Evan Swigart
2550 West Catalpa Avenue
Apartment 2C
Chicago, Illinois 60625
M 408.896.2920
T 773.334.4006
W 707.706.3663
Core Competencies
Print Collateral, Illustration, Product Photography, Social Media Management,
Product Packing, Technical Illustration, Trade Show Graphics, Text Book Creation Digital and Print, POP, B2B Collateral, Direct Mail, Web Design
Programs Used
InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, Aperture, Final Cut, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML and CSS.
Freelance Experience
Zen-Design; Chicago, IL — 12/06-Present
Providing design, photography and food styling services to a wide range of clients, from advertising agencies to corporate entities.
Gordon Hanrahan: Designed a new corporate web site for their client Unilever, Designed new packaging for their client Hellmann’s and Knorr package design, Designed flyers for their client Lipton profiling their new b2b product and food styling and photography for their client the US Rice Council.
Quarasan: Designed the templates, Illustrated the graphics and took the photos for California and Georgia’s K-6th grade math books also managed the project, designers, budget and timeline. The project was $10,000 under budget and was delivered to the client 3 months ahead of schedule.
Tighe Publishing: Designed the templates and Illustrated the graphics for Texas’ junior high level reading magazines. Managed the design team consisting of 12 designers, 2 illustrators and 3 photo retouchers. The project was delivered to the client on time and on budget.
Creative Commune: Designed the packing for Urban Accents new line of Spice Jars, Turkey Brine and Cocktail Rimmers. Was in charge of the food styling and photography for Ming Tsai’s new line of frozen foods. Was the team lead and head designer for a POP campaign with a co-venture between Kashi, Dannon and Dole.
Michael Walters Agency: Design and managed the outdoor signage campaign for Brownstone, Woodfield and Talamore Real Estate agencies.
Ogilvy & Mather: In charge of editing a television campaign for Chili’s restaurant. Managed Dove’s print advertising campaign for their new line of shampoos. The project was on time and under budget by $22,000.
GES: Designed the panels for Microsoft, Ford and RIAA trade show booths, as well as all their print collateral and swag. The projects were delivered to the client ahead of schedule.
Corporate Experience
Graphic Artist, Tripp Lite; Chicago, IL — 4/08-1/09
This company makes and distributes computer peripherals for consumer products as well as high end products for corporations.
Responsibilities: Designed all of the b2b print collateral. Designed the manuals for 5,500 different products including the technical drawings and schematics. Was in charge of the team that designed the new packaging, photographed, retouched and masked all 5,500 products in the inventory.
Results and Accomplishments: Implemented the use of and taught the staff to use of InCopy into the development process, allowing the writers to make all their changed directly to the files. This saved 500 hours a month in manpower and $1200 a month in printing supplies.
Graphic Artist, Print Time; Kansas City, MO — 3/06-9/06
This company does design and custom printing for multiple corporate clients
Responsibilities: Designed print collateral for corporate clients, high volume of projects with quick turn around
Results and Accomplishments: Installed and maintained a new Macintosh file server and new Macintosh web server to support the entire corporation.
Art Director, Christenson, Barclay & Shaw; Overland Park, KS — 9/00-12/05
This company does yellow page design and placement for national client as well as web banner placement.
Responsibilities: Designed yellow pages ads and web banners for national clients, with quick turn around and limited budgets. Managed the art department, consisting of 4 designers. Controlled the flow of work and had final approval on all projects.
Results and Accomplishments: Implemented a new traffic flow process taking the office to a paper free environment and automating the entire billing process.
Installed and maintained a new Macintosh file server and new Windows web server to support the entire corporation saving the company $68,000.
Web Master, VFW National Headquarters; Kansas City, MO — 11/99-4/00
Education
California Culinary Academy; San Francisco, CA — Associates Degree / Culinary Arts
Art Institute of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA — Bachelors Degree / Graphic Design
Vatterott College; Kansas City, MO — Associates Degree / Computer Programming