Andre Martel

Senior Graphic Designer, Freelancer, Awesome Guy

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Your ideas, my canvas.

Work Experience

Electrolux

Senior Designer

-Doing graphic design of all Electrolux L'Assomption plant in cooking department, and that means for cooktop hubs, wall ovens, slide-ins, freestandings, warmer drawers and microwaves.

-Help in graphics design on refrigerators, freezers, dishwasher and laundry stuff.

-Managing the L'Assomption workload of graphic arts projects.

-Owner of the L'Assomption graphic arts project schedule .

-Make illustrations for the different design concepts as they come along.

-Assist Check Points meetings.

-Working with my foreign colleagues in the US to implement the new industrial design concept in the plant.

-Supervising so that the design of the products are respected up to production.

-Making real prototypes and mock-ups for shows.

-In charge of approving/rejecting all aesthetic parts that comes into production; colors, finish and shape must be as per the design intent.

-Validating the final products in the end and see that the design intents are respected.

-Managed the transition of artworks from L'Assomption to Memphis factory.
February 2001 - November 2014 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Electrolux

Technical Writer Senior

-Make all the literature set for the Cooking Products
-Uses of Pagemaker, Corel Draw and Illustrator
February 2000 - February 2001 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Electrolux

Technical Illustrator

-Read BOM of the Cooking Products
-Make exploded views of the Cooking Products
-Use of Illustrator and Corel Draw
February 1999 - February 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Atlantis Multimedia

Illustrator

Making Illustrations for websites.
Hand drawn portraits
Symbols
Characters (design and concepts)
Softwares: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Freehand, CorelDraw, InDesign, Flash
February 1997 - February 1999 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Toontek

Colorist

Worked as a colorist for the the TV serie "Princesse Sissy".
Consist in coloring with the Sillicon Graphics software in place a frame by frame animation, based on existing colored templates.
Because of my ability to hand draw I was often asked to correct some of the drawn frames.
February 1996 - February 1997 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Education

Cégep Du Vieux Montréal

DEC

Graphic Design
September 1993 - June 1996 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Languages

French (Native),
English (Fluent),

Skills

Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Cartoonist, Character Design, Hand Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sketch, Sketchbook Pro, Storyboar, Writer,