Christine Keleshian

Assisting the Creative Director in a small art department with everyday tasks from designing new product ideas, create packaging concepts, research trends, communicate with vendors, design catalogs, package design and E-blasts. Strong knowledge of color print production and preparing files for print. Trade Show set up, sales and designing of signage.

Assisted the Creative Director by designing/managing approximately 5 to 10 electronic packaging projects per week with attention to detail, sensitive time schedules and incredible flexibility. Loading files on their company FTP site and communicating with their overseas office.

Assisted the Global Design department - art Manager's by creating new and improved packaging for products across the US Soup line. Managed and helped to deliver results and production release of projects with time sensitive nature. Worked and met with team members from different departments throughout the corporation to review packaging projects from food photography, revised designs, government regulations, through to final production of digital packaging files.

Managed and art directed the Matchbox 1-75 and Matchbox Collectibles packaging (230 skus per year), which included attending weekly packaging meetings to present new designs, managing a budget of $250K a year, directing freelance designers and photographers in the production of the packaging art files. Working in collaboration with other inter-company departments on various package and design projects.