
Senior Graphic Designer at Abercrombie & Fitch
Columbus, Ohio Area

Senior Graphic Designer at Abercrombie & Fitch
Columbus, Ohio Area
An outgoing, motivated, creative guy who is up for any new challenge. I have an understanding of very many different fields of design and pride myself on that. I work well in group environments and love getting people excited about the tasks at hand. I want to keep growing and learning as designer. Because you can always learn and never know too much.
I have my own screen-printing set up at home. I can design a woven shirt, fleece, jackets and pants. I can do the tech pack that goes with it. I can design a website and do most of the coding (All HTML-little PHP-little Flash). I am good with color. Can incorporate many applique and embroidery techniques into garments. I love to illustrate type. I love pen and ink. I am good with branding, packaging and painting.
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Quark. Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks.
(Public Company; ANF; Retail industry)
June 2009 — Present (7 months)
Senior Graphic Designer overseeing Boys and Mens t-shirts
(Public Company; ANF; Retail industry)
October 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Ruehl Men's Graphics
(Music industry)
May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)
Balls Printing and Merch is a Merchandise company started by Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects. My roll in the company is to find designers and give art direction for different bands merchandise needs.
I put together briefs for direction and communicate with the bands as well as designers on what specific needs are to be met.
(I still work on this with them)
(Design industry)
January 1999 — June 2008 (9 years 6 months)
Just a list of Freelance I have done or currently am working on.
All include either t-shirt design, logo design or website.
-The All-American Rejects-
-Motion City Soundtrack-
-These Enzymes-
-+44
-It Dies Today-
-Billabong Clothing-
-Veece Clothing-
-Iron Royalty Clothing-
-Macbeth Footwear-
-Analog Palyset Toy Company-
-FiftyFifty Limited-
-Utopia Optics-
(Retail industry)
September 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Atticus Clothing was started by Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge of Blink 182. I was hired to join a team of 3 people designing everything from clothes to catalogs. We worked on it all. We designed all the clothing, put together all the tech packs, all the graphics for t-shirts as well as advertisements and P.O.P. We worked directly with different bands and band members to come up with signature clothing pieces that reflect the band or individual. It was a fun high paced job. I really enjoyed it.
(Retail industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
XVALA was a Denim company started by a friend of mine in Oklahoma City. He asked me to come help him design the look for XVALA and try my hand at clothing. Together we designed and T-shirts that were carried at over 60 stores. One of them being Urban Outfitters. All the XVALA denim was made here in the USA; so I made a lot of trips to different wash houses and small factories.
XVALA was a very free environment. We made a lot of art including screen printing our own stuff. We even put out a 7 inch limited edition record. We basically did what we wanted when we wanted.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IACI; Internet industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
Match.com was my first career job out of school. When I started it was owned by USA Networks umbrella. My duties here included designing websites and branding. I worked on the branding you see for Match.com today. Some of the other websites and branding I did in my time there were: AltMatch.com, Blinddate.com(the T.V.show), Matchlive.com, OneandOnly.com
Associate , Visual Communications , 1997 — 1999
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Converting old bikes into fixed gears, Skateboarding ( Don't do it as much anymore) Surfing (stopped when I moved to Ohio) Running, Watching Bear Grills and wishing I could be that manly!, Drawing in my sketchbook, Designing my Zine, Helping my Fiancee plan our wedding, Trying to find time to do all this stuff!
Sporks.
Work or I have been featured in following magazines:
Alternative Press Magazine
DNR Magazine
Vinyl Pulse Magazine.
Was asked by KidRobot to be in a Katrina Benefit Art Show
Work was featured along side the following artist
(I dont know why they asked me!)
Greg "Craola" Simkins, Joe Ledbetter, Deph, Upso, Jeff Soto, David Flores, Luke Cheuh, Kinsey, Ed Templeton, Everlast, Tim Biskup Thomas Han, and many more!
No not Mandy Moore, but many more.