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V Y T E N I S J A N K U N A S
| P.O.Box 579, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10101-0579
| Ph: 917 613 0657 | vytenisjankunas@hotmail.com
WEB & PRINT DESIGNER
| Online PORTFOLIO: http://www.vycka.com/design
Work Experience:
BERNARD HODES GROUP
- Freelance Art Director 12/2006–Present, NYC
Web and print design for Hodes own brand Direct Marketing campaign, including Flash and clay animation promos.
EDELMAN WORLDWIDE, DEUTSCH
- Freelance Art Director 10/2006–12/2006, NYC
Web site design projects for major food and pharmaceutical clients: Starbucks, Bayer HealthCare, AutoDesk. Flash banner projects for major hospitality and pharmaceutical clients: Westin, Tylenol.
INC.COM AND FASTCOMPANY.COM
- Consulting Art Director 05/2006–10/2006, NYC
Leading Inc.com and FastCompany.com websites’ redesign. 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. Supervises a small crew of web designers and interns.
EAST-WEST CREATIVE, DOREMUS
- Freelance Art Director 05/2005–05/2006, NYC
Web design: concept, creation and coding of product mini-sites and Flash promos for Kraft Foods and Mega. Flash animated invites and banner projects for Bank of America.
CREATIVE PARTNERS
- Freelance Art Director 03/2004–02/2006, Stamford, CT
Principal design and production of various print projects (including but not limited to multi-page brochures, folders, and slip-sheets). 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 Motor Sports and more.
PRINCETON REVIEW.COM
- Freelance Art Director 07/2002–04/2005, NYC
Responsible for the company's Direct Marketing Campaign visuals: HTML mail and newsletters' design and integration, print projects include promotional postcards, posters and brochures. Further developing of Princeton Review consumer site and ECOS site. Responsibilities include: 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 06/2001–06/2002, NYC
Directly repsonsible for the layout and design of LifetimeTV sweepstakes web pages and LifetimeTV sweepstakes on MSN web site. Also created several minisites 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 12/2000–05/2001, 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, Miss America Pageant.
ALLOY.COM, SOUNDSBIG.COM, ALTAMERICA.COM, TOUCHSCREEN MEDIA
- Freelance web designer 05/1999–11/2000, 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). Other clients include: Altamerica.com - new banner campaign, MY Art Prospects Gallery (NYC) - New web site design and integration, web updates, print design, Vilma Mare Fashion (NYC) - Website design and integration.
JEFF KOONS STUDIO, STUDIO EIS
- Studio assistant 10/1996–04/1999, NYC
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.
TWIN PEAKS DESIGN STUDIO
- Graphic artist-designer 07/1991–09/1995, Kaunas, Lithuania
Five years on various projects and contest entries. Work done with computers and by hand to create successful advertisement signs, banners, flyers, logos, brochures and newsletters for events and organizations large and small. I worked individually and cooperatively, meeting with clients and printers to discuss project direction and ensure excellent results.
LITHUANIAN STATE ART INSTITUTE (VILNIUS ART ACADEMY)
- Assistant Professor 09/1987–06/1991 Vilnius, Lithuania
Taught drawing for design and fashion design 1st year students. Taught drawing for 3rd. year stained glass, 4th year sculpture and 3rd year architecture students.
Professional Education:
M.F.A., ARTIST - EDUCATOR
- Lithuanian State Art Institute (Vilnius Art Academy) 1979-1985 Vilnius, Lithuania
FINE ARTS STUDIES
- National M. K. Ciurlionis Art School 1972-1979 Vilnius, Lithuania
Computer Skills:
- Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Flash, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Painter, Fetch, BBEdit, FileMaker Pro, HTML, CSS, Microsoft Office
Fine Art Skills:
- Photography: 35mm and medium format, darkroom silver print techniques, digital photography, digital retouching
- Illustration and painting: Oil, watercolor, life drawing
Grants and Fellowships:
- Fellowship award in the category of Painting from the New York Foundation of the Arts (Gregory Millard Fellowship)(NYC) 2000
- The Annual State Grant of Lithuania 1995
- Fellowship in the Nordic Arts Center (Helsinki, Finland) 1995
- Grant of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania) 1994
- Grant of the Nordic Information Office (Vilnius, Lithuania) 1994
Web sites & Professional URLs:
| All of my web work you can find in my online portfolio:
| http://www.vycka.com/design
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