Josh Farkas

Current

• Lead Ninja at Cubicle Ninjas
• Publisher at Water Media

Past

• President at MonaghanFarkas
• Graphic Designer at The SAVO Group
• Founder at Facetags.com

• Graphic Designer at InteliStaf Healthcare
• Illustrator at Longhill Publishing

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Design Studio

Josh Farkas’s Summary

Every office has a few ninjas - the go-to warriors that save the day, reverse time, and exceed client expectations. We’ve secretly collected them to form an unstoppable design and illustration army. As the founder, it is my job to work to see that everyone enjoys the creative process.

Within a year Cubicle Ninjas was recognized in more than 70 worldwide design galleries and numerous articles about outstanding design. Our focus is making projects that are both:
1) Functionally intuitive
2) Emotionally impactful

I've personally illustrated 12 children's books, tackled the lead role in multiple internet start-ups, and designed/implemented hundreds of websites. I also lead Water Media, a small publisher of graphic novels.

Each year my writing work is seen by nearly 500k readers and was recently mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. I'm working on a large-format choose your own adventure graphic novel for release in 2010.

Author, Illustrator, and Publisher of Books:
• Nothing Left to Lose
• QWERTY
• Pixelton & The Helmet of Infinite Win (2010)

Illustrator of Books:
• Sten Gizzel Time Traveler
• Turtle Scott
• The Shorteners
• Lenny's Neighborhood
• The Shorteners
• Traveling with the Wittys
• The Adventures of Lana the Ladybug
• The Safety Scouts
• Clumsy Wally
• All About Me
• Nurture Bear Presents My First Day At School
• Grade School Planner for Chicago Public Schools (2009-2010)

Josh Farkas’s Specialties:

Print, Web, Identity, Illustration, & Publishing.


Skilled Using:
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, PowerPoint, Word, Painter and many others.

Josh Farkas’s Experience

• Lead Ninja

  Cubicle Ninjas

  (Graphic Design industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Killer Design & Illustration. Our work has been featured in over 50 galleries and growing.
  
  See more at: http://cubicleninjas.com

• Publisher

  Water Media

  (Graphic Design industry)

  June 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)

  Water Media creates, promotes, and publishes independent graphic novels.
  
  Work featured on Adobe.com, USA Today, Design Meltdown, and over twenty other leading design sites. Blog featured in numerous showcases.
  
  My self-published book "Nothing Left to Lose" media rights acquired by Platinum Studios where it is being pitched to major networks as an animated series.
  
  www.refreshingcontent.com
  www.welcometopixelton.com

• President

  MonaghanFarkas

  (Design industry)

  June 2007 — May 2009 (2 years)

  Making the web pretty and powerful.
  
  See more at: http://www.monaghanfarkas.com

• Graphic Designer

  The SAVO Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  Sole creative services designer for all print, web, and brand projects from small clients to Fortune 500 companies.

• Founder

  Facetags.com

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

  August 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Facetags was a online start-up for adhesive vinyl skins for video gaming consoles. Responsibilities included marketing, promotion, web application design, sales, and branding.
  
  Viral campaign for start-up Facetags launches to huge marketing results. Within 2 months featured in multiple magazines, including the 23rd largest magazine in the world.
  
  Sold to our largest competitor September 2006.

• Graphic Designer

  InteliStaf Healthcare

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  Sole graphic designer for this 500 million dollar company's internal and external visual collateral. Creating campaigns, designing displays, rehauling the intranet, or acting as support to their 100 offices were all in a day's work.

• Illustrator

  Longhill Publishing

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  October 1998 — August 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  Character design, storyboarding, and illustration of 11 children's books.

Additional Information

Josh Farkas’s Websites:

• My Design Studio

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