Experienced web/graphic designer with advanced web and professional design skills seeking full-time or part-time position in an friendly creative team.
Experience
Graphic / Web Designer
September 2017 - April 2020
The Stationery Studio
Buffalo Grove, IL
Updated their existing e-commerce website to be mobile-friendly and have a responsive layout design using Bootstrap, HTML 5 and CSS.
Consistently updated the website with customer comments and category descriptions and optimized site category organization.
Continually updated landing pages with fresh new content on a bi-weekly basis using Photoshop to create new product category splash pages.
Published product mentions on various media platforms such as The TODAY show, Woman’s Day, USA Today, Woman’s World and CBS.
Added database entries in the admin site for the virtual proofing system to allow customers to add custom personalized text to their order.
Adjusted customer artwork for final approval for print ready artwork.
Production Artist
December 2016 - August 2017
Design Phase
Waukegan, IL
Created PowerPoint presentations for companies like Sony and Samsung.
Photographed and built instruction sheets for assembly of products.
Constructed 3D prototypes in Maya and Keyshot for showcasing sign technology.
Processed client artwork files to add dielines and prepared the files for print and cutting.
Graphic / Web Designer
October 2009 - May 2016
Luxor
Waukegan, IL
Built company website from the ground up using CSS, HTML, PHP, Javascript and SQL database.
Redesigned company sell sheets, business cards, and letterheads to reflect new brand guidelines.
Photographed, recolored, and created clipping paths for current and new products for use in marketing materials.
Manipulated 3D renderings of products in Rhino 3D to create easy to understand instruction sheets with customers in mind.
Directed instructional assembly videos for customers to learn how to build various products and published them directly to YouTube.
Updated and added new products to the Amazon Seller Central platform as well as creating product listings on the Magento platform.
Taught several interns and co-workers best practices and skills in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, HTML and CSS.
Managed the entire production process, from designing to printing the annual product catalogs.
Designed retail packaging for several key products, full color print label, as well as two-color screen print.
Nathan Gibson