Graphic Design
Resume:
SUMMARY >
*+ years of Graphic Design, Adaptive Design and Retouching experience for the Entertainment, Advertising and Marketing Industries: creating, retouching, enhancing and adapting images for prominent digital, social, experiential and print campaigns. Thriving in fast-paced environments for clients including: Activision, Amazon, ATV+, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount+, Paramount Pictures, Showtime and Warner Brothers. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, beating timelines, producing high-quality output in large scale executions with pixel-perfection, attention to detail and visual consistency with a love for cats. EXPERIENCE >
Crash Cat Studio • founder Jan 2008-present
Art Director Graphic Designer Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• seasoned creative for the Entertainment + Advertising + Marketing Industries, creating, compositing, retouching, enhancing and adapting designs for prominent launch campaigns from concept to delivery Cold Open • freelance Jan 2016-present
Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer Manager
• Key Art: bus shelters, bus wraps, digital banners, merchandise, one-sheets, OOH/DOOH, social media, standees and wild posts for ABC, Amazon, Fox, Hulu, Miramax, Netflix, NIckelodeon, Paramount+ and YouTube We Are Royale • freelance Jan 2022-present
Remote - Packaging Graphic Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: OOH/DOOH, packaging and print ads for Audible SimplyFun • freelance Sept 2018-present
Remote - Packaging Senior Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• Key Art: games, brochures and catalogs
Legion Creative • freelance July 2021-July 2023
Digital Graphic Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: digital banners, print ads and OOH/DOOH for Showtime Known/Stun/Buster Ink • freelance Jan 2013-June 2023 Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer Manager
• Key Art: ads, business cards, digital banners, one-sheets. OOH/DOOH and wild posts for Audible, CNN, Netflix, Paramount+, Rockefeller Center, Teton Ridge, TruTV and Tubi
Leroy and Rose • permalance April 2017-May 2023
Graphic Senior Adaptive Designer Retoucher Manager
• Key Art: digital banners, merchandise, one-sheets, OOH/DOOH, print ads and wild posts for Absinthe, AMC, ATV+, FX, Hulu, Netflix, New LIne Cinema and Prime Video
BLT Communications • permalance Jan 2018-Dec 2021
Retoucher Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: ads, digital banners, merchandise, one-sheets, OOH/DOOH and wild posts for Broadway, DreamWorks, NIckelodeon, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.
Paramount+ • contract April 2021-Nov 2021
Remote - Digital Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: digital banners and landing pages for Paramount+ Melinda Harrold
Graphic Designer - Remote
310-***-**** Playa del Rey, California
crashcatstudio.com *******@**************.*** linkedin.com/in/crashcatstudio SOFTWARE EXPERTISE >
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Keynote
Slack
Airtable
Acrobat Pro
Microsoft Office Suite
E D U C AT I O N >
MFA Graphic Design
California Institute of the Arts
BA Graphic Design
BA Telecommunications
Indiana University
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE >
designory • contract Aug 2020-Jan 2021
Remote - Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: digital banners for Amazon and Sony
The Honest Company • freelance July 2019-Nov 2019
Packaging - Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• packaging for CPG industry for Honest
Switch Creative Group • freelance Jan 2019-Aug 2019 Graphic Designer Motion Artist
• Key Art: digital banners for Food Network, Lifetime and History Channel Terry Hines • freelance July 2018-Nov 2018
Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer Motion Artist
• Key Art: digital banners, roadblocks and landing pages for Netflix and FX BOND • contract July 2018-Sept 2018
Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: digital banners for 20th Century and packaging for Warner Bros Kustom Creative • freelance Dec 2016-Jan 2018
Graphic Designer Packaging Artist Retoucher
• brochures and packaging for Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Ayzenberg • freelance June 2017-Aug 2017
Remote - Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: brochures and packaging for Amazon and Minecraft Iconsus/IconArts Creative • freelance May 2015-Aug 2017 Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• Key Art: bus kings, one-sheets, OOH/DOOH for Amazon, FX, Hulu and Netflix
Allegro • freelance Jan 2016-March 2017
Packaging - Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: ads and packaging for DTC beauty industry Percival and Associates • freelance July 2015-Jan 2017 Graphic Designer Adaptive Designer Manager
• Key Art: bus shelters, bus wraps, one-sheets, OOH/DOOH and wild posts for Focus Features
The Refinery Creative • contract Feb 2015-Aug 2015 Packaging Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• Key Art: OOH and packaging for 20th Century Fox, MGM and Universal Midnight Oil • contract April 2013-Oct 2014
Graphic Designer Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• Key Art: in-store displays, gaming, OOH and packaging for Activision Skechers • freelance April 2013-Sept 2014
Packaging - Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer
• Key Art: ads, booklets, hang tags, signage, store displays and packaging for Skechers
Bright Strategic Creative • permalance Oct 2012-Sept 2014 Graphic Designer Senior Adaptive Designer Retoucher
• Key Art: packaging for CPG products
SKILLS >
• asset management
• book design
• brand consistency
• brand integrity
• brand messaging
• brochures
• clipping paths
• collaging
• color correction
• color theory
• dielines
• digital banners
• email campaigns
• insitu mockups
• licensing
• marketing assets
• OOH/DOOH
• packaging
• point-of-sale
• posters
• preflight
• pre-press
• presentations
• presschecks
• print collateral
• retouching
• signage
• slide decks
• social media
• specs
• storytelling
• style guides
• tradeshow
• typography
• wild posts
• wrap labels
Melinda Harrold
Graphic Designer - Remote
310-***-**** Playa del Rey, California
crashcatstudio.com *******@**************.*** linkedin.com/in/crashcatstudio
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