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Design Educator / Graphic Design Instructor / San Diego State University
San Diego, CA / January 2006—Septmeber 2006
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300 level studio class required for all graphic design majors. Icons, symbols, visual translation, design vocabulary, and color theory as well. Hard, but rewarding– for me and hopefully for them too.

Designer / Fuelhaus Brand Strategy + Design
San Diego, CA / September 2005—Septemer 2006
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Small studio focusing of brand strategy. Designer, part-time project manager, production artist, web designer and developer, intern mentor, and custodian. Mostly print and web.

Contract Photographer / Farmhand / Hitchhiker
Australia + New Zealand // January—March 2005
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Sent to Melbourne, Australia from New Zealand to photograph commodities (grain and wool) for global trading company Louis Dreyfus. New Zealand was pure adventure.

Junior Designer / Alternatives
New York, NY // June—September 2004
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Small packaging, product and brand licensing firm. Many soap and facial care clients along with Pepsi and Jeep.

Junior Designer / Infinite Scale Design Group
Salt Lake City, UT // January—March 2004
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Mostly environmental design. Famous for the Salt Lake Winter Olympic and the NFL Super Bowl XL graphics. I worked with them between these two projects on a massive athletic Hall of Fame for Bringham Young University's Athletics Programs.

Junior Designer / Alpine Ski Design Team / Salomon Sports
Annecy, France // January—June 2003
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Designed graphics for a full range of ski poles, ski bindings and children's helmets. All product graphics work. I learned French along the way so I could present my own work.

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University of Cincinnati / School of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning
Cincinnati, Ohio // 2000—2005
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Graphic Design Major: Graduated Cum Laude
5 year program alternating quarters of school and professional experience
Cincinnatus Scholarship recipient, founding member of student AIGA group, Computer Graphics Lab Technician

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Technical: PC and Mac, Adobe Creative Suite 2, After Effects 6.5, Audition 2.0 (audio), Dreamweaver MX, Painter 9, Sketchup 3D, Fontlab 4, Microsoft Office, Ableton Live 5.0 (audio), minimal 3D Studio MAX, minimal Flash

French: informal / conversational (continually building vocabulary)

Other: knots, collecting and mixing records, skiing, lithography, lomo photography, music production

Projects by Andrew Nilsen