Ryan Padgett

Working with the Verizon Business group during the launch of the rebrand to advise colleagues on guidelines, best practices and expectations. Acting as Designer, Art Director and Project Manager – working directly with Stakeholders – designing 1-sheets, Fact Sheets, Presentations, Guides, Infographics, and a wide variety of other marketing and sales materials. Guiding Stakeholders through the processes, advising on deliverable timelines, art direction, layouts and design. Produced intermediate Presentation template.

Interdepartamental Cross-Functional Designer / Presentation Specialist / Project Manager Ad Product: Collaborated/Consulted on new products, best practices, approval processes, 1-off custom requests. Designed/Managed templates, client-facing approval decks and deliverables. Ad Sales: Presentation/Banner Design, FPO Key Art Design Marketing: Designed/Managed Presentation templates including Product/Social/OOH/DOOH/Events mocks/comps. Designed/Managed 1-sheets, PPT Library/assets, Support emails. Product: Ad Manager Visual/UI updates in Figma

Consulted, Designed and Delivered multimedia ads for clients across all industries for Meredith's properties Collaboration: Worked with Project Managers and directly with clients to consult on capabilities and best practices. Designed and delivered creative. Ad Product: Worked in Celtra to design and produce animated, interactive, responsive multimedia ad solutions. AD/Manager: Occasionally filled in as Art Director and Manager of a small team of Jr. Designers.

Led Corporate Brand Refresh, Logo and Website Redesign Cross-Department Collaboration: Met with executives, product, and division leads to establish expectations and goals for their brands, authors, and audience. Corporate Identity + Website Redesigns: Refreshed the historic ‘Sower’ mark. Led brand/identity research/redesign and implementing best practices, UX/UI on flagship site and network of B2B, PR, Division, Education, Distributor, etc. resource sites. Blog Identities + Website Redesigns: XOXO After Dark, Glommable, Off The Shelf. Delivered guidelines, launch assets, logos, social assets, and banner ad packages. XOXO traffic rose +200%. Ul Design/Consult: Brad Thor, Star Trek, Stephen King

Driving revenue and maintaining brand integrity by providing quality and timely end-to-end delivery of the marketing and sales creative. Collaborating with Sales teams, brainstorming campaign strategy, advising creative capabilities, designing presentations — often requiring web mocks (banners, site takeovers/skins, interactive/rich ad units [branded canvas and Innovid]), microsites, infographics, animations, general design/production. Working with the Sales team and their agency representatives to provide live client creative — ad resizing/redesigning, conceptualization to delivery of entire campaigns (branded/co-branded), occasionally requiring copy writing and video editing. Working within the Marketing team concepting, designing and producing event assets — invitations, posters, wing/hanging banners, napkins, table tents, lanyards, itineraries, screens, step and repeats, PowerPoints, giveaways/leave-behinds. Working with many outside my immediate department operating as a 1-stop creative resource providing logo/image production, design/production consultation, PowerPoint design/production/animation, infographic concepting and design.

Oversaw the production of presentation materials. Worked with new business, strategy, design, production and account management to create presentations and accompanying printed materials for new business pitches and proposals, client presentations and work sessions, company conferences and office shares — occasionally requiring video, photography and post production. Managed the in-house print production for new business and existing clients including Target, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, PG&E, Washington Mutual, PepsiCo and Starbucks to name a few. Developed and maintained the company case study and client image libraries.

Responsible for maintaining the integrity of and applying the brand across the entire spectrum of company materials including banners, brochures, postcards, e-vites, stationary, business cards, decals, guides, posters, promotionals, kiosks, taxi/bus stands. Convention, trade show, event and building signage, channel and show logos. Managed and produced the new product image library — transforming raw images into ready-to-use clipped, pathed, image-adjusted, editable files for web, print and video usage. Produced an editable screen for each product capable of displaying any genre background, artist, song or show title of any of the 170+ channels adhering precisely to each of the product shots’ original perspective and lighting conditions.

Communication Arts is the study and exploration of the qualities, disciplines and technologies that enable us to create and communicate with insight and vision. Firmly rooted in understanding the power of image and art to communicate. Communication Arts is a discipline with a rich history firmly rooted in Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Design. A study of the historical, conceptual and theoretical issues that analyzes and explores image, media, content, and context.

13 week, 40 hour course exploring in detail, each of the many steps in the UX process. From conception to working wireframes we produced an app from the ground up. Case study to come.

Examined the basic principles of corporate identity, developing a clear understanding of the process of Branding Design. Emphasizing the steps needed for a consistent brand; identifying a company's personality; logo design; developing the supporting visual elements, and designing out its visual voice for multiple uses including print, the web and packaging.

1 month, full time residency exploring theoretical background, practicality and development of a typeface.