About me

I´m a professional multi-disciplinary designer with experience providing art direction to creative teams, and playing a valued part of larger marketing and communications departments, both in agencies and in house. Able to work to world-class standards reliably delivering intended impact and memorable effect.

I have strong abilities across a range of media ( digital, including web, banner and email marketing campaigns, print, including brand design, collateral and video art direction ) gained in education to MA level and refined through 10+ years of international on-the-job experience.

Some of my key achievements:

- Provided an eye-catching, critically-acclaimed consistent visual identity to Europe's leading provider of audio branding services in print, on the web and in video from

- Created and managed the production of all promotional materials in print and online for the Mexican Presidential Design Department in 2006

- Operated a freelance business providing a wide range of artwork services (publishing, branding, collateral and web) to clients from a wide variety of industries for over 7 years

- Developed, elaborated and managed the visual identity and marketing collateral of a prestigious Mexican jewelers company as an Art Director, producing magazine adverts, window display and POP.

- Responsible for the art direction of a large Mexican mobile telephone company's magazine during 3 years

- Won a national competition for an overseas postgraduate Design and Art scholarship promoted by Mexico's government

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Skills

I.T: Adobe Creative Suite (Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Final Cut., Languages: English and Spanish (written and spoken); French (spoken), Knowledge transfer: structured, promoted and led drawing technique workshops for childrenand teenagers., Hidden talent: trained in music video clip art direction.

Sector Experience

Design, Art Direction, Digital, print, brand, advertisement, creative arts.

Awards

Sept 2009 - Sept 2010 MA Design and Art Direction / Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2006 - October 2006 Flash web design Seminar / Argot Multimedia, Spain, August 2000 - August 2005 BA Hons. Graphic Design / Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico city

Clients

Avidis Communication, Citizens Outreach/Relations, Homo Graphies Communication, unave Digital Media Agency, United Mexican States Presidency