Experience

Design Director, Brand Culture Company, Los Angeles, CA 2015 – present

Supervise design professionals at a thriving branding agency

• Enrich customer portfolios by developing fully integrated identity systems, multi-media brand expansion strategies and cutting-edge UI/UX enhancements.

• Co-Curate an International Poster Competition Biophilia that celebrates a meaningful coexistence between nature and men.

• Head a team responsible for revamping employee engagement and catering campaigns for such global powerhouses as Princess Cruises and Wolfgang Puck.

• Oversee a city planning rebranding initiative that merges compelling promotional imagery with sustainable and environmentally conscious municipal objectives. Senior Graphic Designer, All American Pet Company, Los Angeles, CA 2012 – 2014 Developed sales-driven creative solutions that inspired brand loyalty and sharpened corporate aesthetics

• Spearheaded company into the digital market by designing comprehensive social media campaigns.

• Helped secure such high-profile clients as Walmart and T.J. Max with innovative merchandising ideas.

• Turned outdated corporate website into a booming e-tailer by applying the latest web interface trends, which refined user experience and generated a devoted subscribers’ base Art Director, Publishing House Personalities, Ukraine 2006 – present Provide design team with strategic leadership and creative direction

• Ensure brand continuity of an award-winning publication by supervising end-to-end design process of press-ready magazine layouts, sales aids and multi-media graphics for all interactive and printed materials.

• Run a newly established division of e-books and online magazines, which propelled company into a cross- platform environment and attracted previously unreachable millennial readers. Graphic Designer, Aplent Design Group, Ukraine 2004 – 2006 Managed design professionals in a rapidly growing design studio

• Transformed one-person start-up into a flourishing company by assembling a team of industry professionals and marketing consultants, who molded customer vision into visual art.

• Secured a multinational clients base by delivering target-driven corporate identities, persuasive sales aids and user-centered website designs.

Olga Severina

Design Director

Curator

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Skills: Corporate Identity, Branding, UI/UX Design, Marketing Collateral, Book and Magazine Design, Mobile Media, Social Campaigns, Storyboards, Presentations, Packaging, Signage Systems Design, Environmental Graphics, Trader Shows, Exhibition Curator Experience. Tools: Adobe CS6: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, CMS Platforms: WordPress, Wix, SquareSpace; MS Power Point, Sketch, Boords, MailChimp, ZoHo. Curator Highlights: Launched a PosterTerritory initiative that become a takeoff platform for contemporary poster exhibitions (Los Angeles) 2012 – present; Curated graphic art campaigns in the US and abroad, which featured artworks by some of the biggest names in the international design community. Achievements: Graphis Design Annual 2021 Honorable Mention, 1st place in Cow International Design Festival, Work selected as one of the five most powerful political posters, Honorable Prize The 4th Block Eco-poster Competition.

Education: BA in Graphic Design 2002 (KSADA, Ukraine) MA in Graphic Design 2004 (KSADA, Ukraine) Ph.D in Visual Art 2010