Andre Martel
Senior Graphic Designer, Freelancer, Awesome Guy
Montreal, Quebec, CanadaYour 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.
-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
-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
-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
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.
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,