Web & Graphic Designer / Artist & Illustrator / Visual Communications

Ona Lorraine Canilao

Paris, France

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I am a designer with over thirteen years of media and visual communications experience; with expertise in the areas of graphic design, illustration, web design, videography, editing, script writing, and sequential art. Being creative, passionate, hard working and artistic, are my strongest qualities. My goal is to create professional, elegant and unique designs for print and online media. Some of the best experiences I've ever had was working on projects for the Cannes Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week. My career has spanned over numerous industries: Film and Motion Picture, Fashion, Finance & Banking, Broadcast News, Law, Education and Health, Public Relations/Communications.

Specialties: Adobe Creative Suite 6, Internet & Web design; Typography; Acrobat 7.0 Professional. Media 100 Editing System; DigitalPRO Videography; PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Education
- Communication Visuelle and Applied Arts
  
  Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy
  
  2012 - 2013
- BA Communications: Media Studies
  
  University of San Francisco
  
  1998 - 2001
Experience
- Associate Visual Designer
  
  Viscira
  
  Mar 2015 - Present (9 years 8 months)
- Illustrator
  
  My Little Tao Books
  
  Feb 2015 - Present (9 years 9 months)
  
  Contract illustration projects with My Little Tao Children's Books.
- Graphic Designer
  
  ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival
  
  Nov 2013 - Present (11 years)
  
  ECU is an organization based in Paris FR, that stages Independent Film Festivals all over Europe. My primary responsibility is to design and create dynamic work for ECU’s various projects and campaigns. This includes the festival movie catalogue, posters, flyers, invitations and brochures; slides for the website; images for social media advertising, etc.
  
  Please visit https://www.behance.net/onalorrainecanilao and http://www.coroflot.com/onalorrainecanilao/portfolio for my portfolio.
- Graphic Designer/Illustrator
  
  Biocoiff
  
  Oct 2013 - Present (11 years 1 month)
  
  I work as a freelance Graphic Designer for Biocoiff. My projects include designing and creating works using the themes of “Nature” and “Youthful Innocence” to represent the Biocoiff organic haircare brand. The works I provided are used for advertising the products.
- Business and Conversational English Teacher
  
  Business and Conversational English Teacher
  
  Nov 2012 - Present (12 years)
  
  I teach Business English to adults and Basic/Conversational English to children and teenagers. My topics include Culture, News, Current Affairs and Media. I helped my students develop their Reading, Listening and Writing skills with fun and unique activities.
- Freelance Creative Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator
  
  Ona Lorraine Communication Visuelle
  
  Jun 2010 - Present (14 years 5 months)
  
  Ona Lorraine Communication Visuelle was created back in 2010 as an extension of my growing arts and crafts hobby. I started with selling custom made greeting cards, which were sold at Etsy and various craft fairs all over the San Francisco, Bay Area. Presently, my focus is to design and create unique and dynamic artwork for various client specific projects and campaigns. I always coordinate with my clients to discuss art direction, concepts and layouts for all projects.
  
  Specialties: Illustrations, Digital artwork, Product art, Print ads. Please visit my portfolio at http://www.coroflot.com/onalorrainecanilao/ and https://www.behance.net/onalorrainecanilao
- Scion Client
  
  Scion Staffing
  
  2011 - 2014 (3 years)
- Assistant Editor: Creative Director
  
  Fashion Republic Magazine
  
  Aug 2013 - Nov 2013 (3 months)
  
  I supervised the creation of content for FRM Magazine. Designed the magazine cover, website, Street Fashion and Casual Fashion pages. Managed and delegated work to the creative team. Create and supervise content for the iCANDY monthly newsletter.
- Graphic Designer/Communications
  
  Alameda County Bar Association
  
  Jan 2012 - May 2012 (4 months)
  
  E-newsletter, website, graphic design/printing, Daily Journal & Recorder page updates.
- Web Administrator
  
  Genworth Financial
  
  Nov 2011 - Dec 2011 (1 month)
  
  Marketing Department. Web content management.
- Corporate Communications Analyst
  
  Bank of the West
  
  Feb 2006 - Feb 2011 (5 years)
- Real Estate Industries Division
  
  Bank of the West
  
  2005 - 2006 (1 year)
- Administrative Assistant
  
  DaVita
  
  2003 - 2004 (1 year)
- Media Services Department/ Slide Sources
  
  California Pacific Medical Center
  
  Feb 2001 - Oct 2001 (8 months)
  
  Production Assistant
- Public Relations
  
  KRON 4 TV
  
  Aug 2000 - Mar 2001 (7 months)
- Programming Assistant
  
  KBWB TV20
  
  Jan 2000 - Aug 2000 (7 months)
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@onalorrainecanilao, member since 2014

Ona Lorraine Canilao

Assistant Professor - Educator, Industrial Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design