Creative Director / Partner at IF Business Marketing
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Consultant at Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
- Creative Director / Partner at International Front | Interactive Design + Marketing
- Creative Director / Partner at IF Business Marketing
- Past
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- Creative Manager at Fox Interactive Media
- Creative Manager at IGN Entertainment/FOX Interactive Media
- Art Director at Ron Johnson Design
- Art Director at Murad
- Web Designer at marchFIRST
- Web Designer at US Web/CKS
- Web Designer at E3 Technologies
- Education
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- San Francisco Art Institute
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Ron Johnson’s Summary
Creative director and industry veteran with 12+ years experience building memorable online user experiences. It has been my pleasure to complete projects for many dynamic clients including: Sony Online, Fox, Activision, MySpace, Botox, Mazda, Epic Games, Blizzard, THQ, Codemasters, and many others.
Ron Johnson’s Specialties:
Innovative, intelligent marketing solutions for the games industry. Extensive experience in branding, information architecture, visual design, copywriting and content creation, and usability testing/human interactions.
Ron Johnson’s Experience
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Consultant
Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Strategy and design consultant to the EEIN, the games industry professional networking group.
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Creative Director / Partner
International Front | Interactive Design + Marketing
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Cosmetics industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Creative lead at International Front, a full-service marketing and interactive design agency. Adept at branding/positioning, digital media, web design, environments, collateral, identity design and naming, market research.
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Creative Director / Partner
IF Business Marketing
(Design industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Creative lead at International Front, a full-service marketing and interactive design agency. Adept at branding/positioning, digital media, web design, environments, collateral, identity design and naming, market research.
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Creative Manager
Fox Interactive Media
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Internet industry)
March 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Creative lead/manager of 6-man in-house direct marketing agency. Internal clients included: MySpace, IGN Consumer Products, FilePlanet.com, GameSpy Arena, 3D Gamers.com, and others. Reported to V.P.
Strategy, art direction, and design of promotional campaigns, mini-sites, direct e-mail, and flash and static ads. -
Creative Manager
IGN Entertainment/FOX Interactive Media
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Creative lead/manager of 6-man in-house direct marketing agency. Internal clients included: MySpace, IGN Consumer Products, FilePlanet.com, GameSpy Arena, 3D Gamers.com, and others. Reported to V.P.
Strategy, art direction, and design of promotional campaigns, mini-sites, direct e-mail, and flash and static ads. -
Art Director
Ron Johnson Design
(Design industry)
1997 — 2005 (8 years)
Freelance Art Direction.
Clients include: California White, Puro Muerto, Avant Insurance Managers, Guthy-Renker, Norac Pharma, others. -
Art Director
Murad
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Cosmetics industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Branding and creative direction for company-wide marketing initiatives. Mentored development/expansion of competent internal creative department and managed external agencies/freelancers. Reported to V.P.
Art direction and design of projects including: Brand repositionioning/relaunch, advertising, packaging, catalog, web relaunch (Murad.com), direct, collateral, e-mail, book design, promotional, display, trade show graphics. -
Web Designer
marchFIRST
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MRCH; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Valuable member of dynamic agency creative team. Reported to creative director.
Design and production design of B2C websites: Automotive: MazdaUSA.com and Toyota Financial Services, Mazda direct response mini-sites. Pharmacutical: Botox.com and Allergan.com. Fine arts: PacificSymphony.org
Art directed photoshoots and oversaw all QTVR production. -
Web Designer
US Web/CKS
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Valuable member of agency creative team. Reported to creative director.
Design and production design of B2C websites: Automotive: MazdaUSA.com and Toyota Financial Services, Mazda direct response mini-sites. Pharmacutical: Botox.com and Allergan.com. Fine arts: PacificSymphony.org
Art directed photoshoots and oversaw all QTVR production. -
Web Designer
E3 Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Contract web design consulting for tech recruiting firm. Created/produced site, e-mail marketing, and print collateral.
Ron Johnson’s Education
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San Francisco Art Institute
BFA, Interdisciplinary Art
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Ron Johnson’s Interests:
interactive storytelling, alternate reality game, arg, community building, video game industry, digital entertainment
Ron Johnson’s Groups:
Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
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Fox Interactive Media -
Linked Los Angeles
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