About
I am a highly motivated, versatile, and conceptual creative/art director, specializing mainly in the digital space. During my career, I worked at small boutique agencies to large corporate-sized firms while delivering 360° campaigns for many notable SMB & Fortune 500 companies. My expertise include: advertising through cross-channel platforms, establishing creative strategies, and marketing for different verticals (entertainment/media, consumer packaged goods, beauty, pharma, and tech).
Outside of work, I am recently a proud, new dad to a beautiful daughter, an avid football fan, video-game enthustiast, film fanatic, ultimate frisbee player, and corgi lover. I am always open to hearing about any creative opportunities. References are available upon request.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute
BFA / Communication Design: Art Direction / 2006–2010
EXPERIENCE
RPA / Senior Art Director / 2021–present
Concept and develop fully integrated 360° campaigns.
Create rich media banners, social media, emails, print, animations, and responsive sites.
Collaborate on web, digital, print, and animation projects consisting of a team of art directors, freelance designers, copywriters, production designers, animation designers, and UX designers.
QA creative work developed by production designers and animators.
Key clients include Southern California Edison, Honda, United, and Marathon.
Walmart Connect / Lead Art Director / 2019–2021
Concepted and designed digital banners, animations, and brand pages on Walmart’s ecommerce site for SMB and Fortune 500 companies, including Hershey’s, Nintendo, Google, Kraft, Samsung, Hasbro, Unilever, Smuckers, Neutrogena, Disney, P&G, Clorox, Mondelez, and many more.
Directed photoshoots for CPG clients.
Partnered with external agency partners from London, India, and Uruguay by overseeing the creation of banner ads.
Managed a team of 15+ designers across multiple verticals and also a team of studio designers during peak holiday retail season.
Improved and standardized internal review processes for creative team.
Developed suppliers’ guidelines, creative best practices, design tips, and other key learnings for Walmart’s internal and external creative teams.
Havas Worldwide / Art Director / 2017–2019
Havas SF:
Created social media static and animation posts, Live events, and Stories.
Designed storyboards for video animations for multiple BioMarin brands.
Worked with Citrix by designing their digital web presence, including web banners, Facebook and Reddit ads, OOH ads, and Citrix Cycle website.
Key clients include BioMarin, Palynziq, Sutter Health, and Citrix.
Havas NY:
Lead art director for the branding of Havas Health & You which included logo design, iconography, website, social media, print ads, and other collaterals.
Designed 360° digital and print campaigns for GlaxoSmithKline brands.
Key clients include Havas Health & You, EllaOne, Trelegy, Anoro, Breo, and Nucala.
RFI Studios / Art Director / 2014–2016
Designed across digital, web, social, branding, print, and OOH media for clients such as Amgen, Nokia, Pepsico, Novartis, Pfizer, Samsung, Citi, Sodastream, SPARK, Band, Metlife Defender, and Shire.
Created a viral website, Beard Duel, which resulted in a social media buzz and over 53k unique page visits.
Won Bronze for Bulldog Reporter’s 2015 Best Online Employee Communications for Novartis’ Long Live Life Awards site.
Group DCA / Designer / 2013–2014
Designed web and print collaterals for drug brands such as Quillivant XR, Eliquis, Velcade, Flexergesic, and Provenge.
NBC Universal: Oxygen Media / Intern to Web Designer / 2009–2011
Promoted from intern to full-time. Designed web banners, web pages, social, and digital ads for various Oxygen shows. Assisted in Oxygen’s website redesign.
Freelance Art Director / 2010–Present
Digital, print, social, web design, branding, and new business pitches with agencies (Travalliance — 2012, Tribal DDB — 2012 , The Bloc — 2016) and personal clients such as Laurel Spirits, Montgomery High School, Ironway Partners, and more.
SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, After Effects, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Adobe XD
Additional Programs
Invision, Sketch, Asana, WorkFront, Keynote, Slack, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Apps, HTML/CSS, Figma
LET’S CHAT.
design.andrewkim@gmail.com
908.294.1485