Daniel Barez: Graphic Designer in Denver, CO

- Designed unique and exciting products, packaging, advertisements, magazine layouts and trade show graphics. - Lead designer on in-house brands, and licensed brands such as Hot Wheels and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Collaborated with marketing and licensors, striving to maintain brand standards, and push them further by developing new concepts, and graphics. - Product photography and photo manipulation for packaging, advertisements, and all other company materials. - Responsible for reviewing proofs, and artwork from the international teams in Hong Kong, and the Netherlands. Communicated daily with teams to ensure brand consistency. - Lead designer on 2017 & 2018 product catalog. Designing the template, and working collaboratively with other team members in applying this look to 100+ pages.

- Developed new concepts throughout various departments such as Boy’s Action (Avengers, Transformers, Jurassic World), Play-Doh and Monopoly. - Used new and existing assets for branding and package design on different projects as a participating member of the KRE-O team. - Designed my own product line consisting of generic KRE-O sets, as well as Transformers, GI-Joe and Star Trek. - Created a toy concept that would combine KRE-O and Monopoly. I was given the opportunity to present this idea to the Vice President’s of major Hasbro brands.