Vytenis Jankunas | Design Portfolio | Resume

V Y T E N I S J A N K U N A S

INTERACTIVE & PRINT ART DIRECTOR

Work Experience:

UNIT 7

Senior Art Director - Digital 2009-current, NYC
Leading design projects for the agency. Right now working on agency own new web site design and other projects, like web site for the education and support needs of diabetic patients for the major pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. Duties include: art direction, original concepts, interface design, web apps design, all site graphics and pages.

WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL

Interactive Art Director 2007-2009, NYC
Led and executed key Weightwatchers.com, web sites design projects, such as Global Meeting Finder, Subscriber’s home page, sign up application and more, which greatly improved user’s experience on Weight Watchers US and international sites. Designed Weight Watchers award wining winter campaign video hub page (2008 Flashforward 1st Prize in Flash and Video category). Supervised and mentored senior and junior designers, ensuring their integration in to projects. Created the new templates and oversaw all Weight Watchers foreign direct mail design and integration.

BERNARD HODES GROUP

Freelance Art Director 2006-2007, NYC
Executed interactive and print design for Hodes own brand Direct Marketing campaign, including Flash and clay animation promos.

EDELMAN WORLDWIDE AND DEUTSCH

Freelance Art Director 2006, NYC
Web site design projects for major food and pharmaceutical clients: Starbucks, Bayer HealthCare, AutoDesk. Created Flash banners for major hospitality and pharmaceutical clients: Westin, Tylenol.

INC.COM AND FASTCOMPANY.COM

Consulting Art Director 2006, NYC
Led Inc.com and FastCompany.com websites’ redesign. Was responsible for all aspects of redesign including site architecture, user interface, CSS, look and feel, graphics and promos. Designed brand new site: IncTechnology.com. Created numerous print projects: posters, magazine ads, and street advertisement, also logo designs. Supervised a small crew of web designers and interns.

DOREMUS AND EAST-WEST CREATIVE

Freelance Art Director 2005-2006, NYC
Created numerous Flash animated invites and banner projects for Bank of America. Web design: concept, creation and coding of product mini-sites and Flash promos for Kraft Foods and Mega.

CREATIVE PARTNERS

Freelance Art Director 2004-2006, Stamford, CT
Executed principal design and production of various print projects (including but not limited to multi-page brochures, folders, and slip-sheets). Was responsible for concept, design, layout and production of various promotional materials: print collateral, logo design, web pages and PowerPoint presentations. Clients include: Citigroup, Telekurs Financial, iZone, Finlay, Quick.

THE PRINCETON REVIEW

Freelance Art Director 2002-2005, NYC
Was responsible for the company's Direct Marketing Campaign visuals (Direct Mail): HTML mail and newsletters' design and integration, print projects include promotional postcards, posters and brochures. Helped in developing The Princeton Review consumer and ECOS sites. Responsibilities included: layout of the new pages, creating graphics, site icons, production, and supervising integration process (HTML and CSS).

LIFETIME TELEVISION NETWORK / NEW MEDIA

Freelance Art Director 2001-2002, NYC
Was directly responsible for the layout and design of LifetimeTV sweepstakes web pages and LifetimeTV sweepstakes on MSN web site. Created several mini-sites for LifetimeTV.com. Worked closely with marketing professionals in the conceptualization and creation of web pages, promotions, and banners.

ABC.COM / WALT DISNEY INTERNET GROUP

Senior web designer & Flash artist 1999-2001, NYC
Conceptualized and designed web pages, graphics and banners for ABC.com website. Took part in the ABC.com site redesign and developing the information architecture. Worked on numerous Flash promos for ABC.com. Projects include The View, ABC Fall Preview, Soaps on Tour, ABC Daytime homepage, conceptual designs for ABC homepage and MYABC.com.

ALLOY.COM, SOUNDSBIG.COM, ALTAMERICA.COM, TOUCHSCREEN MEDIA

Freelance web designer 1999, NYC
Designed web pages, graphics Alloy.com (NYC) web site and large Alloy banner campaign on Yahoo pages. Created several mini sites on Soundsbig.com music site. Worked on the new web site design projects for Touchscreen Media (NYC).

PRIOR TO 1999

Worked on various studio projects for prominent artist including direct sculpting, model making and computer rendering at Jeff Koons Studio. Was involved in the large-scale museum projects at Studio EIS. Taught drawing for design, fashion design 1st year students and 3rd year stained glass, 4th year sculpture and 3rd year architecture students at Lithuanian State Art Institute (Now: Vilnius Art Academy).

Professional Education:

Lithuanian Art Institute (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Vilnius, Lithuania

FINE ARTS STUDIES
National M. K. Ciurlionis Art School, Vilnius, Lithuania

Computer Skills:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, BBEdit, HTML, CSS, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Acrobat Professional, FileMaker Pro, QuickTime Pro

Fine Art Skills:

Photography: 35mm and medium format, darkroom silver print techniques, digital photography, digital retouching
Illustration and painting: Oil, watercolor, life drawing, sculpting in various media

Awards, Grants and Fellowships:

Flashforward 1st Prize in Flash and Video category (San Francisco)
Fellowship award in the category of Painting from the New York Foundation of the Arts (Gregory Millard Fellowship)(NYC)
The Annual State Grant of Lithuania
Fellowship in the Nordic Arts Center (Helsinki, Finland)
Grant of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Grant of the Nordic Information Office (Vilnius, Lithuania)

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