
• Designed sales collateral and presentations as well as designed sustainable templates for sales team.

• Managed performance-based advertising campaigns and RFPs for sales and business development.
• Top-tier clients included Citibank, AT&T, and Adidas, all targeted via MySpace and other Fox properties.
• Helped product team launch self-serve display ad service, MyAds, and led the marketing initiatives.
• Designed demos stations and training materials for trade shows and events with brand consistency.

Beverly Hills, CA, US

• Designed homepage takeover and exclusive ad campaigns for branded profiles on MySpace platform.
• Created and managed marketing communication design team both in LA headquarters and NYC.
• Led creation of UX prototypes for companies including HP ($25 million) and McDonald's ($20 million).

• Created advertising platform and UX for browser tool-bars, designed cursors and desktop applications.
• Produced multiple flash-based online games and apps and managed action script developers.

Santa Fe Springs, US

Launched e-commerce service for globally known hot-rod racing brand, established in the 1940’s. The site o ffers thousands of their racing parts, auto accessories and branded merchandises.

US

Localized Japanese operation of search engine pioneer, Overture. Solved UI and navigational conflicts, and collaborated with engineers overseas to document functional specifications and QA processes.

Plano, TX, US

Designed UI for kinkos.com, a self-service, online and in-store printing services targeting both consumer and business clients. Also participated in creating national media and retail promotion of the services.

US

Designed seasonal and high-tra c pages for online eCommerce pioneer, eToys.com. Managed and trained junior designers, contractors and interns in fast growing company during its pre- and post-IPO.

Founded a production and management company with three other partners. Managed the production of feature films, commercials and pilot films and designed games for Playstation and CD-ROM.

Designed promotional goods and national advertising campaigns for CAP, Inc, a U.S. subsidiary of mid-size advertising agency in Japan. Campaigns included Kirin Beer, SunZen, and other brands.

Designed packaging and labels for a boutique print studio, o ering o -set printing services for exclusiveclientele. Gained knowledge in traditional printing process and originated digital pre-press process.