Trenton Temple
Lead Visual Designer
San Francisco, CA, USAExtremely versatile design professional with a deep portfolio and a dozen years of progressive responsibility transcending the print and digital worlds.
Illustrator, typography nut, layout master, Creative Cloud guru, project manager, client smooth-talker… When you’ve evolved from art directing the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary art magazine to a lead role at a global hardware + application design firm, you end up with a lot of skills in your toolbox. View my portfolio at behance.net/TrentonTemple to see how I’ve put them all to work for me.
SPECIALTIES: Web Design, Print Design, Editorial, Art Direction, Photography. Expert at CC tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and CSS/HTML. Some UX experience and experience in motion graphics, video, and animation. Extremely fast learner, receptive to feedback, self-aware and eager to grow.
Illustrator, typography nut, layout master, Creative Cloud guru, project manager, client smooth-talker… When you’ve evolved from art directing the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary art magazine to a lead role at a global hardware + application design firm, you end up with a lot of skills in your toolbox. View my portfolio at behance.net/TrentonTemple to see how I’ve put them all to work for me.
SPECIALTIES: Web Design, Print Design, Editorial, Art Direction, Photography. Expert at CC tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and CSS/HTML. Some UX experience and experience in motion graphics, video, and animation. Extremely fast learner, receptive to feedback, self-aware and eager to grow.
Work Experience
Al Jazeera Digital Division
Senior User Interface Designer
May 2017
- October 2018
California, United States
Digitalist
Lead Visual Designer
Define product vision for clients through competitive analysis and user testing; build effective brand messaging and achieve business goals through thoughtful integration of client and Ixonos principles
Utilize cutting-edge design, collaboration, and delivery tools (Sketch, InVision, Proto.io, Marvel, Zeplin) to solve product challenges and streamline team ideation and creation processes
Continually strive to absorb colleagues’ expertise and share my own in order to improve team output
September 2015
- May 2017
San Francisco, California, United States
Digitalist
Senior Visual Designer
Pushed for more focused and beneficial digital products through deeper integration of user behavior data, brand interaction strategy, and future-forward development practices
Established deeper professional relationships between design, development, and research teams to smooth project wrinkles and build team unity
Served dual function as both Senior Designer and Interim Studio Manager; learned and led project management process from both inside and above
August 2014
- September 2015
California, United States
Digitalist
Visual Designer
Collaborated on multiple client and internal projects across diverse agency teams, co-located around the globe
Mastered latest trends in digital design for responsive websites and native iOS/Android mobile and tablet applications
Displayed strong project management acumen, quickly learning and excelling at Agile development
Leveraged deep editorial and production background to master pixel-perfect UI design, scaling at device-dependent resolutions, cloud-hosted digital typography, and iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Android Material Design systems
September 2013
- July 2014
California, United States
Juxtapoz Magazine
Art Director
Oversaw all creative and visual aspects of Juxtapoz in its print, online, and video capacities. Highlights included:
• Complete print magazine redesign to incorporate more dynamic page layout and expressive editorial
• Complete online redesign including responsive design and custom global image gallery, leading to 3X increase in pageviews (10MIL/month)
• Aligning overall brand look and feel to new editorial direction
• Complete print magazine redesign to incorporate more dynamic page layout and expressive editorial
• Complete online redesign including responsive design and custom global image gallery, leading to 3X increase in pageviews (10MIL/month)
• Aligning overall brand look and feel to new editorial direction
November 2010
- August 2013
San Francisco, California, United States
Education
California State University, Chico
Bachelor of Arts, Communication
Design, option/emphasis Graphic Design
September 2002
- May 2005
Chico, California, United States