Creative Director Art
Resume:
Christopher Robert Jacques
www.coroflot.com/Xtoff
*********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Creative Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer - print and digital. Adobe CCS: PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD - Expert. Figma, AI: multiple usage and adaptation. Print & digital, packaging design and production, design systems from boutique to multiple fortune 50-500. Design/produce multi-brand toolkits, campaigns, footprints and collateral for 5,000+ outlets. InHowse Packaging Design Winner 2008.
Clients include: Best Buy, 3M, Target, Macy’s, LifeTime Fitness, Marshall Field’s, Wunderman Thompson, Bold Orange Company, Caldrea Companies, Mrs. Meyers, Anthropologie, Tartan Marketing, Health East, Cosmopolitan, Wagner Spraytech, Saks, Fingerhut Corporation, Harrod’s of Knightsbridge, Pottery Barn, Perrill, Dan Dee International.
EXPERIENCE
2012-Current, Creative Director, Contract Designer, SeaJay Creative:
• Packaging/print design, production & design, implementation and management. Concept, Templates, Design, Pre-press, Print Execution, Art/Photo Direction, and Visual Display experience.
• Create Presentation decks, mock-ups and other materials to support C-suite management, clients internal and external.
• UX/Design for website home/landing pages: concept, design, and management, multi-channel online content design, landing pages, e-mail, social media, e-books, e-brand, logos/icons, display advertising, banner ads, motion graphics, on-line marketing initiatives and design systems.
• Brand concept and guides design, presentation & production. Brand refresh, re-brand.
• Photo shoot layout & direction, photo retouching, editing, manipulation.
• Adobe Creative Suite: PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, all CS software - Highly proficient. UX/Web design tools: XD, Figma, Axure, AI - multiple usage and adaptation.
• Illustration, layout, story boards.
2024-2025, Senior Art Director, Dan Dee International, Minneapolis, MN Concept, Templates, Design, Pre-press, Print Execution, Art/Photo Direction, and Visual Display experience. Design and production team leadership.
2022-2023, Senior Digital Art Director, Parqa, Minneapolis, MN Concept, design and managed client and internal websites, digital display campaigns, e-mails, sub-pages, articles, banners, social and multi-media. Implemented concepts, conducted presentations to internal and external business partners. Photo retouching/editing. Creative production management. Extensive Adobe CC utilization.
2019-2022, Creative Lead Designer, Oliver Agency, St. Paul, MN Directed, designed and produced digital and print display campaigns, web page/UX design and development management, motion graphics direction, e-mail, social media across multiple brands and outlets. Implemented concepts, conducted presentations to internal and external business partners. Photo layout, design and direction. Creative production management. 2015-2019, Senior Art Director, Wunderman, Minneapolis, MN Directed, designed and produced digital display media, animation direction, e-mail, social. Integral member of re-branding design team for Fortune 100 entity. Implemented concepts, conducted presentations to internal and external business partners. Photo layout, design and direction. Creative production management. 2013-2015, Store Experience Lead Designer, Advance Auto Parts, Bloomington, MN Digital & Print. Responsible for concept, design and production of all visual materials from small to large format collateral, supporting all corporate objectives, primarily store/brand design footprints. Creative team management and direction. Project and process management. Photo layout, design and direction. Integrated marketing, visual direction and support across multiple media. 2002-2013, Creative Director, Illume/Starlight Candles, Bloomington, MN CPG, direct mail/marketing, product catalogue and packaging design, digital content/UX, brand identity, POP, planogram, photo direction, mock ups, website functionality and design. Managed a team of designers, content creators, art directors and contractors. 2000-2002, Art Director, LifeTime Fitness, Eden Prairie, MN Designed, produced and managed multiple projects on all levels including advertising, signage, publications, product packaging, direct mail, marketing collateral and brand identity. Photo/Art direction and all aspects of pre-press and print production. EDUCATION
Woodhouse Grove School, UK. Graduate.
BA in Business/Advertising Design, University of Leicester, UK.
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