Alex Holt-Cohan

Art Director/Graphic Designer

Chatham, NJ, USA
The essence of great graphic design is the communication of ideas through visuals. My goal is to use my skills and knowledge by creating visual identities for brands that gets their messages to their target markets across all platforms.

Work Experience

Bridal Guide Magazine

Interactive Designer

My responsibilities include the UI/UX Design of bridalguide.com as well as all digital visual components
February 2015 - February 2015 New York, United States

Publicis

Freelance Production Designer

Responsible for updating and creating new and existing visual assets for Cadillac's Dare Greatly campaign.
March 2015 - April 2015 New York, United States

The Cement Bloc

Freelance Designer/Production Designer

Designed Twitter campaign. Corrected multiple projects from apps to webpages.
February 2015 - February 2015 New York, New York, United States

The Cement Bloc

Freelance Art Director

Designed and art directed a typographic motion graphic for internal use by client.
November 2014 - November 2014 New York, New York, United States

Century 21 Department Stores

Freelance Production Designer

Created, coded, and corrected daily email blasts.
November 2014 - Present New York, New York, United States

Macy's

Freelance Production/Graphic Designer

I work on high volume and detail oriented production design projects in the Visual Merchandising department. I also work on POP and POS in-store visuals.
May 2014 - New York, New York, United States

Easypurl.com

Graphic Designer

Manage branding and create branded collateral for use in house as well clients for easypurl and Experiture. Art Direct web based design with programming division based in India.
August 2013 - May 2014 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Cartright Creative

Interactive Digital Publishing Designer

Four month special project developing iPad apps for the beauty industry.
March 2013 - July 2013 New York, New York, United States

Alex Holt-Cohan Design

Freelance Graphic Designer

Freelance designer with clients in both traditional and digital print and web. I have worked as part of both on-site and virtual teams.

Partial Client List: American Kidney Fund, The Art Directors Club NYC, Performance Foundation Leaf Magazine, Park Lane Photo Labs
Chatham, New Jersey, United States

8 Of 9 Consulting

Graphic Designer - Internship

Worked as on site freelance designer for 8 of 9 Consulting as a creative design intern for their client DEOS. I created both external packaging inserts and product introduction mailers as well as internal sales presentations. I also designed internal corporate collateral for 8 of 9 including presentation outlines and internal logos
March 2012 - May 2012 New York, New York, United States

L Form Design

Web Design Assistant

Utilized PhotoShop in a MAC environment to create preliminary print and homepage designs, Worked with head designer and programmer on client websites •Created labels for a private label perfume company.
May 2009 - August 2009 Montclair, New Jersey, United States

Education

School Of Visual Arts (SVA)

I have taken a variety of courses at SVA including Visual Branding, Animation and Cartooning since I was in High School. I continue to take classes in their Continuing Education Program to add to my designer's toolbox.
February 2008 - April 2011 United States

Delaware College Of Art And Design

Associate of Fine Arts

Graphic Design major
Delaware, United States

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe Muse, Apple Keynote , Autodesk Inventor Fusion, Excel, Final Cut Pro, Gliphs, Google Sketchup, Hype, Live Brush, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Sketchbook Pro,