
Creative Director, Web UI Designer
Japan

Creative Director, Web UI Designer
Japan
Akiko Hayashi has been a professional graphic designer for over 10 years. Experienced studying advertising design in the United States. First as a printing designer, in 1995, also started web design. Running a design studio since 1999, dealing both with printing and web design, from planning to finishing.
- Web UI Design
- Printing & publishing knowledge
- Experienced user of Photoshop and Illustrator
- QuarkXpress, InDesign, Dreamweaver, etc
(Graphic Design industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)
- In art direction, controlled design quality by instructing designers precisely on project concepts and checking their products thoroughly. Satisfied clients with rendering their demands right and quickly, matching their concepts with high quality design. As a result, constantly earned good reputations from them.
- Designed and developed various site specialties such as company sites, educational sites and promotional webpages on portal sites sometimes in coordination with programmers and system engineers, usually from making design samples to coding, often resposible for planning and content-editing as well.
- Experienced creating websites in English with no problem with English-written materials. Pleased the clients by saving time for translational correspondence.
- Art direction and editorial design of magazines, books, company brochures and IR materials.
(Music industry)
September 1997 — August 1999 (2 years )
(Graphic Design industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years )
(Public Company; Plastics industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year )
BA , Intercultural communication, English , 1987 — 1992
Advertising Design 1990 — 1991
Advertising Design 1990 — 1991
Printing design, localilzing design, editorial design, Art direction for web design, professional networking, rock music