Rick Gaston
Graphic Designer — San Francisco, CA
About
I am a freelance graphic designer with 14 years of experience. I excel in corporate identity, print communications and website design - from concept to production. I have a BFA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University. I've done work for several small bay area design firms and have done most of my freelance work with Beal Creative, a strategic marketing and creative services firm. I work well alone but I also thrive in team environments.
- Experience:
- 10+ years
- Education:
- Academy of Art University
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FREELANCE DESIGNER: June 01 to Present
Various projects from concept to production. Projects ranged from corporate identities, identity standard guides, stationery systems, brochures, tradeshow graphics, posters, ads, datasheets and other print projects to designing the look and feel for websites and html emails.
WANG HUTNER DESIGN, San Francisco, CA: June 99 to May 01
Full-time Designer. Designed numerous corporate identities and stationery systems. Developed brochures, presentation folders and datasheets. We were responsible for our own production, from the creation of mechanicals, working with vendors, bidding the job out to several printers to reviewing bluelines, color proofs and attending the presschecks. Some work in signage as well. We constantly switched between working solo on projects or in teams.
BE DESIGN, San Rafael, CA: June 98 to May 99
Full-time Designer, worked on corporate identity projects and stationery systems.
HERMELYN DESIGN, San Francisco, CA: January 97 to May 98
Part-time designer. Projects included annual reports, brochures, corporate identity systems and packaging for a software company’s main line of products.
