01 PROFESSIONAL
MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL IN SOFTWARE
PHOTOSHOP
%100
ILLUSTRATOR
80%
INDESIGN
90%
POWERPOINT
85%
AFTER EFFECTS
80%
MICROSOFT OFFICE
85%
MAYA
70%
James
Shikuzawa
Graphic Designer and Photoshop Master
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It may seem simple but looks can be deceiving. It's a new approach in appealing to that love of design and art that makes someone Inspired. It's about demonstrating excitement , innovation, simplicity and elegance while still conveying what you want to say , so if I still have your attention then...
03 Experience
Jansport
Web Designer / Graphic Designer
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In charge of creating and maintaining Jansports websites as the only web designer for entire company.
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Develop brand new concept web pages complete with custom graphics.
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Come up with new ideas for weekly email campaigns under strict deadlines.
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Heavy image retouching and photo manipulation.
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Responsible for creating custom vector images for multiple media platforms.
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Environment: Mac OSX, (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
Graphic Designer
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In charge of creating assets across social media, web, and print for video game titles as the only Designer for our branch.
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Video games include: Deckstorm- Blood Brothers 2- Fantasica- Fantasica 2- Shadowverse- Final Fantasy Record Keeper- Hellfire- Bounty Stars
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Collaborate with other members of Dena's departments, in creating visually appealing brand assets for game advertisements.• Assist product managers in the development and testing of screenshots across IOS and Android.
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Come up with new and exciting ideas weekly for social media posts and events for multiple games under tight time deadlines.
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In charge of developing overall brand feel and esthetics across all social media and web assets.
DeNA West
Century 21 M & M and Associates
Graphic Designer
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In charge of designing marketing collateral for print and web for over 300 real estate agents in California.
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Collaborate with multiple agents to come up with new and exciting designs for the public.
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In charge of printing marketing materials for agents under tight deadlines.
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Heavy photo manipulation and retouching.
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Create logos and brand assets for mass distribution.
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Perform data entry
Graphic Designer
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In charge of creating and maintaining brand assets weekly for the companies online and console stores for 5 different countries.
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Assist in creating branding designs for large production title releases.
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Work closely with marketing to help concept company assets for internal and external uses.
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Create brand assets for additional promotions for Spotify.
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Heavy image retouching and photo manipulation.
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Environment: Mac OSX, (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
PlayStation Entertainment
YDesign Group
Email Designer / Graphic Designer
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In charge of creating and coding multiple emails daily.
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Working with the Web Design Manager in coming up with new company email designs and templates.
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Work with the Senior Graphic Designer in the creation of multiple evergreen images used across all platforms of YDesign.
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Heavy image retouching and photo manipulation.
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Environment: Mac OSX, (Photoshop, Sublime Text, After Effects, Litmus)
Graphic Designer
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In charge of designing banners for desktop and mobile for crunchy roll and VRV world wide.
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Created multimedia including print banners, post cards, swag, and other miscellaneous materials. Also had a billboard featured in Time Square NYC.
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Crucial in the implementation of assets for 2 major events, Crunchy Roll Expo, and Anime Expo.
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Environment: Various Google programs, Windows, Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
Ellation - Crunchyroll/VRV
CBS Interactive (Gamespot)
Graphic Designer
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In charge of creating multi media banners for Gamaespot's online site. Video games include: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Rescue Team DX- Ori and the Will of the Wisps- Murder by Numbers nintendo switch- Nioh 2- Granblue Fantasy-Versus.
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Assisted management in the gathering and construction of an image library that consisted of over 380 images.
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Assisted the New York with graphic concepts
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Participate in branchbrainstorming ideas for solutions to new projects in the pipeline.
Graphic Designer
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Sole graphic designer for developing assets for Print as well as for clothing. In the course of my time I have done over 200 beer labels all under strict timelines.
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I always task it on myself to develop and execute new and interesting labels with the trend forecast in mind for design aesthetic and topography and color theory.
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Prepare print ready files of labels for mass production and distribution.
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Environment: Various Google programs, Windows, Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)