Resume - Kurt Ludwig Design

KURT LUDWIG
Art Director & Designer
WORK EXPERIENCE
San Francisco Bay Area
Kurt Ludwig Design (small agency)
[email protected]
San Francisco Bay Area
Principal, Director, Designer
Freelance Art Director & Designer
Managing business aspects and teams while creating
communications for clients and freelance employers.
June 2003–Present
www.kurtludwigdesign.com
Select Clients:
ABC-CLIO
Adaptive Curriculum
Cisco Systems
Epsilen
Face Reality Skin Care
GenPlay Games
Herbert Engineering Corp.
Hewlett-Packard
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Meyer Sound
Pearson Foundation
SOMA Magazine
Teachers’ Curriculum Institute
UC Berkeley
VentureBeat
YouSendIt
Select Clients with Freelance Employers:
AMD (Bite Communications)
Aradigm (Casper Design Group)
Astellas Pharma (Kane & Finkel) Mission Hill Winery (M Space)
Wells Fargo (Design One)
AXA Rosenberg (Formative)
Responsive Path (medium-sized agency)
San Francisco, CA
UI/UX Designer (contract)
Designed responsive wireframes and prototypes in a team
environment for Nerium’s international, e-commerce, and
multi-level marketing website.
August 2014–December 2014
PatientKey (startup)
Mountain View, CA (telecommuting)
Lead UI/UX & Brand Designer (contract)
Lead all design aspects from infancy for a mobile web app
that allows the healthcare community to share actionable data
derived from third-party mobile app and device usage.
November 2012–March 2013
Issio Solutions (startup)
Lafayette, CA
UI/UX Designer & Art Director (contract)
Created mockups with IxD considerations for developers.
Oversaw design quality and consistency for a robust native
app used in surgery centers.
March 2012–September 2012
Casper Design Group (medium-sized agency)
Berkeley, CA
Graphic Designer (full-time)
Helped clients build and extend their corporate
brand-identity across various media.
March 2000–May 2003
Select Clients:
Asia Foundation
Chiron
DPR Construction
Lucent Technologies
Openwave
PeopleSoft
Sangamo BioSciences
Union Bank of California
Datascope Corp. (large corporation)
Montvale, NJ
Graphic Designer (full-time)
Designed informational and promotional materials
in-house for a leading international medical company.
June 1999–December 1999
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Design
Rochester, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts/Graphic Design
May 1999
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE (MAC)
Assembla, Basecamp, TFS, etc.
Axure
Dreamweaver
Edge Reflow
Flash
Illustrator
InDesign
MailChimp
Microsoft Office
Muse
OmniGraffle
Photoshop
DESIGN & BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
50% Print – Everything from start to finish
50% Interactive – Design, direction, and minimal coding
Advertising
(print & interactive)
Agile Team
Annual Reports
(print & interactive)
Apps
Banners & Posters
Billboards
Books/E-Books
Branding & Identity
Brochures (print & interactive)
CSS/CSS3
Catalogs (print & interactive)
Client Acquisition &
New-Business Development
Client Management
Client Meetings
Conferences & Trade Shows
Copy Writing & Editing
Creative-Team Management
Current Trends
Developer Tools
Direct Mail & Postcards
E-Commerce
Flowcharts
Editorial (print & interactive)
Environmental Graphics
Estimates & Proposals
Graphic/HTML Emails
HTML/HTML5
Icons/Icon Fonts
Information Architecture
Language Translations
Letterheads & Business Cards
Logos
Marketing Strategy
Naming &
Trademark Registration
Newsletters
(print & interactive)
Overseas Team
Packaging
Pixel-Perfect Execution
Pre-Press/Web/UI Production
Presentations
(PowerPoint et al.)
Press Checks
Print & Vendor Management
QA Team
Resolution-Variant
Device Solutions
Responsive Design
SEO & Web Analytics
SVG
Social-Media Management
Storyboards & Personas
Style Guides & Templates
(print & interactive)
TV Screens
Third-Party Art Management
Typography/Web Fonts
User Interfaces
User Research
Websites & Mobile Sites
Wine Labels
Wireframes & Prototypes

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