Brian Dunham

Senior Designer

Seattle, WA, USA
Entrepreneurial, creative graphic designer that Fortune 100 companies and the world’s leading advertising firms have trusted to transform visual brand personas.

Takes pride in developing one of a kind designs that effectively represent client requirements. A skilled communicator that has consistently developed strong relationships with clients and contractors.

Driven by using graphic design as a strategic business asset to stimulate company growth.

Work Experience

Chicago Tribune

Digital Designer

Played an integral role in the company achieving strong consumer sales for eight regional papers through engaging graphic designs.

• Sales Support: Delivered static and rich media mock-ups for pre-sales activities that were instrumental in closing new sales annually.
• Brand Guideline Adherence: Delivered complex advertising solutions through Online Media Advertising, while fully complying with diverse brand guidelines. The forms of media used and created are flash banners, pushdowns, billboards, interstitials, homepage take over and responsive ads.
August 2014 - June 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Motorola Mobility & Ecommerce

Visual Designer

Leads visual transformation initiatives to support a global brand refresh for Motorola devices.

• Design: Creates and enhances products and lifestyle images. Also develops quality in-depth wireframes for page creation. Products worked on to date include: Motorola 360, Moto Body and Apps, Motorola camera and TurboPower pages for the Motorola e-commerce site.
• Team Collaboration: Partners with multiple internal departments to effectively capture graphic design requirements and considerations in order to develop dynamic visual presentations.
• Brand Improvement: Contributed to the development of new creative to strengthen the relaunch of the Motorola mobile brand globally.
June 2015 - July 2016 Chicago, Illinois, United States

WildTangent

Senior Designer

Increased company revenue by redesigning BrandBoost 2.0, WildTangent’s flagship proprietary advertising platform which improved customization, branding and social media integration and increased product inventory.

• Sales Support: New designs contributed to the generation of an additional $500K in annual revenue. Delivered a wide variety and high volume of Media Sales Marketing materials such as PowerPoint presentations, sell sheets, case studies, and flash animated product demonstrations.
• Design: Gained the trust of Fortune 100 clients to effectively conceptualize business requirements and deliver complex advertising solutions including micro-sites and mobile rich media.
• UI/UX: Created UI, look/feel brand integration for Advergames published in the WT service for wide range of client campaigns. Also redesigned the Brandboost 2.0 flagship proprietary advertising platform which included enhanced customization, branding and social media inventory.
September 2011 - November 2013 Illinois, United States

Freelance

Graphic Designer

• I have worked for Publicis, POP Interactive, Stanton & Everybody, Hydrogen, Motricity, Webber, Uppercut Advertising and Daptiv.

• I have designed, rich media for mobile and desktop, standards compliant and user-friendly UI/UX for online ad campaigns, landing pages, high impact white papers, software data sheets, icon flow diagrams and Power Point presentations.

• Clients include: Target, XBOX Kinect, Motricity, Sonic Restaurant, T-Mobile, By Nature, Goodwill, Peoples Credit Union, Elevations Credit Unions, Agilent, Survey Monkey, SkyStream and MudBay.
December 2008 - August 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

DoubleClick Performics

Senior Designer

DoubleClick develops and provides Internet ad services. Its clients include agencies, marketers and publishers.

Expanded the online presence by developing compelling websites, email newsletters, icons, and animated banners.

Created captivating print ads, logos, trade show graphics, and direct mail pieces.

Produced exceptional deliverables for the Age of Ingenuity Client Summit event, a Circuit City partnership, and local Chrysler dealerships.

Strengthened brand by redesigning company collateral, PowerPoint presentations, and sale sheets.

Hired and supervised contractors and held weekly status reports.
October 2006 - July 2007 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Shared Marketing Services

Senior Designer

Marketing company that specializes in advertising services for Fortune 100 companies.

Successfully lead key design projects for Toyota Rent A Car, Cingular, Hunter Douglas, VW, and Shell.

Effectively promoted client brands through direct mail and advertisements while fully complying with diverse brand guidelines.

Design lead in all phases of print design including direct mail, ads, websites, logos, company guidelines and photography.

Interviewed clients to define needs and goals; practiced active listening.

Clients include: VW/Audi, Toyota Rent A Car, Cingular, The North Face, BP, Shell, The Hartford, Hunter Douglas
January 2004 - October 2006 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Education

FullSail University

Masters in Media Design

July 2009 - July 2010 Orlando, Florida, United States

Western Michigan University

BA in Graphic Design

September 1990 - December 1994 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Skills

Adobe CC, Dreamweaver CC, Flash CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Photoshop CC,

Taproot Foundation - KAN-WIN Brochure

With a creative team from the Tap Root Foundation. We created a brochure for KAN-WIN a domestic violence and sexual assault services agency that provides culturally sensitive and linguistically accessible services to Asian immigrant survivors of gender-based violence.

After highly successful delivery of the Brochure Service Grant project for our team received KAN-WIN BADA AWARD for the brochure.

Taproot Foundation - Chicago House Brochure

With a creative team from the Tap Root Foundation. We created a brochure for Chicago House and Social Service Agency. This agency serves individuals and families who are affected by HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ marginalization, poverty, homelessness, and/or gender nonconformity by providing housing, employment services, medical linkage and retention services, HIV prevention services, legal services, and other supportive programs.