• Meeting directly with clients to understand their business goals and design needs.• Taking that information and creating strategically designed website and landing page mockups that reflect the brand’s voice, funnel users with strong calls to action and hierarchy of information, and provide a roadmap for front end developers on what to build.• Creating brand logos, color palettes, brand guides, and establishing the brand voice (from scratch or working with an existing brand to improve it).• Designing graphics and layouts for a wide range of digital and print collateral including, but not limited to: Ads (Facebook, display, etc), social media posts, business cards, flyers, brochures, table tents, eBooks, promotional products, trade show materials, sale banners, newsletters, catalogs, t-shirt designs, infographics, restaurant menus, merchandise and more.• Creating unique package and label designs for a variety of products and communicating with print vendors.• Designing, animating, and cutting together custom videos for ads, explainers, presentations and more.• Writing and copyediting content for newsletters, ads, websites, landing pages as needed.• Training and overseeing the work of other designers as well as front end developers on staff, providing feedback and direction on overall design projects, website and landing page builds, written content, ads, and more.• Organizing team and client notes, files, folders, practicing effective communication, offering ideas and solutions to help improve the overall workflow and team as needed.• Maintaining excellent general customer service, participating in client-facing meetings and video calls, playing an integral role in team building, and project management as needed.• Striving to increase personal knowledge of marketing, SEO, and user experience strategies in order to incorporate them into the design process and create the essential balance of form and function.

· Designing and illustrating content for various mediums· Creating and concepting logos for various clients· Manipulating and cleaning up images and photographs

• Planning, laying out, animating, and editing countless intricate and unique Keynote presentations made for a long list of clientele• Screen capturing Keynotes, converting and editing them into videos made for the web• Creating and editing graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop to be placed into and animated in hundreds of Keynotes• Laying out thousands of slides using meticulous typographical sense• Designing various logos and graphics for web, clothing, merchandise, and mock-ups• Training and art directing others in the creation of Keynotes• Recording tutorial videos for the training of others• Editing and reviewing copy as needed• Intensive time management, creating graphics and Keynotes on short deadlines on the day-to-day as well as various client events• Managing and assisting large groups of people at client events• Assisting in the coordination and setup of large events

• Designed numerous 1 to 6 color screen printable concepts for a vast variety of clientele• Mocked-up provided art on to glassware or ceramics as requested by client• Created art sheet layouts in collaboration with sales member for client review• Worked with team members to insure that all concepts meet design standards• Separated and prepared 1 to 6 color designs to be sent into screen print production

· Photographing collateral for web and print uses· Printing and putting together mock-ups of materials and collateral· Redesigning and updating Cook&Schmid and client materials· Actively participating in the redesign of the Cook&Schmid website· Conceptualizing and creating logos for the Cook&Schmid blog· Designing various versions of Cook&Schmid capabilities packets and sales kits· Creating graphics for client presentations

• Designed web banner promotions for upcoming video games• Assisted the Senior Designer with any and all graphics

· Conceptualized custom typography for a number of projects· Illustrated detailed artwork for trade paperback publications

· Custom illustration and type design· Conceptualized and created layouts for DVD Packaging, CD covers· Collaborated with programmer to create functional DVD introduction menu