Alex Krastev: in Fountain Valley, CA

Responsible for designing graphics, art and boardshort prints across the global apparel range of Quiksilver in Saint Jean de Luz, France's HQ. • Including but not limited to: T-shirt graphics and artwork, trim packages, all-over prints and patterns used across all Global Quiksilver ranges and categories: Young Man, Waterman, Snow Division, Accessories, Footwear, Youth and Boys, SMU and Quiksilver Women and special project such as Netflix / Stranger Things Apparel Collection! • Responsible for creating the seasonal mood boards of the Regional offering for T-shirt graphics and Boardshort prints for the destinations market: Hawaii, California, Australia, New Zealand. • Responsible for presenting to the Global M&D team a Trip Report, after each trip I am sent to: Honolulu-Hawaii, LA-California, Sydney, Melbourne-Australia, Paris-France, Venice-Italy. • Support the Art Director with ideas, tears and inspiration for each seasonal Art Direction print and graphics brief and mood boards. • Preparation of all seasonal T-shirt tech pacs, approvals and factory comments. Selecting and buying seasonal Prints from outside vendors. • Art directed and executed the Official event t-shirts and products for the Quik Pro Gold Coast - Australia 2019 and Quik Pro France 2019. • Volunteered to create the “2020 Quiksilver Pro G-Land” event poster and product package. • Invited to be part of the Global design team for “Designed in Hawaii ” collection. Executed March 2019 for two weeks on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. “Being the fuel and the energy of the Quiksilver Art department as the Quiksilver Art Director describes me.” Matt Cater

Rip Curl HQ Costa Mesa • Managing the T-shirt department for Rip Curl USA and reporting directly to the VP of Design and Merchandise. • Responsible for the design direction, research and execution of all graphics and art for T-shirts, tech packs handover, sample approvals, factory approvals and presenting the line to the upper management. • Increased the sales of the T-shirt department making it the number one category. • Being part of the Global design camp team of Rip Curl on remote locations in Bali, Hawaii, Hossegor and contributing with a menu of Global graphics, branding kit, Boardshort and woven patterns, used through out all regions. • Responsible for designing 2-4 prints per season for the Boardshort and woven categories. • Responsible for all regional capsules, SMU, major and core surf-shop collabs for Hawaii, Florida, Costa Rica. • Responsible for all artwork and graphics used on head-wear, accessories and trims.

Sr. Graphic Designer Fox HQ Irvine As Sr. Graphic Designer in the T-shirt Department at Fox Head, my main task was refreshing and elevating the look of the T-shirt category at FOX Head USA and reporting directly to Art Director. Responsible for all aspects of the design process from research, ideas, graphics and art execution, tech packs, actual size, vendor comments, sample approvals.

Quiksilver HQ Huntington Beach Young Men's Artist and Graphic Designer. Artist and Graphic Designer in the T-shirt department at Quiksilver providing art and designs for all categories.