Ryan Sweitzer

Art Director/Grahpic Designer

Austin, TX, USA
I am a graphic designer/art director who is passionate about design. I believe in typography and layout. Understanding where this field has been, to where it will go. Owning a computer and design software is nice, but it doesn't make a designer.

Work Experience

The Automotive Advertising Agengy

Art Director

• Design support for a variety of multi-media marketing projects

• Contribute creatively to the development of new design concepts, graphics, and layouts

• Prepare rough presentations and propose your ideas

• Develop graphics, logos, layouts,and illustrations for ad campaigns, social media, websites, etc.
• Develop a creative environment that is conducive to creative

• Manage own workload and progress of jobs to ensure creative, meeting goals, and deadlines

• Work with internal and external creatives including production companies, videographers, photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, commercial printers, freelancers.

• Ensure company brand standards and guidelines are fulfilled and maintained
August 2015 - Present Austin, Texas, United States

Bells Intl

Art Director

• Creation of print material, and online content for several various yearly events. These include such events as Breast Cancer Month, Doctors Day, Nurses Week, and many more.

• Brand design a new look and feel for the events which include logo creation, print catalog, postcards, website store front, e-blast campaigns and more.

• Product graphic design. Creating new and unique t-shirts, posters, banners, pens, badge holders, totes, tumblers and much more for every event.
June 2010 - Present Austin, Texas, United States

Freelance Graphic Deisnger

Graphic Designer

• Creating many different items for a vast array of companies. From branding, to logo design, websites, print material such as banners, postcards, CD jackets and much more.
November 2007 - June 2010 Austin, Texas, United States

IF Marketing

Graphic Designer

• Graphic design for the agencies clients, from print to web. Design work from brand concept tofinish or working with already existing brands.

• Strategically marketing clients from increasing brand awareness, generating leads, to boosting sales.

• Design of web sites and e-marketing campaigns as well as programming in HTML and Flash.

• Coordinating several projects for many clients at once, ensuring deadlines were met and pieceswere delivered on time.
August 2004 - November 2007 Austin, Texas, United States

ADS Advertising

Graphic Designer

• Created original designs from concept stage to delivery, ensuring all deliverables were met on time. Logo design and typographic solutions.

• Developed and maintained a consistent graphical, illustrative and typographic style that represented the organization. Constant updates to the site.
February 2003 - July 2004 New York, New York, United States

Artnet.com

Artnet Site Coordinator

• Maintained production responsibilities for over 1300 gallery sites and artist portfolios.

• Created banners for Fine Art Auction Database.
September 2001 - June 2002 New York, New York, United States

Garden.com

Graphic Designer

• Designed page layouts for quarterly magazine.

• Created layouts, web banners, and promotions for the site.

• Access database management of ad campaign.
June 1999 - September 2000 Austin, Texas, United States

Aluma Graphics

Graphic Designer

• Created company manuals, logos, and various art works.

• Performed daily productions of graphics utilizing scanners, vacuum frames and cameras along with customer technical support.
July 1995 - August 1997 Wylie, Texas, United States

Languages

English (Native),
Spanish (Conversational),

Skills

Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDeisgn, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Quark Express, Windows Os,