Syed Aziz Azhaan, Creative Director / Senior Graphic Artist / Web Designer / Illustrator / Visualizer / iPhone/iPad Ap

Syed Aziz Azhaan

Creative Director / Senior Graphic Artist / Web Designer / Illustrator / Visualizer / iPhone/iPad Ap

Grandpa Designs (www.grandpadesigns.com)

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Diplôme, Graphic Arts
Expérience
21 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :21 years, 5 Mois

Creative Director / Senior Graphic Artist / Web Designer / Illustrator / Visualizer / iPhone/iPad Ap à Grandpa Designs (www.grandpadesigns.com)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • Je travaille ici depuis juin 2010

My Core Responsibilities:
Manage 15-20 person creative team and all day to day functions of the team for Print, Broadcast and Web Advertising, web design, branding, strategy and planning. Met online or directly to correspond with clients to determine client needs for company.
Managed the team to developed and designed new ideas, layouts and other related graphics
Presented designs and concepts to Clients and the Management for review.
Web Design:
 Created corporate web sites, portals and large-scale web applications.
 Developed and designed new web interfaces, layouts and site graphics.
 Created and Designed test web sites for sales as well as demonstration purposes.
 Responsible for quality assurance of finished websites including the validation of web forms and links.
 Presented designs and concepts to Clients and the Management for review.
 Creating eye catchy and User Friendly Web Interfaces.


 Making and managing website designs, logo designs.
 Familiar with: Joomla, Drupal, OS Commerce and other Web Content Management Systems

Other Work:
 Creating beautiful web mockups as per the client requirements.
 To achieve customer satisfaction in response to changing market trends through impressive brand design.
 Working with the creative team to generate creative ideas effectively and execute them with the co-ordination of Project Manager.
 Create package design and different print materials for their products.
 Making marketing materials like letterhead, leaflet, brochures and banners for the product
 I explore successful product packaging and branding solutions for my company.
 Design billboards for the highways and main roads.
 Making Design for bus and other vehicles. I specialize in vehicle graphics, car graphics, fleet branding, digitally printed vinyl, van wraps and vinyl graphics. Have worked with wide format printing systems as well as offset printing machines.
Application Design (iPhone / iPad / Android):
 Administered design and implementation of mobile applications for iPhone, and others.
 Refined and documented innovative and compelling user interface solutions.
 Worked directly with product and program management.
 Utilized sketches, storyboards, scenarios, prototypes, flows, and interaction models.
 Ensured to meet the business, project, and design goals and objectives.

Associate Art Director/ Senior Graphic Artist / Web Designer / Print Designer / Illustrator / Visual à Salsoft Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • juin 2008 à avril 2010

My Core Responsibilities:
 Collaborate on user experience requirements with Project Managers and External Partners representing major brands.
 Design, iterate and deliver annotated wire-frames.
 Collaborate on visual design with graphic designers.
 To innovate within existing products and technologies according to market trends.
 Participate in making corporate identities, stationery designs, posters, brochures and involving in the printing process to understand the whole execution process from top to bottom.

Graphic Artist / Web Designer à Vecpix Designs (www.businesslogo.net)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • avril 2006 à mai 2008

I was responsible to create corporate identities, logo design, and flash animations for logos, Brochure design and website design for the clients around the world as well as clients purely related to the local market.
 Making Illustrations for the hoardings and other printing stuff.
 We work on many cartoon series including Tom & Jerry, Power Puff Girls and Bay Blade etc.
 Corporate imaging, product packaging, publication design, exhibit design, interactive.
 Design new titles for upcoming books.
 Making new colorful dictionaries.
 Working on book cover design and typesetting of book interiors.
 Custom publishing, marketing, design services and content development.
 Working on technical, historical, biographical books.
 Serving the client as a graphic designer as well as visualize to sketch story boards and to work on different multi-dimensional creative projects like Presentation Design, Educational Artworks and Business Portfolios.

Graphic Designer / Visualizer à Beam Concepts
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • février 2005 à mars 2006

Serving the client as a graphic designer as well as a visualizer to sketch story boards and to work on different multi-dimensional creative projects like Presentation Design, Educational Artworks and Business Portfolios
Participate in making corporate identities, stationery designs, posters, brochures and involving in the printing process to understand the whole execution process from top to bottom.

Graphic Designer / Visualizer à The Concept Advertising
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • novembre 2002 à mars 2005

Working directly with Art Director and designed artworks from initial client concept to final production preparation. Formatted client artwork for production, worked with clients to approve designs.
Worked closely with team in order to execute file preparation and construct layouts as per the requirements.

Éducation

Diplôme, Graphic Arts
  • à Graphic Ace
  • décembre 1998

One-Year Diploma in Graphic Arts from Graphic Ace In this diploma we learn from the very basic drawing and then going on more advance procedures. This Diploma contains three levels. FIRST LEVEL 1. Sketching (Manual) 2. Painting 3. Communication Design (Theory) SECOND LEVEL 1. Digital Media (Software’s) 2. Freehand 3. Photoshop 4. Illustrator 5. Coral Draw 8. Arabic Language Programs 9. MS Office Etc. THIRD LEVEL 1. What is Advertising 2. Industry Methods 3. Practical Design 5. Printing Techniques 6. Executions

Baccalauréat, Arts
  • à University of Karachi
  • mars 1995

Specialties & Skills

Graphic Design
Responsive Web Design
Art Direction
Print Design
Adobe Creative Suite
Graphic Designer
Team Management

Langues

Arabe
Moyen
Anglais
Expert

Adhésions

Deviant Art (http://azhaan.deviantart.com/)
  • Deviant since Feb 26, 2007, 10:22 AM
  • February 2007
http://www.coroflot.com/individual/default.asp
  • Member as a Graphic Artist
  • January 2008
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=profile&l=azhaan
  • Member as an Experimental Photographer
  • March 2006

Loisirs

  • Book Reading
  • Swimming
  • Fitness Training
  • Palmisty
  • Photography
  • Singing