resumé - Saya Signs

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employment
Freelance graphic design
Engaging audiences with event design at Cannes
Lions Festival of Creativity, SXSW, and AdWeek.
Creating marketing, communications, and
branding solutions for a wide variety of clients.
Driving sales and engagement with digital
marketing and communications design solutions
across master- and sub-brands.
October 2014–Present
Heartwork, Inc.
November 2014–February 2015, New York, New York
Delighting potential and existing customers
with print pieces, including ads, books, banners,
postcards, and business cards.
Bringing visual clarity and consistency to a growing
product catalog to attract new clients and reengage
existing clients.
Innovative Language
Improving customer experience through customerfacing design, including product assembly
instructions, postcards, and packaging.
Facilitating learning with product design, and UI for
language learning mobile apps and podcasts.
Increasing visiblity, sales, and brand awareness with
digital marketing and communications design.
Increasing visibility and brand coherence with web
and product branding and design.
Getty Images
AQ Works
January 2013–September 2014, New York, New York
Summer 2010, Tokyo, Japan
Defining and enforcing corporate brand as a
member of in-house Brand Management team
through internal engagement campaign, consistent
application of visual identity across various
employee-facing templates.
Creating online platforms for organizations through
CMS publishing, production and design, including
Setouchi International Art Festival, Asics Europe,
Tokyo Art Map, Tokyo Illustrators Society.
education
skills & interests
Skidmore College
Class of 2011, Saratoga Springs, New York
15+ years of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,
and InDesign experience
Studio Art Bachelor of Science with focus in
Communication Design, Printmaking, Textiles
Understanding and implementation of
the principles of responsive web design
History minor with focus in modern German
and post-colonial history
Expert Microsoft Powerpoint presentation
and template design
California College of the Arts: Pre-College
Summer 2006, Oakland, California
The American School in Japan
Class of 2007, Tokyo, Japan
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July 2012–July 2013, Tokyo, Japan
Illustration and hand lettering
The role of print and material culture in history
Graphic novels, children’s books, visual narratives
World cuisine, craft and folklore
February 13, 2015