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Art Director/Senior Designer

Alyssa Shapkoff

Chicago, IL
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    Senior Art Director/Senior Designer with 10+ years of collective experience in the fields of advertising, marketing, architecture, tech startups, branding and graphic design. Creative-leaning professional drawing largely from my architectural education and vast branding and graphics background; offers mash-up of art direction, branding and identity work, copywriting, graphic and environmental design, UX/UI, product design/visual design.

    Innovative and results-driven with extensive experience delivering exceptional designs for wide-ranging print and media projects, brands and environments. Self-professed "designsmith" using a multi-disciplinary, multi-instramental approach with strong project management abilities, effective communication skills and outstanding work ethic.

    Accurately interprets the voice of the brand with diverse industry insight, astute attention to detail and comprehensive technical acumen; market expertise includes retail, sports, entertainment, hospitality, academic, media, publication, technology, healthcare/pharma and consumer products and goods.

    "Alyssa Shapkoff is a Chicago-based Senior Art Director, designer and wordsmith hailing from rural Illinois. She spends a good portion of her day drinking bottomless coffee, reading, writing and making beautiful things. Alyssa studied architecture, found her way into advertising, and enjoys most everything design-related. She refuses to 'make it pop.'"

    Follow her on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn. For business inquiries or full-time or freelance employment opportunities, please direct messages to: [email protected].

  • Education
    • Master of Architecture Architecture
      University of New Mexico
      2003 - 2005
    • Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies Architecture
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      1999 - 2003
  • Experience
    • Contract Art Director/Senior Designer
      VISANOW.com
      IL
      Delivered on-brand B2B/B2C creative as part of in-house marketing arm for a multinational healthcare company. Responsible for Global Immigration-Chicago Contract Art Director/Senior Designer
    • Contract Senior Art Director
      Atypical Design-Chicago
      IL
      Developed creative direction and guidelines for retail store visual
    • Ladue News
      T.Mnich Architecture Simon Property Nordstrom St. Louis Freelance Art Director, 2013
    • Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
      Evanston, United States
      media content/posts and banner ads for mobile and web. Led creative
    • Master of Architecture
      Freelance Senior Designer/Art Director
      Worked on design initiatives spanning from in-store signage and University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, NM POS to the new visual identity and assets for full-line of Graduated with Honors 2005 consumer products. Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies Clients Served: Procter & Gamble and Head & Shoulders. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, IL
    • Contract/Consultant Senior Designer/Art Director
      Gettys Inc.-Chicago
      IL
    • Produced creative output as Strategic Thought Partner
      TOOLKIT
      Hilton Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft O ce, Keynote, Brands, focused mainly on user-experience audits, overall Autodesk AutoCAD, and Google Sketchup Pro. guest-experience, brand-loyalty and new business development. Strong leadership skills and experience mentoring creatives. Provided consultancy on wide array of multi-channel design solutions Clear communicator with the ability to work both independently, and new brand initiatives, from brand and identity development to and in a team setting. Ability to work within tight deadlines and various promotional and marketing strategies, pilot programs and client budgets. consumer testing to prototyping and rollout. Clients Served: Hilton and Hampton Inn. Experience as a key contact-managing complex projects, deciding creative strategy/process and organizing workflow. RELATED DESIGN & BRANDING EXPERIENCE Possession of strong design and conceptual abilities. Knowledge of print production, environmental graphics, POS/POP
    • PGAV Destinations-Saint
      Louis, MO
      and tradeshow graphics. Solid understanding of UX/UI design, Contract Senior Designer/Exhibit Designer wireframes prototypes, responsive, and adaptive design with Designed environmental graphics, exhibit, and interpretive designs, basic HTML and CSS skills. as well as, signage and wayfinding systems, for a large-scale, international zoological park and botanical garden. Clients Served: Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of Al Ain, United Arab Emirates Chimelong Group of Chimelong, China and NASA with the Kennedy Space Center. Eva Maddox Branded Environments-Chicago, IL
    • Senior Designer/Brand Strategist
      Saudi Arabian Royal Family
      Provided visioning, concepting, initial brand strategy and identity development, environmental graphics, signage and wayfinding systems, and various print work for multitude of corporate accounts, Find cultural, and academic institutions. Clients Served in association with the first me all-women's university in the Kingdom (Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) University of Oregon at Bend, OR and Phil Knight in association with Nike. 505 Design-Boulder, CO
    • Art Director
      Visual Communications
      Designer typical Design ADVERTISING & MARKETING EXPERIENCE New Control /Merkle-Chicago, IL
    • Stealth Startup-Chicago
      Freelance Senior Art Director
      IL
      Fashioned creative for direct-marketing campaigns (e.g. direct-mail, Creative Director
  • Skills
    • Art Direction
    • Environmental Graphics
    • Graphic Design
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