Seth Hiroshi Agress

Digital Artist / Graphic Designer

American Canyon, CA, USA
I provide design, direction, and creative input for projects across web, print, social, and mobile.

Work Experience

Agress Labs

Contract Graphic Designer

Providing graphic design, concepts, and creative direction for clients across web, print, social, and mobile.
2016 - California, United States

Ero Grove, LLC

Co-Founder/Creative Director

Working with clients to develop their products, brands and ideas through UI,UX, traditional and digital graphic design.
2013 - 2016 California, United States

Hard Candy Holdings

Art Director / Brand Manager

Led creative and brand-building activities. Lead designer for print and web collateral, product photography, image retouch, video shoots and post-production. Managed social media, client and end-user accounts. Raised over $220k for product launch through Kickstarter campaign.
2011 - 2013 California, United States

Dijit Inc

Senior Designer

Led the design team to create digital comps and build them in to fully functional flash-based widgets, which served as embeddable storefronts for delivering content to mobile devices.
Worked with company executives to strategize and develop brand identity.
Authored and designed brand identity guide and company logo. Created wireframes, comps, and graphics for company’s SN site that allowed users to build custom widgets, leading to high scalability for both consumer and corporate users.

Clients:
Universal Music Group, AT&T, Shangri-La/Paramount Pictures, Capture Film, MGM, Death Row Records, Columbia Records, EMI, Start Mobile, Tila Tequila, among others
2006 - 2010 California, United States

The Outfit Entertainment

Label Founder / Record Producer

Write and produce records, as well as A&R to artists on the label. Responsible for marketing
and promoting artists, developing their image and sound. Help lead the team to a 4 album
pressing and distribution deal through Universal Music Group India.
2001 - Oakland, California, United States

Legal Vista Services

Storyboard Artist / Lead Graphic Designer

Started as an intern, illustrating storyboards to convey client’s story to a jury. After being promoted to Graphic Designer, led design department in creating compelling stories through infographics, and animation to support client’s.

Clients:
Citicorp, Genentech, PG & E, Airtouch, U.S. Government, Koch Oil Industry, Amazon.com, SUN, Netscape, among others.
1999 - 2003 California, United States

Education

California State University, East Bay

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Option in Digital Graphics

Hayward, California, United States

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop, Art Direction, Basic Dreamweaver, Basic Video Editing And Encoding., Branding And Visual Identity, Bronze Sculpting, Creative Direction, Illustration Skills, Keynote , Mac/Windows Literate, Music Production And Editing, Photo Compositing, Photo Manipulation, Photo Retouching, Principle, Sketch,