CLAY COOPER

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Productive, energetic, passionate, multitalented Graphic Designer with extensive experience in web, print, and identity design. Accustomed to working in creatively vibrant environments where budgets and deadlines are critical. Solve communication problems by innovating strategies specific to every case. Utilize foundational skills in drawing, painting and photography to achieve uniquely tailored solutions. Creative experience in the following:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Support Guys, Torrance, California, 2008–2011
Web Graphics Designer
Successfully collaborate with back-end programmers to achieve fully styled front end web design for dynamic content management system websites for high paying clients.

Key Achievements:
• Completed redesign of IT Support Guys website.
• Provided web graphics in quick fashion to on demand clients.
• Contributed to website data restructuring for the California Art Club.

 

CSULB's Union Weekly, Long Beach, California, 2008–2011
Managing Editor, Art Director, and Cover Artist
Successfully manage and coordinate editors and contributors in a fast paced deadline-driven environment. Oversee art direction of entire publication. Last minute, jack of all trades, fixing and touching up.

Key Achievements:
• Restructured and standardized typefaces and layout design for entire publication in the Fall of 2009.
• Produced and art directed the cover of Issue 2 of Volume 65, "Furlough Happens."
• Photographed cover and feature images of the Long Beach Derby Girls in Issue 7 of Volume 65, "Down and Derby."

 

Angry Little Girls, Culver City, California, 2007–2009
Graphic Assistant
Scan and vectorize comics drawn by Lela Lee. Organize structure of comics in digital form. Update Angry Little Girls web material.

Key Achievements:
• Successfully restructured layout of social network integration concept for Angry Little Girls website.
• Designed several Angry Little Girls skateboard graphics using Lela Lee's artwork.
• Streamlined Lela Lee's vectorizing and scanning process.

 

Theatre Planners, Tarzana, California, Summer of 2009
Graphic Designer
Successfully designed and illustrated entire identity from logo to web advertisements for That Perfect Moment, a comedy in one act.

Key Achievements:
• Illustrated customized type for the logo of That Perfect Moment.
• Successfully represented the '60s period design for the play's poster.
• Successfully solved a problem by hand painting highlights onto silhouetted figures to give new dimension to the poster's graphic cliché.

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Undergraduate BFA Student: Graphic Design, 2011
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7
Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver; Maxon Cinema 4D.
Coding Languages: HTML, CSS, PHP, and JQuery.