John Earickson

Graphic Designer and Artist at Atomic Boogaloo

Inglewood, CA

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OBJECTIVE

To obtain a challenging and creative job in Graphic Design that will further enhance my knowledge and skills

Training:

I am self taught artist and designer. Constantly trying to learn and gaining new skills and abilities. I have a lot of experience working in the printing business with over 10 years of experience in pre-press and page layout at a major newspaper.

Over 5 years of experience in graphic design, providing design and branding services for Smorgrasbord Productions.

Currently I run Atomic Boogaloo, a illustration and design studio wear I create illustrations for my T-shirt designs and provide design services for clients.
Education
- Certificate Desktop Publishing
  
  R.O.P
  
  1995 - 1996
Experience
- CEO
  
  Anime Playground
  
  Aug 2009 - Present (11 years 8 months)
  
  Online Retail store.
- Vector Illustratior, Graphic Designer, CEO
  
  Atomic Boogaloo
  
  Oct 2008 - Present (12 years 6 months)
  
  Cartoon Illustrator and Graphic Design Studio. Work for hire illustration and Graphic Design.
  * Design flyers, brochures, magazine layout and web productions for clients using Adobe Creative Suite CS4.
  * Design and host websites for clients using Dreamweaver CS4 and some Hand Coding.
  * Create original illustrations for books, T-shirts and other merchandise using Illustrator CS4.
  * Created a brand of T-shirts under the "Atomic Boogaloo" brand, featuring original character illustrations.
- CEO
  
  Atomic Boogaloo
  
  Apr 2008 - Present (13 years)
  
  Atomic Boogaloo is an Art and Design Studio in Los Angeles. Created in 2008 buy artist John Earickson as a brand for his illustrations, Atomic Boogaloo has branched out to perfom Graphic Design services to small business.
  
  Atomic Boogaloo also produces:
  Illustration
  T-shirt Design
  Web Design
- Vice President / Lead Designer
  
  Smorgasbord Productions
  
  Jul 2004 - Present (16 years 9 months)
  
  My work can be seen on; Designed all aspects of Smorgasbord Productions identity, including logo, Website and promotional materials.
  * As the companies head designer, produced all design work for company, from marketing material such as flyers and brochures to Magazine design and web productions.
  * Developed DVD productions of Smorgasbord animated titles, converting from Macromedia Flash to video, producing DVD.
  * Designed Websites and Comic Book Covers for Smorgasbord Production's comic book and Animation productions.
  * Produced Magazine Layouts and designs for several local Magazines.
  * Created character models in Illustrator for use in Flash based animated short for G4 television.
  * Compensation: $25.00 - $30 per hour depending on project.
- VP / Graphic Design
  
  Smorgasbord Productions
  
  Jan 2003 - Present (18 years 3 months)
  
  Branding
  Web Design
  Illustration
  graphic design
- Graphic Designer - Care
  
  Care1st Health plan
  
  Apr 2006 - Jan 2009 (2 years 9 months)
  
  Worked as a Graphic Designer in the medical insurance field, creating and building marketing material for Senior and Low Income families.
  
  Working with marketing directors, would build and design:
  * Direct Mail postcards
  * Provider Newsletters for Doctor offices
  * Community event flyers
  * Magazine Ads
  * Newspaper ads
  * Pamphlets for Doctor Offices
  * Designed the Care1st Medicare line look for 2007 and 2008
  * Created Care1st Medicare insurance Coverage Directories
  * worked with marketing directors, would build and design marketing material
  * Compensation: $20 per hour
- Graphic Technician
  
  The Press Enterprise
  
  Jul 1996 - Apr 2007 (10 years 9 months)
  
  * Operate Kodak Creo Trendsetter News Computer To Plate system for output of daily newspaper.
  * Provide high quality color correction for CMYK color separations, drop outs and edits using Adobe Photoshop in both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
  * Working directly with editors, built page layouts and typeset pages using Quark Xpress for the daily newspaper.
  * Compensation: $17.50 per hour
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Web Design from John Earickson

Web Design

Web pages I developed for clients.

www.rainbowtoethiopia.org - Website created for the Charity group Rainbow Humanitarian Caretaker Foundation. This site was a complete redesign using what graphics I could salvage from the original site.

www.studio33motorsports.com - Site design for Studio 33 Motor Sports.

http://tambourinegurl.org - Site design for a new cartoon show project. Designed logo and built with Illustrator and Photoshop.

Central Film Company - I did a website redesign for a Company Called Central Film Company. This may not look it, but this was the most complex site I ever built. Hours and Hours of constant updates and changes. Issues with the company resulted in the site never going live, finished.

Until They Are Home - www.untiltheyarehome.com. A website for a film documentary currently in production. Created with Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Gorilla Pictures - Gorilla Pictures is a media production company based in Burbank. I redesigned and updated their webpage. Http://www.gorillapictures.net

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners. I totally revamped and redesigned all the marketing banners for the convention. None were used.

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners. I totally revamped and redesigned all the marketing banners for the convention. None were used.

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners.

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners. I totally revamped and redesigned all the marketing banners for the convention. None were used.

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners. I totally revamped and redesigned all the marketing banners for the convention. None were used.

Rock N Comic Con web banners - Rock N Comic Con web banners.

Toyhell Mockup - This is an unsed mock up I did a few years ago for a collectible shop called toyhell. I wanted to redesign the website as a gift for a friend. I wanted to make it easy for him to update, so I decided on Tables instead of CSS.

Since the shop has such a large inventory, I came to the conclusion it would be better to use a opensource E-Commerace package.

Complete re-design of clients website, using completely new graphics with the sites current content. Tools used are Photoshop Cs5, CSS, Java applets, Dreamweaver

Simple site developed based on the clients wishes and ideas.

Simple E-mail blast for Gorilla Pictures

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Graphic Designer and Artist at Atomic Boogaloo Inglewood, CA