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Ona Lorraine Canilao
Web & Graphic Designer / Artist & Illustrator / Visual Communications
Paris, France
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About
I am a designer with over thirteen years of media and visual communications experience; with expertise in the areas of graphic design, illustration, web design, videography, editing, script writing, and sequential art. Being creative, passionate, hard working and artistic, are my strongest qualities. My goal is to create professional, elegant and unique designs for print and online media. Some of the best experiences I've ever had was working on projects for the Cannes Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week. My career has spanned over numerous industries: Film and Motion Picture, Fashion, Finance & Banking, Broadcast News, Law, Education and Health, Public Relations/Communications.
Specialties: Adobe Creative Suite 6, Internet & Web design; Typography; Acrobat 7.0 Professional. Media 100 Editing System; DigitalPRO Videography; PowerPoint, Excel, Word -
Education
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Communication Visuelle and Applied ArtsEcole d'Art Maryse Eloy2012 - 2013
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BA Communications: Media StudiesUniversity of San Francisco1998 - 2001
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Experience
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Associate Visual DesignerVisciraMar 2015 - Present (6 years 8 months)
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IllustratorMy Little Tao BooksFeb 2015 - Present (6 years 9 months)Contract illustration projects with My Little Tao Children's Books.
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Graphic DesignerÉCU - The European Independent Film FestivalNov 2013 - Present (8 years)ECU is an organization based in Paris FR, that stages Independent Film Festivals all over Europe. My primary responsibility is to design and create dynamic work for ECU’s various projects and campaigns. This includes the festival movie catalogue, posters, flyers, invitations and brochures; slides for the website; images for social media advertising, etc.
Please visit https://www.behance.net/onalorrainecanilao and http://www.coroflot.com/onalorrainecanilao/portfolio for my portfolio. -
Graphic Designer/IllustratorBiocoiffOct 2013 - Present (8 years 1 month)I work as a freelance Graphic Designer for Biocoiff. My projects include designing and creating works using the themes of “Nature” and “Youthful Innocence” to represent the Biocoiff organic haircare brand. The works I provided are used for advertising the products.
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Business and Conversational English TeacherBusiness and Conversational English TeacherNov 2012 - Present (9 years)I teach Business English to adults and Basic/Conversational English to children and teenagers. My topics include Culture, News, Current Affairs and Media. I helped my students develop their Reading, Listening and Writing skills with fun and unique activities.
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Freelance Creative Director, Graphic Designer, IllustratorOna Lorraine Communication VisuelleJun 2010 - Present (11 years 5 months)Ona Lorraine Communication Visuelle was created back in 2010 as an extension of my growing arts and crafts hobby. I started with selling custom made greeting cards, which were sold at Etsy and various craft fairs all over the San Francisco, Bay Area. Presently, my focus is to design and create unique and dynamic artwork for various client specific projects and campaigns. I always coordinate with my clients to discuss art direction, concepts and layouts for all projects.
Specialties: Illustrations, Digital artwork, Product art, Print ads. Please visit my portfolio at http://www.coroflot.com/onalorrainecanilao/ and https://www.behance.net/onalorrainecanilao -
Scion ClientScion Staffing2011 - 2014 (3 years)
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Assistant Editor: Creative DirectorFashion Republic MagazineAug 2013 - Nov 2013 (3 months)I supervised the creation of content for FRM Magazine. Designed the magazine cover, website, Street Fashion and Casual Fashion pages. Managed and delegated work to the creative team. Create and supervise content for the iCANDY monthly newsletter.
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Graphic Designer/CommunicationsAlameda County Bar AssociationJan 2012 - May 2012 (4 months)E-newsletter, website, graphic design/printing, Daily Journal & Recorder page updates.
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Web AdministratorGenworth FinancialNov 2011 - Dec 2011 (1 month)Marketing Department. Web content management.
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Corporate Communications AnalystBank of the WestFeb 2006 - Feb 2011 (5 years)
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Real Estate Industries DivisionBank of the West2005 - 2006 (1 year)
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Administrative AssistantDaVita2003 - 2004 (1 year)
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Media Services Department/ Slide SourcesCalifornia Pacific Medical CenterFeb 2001 - Oct 2001 (8 months)Production Assistant
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Public RelationsKRON 4 TVAug 2000 - Mar 2001 (7 months)
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Programming AssistantKBWB TV20Jan 2000 - Aug 2000 (7 months)
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Skills
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@onalorrainecanilao, member since 2014
