Graphic Designer

Dennis Salvatier

Skills

• Graphic Design / Logo Design (multiple medias)

• Illustration

• Branding/Marketing

• 2D Animation / Storyboarding

• Color Separation / Film Output

• Bilingual: English - Spanish

Computer Software

Mac and PC formats, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Streamline, Adobe Acrobat, Painter, Excel, Microsoft Word. Knowledge of Flash.

Work Experience

3/07-current Sr. Graphic Designer – NewSong Church: I’m involved in design, marketing and planning of all

things NewSong (bulletins, signage, web graphics etc.), including the redesign of the website. I also serve the North OC, L.A., and Mexico City sites.

5/05-2/07 Marketing Director- Assist Marketing: I oversee all production and act as Head designer;

designing marketing collateral pieces for professionals and businesses.

7/04–10/04 Marketing Coordinator- Century 21 Foothills: Duties included finding marketing solutions for the offices (C21, Escrow and MortgageTree lending) and the individual real estate agents.

3/04 -5/04 Graphic Designer/Production Artist- InkFX Corp: Designed for clothing lines such as Anchor Blue and Von Zipper. Duties included color separating and film output, as well as designing marketing materials.

9/01-7/03 Graphic Designer- Best-in-West Graphics: Created business cards, logos, promotional flyers, t-shirt designs and embroidery art. Worked independently on accounts such as KROCK 92.3 FM, Sony Pictures, Spalding, and Self Esteem Clothing

8/00-1/01 Art Director- University Pride.com: As Art Director I designed and delegated all art meant for the company website, including character designs, comics, merchandise and any promotional material.

Freelance

2006 Graphic Designer – Designed company logo for Sun Diversions.

2005 -06 Graphic Designer- Created 2 new blouse designs for Tomkat Couture.

2005 Graphic Designer – Designed company logo for Out of the Box.com

2005 Graphic Designer – Designed company logo for Whitaker Investigations (Addy Award Winner)

2004 Illustrator- Designed a number of military insignias for AdGraph Design.

2004 Graphic Designer- Designed eight top designs for Pacific Sunwear.

2004 Graphic Designer- Created various designs for shirts, pants and hang tags for Tomkat Couture.

2004 Graphic Designer- Designed an invitation and matching t-shirt for the Art Institute of California.

2004 Graphic Designer- Designed numerous marketing and logo designs for Ebersole Grafxx & Web Design.

2004 Graphic Designer- Designed numerous t-shirt designs for Thia B. Designs’ fall and spring line.

2004 Graphic Designer- Designed ‘Hispanics in Philanthropy’ invitation for Salgado and Associates.

2003 Graphic Designer- Created two designs for youth line and redesigned logo and garment tags for My Michelle (Kellwood).

2001 Character Designer- Created characters and concept art on “Bogus”, for Triune

Entertainment.

2001 Character Designer- Created characters and concept art for BlackOrb Studios.

Education

The Art Institute of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

Associate of Science Degree in Computer Animation. June, 1999.

Awards

2005 Winner of the Bronze Addy Award for Whitaker Investigations logo.

2005 Work published in national Artwanted.com publication, “Creative Minds”.

2004 Ranked fifth on ArtWanted.com’s Top 100 Graphic Designers.

1997 Bank of America Award for Artistic Achievement.

1995 17th Annual LA Student Film Festival – winner for 2D film “On Duty”

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