Peter Hellers

Graphic/Web Designer

Work Experience

Laserwave

Art Director, Graphic Designer

My responsibilities included implementing layout, design and production of packaging material, trade show, and in-store display materials for primary clients Just Wireless, Inc and Watchitude LLC. I also was tasked with pre-flighting and coordinating finished artfiles with overseas printers for mass production of finished materials. Helped the companies garner lucrative deals with high end retail distributors and licensors.
March 2016 - February 2019 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Rubie's Costume Company, Inc.

Packaging Production Designer

Responsible for the handling the layout of an extensive range of packaging design and production projects for Halloween costumes and accessories, from costume inserts, to makeup blister cards, to costume boxes. Products were both for Rubies' own generic line and for various licensors, including Warner Brothers, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Universal Studios, and many others. Other responsibilities included work on company catalogs, light image retouching, and creating in-store signage as well as large scale posters for trade shows and presentations.
January 2004 - June 2015

Venezia Tile

Freelance Website Designer

Responsible for the re-design and development of the website for Venezia Tile. Created artwork in Illustrator, and hand-coded CSS and XHTML. Improved the scale of their products list, increased their image gallery's size, and provided FAQ and other various resources for customers who were handling their own installations.
April 2010 - August 2010

Men In Black Staffing

Freelance Graphic Designer

Handled design and development of company branding, including logo, letterhead, business card, and website. Also created templates for invoice and timesheets, as well as online pitchbook to be emailed to prospective clients.
March 2008 -

Nilea P. Alexander

Freelance Website Design

Nilea P. Alexander is a boutique clothing designer who commissioned me to design three different websites for her clothing lines, the most recent being Underground Love Story. The previous two, Nilea P Couture Undies and Downtown Doll, are no longer in existence. In all three projects, we tried to evoke a lot of the fun she had in creating these garments, and that each clothing line told a story. Layouts designed in Illustrator, HTML in Dreamweaver.
January 2003 -

Education

New York Institute Of Technology

BFA in Design Graphics

September 1999 - May 2003

Skills

Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Creative Suite, CSS, HTML, Microsoft Office,