Jason is the kind of person you can always count on to jump in and just get stuff done. He's got a firm knowledge for both traditional and digital work, so you alway know you're in good hands when he's working on a project for you.
About Me
I'm Jason Arthur,
a freelance designer.
I am an award-winning multimedia professional with advertising, publishing, animation, design and illustration experience. I have an expert
level of industry standard software such as Adobe Creative Suit. Specializing in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. In multi-media
software, I am familiar with Powerpoint, Keynote, and After Effects. I also have a solid understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I have piloted DDB’s $5.2 million integrated production facility for over five years. During this time at DDB, I managed a team of graphic design
professionals, such as front end and back end developers, as well a quality control team, layout artists, and animators. As a consultant and production
advisor, I collaborated and consulted creative, account, and production teams on such projects as websites, email campaigns, interactive sales aids,
print ads, catalogs, brochures, branding guides, outdoor billboards, and new business presentations. Some of the clients that I have been trusted with are Merck,
Ely Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon Mobil, Subaru, Volkswagen, General Motors, Hertz, United Technologies, and Philips.
Services that I provide
Creative Direction
As a creative, I bring my award winning experience and vision to every project. From logo design and brand identity, to multi-media campaigns, I have always enjoyed the challenge of converting grey matter into art matter.
Team Work
It has been my experience that a project works best when everyone is a part of the team. Clear communications and a positive perspective helps.
Practical Production
At the end of the day, once all creative ideas are in and the best idea is moving forward. If the idea can't be produced in a timely fashion then its a bit impractical. I offer practical solutions to creative ideas, that make good practical sense.
My Skills
Indesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Powerpoint
After Effects
Keynote
HTML
CSS
The places where I've studied
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2016 - present
Fordham
Degree program -
2010 - 2009
SVA
Animation -
1992 - 1993
American College for the Applied Arts
Associates Degree equivalent -
1991 - 1992
Watterson College
The places where I've worked
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2011 - 2016
DDB Worldwide
Studio Manager -
2008 - 2011
DDB Worldwide
Senior Designer / Animator / Assistant Studio Manager -
2004 - 2008
DDB Worldwide
Freelance Designer -
1998 - 2004
Business News Publishing
Art Director
What others say about me
Jason offers an outstanding combination of deep tech-savvy; raw talent; problem-solving skills and an appropriate personality to wield all these characteristics
I've worked in graphic arts for 36 years and I consider Jason Arthur amongst the top 5 most creative people that I've ever had as a colleague.
Great designer, illustrator, animator - he can do just about anything, and if he doesn't, he'll find the answer.
Take a look at my works
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Summer School Promo Animation
I was asked to come up with an animated promotion for an internal learning session over the slower summer months. This is what I came up with. I illustrated the character and animated the entire piece in Flash/Animate. The staff loved it and we had a record level turnout the year we launched it.
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Esso Aero Pump TV spot
I animated this short Pump TV spot for Esso in Canada. This plays at the gas pump.
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Reebok
As studio manager, I was asked to come up with the best production method to deliver the European print and digital campaign. Taking into consideration the timing, creative and deliverable assets, my recommendations were a series of hybrid templates for both print and digital. The result of using these templates was our team being the first to meet the deadline early and saving the client over $45k.
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Pharmaceutical Websites
As the lead studio artist, I would updates to the various pharmaceutical websites. Adhering to the rigorous standards and guidelines, I would also have to occasionally make design calls in order to make requested revisions compliant with branding standards, the FDA rules, and various legal teams approvals.
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Cosmetic Websites
As a Digital production artist, I would have to update Johnson & Johnson's Aveeno website. These various updates consisted of animated marquee, product images, content and offers as well as updating the accompanying HTML email campaign.
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Horatio Hertz
This Point of Sale Item was illustrated in Illustrator. The Horatio character had to be created in illustrator so that it was scalable to all forms of print. I created multiple poses and costumes and expressions for all seasons and promotional themes. This was both fun and challenging.
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North Hollywood Jazz Festival
I designed and illustrated this poster for North Hollywood Jazz Festival. This annual event was a week long community event promoting Jazz music.
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Concept Poster Design
I designed and illustrated this concept poster for an exhibit of the great designer Saul Bass. The intention for this poster was to be an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum. I based this poster on his quote "I only want to create beautiful things, even if nobody cares". It was truly enjoyable to conceptualize an exhibit based on his life's work. I consider Saul Bass to be one of the most influential, visual communicators of our world.
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E-Mail Campaign
As senior studio designer, my team of production artists and I produced Optimum's HTML emails. This email campaign consisted of different demographics, markets, and business oriented emails. With a higher volume at a tight turnaround, my team and I at all assets on time without fail.
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Electrolux website
As the senior designer, I was responsible for updating the Electrolux website with product images, feature and training videos along with features and content.
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Chaos Robot
As studio manager and lead animator, my team of digital animators and myself were responsible for delivering all digital banners and social media assets for the State Farm Chaos robot campaign.
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Station Domination
As designer on this project for AT&T and HBO, I built all of the experience pieces for the NCAA Final Four Fan Fest event. Using Photoshop and Illustrator, I created all print items, including the Game of Thrones room. The result was one of the most successful experiences at the Fan Fest that year.
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New York Lottery; Fat Wallet Comic
As an illustrator, I was asked to create a small series of cartoons in the style of the New Yorker magazine.
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Publishing
In my career, I have had the opportunity to work on quite a few publications. From an intern on A Parent magazine working on production and feature illustrations. Then on to art directing trad publications, and directing photoshoots as well as creating publications from scratch. This lead to winning a folio award for best new trade publication. I have been blessed to work on award winning content and award winning advertising.
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Scholastic Publishing
As a designer, retoucher and illustrator for Scholastic, I worked on different projects. One of the more notable projects was the Arabic Book project. I was tasked with adapting the books to the Arabic culture. This entailed typesetting the Arabic translation, page layout and adapting or removing some of the characters of the story in order for it to work with the Arabic culture and their standards of education.
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Nautilis
As an illustrator and art director I illustrated the submarine from Walt Disney's 20,000 leagues under the sea. As a child, this has been one of my favorite Disney movies. So I jumped at the opportunity to illustrate it.
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Parrot
This is a conceptual illustration. I chose the parent because it's a colorful bird with unique character. This particular illustration was mostly done on a tablet device. The only use of Photoshop on this illustration was to size and create the image for the web.
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Board Game Icons
As senior studio designer I was given the assignment to design a virtual board game. I created these icons to represent different advertising media's. This virtual board game was geared to show new employees about the different area of interest within advertising.
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Illustration
Initially trained as an illustrator, I created these vector-based icons for different desktop and media applications. Since they are vector, they work well for print or digital. On this particular icons, I actually re-created all the browser icons from scratch.
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Ketchum
As an illustrator and designer for Ketchum, I illustrated various new business drawings. This parks scene was hand drawn and colored in Photoshop.
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Henri Bendel
As an illustrator and designer for Ketchum, I illustrated various new business drawings. This Image of a young lady shopping was hand drawn and colored in Photoshop.
Have a cool project in mind? contact me.
Cultivating creativity and shepherding production have been mainstays for my entire career. I have been trusted with multi million dollar accounts such as Exxon Mobil, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, and Phillips without issue. I have also run departments that generated millions annually. I have over twenty years experience that covers publishing, advertising, print, digital and creative content. If you would like to talk about a current project or get my perspective on a given situation, drop me a line and let's chat about it. Till then, thank you for visiting.