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objective:

to generate innovative and creative design / illustration work for you, my happy client.


skills:

extensive knowledge of adobe cs such as illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, and flash

professional experience:

janury 2012 - present: freelance designer / illustrator.

april 2008 - januray 2012: senior graphic designer, mindspark

creating characters and designs for zwinky.com and zwinkycuties.com, inventing my own characters pb & jay and their line of ecards and screen savers on myfuncards.com and popularscreensavers.com, working on numerous ecards, generating a line of printable cards and items, iphone wallpapers and screen savers. generated new standards for ads and landing pages.

aug 2007 – april 2008:

freelance graphic designer, mindspark

> creating, illustrating and modifying assets and designs for sites such as zwinky.com and webfetti.com


dec 2006 - august 2007: creative director, perryellis.com

> updating perryellis.com, originalpenguin.com
> creating marketing campaigns, print ads, banners and other marketing materials.
> working closely with merchandisers to undergo season transitioning
> supervising vendors and maintaining brand identity


jan 2004 - dec 2006: freelance designer and illustrator.

clients include american greetings, boston globe, datran media, dannon, ecommercepartners.

for american greetings:

> illustrating and animating ecards, winks and emoticons
> creating and updating interactive avatar characters

for datran media:

> creating newsletters, emails and promotional materials
> creating branding materials and logos for datran media clients

for ecommercepartners:

> building websites for clients
> creating illustrated promotional materials such as desktop calendars, t-shirts and mugs
> developed the company's sub brand - 7designers identity and logo.

for dannon:

> created brand characters for their dannon university an internal educational tool
> collaborated on an animated introduction - generating all illustrations, art and look and feel.


dec 2000 - dec 2003: designer, ecommercepartners new york, ny
june 1999 – dec 2000: freelance designer, ecommercepartners new york, ny

> developed and maintained client web sites
> collaborated on development of comprehensive corporate identity materials including logs, banners and print materials
> actively participated in meetings and presentations with clients
> consulted on interface and information architecture issues


jan – june 2000: president, buffalo girls designs tel-aviv, israel

> financed and managed self-owned web design and print company
> designed and illustrated posters, magazine advertisements and fully integrated branding materials for various   clients
> responsible for all aspects of operation including financial management, sales and marketing, design and   production


1994-1999: supervisor, total graphics tel-aviv, israel

> supervised print and professional scanning services for pre-press company
> managed a staff of 5 people to ensure project deadlines were met
> provided phone help desk support and assisted customers in trouble shooting technical printing problems


education:

1996-2000 b.a- graphic design vital school of design, israel
coursework: graphic design, typography, illustration, multimedia, advertising, newspaper design, brand design, packaging design

work featured on:

shift japan - issue no. 67 (cool site review)
pictoplasma.com
webdesigner magazine - issue 99
forno magazine - issue no. 5