Jose Cordova
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Art Director / Photographer www.jecordova.com
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Award winning art director / designer with more than 13 years of experience in graphic design, advertising and photography. Strong
background in print design including newspaper and magazine ads / inserts, direct mail, vinyl banners, stickers, flyers, business
cards, logos, brochures, catalogs & shopping guides, packaging, posters, t-shirts, brand development and instructional booklets,
modeling tear sheets and vehicle wraps for NASCAR.
Digital design experience consists of website banners, layout design, icons, newsletters, direct emailers, social media ads, computer
wallpapers and avatars.
Photographic exposure ranges from fashion photography, modeling and corporate head shots, product shots as well as promotional
photography for NASCAR driver, Joey Logano.
E xperience
Art Director / Designer & Photographer
Collaborated with numerous major departments including the Marketing, Merchandising, Loyalty, Refurbished, Loss Prevention,
Human Resources, Public Relations, Pre-Owned, I.T., and E-Commerce on the conceptualization and design for any marketing or
promotional materials needed.
Devised and fabricated GameStop branded NASCAR vehicle wraps for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Nationwide Series and
collaborated with major video game publishers such as Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Activision, Ubisoft, Sony Computer
Entertainment, Rockstar and Konami.
Development and creation of in store marketing signage for more than 6,614 GameStop stores across the United States &
Europe as well as advertisements / banners for GameStop.com, PowerUpRewards.com and ads for Game Informer magazine.
Photography expertise utilized for product shots for GameStop.com and PowerUpRewards.com, non-profit organizational
events with The Ronald McDonald House and Make-a-Wish foundations as well as public relation head-hots of high level
executives and directors within the company.
Assistted in maintaining the online catalog for GameStop s loyalty program by way of product photography, creation of banners
and promotional material for online and in-store marketing, organizing online repository for all of the redeemable rewards for
use in printed or online marketing material and developed step-by-step workflow to improve on the rewards catalog process.
Early Career as freelance Art Director / Designer (1999-2005): The Marketing Shop.com, CreativePlug Media, GameWallpapers.
com, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Covenant Church Ministries.
Promotional materials constructed ranged from business cards, flyers, posters, local band album covers and promotional
photography, logo design for various ministries and non-profit organizations, website design, web banners and computer
wallpapers.
American Package Design Awards GameStop Power Play Award
A wards 2010 4th Quarter 2011
S oftware
Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe
Lightroom Dreamweaver
E ducation Southwestern Assemblies of God University
Waxahachie, TX