 About Russell Grigg
Graduatng from the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) as a Visual Culture and Communication (VCC) Specialist, I have been aiding my peers and clients in presenting their ideas and ideals visually with elegance, simplicity, and distinction.
Interests & Hobbies
// Spending time with my daughter & dog
// Playing/recording/listening to music
// Attending concerts & collecting concert recordings
// Personal design projects
Design Experience
FEB 2008-PRESENT//MARKETING COORDINATOR//Clear Channel Outdoor (Toronto, ON)
//Maintaining & strengthening the branding efforts of an international marketing firm through printed documents & presentation materials.
//Developing & producing multi-paged documents to be presented to reputable national
advertising agencies & national airport authorities.
//Graphically producing simulations of innovative marketing installations & concepts for use & implimentation in advertising campaigns of multi-national brands & products.
//Click here to visit www.clearchanneloutdoor.ca.
AUG 2008-DEC 2009//MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER & WEBMASTER//SPRY Wrestling
//Developing the branding efforts of an independent wrestling promotion & their events.
//Production & maintenance of both textual & audio-visual web content.
//Post-production of DVDs of monthly events & design of merchandise for sale to the public.
//Click here to visit www.sprywrestling.com.
JULY 2006-PRESENT//GRAPHIC DESIGNER//Shirley Tom Professional Corporation (Oakville, ON)
//In charge of producing professional grade materials for an accounting firm (logographic, letterhead, business cards).
APR 2007-DEC 2007//GRAPHIC DESIGNER//Entripy Custom Clothing (Oakville, ON)
//Providing customers with digital proofs of requested garments.
//Readying images for spot print, 4-colour-process print & simulated print.
//Creative tasks including creating internet/e-mail ads and thank-you cards.
//Click here to visit www.entripy.com.
JULY 2006-JAN 2008//GRAPHIC DESIGNER//Blind Duck Pub at UTM (Mississauga, ON)
//Independently redesigned menu layout that encapsulated restaurant’s ambiance.
SUMMER 2006//COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR//Knights Table Soup Kitchen (Brampton, ON)
//Designed and updated professional-quality promotional materials (awareness brochure, multimedia presentations, event displays, posters).
//Developed new layout and generated content for website.
//Click here to visit www.knightstable.org.
SUMMER 2006//ADVERTISING COORDINATOR//UTM Students’ Union (Mississauga, ON)
//Developed visual concepts & apparel designs for the 2006 UTM Orientation.
//Produced and prepared promotional materials for print (posters, postcards).
//Click here to visit www.utmsu.ca.
Education
HONOURS BACHELOR OF ARTS (2008) // University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM)
//Visual Culture & Communications (VCC) Specialist.
//Joint program with Sheridan College – Trafalgar Campus.
//Click here to visit www.utm.utoronto.ca.
//Click here to visit www.ccit.utoronto.ca.
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS CERTIFICATE (2008) // Sheridan College – Trafalgar Campus
Awards
NOV 2007 // UTM MEDIA GENERATOR CULTURE JAMMING AWARD // Irony 'Beauty-Care' Products
//Manipulated design programs to prepare a product campaign that conceptually exploited marketing practices of the beauty-care industry.
//Click here to visit Irony's Beauty-Care Wiki.
//Click here to visit the UTM Media Generator initiative. |
