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Graphic Designer
Creative Lab Advertising
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Feb 2017 - Present (7 years 10 months)
- Meet with clients or the art director to determine the scope of a project
- Advise clients on strategies to reach a particular audience
- Determine the message the design should portray
- Create images that identify a product or convey a message
- Develop graphics for product illustrations, logos and other marketing collaterals.
- Select colors, images, text style, and layout
- Present the design to clients or the art director
- Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design
- Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them
- Ensures branding consistency.
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Graphic Designer / Pre Press
Mandaluyong, Philippines
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017 (11 months)
- Download, acquire, process, color correct, and/or fix reproduction issues for final printing file.
- Understand written specification and bills of materials related to creating art files for print production.
- Troubleshoot a wide variety of issues regarding the requirements on printing such as color consistency, font and line size minimum and maximum requirements
- Performs quality check by pre flighting various printing jobs if the artwork comply with the print specifications.
- Manage and monitor image queues and approve or reject based on reproduction specifications.
- Creating various custom die shapes.
- Maintaining knowledge of the employer's standards and best practices, the prepress specialist ensures that all prepared documents meet the standards of quality, informing the project manager of any issues that may occur.
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Graphic Designer / Quality Analyst
Mandaluyong, Philippines
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015 (6 months)
Graphic Design
- Meeting account managers to discuss the requirements of the job.
- Estimating the time required to complete the work and providing quotes for clients.
- proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work.
Quality Assurance
- Performs quality check on every artwork before sending it to the printers for mass production.
- Check the die lines and measurements if its accurate against the artwork.
- Checking the color consistency.
- Checking over prints and trapping.
- Performs pre flight inspection before mass production.
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Pre Press Team Leader / Planning Coordinator
Black Water Printing Co.
Manila, Philippines
Jun 2014 - May 2015 (11 months)
- Monitors department performance and production schedule. Maintains optimally efficient inventory of production materials. Creates planning studies and generates reports about accomplishments, plans, and regulations. Reviews development proposals to ensure compliance with codes and regulations.
- Prepares plans in conformance with clients requirements.
- Gathers relevant statistical data and drafts reports on issues such as time delays regarding the machine troubles.
- Sets schedule for project to meet the deadline or much possible earlier than the deadline.
- Offers employee trainings and development
- Communicates with other supervisors, and colleagues throughout project
- Monitors the performance of the team.
Graphic Design / Pre press
- Developing design briefs that suit the client's purpose.
- Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts and developing interactive design.
- Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time.
- Performs quality check on a specific design before running for mass production.
- Ensures that all pre flight requirements are correct such as trapping, overprint, links etc. is present on the media.
- Ensures that everything will be on its place when it is die cut such as registrations, folding lines, creasing , scoring etc.
- Creating Mock ups before mass production.
- Ensures that the printing plates are correct and delivered on the press department on time.
- Prepares color proofing for color consistency.
- Creating Die line to be sent in the die board maker.
- Ensures the color consistency. Die cutting, folding and other post press procedures of the project.
- Follows projects through all stages of print production. press, post press, sorting, bundling.
- Monitors the quality checking, bundling up to delivery of the finished products.
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Graphic Artist
Digipress Photo Studio & Printing
San Juan, Philippines
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012 (3 months)
- Interprets marketing ideas and turns them into creative, visual deliverables through world-class eye-catching graphics and impactful statements.
- Combines art and technology to communicate ideas through imagery and layout.
- Creates promotional displays, event flyers, sales materials, packaging, and marketing brochures.
- Develops creative material for digital advertisements, social media, website design, large format printing, etc.
- Adheres to corporate identity / branding guidelines.
- Follows projects through all stages of print production.
- Interacts with clients and other team members to establish a vision for production printing or design that meets the clients’ needs.
- Supports creative requests and works with marketing agencies on campaigns as needed.
- Performs research on competitors and market trends.
- Reviews catalogs and order samples, works with technical department to ensure data accuracy.
- Assists with other marketing department projects as needed.
- Performs work in a safe manner; promotes and fosters a safe work environment.
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On the Job Trainee
Makati, Philippines
May 2010 - Oct 2010 (5 months)
- Assist in designing various design projects.
- Assist on advising clients on strategies to reach a particular audience.
- Assist on creating images that identify a product or convey a message.
- Develop graphics and visual for product illustrations, logos, and websites
- Create designs either by hand or using computer software packages.
- Select colors, images, text style, and layout.
- Present the design to clients or the art director.
- Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design.
- Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them.