Blake Ingram: Creative Director // Art Director // Graphic Designer // Accessories Designer in Somerset, California

•Focus on logo, branding & Identity, and visual design systems for entertainment, automotive, action sports, hospitality, music, consumer packaged goods, and retail brands. •Clients include: Vans, Harley Davidson, Universal Studios, Live Nation, Hot Wheels, Blizzard Entertainment, Sybo Games, Casamigos Tequila, Jack's Surfboards, Racemark, Forever 21 along with partner agencies, Eyerus and ID Agency. •Collaborate with in-house art departments to aid in the development, creation, and finalization of style guides for licensing partners. •Manage the design process from inception to completion for packaging and collateral assets including full tech packs and cad drawings.

•Collaboration between apparel department to create new product lines for brick and mortar stores and vendor-specific designs for partner retailers. •Increased Mens Core accessory revenue from $8 M to $22 M in a 3 year period. •Instrumental in evolving the accessory line beyond backpacks to include sunglasses, belts, wallets, keychains, socks, headwear, and extended bag line.

•Conceptualize and creation for inception of the channel, including demo reel for proof of concept and launch of the network (Aug 2005). •Ideate current cultural trends in art, music, politics, and travel for weekly driven content on the channel such as Shepard Fairey, Matisyahu, David Carson, Mr. Cartoon, Tara Mcpherson. •Developed added merchandising to complement the network series and weekly pods.

•Designed, developed, and implemented promotional consumer facing website/micro-sites for Disney, Sony Pictures, and FX Networks. •Increase traffic for brands by 40% during The 6th Day activation and content rollout. •Awarded the Promax TV Award for Interactive Media-Website-Movie for Sony Pictures Entertainment.

•Managed a team of 15 designers for a $75 M company. •Produced short form episodic online television with key sponsors: Dell, Chase, Pennzoil, Enron, Pepsi, Microsoft, Walt Disney TV, Capitol Records.