Designer, Illustrator, & Author
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Lead Ninja at Cubicle Ninjas
- President at MonaghanFarkas
- Publisher at Water Media
- Past
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- Graphic Designer at The SAVO Group
- Founder at Facetags.com
- Graphic Designer at InteliStaf Healthcare
- Illustrator at Longhill Publishing
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Josh Farkas’s Summary
Graphic designer and professional Illustrator focused on making things:
1) Functionally intuitive
2) Emotionally impactful
I've illustrated 13 children's books, self-published 3 graphic novels, tackled the lead role in multiple internet start-ups, and designed/implemented hundreds of websites. I currently lead the start-ups Cubicle Ninjas, MonaghanFarkas, and Water Media while working on my next two fiction books.
Skilled Using:
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, PowerPoint, Word, Painter and many others.
Josh Farkas’s Specialties:
Design for: Print, Web, & Brand. Illustration. SEO. Viral Marketing campaigns.
Josh Farkas’s Experience
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Lead Ninja
Cubicle Ninjas
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
January 2008 — Present (7 months)
Killer Design.
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President
MonaghanFarkas
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Making the web pretty and powerful.
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Publisher
Water Media
(Graphic Design industry)
June 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Water Media creates, promotes, and publishes independent graphic novels. We also provide freelance illustration for concept art, websites, and print publications.
Designs featured on Adobe.com, USA Today, Design Meltdown, and over twenty other leading design sites. Blog featured in numerous showcases and quoted in Wall Street Journal.
My self-published book "Nothing Left to Lose" media rights acquired by Platinum Studios where it is being pitched to HBO, BBC, and Adult Swim as an animated series.
www.refreshingcontent.com
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Graphic Designer
The SAVO Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Sole creative services designer for all print, web, and brand projects from small clients to Fortune 500 companies.
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Founder
Facetags.com
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
August 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Facetags was a online start-up for adhesive vinyl skins for video gaming consoles. Responsibilities included marketing, promotion, web application design, sales, and branding.
Viral campaign for start-up Facetags launches to huge marketing results. Within 2 months featured in multiple magazines, including the 23rd largest magazine in the world.
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Graphic Designer
InteliStaf Healthcare
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Sole graphic designer for this 500 million dollar company's internal and external visual collateral. Creating campaigns, designing displays, rehauling the intranet, or acting as support to their 100 offices were all in a day's work.
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Illustrator
Longhill Publishing
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
October 1998 — August 2001 (2 years 11 months)
Character design, storyboarding, and illustration of 11 children's books.
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Josh Farkas’s Honors:
Assistant/colorist on Harvey, Eisner, Ignatz award-winning comic books
Josh Farkas’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
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