Dan Baretich
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About
I am a Transportation Design graduate from Art Center College of Design currently employed at the Seattle-based company Taphandles. We continue to be a growing, successful company and I have the privilege to work with great people day in and day out.
My undergraduate experience consisted of mainly an automotive focus with several marine design courses taken, finished with a footwear design internship. All those disciplines along with my years at Taphandles have kept my eyes open to the wealth of possible paths an industrial designer can take in their career.
Seattle offers many things in addition to it's beautiful Olympic Mountain sunsets. Two among them are the inspiration that is all forms of bicycling and the constant presence of marine craft. The bicycle culture here has firmly taken hold not only in the form of my multiple apartment unit builds and daily commuting but also in the resulting inspiration and pen-to-paper designs. And whether it be the attendance of twice annual boat shows or watching boats over the water from bridges over Lake Washington, I know there is much more to explore in the marine transportation realm. My humble aim is to enter into one of these industries next.
I believe design is creation, and I enjoy the opportunity to do that. I am looking to help make better working, better functioning, and better looking products not only for the benefit of use and longevity, but also for the benefit of enjoyment.
Specialties: Hand sketching, Rendering, Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, Alias, Bunkspeed, Clay modeling, Research, Teamwork, Enthusiasm -
Education
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Bachelor of Science Transportation DesignArt Center College of Design2006 - 2010
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Pasadena City College2003 - 2006
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Experience
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DesignerTaphandles Inc.Oct 2010 - Present (15 years 8 months)I design tap handles, signage, and other beer industry-related point-of-sale products along with the rest of our team. We work from sketching to rendering to modeling. We have a great team not only on the product side of things, but also the graphics/brand development group and our sales and project management team. Our company has grown substantially since I joined in the fall of 2010. It's been great to be a part of--to see a greater variety of work, more clients, the opening of domestic production, and the "taming of the wild west" that happens when companies go from small and organized to much larger and needing scalable structure for now and in the years to come. We have great people in all needed areas that have made that happen. And while I do miss how small and close knit it was (along with the older, smaller, more intimate feeling location), I really like where we are now. Greater capability not only in design but in production. And with manufacturing of some products opening up close by, visiting and being educated on how each product is made--from raw material to finishing application--helps us to be much more informed designers. I am grateful and thankful that this experience is so much more than just design experience.
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Footwear Design InternID WorkshopJan 2010 - Apr 2010 (3 months)Designed, rendered, and researched footwear. Organized work submissions to clients.
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Teacher's AssistantArt Center College of Design - Department Chairs OfficeSep 2008 - Dec 2009 (1 year 3 months)Assisted department chairs and coordinators in their daily tasks.
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Freelance graphic/mural designPowell Motors Inc.Jun 2008 - Aug 2008 (2 months)2011: License plate frame insert design work. The goal was to avoid repeated information, de-clutter the space, and convey the most effective information (the name and website) easily.
2008: Logo, sign, and mural design work both on the exterior and interior of Powell Motors, a local new and used car dealership in Portland, OR. The task was to convey the history of the dealership (since 1933) through a time line mural, create renewed visibility to people who drove by of who and what the dealership is about, and further communicate the vehicles they sold then and sell now. -
Customer Service Representitive, Porter, DetailerAcura of GlendaleSep 2003 - Aug 2007 (3 years 11 months)Worked between part-time and full-time 2003-2006 as well as the summer of 2007 (around college schedules)
Cleaned customer vehicles in for service, shuttled customers to and from work or home, detailed sold new and used vehicles, drove vehicles to and from repair shops. -
Lot Attendant, DetailerPowell Motors Inc.Jun 2001 - Aug 2003 (2 years 2 months)Worked summers of 2001, 2002, and 2003
Maintained vehicle inventory's and car lot's appearance, drove vehicles to and from shops and auctions.
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Awards
Bachelor of Science with Honors
Transportation Design
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Art Center Scholarship -
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Elsewhere on the Web
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