Nishanth KK, CREATIVE & GRAPHIC CONSULTANT

Nishanth KK

CREATIVE & GRAPHIC CONSULTANT

Self

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Diploma in Computer Art Web Multimedia
Experience
18 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months

CREATIVE & GRAPHIC CONSULTANT at Self
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2018

Supporting client’s Graphic Design, Corporate Identity, Branding, Website Designing and Social Media Marketing Services. Contributed to success stories across industries and domains such as luxury and hospitality, fashion, F&B, advertising, telecom, training, retail, technology, and marketing.

Senior Graphic Designer at Armani Hotel Dubai, Emaar Hospitality Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2014 to March 2018

Support the overall objectives directed by the management of Armani Hotel Dubai and all its F&B outlets. In addition to this provided creative support to At.Mosphere Burj Khalifa, The Burj Club. The principal accountabilities include:

 Responsible for seeing all projects through to completion. From concept - design to production
 Develop concept for different campaigns and explain the implementation to the team
 Work closely with the Marketing Team to create collateral, promotional and advertising pieces
 Support the Sales Team in creating necessary sales materials
 Work with the other departments to develop collateral
 Work closely with the Creative Team in Milan on the design and production of collateral
 Assist in planning and art directing photo shoots
 Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on an experienced knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts. (for example: determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, photography, style and use of typography.)
 Artwork final layouts ready for print production
 Retouching and development of photography and imagery
 Review final layouts and suggest improvements as needed
 Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design
 Coordinate with vendors/printers/agencies and ensure the outputs are up-to Armani brand standards
 Prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material, and be able to discuss them with clients and/or supervisors and making necessary changes
 Use illustrations & photographs to plan presentation of materials, products, or services
 Take photographs to assist in producing high quality materials and build in-house library
 Shoot and process food photographs for IRD iPad solution, listing and editorials of local and international publications
 Design creatives for Zomato, TripAdvisor and other social media platforms

Graphic Designer at Etisalat Academy
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2010 to March 2014

Etisalat Academy is the largest single-source provider of training and development solutions in the Middle East. For 30 years the academy has been providing consultancy and human capital development services to telecoms, government agencies, oil & gas companies, financial institutions and organizations across all industries and business sectors.

Responsibilities:

 Conceptualizing, visualizing and supporting the design process to support the requirement of the marketing/sales departments
 Responsible for delivering projects in strict deadlines
 Designing and finalizing corporate presentations/ marketing collaterals
 Designing brochures, flyers, posters, catalogues, course materials, advertisements, banners newsletters, etc.
 Design, refresh and rebrand corporate identities
 Creative support in the brand development and marketing/sales process of Etisalat Academy and other business units under Etisalat Services Holding (ESH)
 Website (CMS) Administration
 Creating micro websites and managing email campaigns
 Managing Social Media
 Dealing with vendors to finalize the quality of the marketing materials
 Managing marketing collateral and giveaways
 Managing in-house events
 Verifying all materials produced follows the brand guidelines
 Meeting clients and taking brief on the requirements

Designer/ Online Marketing Developer at Private Office of His Highness Sheikh Saqer Bin Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2009 to June 2010

 Delivering high quality designs for the group entities and clients.
 Supporting brand development.
 Supporting marketing and PR division
 Creating corporate identities and supporting designs.
 Research and develop online marketing strategy
 Media Plan, SEO, website design, Web Analytics
 CMS administration

Branding/Creative Director at amdeas
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2007 to December 2007

amdeas is an IT company based in Dubai. Branding was the important task for me in this company. They have many IT products and was designing the online and print corporate profile for them. The company is having strong sense in online designs like CMS, flash and static websites. I worked as their creative designer for their all online projects.

Amdeas have started their design division and my role is to deliver quality outputs for its clients. Handling printmedia designs, corporate logos to branding, identity making. Always been a part of concept to poduction.

Senior Graphic/Web Designer at Blaze Advertising
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2003 to October 2006

Creating Websites print media design for different clients from different industries according to your requirement. Based on their requirement i have to findout creative ideas, visual presentations and present the designs to the client.

Education

Diploma, Diploma in Computer Art Web Multimedia
  • at EDIT systems Private Ltd
  • December 2000
Diploma, Diploma in Computer Applications
  • at LBS Kerala
  • April 1999
Bachelor's degree, Science
  • at University of Calicut, Kerala
  • March 1997

Specialties & Skills

Dreamweaver
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, DreamWeaver, Food Photography, HTML
Building and maintaining brand standards
Vendor coordination

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert

Training and Certifications

Adobe CC Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Site Power Training Institue
Date Attended:
September 2016
Duration:
135 hours

Hobbies

  • Photography, Food photography, Videography, Exhibitions, Reading, Movies, Foot Ball, Nature
    Food photographs were listed in many local and international publications and also for Armani Hotel Dubai's campaigns. Green Globe Committee Member Actively participated in the process of Armani Hotel Dubai’s International Green Globe certification programme for the commitment towards preserving precious resources and creating a sustainable environment.