ANNA JANET
CREATIVE SERVICES
HARPER'S BAZAAR
Freelance Senior Designer / April 2014–May 2019
Produce marketing materials and custom content solutions for the publishing division. During this time, Harper's BAZAAR was named Adweek's 2015 Hottest Fashion Magazine and Adweek's 2014 Hottest Magazine. The magazine also won the 2017 Hearst 360 Unbound Award for demonstrating excellence in print, digital, and experiential programming. Specific duties include:
Coordinate with clients in luxury fashion, accessories, and retail to design in-book advertorials in the voice and style authority of Harper's BAZAAR
Produce videos to promote the magazine in presentations and on social media
Design and produce both hard-copy and digital comprehensives to sell intricate and never-before-seen high impact units
Design for all Harper's BAZAAR events including the 150th anniversary celebration at Rockefeller Center (projecting BAZAAR images onto the Empire State Building), BAZAAR x Coachella, BAZAAR x Art Basel Miami, the Fabulous at Every Age contest, and harper by Harper's BAZAAR events
Design creative for ShopBAZAAR.com, the e-commerce site of Harper's BAZAAR
Design email campaigns reaching +600K subscribers
Execute animated and stop-motion GIFs for social media platforms
Prepare digital media for web including photo editing/resizing
Design and develop in-house presentation and promotional materials
AÉROPOSTALE
Freelance Senior Designer / August 2013–February 2014
Part of a team of five working to design for the national brand. Specific duties include:
Designed nationwide in-store graphics and window displays. Designs developed in New York were deployed at every store in the country
Produced direct mailing and promotions
Sole designer for Aéropastale’s sponsorship of Z100 JingleBall 2013 event at Madison Square Garden featuring Austin Mahone
HEARST CORPORATION
Freelance Designer / January 2013–August 2013
Produced marketing materials and custom content solutions for the publishing division at the following magazines:
Popular Mechanics, Car and Driver, Road & Track, REDBOOK, Seventeen, O the Oprah Magazine
Developed concepts for branding
Designed event materials
Produced in-book advertorials
Designed and prepared digital assets for social media and websites
TOILETS FOR PEOPLE
Creative Director, Marketing / June 2013–May 2015
Social enterprise to bring composting toilets to flood-prone areas in developing countries
Design lead on all marketing and branding for the company
Managed, directed, and edited multiple video shoots
Created successful Indiegogo campaign to raise over $10,000
Designed presentations for national entrepreneur competitions, including winning 1st prize, a $25,000 grant, at the Columbia University Engineering Venture competition
BARLIS WEDLICK ARCHITECTS LLC
Staff Architect (Unlicensed) / June 2008–June 2011
Designer for residential architecture firm, specializing in environmental design
Architectural drafting of design development and construction document sets
Led team to obtain a state grant from NYSERDA for building science on the 2011 Builder's Choice Winner, the Hudson Passive House–the first certified passive house in New York State
Led coordination of sponsors for the PassivHaus project - including Serious Energy triple pane windows, Waterworks, Philips Lighting
Coordinated designers, General Contractors, MEP/Structural Engineers, and Building Science Teams
Built physical and virtual 3-D models of projects for presentation and design
Worked with graphic design team to develop marketing materials, including The Good Home about the Hudson Passive House project
TEACHING / VOLUNTEERING
Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College - The City University of New York (CUNY) / August 2017–December 2017
Basic Graphic Communication
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Pratt Institute / September 2012–January 2014
Visual Communications 1 (Introduction to Branding)
Visual Communications 2 (Company Branding)
Visual Communications 3 (Social Campaign Branding)
Freelance Design Volunteer and Teacher, The Dalton School / Fall 2013–Summer 2015
Professional development for teachers interested in the Adobe Creative Suite, laser cutting technology, designer for Camp STEAM, volunteer for FTC Robotics Tournament, Designer for PopFood