Owner, See No Evil Design
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Creative Services Manager at Scholle Packaging
- Owner at See No Evil Design
- Past
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- Freelance Art Director at Ambrosi
- Graphic Designer at Oriental Trading Company
- Graphic Designer at STATS, Inc.
- Education
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- Concordia University-Seward
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Ryan Balock’s Summary
Marketing Communications professional looking to assume an integral, strategy-based role as a creative leader within the staff of a progress-minded company; continuing to strive to be at the nexus of communications, marketing and design; taking thought to fruition.
Ryan Balock’s Specialties:
PROGRAM EXPERIENCE
:: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe GoLive, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Quark Xpress,
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Freehand
Ryan Balock’s Experience
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Creative Services Manager
Scholle Packaging
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)
:: Creative direction for online presence and traditional print sales collateral. Duties include day-to-day management of creative staff, website development, product launch support, business launch support, copywriting, brainstorming facilitation and marketing communications as it relates to graphic design and the Scholle brand.
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Owner
See No Evil Design
(Design industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
See No Evil Design is my freelance design outfit. I mostly design for the Chicago-area music industry (bands, record labels, venues), but have recently begun design for higher-end clients such as HBN Design and TAP Pharmaceuticals.
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Freelance Art Director
Ambrosi
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Design industry)
May 2004 — November 2004 (7 months)
Design for Sears, FAO Schwartz and Great Indoors newspaper supplements. Sears supplements and direct mail postcards reached print production totals of 50+ million without error.
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Graphic Designer
Oriental Trading Company
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2003 — March 2004 (11 months)
Graphic Designer for direct mail catalog business. Was charged with basic art direction for cover and all spreads. Eventually became photo director for catalogs I was working on as well.
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Graphic Designer
STATS, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 11 months)
Graphic Design for publications department, marketing communications, direct mail and web development for online fantasy sports games.
Ryan Balock’s Education
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Concordia University-Seward
BFA , Graphic Design , 1996 — 2000
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Ryan Balock’s Interests:
organizational development, strategic planning and communication, professional networking, graphic design, playing music (guitar, bass, drums), writing, fine arts and crafts
Ryan Balock’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
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