Grace Montives

Designs and prepares moderately-complex art and copy layouts, applying established standards and formats from the Company's style manual.

Works directly with the Technical Writers/Editors and/or project manager to review artwork, text, and other materials submitted for inclusion in assigned documents. May recommend improvements for accuracy of expression, clarity, and consistency with Company style.

Designs and produces reproduction-ready visual graphics, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, slides, charts, plots, diagrams, tables, sketches, isometrics, viewgraphs, posters, signs, and certificates.

Modifies existing artwork as required.

Serves as part of a functional team to complete assignments according to schedule.

Provides reproduction data such as reduction sizing, quantity, and paper/ink selection

Three (3) consecutive years conceptualizing conference themes.

Assigned in preparing materials for marketing promotion such as: posters, brochures, flyers, badges, certificates and online layout based on current themes.

Also created some of their yearly book cover such as Best Practice in English Language Teaching, Fundamentals of Language Assessment, Proceedings of the Tesol Conference, Exploring Tesol Practices and Developing Oral Skills in English.

Experienced in developing distinctive product identity for products and businesses (logo, business card, letterheads), Print media (ads, cd cover, newsletter, magazines), Collaterals (flyers, brochures, roll up banners).

Creating visual designs for overall layout and design of magazines, newsletters, newspapers, journals, corporate reports and other publications

Part of the web & creative department that handle projects on print advertisement, marketing communication, outdoor ads and web design.

Responsible for all the designing artistic digital imagery that the company will use for corporate presentations, marketing materials, outdoor ads and web media.

Experienced in designing all advertising collaterrals for stores and restaurants on an individual need basis.

Maintaining and updating data, photos and special effects of the company’s website using Web Software applications.

Designing corporate identity (logo, letterhead, business cards), print media (print ads, cd cover), collaterals (flyers, brochures, roll up banners), outdoor adveritising (billboard and vehicle), online advertising

Responsible in designing collateral advertising for stores and restaurants on an individual need basis, typically including indoor and outdoor signage, newspaper and magazine print ads and smaller scale promotions.

Assigned to do internal advertising and marketing collateral needs of the company, such as standees, flyers, posters, banners for the stores.

Worked directly with President and General Manager in creation of all new company materials.

Creating full concept of corporate identity materials; brand packaging, brand labels, letterhead, including print materials, collateral templates, birthday cards for employees, postcards.

Responsible in designing promotional and regular menu of all Säntis Delicatessen store branches and Werdenberg’s affiliate restaurant like : Carpaccio Ristorante Italiano and Bianca’s Café Vinotek.

Regularly preparing layout for monthly Newsletter of Cave Werdenberg Wine Bar.

Making digital photo restoration from old and damage images into new using Photoshop.

The job also includes lay-outing designs to be used in Magazines and Newspaper, and coordinating with service bureau and outside printer.

Preparing monthly production costs of Art department to be submitted to the Accounting Dept.

Maintaining and updating data, photos and special effects of the company’s website using HTML, Photoshop, ImageReady, Flash.

Assigned for minor troubleshooting and some necessary update for the hosting and domain name of the company’s website.

Responsible in maintaining all company email accounts.

Doing quarterly graphic back-up files using CD burner, and Zip drives.

Preparing and sending menu to clients through winfax.

Operates laminating machine for small promotion posters.

Designing layouts for billboards, streamers, signages and other outdoor and indoor advertising.
Printing streamers, billboards through Kodak Large Format Printing process.
Layouting bi-monthly newsletter of Manila Polo Club and doing systematic arrangements

Scanning, manipulate and retouching pictures to be layed out to the billboards.

Performing minor troubleshooting and software installation.

Played key role in book publishing including development of marketing
materials for promotion of authors, books, tapes and seminars.

Updating Media, Consular, Government Directory through telephone.

Layouting and editing Government Directories for the Diplomatic Kapihan and World Affairs Forum.

Maintaining layout of Philippine government directory, Philippine consular directory and Philippine directory of Embassies in the Philippines.

Communicates and assist Ambassadors for the monthly diplomatic gatherings.