Daniel Albert: Freelance Graphic Design in Lake Forest, CA

As a freelance graphic designer I have designed pamphlets, ads, logos, product labels and more with a specialty in apparel design. I have done officially licensed merchandise for both Disney and Marvel and I have designed t shirts for various daily t shirt sites such as shirt.woot.com, teefury.com, riptapparel.com, shirtpunch.com, theyetee.com, shirtoid.com and many more. I have expert level skill in both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop along with limited experience with Adobe Indesign, all on the Mac platform.

As Creative Director it was my responsibility to manage the art team at TeeFury and maintain the overall creative direction of the brand. I maintained TeeFury’s artist community as well as curated all website artwork and promotional material. I was in charge of the creative direction of all marketing and promotional material from ideation to execution. I worked in close collaboration with designers, and the marketing team to produce creative content for the all new products and was charged with heading advertising strategies. It was my responsibility to oversee projects, events and product launches from conception to final product and did so with products like tanks, tee shirts, hoodies, pins, posters and much more.

Teefury is a multimillion dollar company specializing in the production of geek and pop culture apparel. As Teefury's Art Director I was in charge of a team of 8 people overseeing the curation and branding of Teefury including everything from print ready artwork for apparel to on brand assets for marketing and social media campaigns. I curated collections and the overall direction of homepage and gallery products. I cultivated new artist relationships by bringing in new designers and scouting talent. I mentored designers as well as production staff on overall conceptual direction and branding. I worked directly with production facilities approving and reworking strikeoffs to insure quality prints. I worked with licensing companies and have curated officially licensed designs for Disney and Marvel. I've managed an entire line from concept to final product for all over printed goods (sublimation), including onboarding the new vendor.

As a staff writer my writing credits include everything from restaurant and fashion reviews to celebrity interviews, editorial work and monthly columns. I provided detail oriented articles efficiently and on time each month as designated by the publishers. As a social media coordinator I was in charge of marketing and growing the brand via social media sites such as facebook, twitter, instagram and more. That includes daily posts, tracking and responding to conversations, running contests and delivering an overall brand conscious message to social media followers. I was also responsible for various office duties including creating and maintaining the readership database, organizing and facilitating the mailing of physical copies of the magazine, and maintaining web images and digital magazine issues for the LIVE Publishing's web page. Office programs used include; MS Office (Excel, Word) Email marketing software (constant contact, mailchimp) Basecamp Adobe CS5 (Illustrator/Photoshop, Indesign)

Maintained management duties for the Laguna Hills, CA location when the Manager was not present. Assistant manager duties included; -Monitoring and Controlling payroll to sales ratios -Scheduling -Interviewing and the hiring/termination process -Opening and Closing the store -Coordinating new floor setups and overall placement of new product -Directing the flow of incoming (new stock) and outgoing (consolidation) products -Supervising and managing part time employees -Sales, Cashier and overall great customer service This position gave me a great opportunity to gain excessive retail experience and learn how to multitask, manage time, and overall give excellent customer service.