Nicolas Chalhoub, Art Director

Nicolas Chalhoub

Art Director

Horizon FCB Beirut

Lieu
Liban
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Advertising & Graphic Design
Expérience
12 years, 7 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :12 years, 7 Mois

Art Director à Horizon FCB Beirut
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis juin 2014

- Working closely with the Creative Director to generate creative ideas and concepts to fulfill the client's brief;
- Producing sketches or 'storyboards' (television) or 'roughs' or 'scamps' (print) to communicate ideas to the client;
- Visiting and assessing locations for potential shoots;
- Working on location;
- Attending meetings at production houses and with other directors;
- Overseeing the final editing of the finished advertisements.

Social Media Specialist à FreeLancer
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2014

My main clients are hotels, furniture design and home appliances in Lebanon.

- Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification;
- Generate, edit, publish and share daily content (original text, images, video or HTML) that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action;
- Set up and optimize company pages within each platform to increase the visibility of company’s social content;
- Moderate all user-generated content in line with the moderation policy for each community;
- Create editorial calendars and syndication schedules;
- Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information;
- Collaborate with other departments (customer relations, sales etc) to manage reputation, identify key players and coordinate actions;

Art Director à Talks International
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • avril 2013 à mai 2014

- Working closely with the copywriter to generate creative ideas and concepts to fulfil the client's brief;
- Producing sketches or 'storyboards' (television) or 'roughs' or 'scamps' (print) to communicate ideas to the client;
- Gaining an understanding of the target audience and business that the advert is aimed at;
- Meeting with the creative director and account managers before presenting ideas to clients;
- Pitching ideas to clients;
- Briefing other members of the creative team;
- Commissioning photographers, artists or film-makers to work on projects;
- Visiting and assessing locations for potential shoots;
- Working on location;
- Attending meetings at production houses and with other directors;
- Making sure that budgets and deadlines are met
- Overseeing the final editing of the finished advertisements.

Junior Art Director à Hatch Advertising
  • Liban
  • février 2013 à avril 2013
Art Director à LULUA Publishing House
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • décembre 2011 à février 2013

Good Health Arabia magazine 
Vacations and travel Arabia magazine 
(Franchise of the Australian magazines 
GOOD HEALTH and VACATIONS AND TRAVEL)

- Devising strong design-led feature concepts;
- Communicating tricky ideas visually and creating compelling layouts
- Laying out pages for the magazine, often to tight deadlines;
- Discussing design and layout ideas with the editor in chief;
- Sketching out and designing the cover - which must always look distinctive to attract buyers;
- Anticipating trends and setting the magazine's overall visual style;
- Controlling the art budget.

Intern at the creative department à Impact BBDO
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • mars 2011 à avril 2011

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Advertising & Graphic Design
  • à ITI
  • juillet 2012
Diplôme, TS in Advertising and Graphic design
  • à ITI
  • juin 2010

Specialties & Skills

Art Direction
Graphic Design
Branding Programs
Typography
Calligraphy
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop

Langues

Arabe
Débutant
Anglais
Moyen
Français
Moyen