e
Art Director | Designer | Illustrator
Kim Rygiel
New York, NY
- Contact
- Save to list
-
About
Hello! I am an Art Director, Illustrator and Designer based in NYC with over fifteen years experience working in everything from animation to web to print and back again. I have a vast knowledge of children's and women's entertainment and a love for fashion, pets, crafting, gardening and food. Tell me about your project, I'm sure we could make something lovely together!
-
Education
-
BFA IllustrationParsons The New School for Design1995 - 1999
-
-
Experience
-
Art DirectorSesame WorkshopNew York, NYMay 2014 - Present (10 years 6 months)• Art Direction and design for the Sesame Street Clinic Membership program in Japan, includes montly printed materials, products and clinic interior design
• Lead a team of designers and freelancers in creating 48 interactive lessons and 12 units of printed materials for the Sesame Street Parent Child Series in China
• Visual Design for multiple Sesame Street English 2.0 interactive lessons
• UI / UX and Visual Design of the Sesame Street Smart Learning CMS
• Sesame Street Portfolio and Sesame Street Parent Child Series Product B mobile app design
• Sesame Street Parent Child Series responsive website design
• Illustration, logo, package and promotional material design for various projects -
FreelanceDesign, Art Direction, Photo StylingNov 2014 - May 2015 (6 months)Clients include Nickelodeon, Howcast, Random House, Weil...
-
Background Designer - Team UmizoomiCurious PicturesAug 2012 - Oct 2014 (2 years 2 months)Background designer for the fourth season of the animated series Team Umizoomi on Nick Jr.
-
Senior Art DirectorMartha Stewart Living OmnimediaApr 2007 - Aug 2012 (5 years 4 months)Art Direction and design for MarthaStewart.com, MarthaStewartWeddings.com and WholeLiving.com
• Conceptualized and designed an immersive and responsive video experience on MarthaStewart.com
• Art Directed and managed freelance design for the first year of the Martha Stewart American Made Awards
• Designed custom Martha Stewart Weddings invites for a partnership with WeddingJoJo.com
• Art Directed holiday how-to web videos for Martha Stewart at Kmart
• Designed page templates, microsites, ad banners, logos and blogs on all three Martha Stewart sites -
Associate Art DirectoriVillage2005 - 2007 (2 years)Art Direction, design and illustration for editorial packages, ad banners, logos and blogs on iVillage.com.
-
Background Designer - Pinky Dinky DooCartoon Pizza2004 - 2005 (1 year)Background designer for the first season of the animated series Pinky Dinky Doo.
-
Senior DesignerSeventeen Magazine2002 - 2004 (2 years)• Lead on site redesign for both Seventeen.com and Teenmag.com
• Design and illustration for ash games, newsletters, mini-sites and all Seventeen,Teen and gURL.com marketing materials -
DesignergURL.com2001 - 2002 (1 year)• Design and illustration for web newsletters, quizzes and editorial features
• Illustrations and ad design for the rst gURL print mini-magazine,“DealWith It” -
Color StylistMTV Networks1998 - 2001 (3 years)• Design of color palettes for the animated series Daria, Spy Groove and Head Trip • Illustration of key props and backgrounds for Head Trip
• Managed design bibles and researched reference materials on Spy Groove -
DesignerSalomon Smith Barney2001 - 2001Lead design on digital Flash magazine for Smith Barney Money Style.
-
InternViacom1998 - 1998Assisted Creative Services with print materials for events, including the VH-1 Fashion Awards and the Rugrats Movie Premiere.
-
-
Skills
-
Elsewhere on the Web
-
On Coroflot@krygiel, member since 2013
-
-
Following 1
-
