Qualifications

  • Expert with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
  • Proficient in handcoding html and css
  • Certified instructor by the bppve* in Web Design
  • Excellent communication skills, detail-oriented, fast learner, takes initiative
  • * BPPVE is the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.

Education

California College of Arts & Crafts

bfa, graphic design - graduated dec 05

Courses included: Information Design, Graphic Agitation, Advanced Typography, Experimental Typography,
Digital Studio 1-4, Complete Fresco, Western & Asian Art History, Media History and Contemporary Film History.

Instructors of course work include: Mark Fox, Jim Faris, Jennifer Sterling, Leslie Baker, Doug Akagi.
Poster design published in Graphis New Talent Design Annual 2005.

Experience

Freelance Print & Web Designer

Feb 01 - Present

Graphic & Interface Design / Coding Implementation
Usability and branding; user interface design for software, web-based and mobile applications. Implement designs by writing in html and css to integrate with back-end coding. Please visit heymabes.com for online portfolio.

Motorola

feb 08 - feb 09

Graphic / UI Designer
Designed and created UI skinning & elements for Motorola’s first Android phone. Created Keynote presentations which illustrated phone functionalities and UI flow to present to phone carriers and for internal company use. Arranged layout & typography for menus, icons and buttons of various built-in phone applications. Produced graphical assets for engineers to implement designs on the Android emulator.

Avenue A | Razorfish

jul 05 - apr 06

Graphic Designer
Designed webpages and online/print promotional pieces following creative directors’ art directions; projects included work for Visa, Sun, and Microsoft. Conceptualized and designed a Microsoft Gadget and created 50+ icons of various sizes and formats for msn toolbar.

Center for Electronic Art

jan 01 - nov 02

HTML/Web Graphics Instructor Taught html, css and Web Graphics classes. Designed course curricula, created class projects, homework and exercises, and prepared students’ handouts.

CBS Designs, Inc

nov 00 - mar 01

Content Licensinig/Image Processing
Researched and licensed photography for upcoming company products (photo frames, albums, and gift sets). Selected facepapers and other graphic elements for company products. Scanned and corrected graphics for product mock-ups and cmyk print processing.

Fuzhen Group

may 00 - apr 01

Online Promotions / Graphic Designer Designed and produced promotional emails and newsletters. Responsible for graphic design and typography of all company documents, from proposals and letters to reference materials and workbooks for client seminars.

Decoder Media

feb 00 - nov 00

Production Artist Prepared ink-on-paper art for Flash animation. Imported, optimized and colored original artwork using Adobe Photoshop and Flash. Major projects include production art for the cartoon series Space Is Dum plus other webtoons on wildbrain.com.

Expanding Edge LLC

jun 99 - jul 99

HTML Formatting/Language Assistant Text layout and formatting for Chinese html documents on company website expandingedge.com. Edited and translated documents from English and Chinese.

Languages

Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, plus proficient in Japanese and Italian
1254 Taylor St. #12   San Francisco, CA 94108
mabel@heymabes.com • 415.244.2179