Creative Director & Web Strategy
Greenville, South Carolina Area
Creative Director & Web Strategy
Greenville, South Carolina Area
Joshua Blankenship is a Southern-born & bred graphic designer and illustrator with an affinity for web culture, typography, collaboration, and common sense.
Since entering the design field in 2002, Joshua has worked in a freelance and extended-contract manner for clients like VIRB°, AT&T Wi-Fi, The cre824 Webdesign International Festival, Armchair Media, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Verizon Wireless, as well as agency work for American Airlines, Verizon Superpages.com, Nationwide Insurance, Microsoft X-Box Live, Discover Network, Texas Tourism and others.
Skills in graphic design for web and print, typography, digital and traditional illustration, branding and logo design, client presentation, interactive advertising, art and creative direction make this all happen.
Illustration, Presentation & Speaking skills, Branding, Naming, Identity, Web Strategy, Project Management, Graphic Design, Typography
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
Overall Creative and Art Direction, Branding and Identity, Web Strategy and occasional Graphic Design.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
Naming, branding, illustration, and design for Cottyn, an online t-shirt shop for Virb Inc.'s t-shirt designs.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Design industry)
October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)
Interactive Art Direction and pitch work for American Airlines, Verizon Superpages.com, Nationwide Insurance, Microsoft X-Box Live, Discover Network, Texas Tourism and others.
(Design industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
October 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Print and Web design, identity, illustration, photography, and copywriting for clients including VIRB°, PureVolume, AT&T Wi-Fi, Indie Music Store, LevelTen Design, Tubatomic Studio, The cre824 Webdesign International Festival, Armchair Media, InterContinental Hotels Group, Bridgestone Golf USA, Verizon Wireless, North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Rockpile Magazine, and Law Of Inertia Magazine
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
October 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Art Directing one of the 50 fastest growing churches in America (from 300 to more than 3,000 weekly attenders in less than five years) including print, marketing, advertising, logo design, web design, and apparel design and laying the artistic foundation for their continued growth.
Associates, Religion, English, 1997 — 2001