
interactive designer / visual artist / motion poet
Portland, Oregon Area

interactive designer / visual artist / motion poet
Portland, Oregon Area
Luis Ponce de Leon is an award-winner and published multimedia designer. He has over ten years of experience working for design firms such as Agile Industries, Razorfish, Manhattan Transfer, Modem Media, AlloyRed, and New Interactive. His TV, Interactive and Print work includes clients such as IBM, L'Oreal, Wired Magazine, Red Cross of America, Heineken and General Electric. Luis also teaches multimedia courses at Portland State University and the Art Institute of Portland.
MFA, Video, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
BFA, Communications, American University, Washington DC
Sample URLs:
http://www.poncedesign.com
http://www.creativehotlist.com/l_poncedeleon
Video + Web + Print + Photography + Fine Arts
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)
April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)
Teach classes on Montion Graphics, Video Editing and Image Manipulation.
(Design industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
PonceDesign creates innovative visual solutions always dedicated to the client's success.
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
February 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Develop and implement advertising solutions for all Fisher network sites.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)
One Economy is a multi-national nonprofit organization that helps low-income people connect to the 21st century economy by bringing wide-scale access to broadband, PCs, technology skills and educational content. One Economy works in more than 30 states and on 4 continents.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Design and produce interactive campaigns for Dolby Systems, Intel and Quark Express.
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Design and develop creative solutions for Symantec and Primavera
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2002 — May 2002 (4 months)
Design Motion Graphics for Wacom Technologies CD-Rom
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Design and develop creative solutions for Wired Magazine, Architectural Digest, New York Nicks and People PC
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)
Design and develop creative solutions for Razorfish.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Design advertising for IBM, Heineken and L'Oreal
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
May 1998 — January 1999 (9 months)
Create screen graphics for the 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM newscast.
Flash Action Scripting 2008 — 2008
Continuing Education , Web Design , 2000 — 2001
Continuing Education classes on Html, Flash and Director
MFA , Video , 1994 — 1997
BFA , Communications , 1990 — 1994
Achievements:
Webby Award Honoree 2008
Education Category
http://ziproad.org/
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?season=12
Role: Art Director
Company: One Economy
Summit Creative Award 2006
Silver -- Interactive B2B
The QuarkXpress 7 Demo
Role: Art Direction
Agency: The New Group
American Design Awards
Semi Annual Winners 2006
Bronze -- Flash Animation
Dolby/Intel PCEE Demo
Role: Art Direction
Agency: The New Group
Launch Demo: http://www.poncededesign.com/dolby/
Personal interactive portfolio featured in the book Portfolios Online:
- Digital and Graphic Designers Websites by Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco, 2001.
Link to Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/006620934X/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-1421185-3116908#reader-link
Wrote, directed, edited, and animated Animal Maze
- Selected for the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, 1998.