Joel Harrison
Designer
Lakeland, FL, USA
863.712.7700
be.net/albumartdesign
Joel began life on Succeess Avenue in sunny Lakeland, Florida. His artful memories include building Legos, painting with his Grandma, and exploring the brand new world of computers. His hobbies blossomed into profession shortly after enrolling in Full Sail University.
Joel has learned that everyone has their own unique story to tell and he carefully interweaves these stories into every detail of what he creates.
His marketing efforts are energized by the quote, “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” –Walt Disney
Inspired by The Lord, music, playing guitar, technology, and design heroes, Joel’s goal is to always raise the bar past what’s considered acceptable and instead create immersive experiences that make people say “WOW!”
Joel has learned that everyone has their own unique story to tell and he carefully interweaves these stories into every detail of what he creates.
His marketing efforts are energized by the quote, “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” –Walt Disney
Inspired by The Lord, music, playing guitar, technology, and design heroes, Joel’s goal is to always raise the bar past what’s considered acceptable and instead create immersive experiences that make people say “WOW!”
Work Experience
Publix Creative Services
Freelance Designer
Joel was sought out by the creative director, Tim Cox, and brought in as a freelance designer to support the award winning in-house Publix Creative Services design team during a time of high volume workflow. Joel’s Adobe InDesign training and experience was heavily leveraged here while working on nationwide scale marketing efforts, semi-truck wraps, posters, web ads and more including a cross-promotional campaign for the NFL.
April 2008
- July 2008
Lakeland, Florida, United States
Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Senior Designer
As a designer at 2820, Joel was tasked to interrupt the daily mundane with awe, surprise, and delightful experiences that don’t scream for peoples interaction, but instead deserve it. Under the creative art direction of type/ branding master Steve Johnston, they created uniquely crafted interactive marketing pieces for incredibly talented companies like Universal Studios, LiquidMetal, Discovery Channel and Brighthouse Networks.
April 2004
- January 2013
Orlando, Florida, United States
Laz Creative
Senior Designer
Laz Creative is a growing Internet marketing and interactive design company. Joel joined the Laz team as a senior freelance designer to help bridge the gap between an increasing web production design workload and a limited design staff. Joel’s sharp technical abilities coupled with a strong work ethic and team mentality make him an ideal fit for Laz. Clients include Playstation, Big Ten Network, Nick Cannon, and Travelvision.
January 2010
- Present
Lakeland, Florida, United States
Education
Team TreeHouse
Web Design
Joel is currently enrolled in the Website course which includes training on hand-coding HTML5, CSS3, responsive and mobile layouts, Cross-Browser compatibility, wordPress blog/theme, design for accessibility, and common UX practices and techniques.
August 2013
- Present
Lakeland, Florida, United States
Full Sail University
BA in Digital Media
This technical school provided training on the ins and outs of industry leading software. Joel was consistently ranked among the top of his class no matter the challenge. While attending, he cultivated the wonderfully useful habit of staying up all night to meet deadlines. Most exciting was the exposure to new ways of creating incredibly cool things.
January 2004
- January 2006
Orlando, Florida, United States
Center For Protools
Certified Audio Engineer
July 2005
- September 2005
Orlando, Florida, United States
Languages
Javascript (Beginner),
Php (Beginner),
Html (Fluent),
Css (Advanced),
English (Native),
Skills
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
After Effects,
Coda,
Compositing,
CSS,
CSSEdit,
Fontcase,
FreshBooks,
GoToMeeting,
HTML,
Hype,
IOS,
IWork Suite,
Join.me,
Keynote ,
Microsoft Office Suite,
Os X,
Pages,
Panic Transmit,
Photo Manipulation,
Pixelmator,
Sketch,
Skype,
Sublime Text,
UI,
User Experience,
User Interface,
Ux,
WebEx,
Windows,