Yoon S. Son

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Design Experince

NINTENDO

seattle 06/2010-current

Graphic Designer

Packaging, Logo's, displays, manuals, and other marketing materials for retail and shows.

 
 

INTEL

Portland Dec. 2009

Freelance Graphic Designer

Designed patterns and graphic elements for consumer electronic products.

 
 

NIKE

Portland 2008-2009

Freelance Designer

Designed graphics, patterns and colorways
for Nike’s Innovation Kitchen.

 
 

CURIOSITY GROUP

Portland June 2009-Oct. 2009

Graphic designer, illustrator, interactive designer, flash animator.
Art directed and created UI for photo uploading card site.

 
 

YAKIMA

Portland 2008-2009

Freelance Graphic Designer

Designed graphic patterns and colorways for various of cargo bags.
Created packaging graphics and illustrations.

 
 

MARKETING DRIVE

Chicago 2007-2008

Art Director for Gillette

Built brand identity for Gillette products.
print, packaging, and displays.

 
 

DRAFT-FCB

Chicago & London 2005-2007

Art Director For Nokia Nseries

Created and extended brand identity to print, packaging, POP, environments, videos
and web for domestic and overseas markets.
Worked as lead storyboard artist for various projects.
Built Flash presentations, instrumental in winning various accounts for Draft-FCB.

 

Art Director For Alli
Chicago 2007

Designed interior spaces for pop-up store , created products for award program.
banner ads, POP elements and packaging.

 
 

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO MUSEUM

Chicago 2001-2005

Designer/AV Technician

Created an animation piece for "Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces" exhibition. (Still on display)
Designed and helped implement an educational website for the museum teacher resource center.
Audio visual technician for various installations, presentations and performances.

 
     

Related Experince

VIDEO MIXER

Decibel Festival Seattle 2011

Sonotheque Night Club Chicago 2004-2007
The Chicago Cultural Center Chicago 2005

 
  PHOTO JOURNALIST

David Byrne, Gilberto Gil "Creative Commons" a benefit concert by Wired Magazine New York 2004
Educational Network Chicago 2004-2005

 
LEARNING CURVE

Chicago 2000-2001

Research and Development Assistant
Created concepts of plush toys for Lamaze infant toys.
Designed instructional diagrams and manuals for Thomas the Tank, Lionel, and Robotix.

 
     

Software Programs

PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Modu8,
HTML, XML, and ActionScript.
 
     

Education

The School of The Art Institute Chicago spring 2003
BFA: Art Technology and Design
Minor: Bio Art
 
     

Interests

Product design, botany, cycling, capoeira, and fashion.