Shane Thompson | Art Director
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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
To utilize over 15 years of creativity, passion, professional standards, and management skills to master a broad range of design challenges.
SKILLS SUMMARY
- Comprehensive knowledge of brand identity development
- Extensive management and collaborative experience with designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, quality assurance, web programmers, and software development engineers
- Demonstrated ability to bring a concept into final execution
- Exceptional illustration and composition skills
- Accomplished at creating websites using HTML, CSS, Flash, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, ASP, and XML languages
- Positive and optimistic attitude toward multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Efficient and resourceful while ensuring quality work
- Open and flexible to new ideas, processes, and procedures
- Adept at working with industrial printers, service bureaus, paper merchants, and other print/packaging vendors
- Highly experienced with both Macintosh and Windows operating systems using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Coda, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash, Avid Pro Tools, and Microsoft Office. (Legacy software: Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Freehand, Adobe GoLive, and Adobe ImageReady)
EXPERIENCE
Ticker Design
Art Director / Owner
Seattle, WA & San Jose, CA | Ongoing since January 1996 - Present
Client projects have included various marketing materials, website designs, invitations, package designs, corporate brand identities, advertisements, kiosks, multimedia presentations, and point-of-purchase displays. Other responsibilities include budget management, working with external vendors, and managing outsourced designers, photographers, and programmers. Clients range from private individuals to entrepreneurial start-ups to established business leaders.
Level Studios, Inc.
Art Director
San Luis Obispo, CA & Los Angeles, CA | November 2006 - June 2011
Designated as the Art Director and brand authority for the Research In Motion (RIM) account in 2006. Managed, collaborated, and comprehensively trained an incredible team of over ten designers over the span of nearly five years. Worked closely with management staff, creative direction, engineering, web/interactive production, quality assurance, content developers, information architecture, and third-party vendors including Razorfish and Leo Burnett. Served in key creative roles for both the domestic and international product launches of BlackBerry Pearl 2, BlackBerry Pink Pearl, BlackBerry 8800 Series, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Torch, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry PlayBook. Maintained, evolved, and ensured cohesive design aesthetics throughout all BlackBerry online entities including BlackBerry.com, RIM.com, DiscoverBlackBerry.com, and product microsites. Responsible for the inception of an LA-based RIM-creative division which ultimately grew into an entire support staff serving BlackBerry Latin America. Also offered additional design support for other accounts including Apple Computers (developer.apple.com and the sixth generation launch of the iPod Nano), Immersion, Hewlett-Packard, Netflix, NextGen Healthcare, Marvell Technology Group, Oakley, and Marrs Printing.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Senior Graphic Designer
Kirkland, WA | September 2004 - August 2005
Main responsibility was to design and develop the website and online marketing presence for the Massive Multi-Player Online video game release of The Matrix Online. Other tasks consisted of various in-game artwork, ad creation, print collateral design, and all community events artwork support. Additional duties involved promotional artwork for the highly anticipated titles F.E.A.R and Condemned, as well as general company brand and collateral development.
Real Networks, Inc.
Senior Graphic Designer
Seattle, WA | January 2003 - August 2004
Identity development for RealArcade casual games interface, web presence, and all online game marketing artwork for a catalog of over 200 video games. Other responsibilities included custom artwork for external vendors/affiliates, printed promotional material, and managing junior designers and contractors.
Morton Design, Inc.
Senior Graphic Designer
Bellevue, WA | June 2002 - December 2002
Delivered graphic design services from start to finish on various types of projects including: corporate brand identity development, kiosks, advertisements, brochures, collateral, and website development. These projects required extensive client and vendor interaction coupled with project and budget management.
Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Senior Graphic Designer
Bellevue, WA | January 2000 - October 2001
Primary focus was on various video game package designs, identities, and advertising. Worked closely with creative directors, copywriters, and fellow designers from concept development to final execution. Provided design on such titles as Half-Life, Tribes, Homeworld, Hoyle Casino, The Lord of the Rings, and You Don’t Know Jack.
Monolith Productions, Inc.
Senior Graphic Designer
Kirkland, WA | August 1998 - December 1999
Duties consisted of various package designs, game identities, advertising, website design, point-of-purchase marketing material, illustration, and exhibit design. Several developed titles include: No One Lives Forever, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Septerra Core, Odium, and Gruntz.
Express Systems, Inc. / WRQ, Inc.
Graphic Designer
Seattle, WA | June 1994 - September 1996
Responsible for design, redesign, and concept development of all marketing materials including: packaging, advertising, electronic presentations, brochures, trade magazine advertising, and various collateral.
EDUCATION
- The Art Institute of Seattle | Seattle, WA
Associate of Applied Arts degree in Visual Communications - Honors Graduate
- Cusick High School | Cusick, WA
High School Diploma - Honors Graduate
References available upon request.
Shane Thompson, Ticker Design’s founder, has been wowing clients for over 15 years. An honors graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle, Shane has developed corporate identities, marketing materials, packaging, websites, and advertisements, for a variety of audiences and in a variety of styles. He has worked with creative directors, fellow designers, information architects, web developers & engineers, quality assurance, copywriters, account managers, and entrepreneurs. Clients range from private individuals to entrepreneurial start-ups to established business leaders.
