Senior Graphic Designer
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Senior Graphic Designer at Juice Wireless
- Creative Director at SAM Arts Internet Developers
- Past
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- UI Graphic Designer at Spark Networks plc. (JDate.com / AmericanSingles.com)
- Senior Graphic Designer at American Idol Underground
- Creative Director at MedTech USA Inc.
- Network Supervisor / Design Consultant at Agence France-Presse (AFP)
- Graphic Designer at SEEM Graphic Studio
- Education
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- Otis College of Art and Design
- Otis College of Art and Design
- University of Judaism
- Azad University , Tehran
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Sam Anvari’s Summary
· Graphic designer with 12 years hands on experience.
· Concept oriented in design with great attention to the details.
· Deep knowledge of Math/Statistics to analyze efficient marketing campaign design.
· Experienced in Flash, hand code HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Sam Anvari’s Specialties:
· Competitive design analysis and site architecture design.
· Ability to handle large scale projects from scratch and manage the team of designers and developers.
· Meticulous in design while having a vision on project expansion possibilities.
· Problem solver.
· Fast learner.
· Great experience on business marketing and customer orientation.
· Well experienced with algorithm logic and statistical analysis.
Sam Anvari’s Experience
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Senior Graphic Designer
Juice Wireless
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Graphic Designer.
Web / WAP / iPhone and the Mighty Android!
Cell Phone Application Interface Designer
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About Juice Wireless:
Juice Wireless was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. Juice has a talented highly motivated team members focused on delivering JuiceCaster -- the next evolution in mobile and online social media. Juice Wireless has developed and executed award-winning mobile marketing programs for clients such as AT&T, Qualcomm, Alltel, Nokia, AOL, Sony and many others.
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Creative Director
SAM Arts Internet Developers
(Graphic Design industry)
March 1999 — Present (10 years 5 months)
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Professional graphic design.
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UI Graphic Designer
Spark Networks plc. (JDate.com / AmericanSingles.com)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOV; Internet industry)
August 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 7 months)
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Senior Graphic Designer.
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About Spark Networks:
Foreseeing the potential impact of the Internet on the personals industry, the precursor of Spark Networks established itself in 1997 with the introduction of JDate®, now the leading online personals website amongst Jewish singles. Driven by the success of JDate, the company went on to launch a variety of online personals websites and now operates a network of religious, ethnic, special interest and geographically targeted online singles communities including, among them: AmericanSingles®, BlackSingles.com®, ChristianMingle®, and LDS Mingle®.
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Senior Graphic Designer
American Idol Underground
(Music industry)
February 2005 — August 2005 (7 months)
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Graphic Designer.
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In March 2005, Fluid Audio Networks created American Idol Underground under a license from FremantleMedia (www.fremantlemedia.com) who, in concert with 19 Entertainment Ltd. (www.19.co.uk), produce television's American Idol. The democratic spirit of the television show and its power to make any artist into a star prompted us to seek a partnership with the American Idol brand. Our goal in creating AIU is to use the popularity of American Idol to help emerging artists in all genres get their music heard.
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Creative Director
MedTech USA Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Practice industry)
December 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 3 months)
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About MedTech USA:
Physicians and other health care professionals have a critical need to stay abreast of the latest medical information and developments -- and they face a chronic shortage of time in which to do it. MedTech USA was founded to help medical professionals to take advantage of new technologies that facilitate education and research, and MedTech dedicated itself to be a single, reliable source for these technologies.
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Network Supervisor / Design Consultant
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry)
May 2003 — October 2003 (6 months)
AFP Middle East Office
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With years of experience at the heart of the news industry, AFP is able to cover breaking and general interest news from around the world, around the clock. The AFP brand guarantees editorial quality and reliability - a reputation built since the agency was founded in 1835.
AFP's worldwide network spans 165 countries, 110 of which are home to bureaus, and 50 of which are covered by local correspondents.
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Graphic Designer
SEEM Graphic Studio
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
January 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 10 months)
Sam Anvari’s Education
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Otis College of Art and Design
MFA , Graphic Design , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
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Otis College of Art and Design
Continuing Education Courses , Graphic Design , 2005 — 2007
Typography I & II, Drawing and Composition, Life Drawing, Digital Print Production, Lighting Techniques, Letter Press.
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University of Judaism
Certificate , Hebrew Language I, II , 2005 — 2006
I took Hebrew language courses at U.J. in order to perform a better job at JDate.
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Azad University , Tehran
BFA , Graphic Design / Communication Arts , 1994 — 1998
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Bachelor of Graphic Design and Communication Arts.
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Additional Information
Sam Anvari’s Websites:
Sam Anvari’s Interests:
Graphic Design, UI design, User Experience Design, Marketing, Campaign Design, Mobile UI Design, WAP
Sam Anvari’s Groups:
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
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MobileMonday -
Mobile Telecoms industry group -
Web Standards Design + Development -
AIGA | the professional association for design
Sam Anvari’s Honors:
JuiceCaster got nominated for the 2008 Webby Awards. Although we didn't win in the social networking category but we won a vigorous competition to get our spot among top 3 finalists.
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JDate won the 2006 Webby Awards for "Social Networking". It was an honor o be a member of the winning team.
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BENETTON COLORS magazine (Italy) printed one of the photographs taken by me in their magazine, Issue 54 - Year 2003.
http://www.benetton.com/colors/issues/food54/colors54/colors54.html
Sam Anvari’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
