Diego Gomez
designnurd.blogspot.com
415-710-0795
PDF:
http://designnurd.blogspot.com/p/resume-as-of-december-2010.html
Experience:
• Illustration & Graphic Design: San Francisco AIDS Foundation November 2010 - Current | Manager: Sammy Rodriguez ( 415 ) 410 - 9900 Illustrated & wrote comic strip for Adelante magazine; Illustrate, Design & Brainstorm harm reduction campaigns for web, posters, flyers, promotional giveaways & full-page ads for: The Bay Area Reporter’s Bar Tab Nightlife, Gay Pocket San Francisco & Gloss magazines; as well as posters & flyers for “Over the Influence” book club.
• Comic Book Illustration: Glamazonia Published December 2010 | Writer / Collaborator: Justin Hall: ( 415) 341 - 0310 Character Design, Story boarding, Penciling, Inking, Coloring, Lettering, Promotion & Sales.
• Illustration & Graphic Design: International Latino Film Society & Film Festival September 2007 - December 2008 | Manager: Kerensa Demars:
[email protected] Illustration & design for Bay Area-wide campaign, including logo, business card, catalog, direct mail, poster, prospectus, t-shirts & tote bags
• Comic Book Illustration: FanboysOfTheUniverse.com February 2008 - November 2008 | Manager: Chance Whitmire: ( 818 ) 795 - 6069 Costume & character design for t-shirts, trading cards & ads for comic book blog
• Art Direction & Illustration: YO! Youth Outlook Magazine November 2001 - May 2005 | Manager: Christine Wong Yap: 510-595-4636 Art & writing management. Graphic design, illustration, writing & editing for magazine, as well as web maintenance & community outreach.
Volunteer Work:
• Urban Greening | Friends of the Urban Forest May 2006 - September 2008 Provide assistance & training to groups of all ages with tree planting in the city.
Skills:
• Design & Production: Photography, photo-correction, image retouching and enhancement, display, kiosk & package creation; corporate identity; production & presentation art: creating & editing textile repeats, press checks, color management (Pantone, Color Solutions International, RGB, & CMYK), mounting, tiling, die-cutting & xyroning; advertising, book, character, editorial, identity, logo, poster, typography & web design
• Illustration: Painting: gouache, watercolor, tempera, acrylic. Drawing: chalk, charcoal, color pencil, pastel, pencil & digital illustration.
• Fine Arts & Crafts: Bookmaking, etching, fine art print making, monoprint making, jewelry, linoleum printing, scratchboard, screen printing, sculpture & sewing; Fine art handling, hanging, packing & shipment
• Software: Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat Pro & Dreamweaver; Freehand, Painter, Quark, Bar Code Pro, SoundEdit, GarageBand, Streamline & Transmit
• Office: Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Lotus Notes, Records Management, Database Administration, Executive Support, Spreadsheets, Telephone Reception, Windows, Mac OS
• Languages: Bilingual: Fluent in American English, Proficient Conversational Spanish.
Schools:
• City College San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | May 2011
Personal Enrichment, focus on art, design & fashion.
• The Art Institute of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | June 2003 Graduated with Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design. Specialized in illustration. Graduated with honors & awarded best portfolio, cross-platform.
