Job Searching for Designers
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If you’re looking for a design job on Monster and Career Building you’re definitely in the wrong place. The design community isn’t looking for a cookie cutter of their perfect candidate. They’re looking for someone off the wall, so they look in off the wall places specific to design. More after the jump.
Strengths
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I amended my resumé with a Technical Strengths Chart to depict, visually, what skills I believe are my strongest. This is in no way a reflection of absolute knowledge, but of relative knowledge at this position in my life. I hope you enjoy it.
Protected: Mplayit
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VCU GDES Online
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I just noticed the new VCU Graphic Design site is live. I worked alongside Josh Reese and Roy McKelvey to help code up their design and refine the UI. Update: I forgot a link. VCU GDES Site
Graduation ’09
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On Saturday, May 16th 2009 at 2 PM EST Michael Noel Garrett Graduated Cum Laude from Virginia’s Commonwealth University with a BFA in Graphic Design. His friends and family were incredibly surprised.
Featured as DCTH designer: Week 3
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DCTH is a community of designers that meet each week on Twitter to discuss what’s on the minds of designers around the world. I was featured on their web site in an interview with Chad Engle. Continue
Featured on Mephobox
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KernMe was featured on web site archiver, Mephobox. They liked my identity mark.
Let’s give these things away
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Here’s a mockup for a handbill we’re going to give away to all the freshmen.
Objective
I am a designer looking for a firm interested in lifetime learners, question seekers and innovative problem solvers.
Experience
Lead Graphic & Web Designer, Mplayit, Ashburn, Virginia
Provided and all-around mortar for the bricks. Responsible for web & UI design, print design, front-end development, promoting Mplayit though social media, app statistics, app developer relations with Mplayit, corporate site and blog upkeep and delivery driving.
2009–2010
Web Consultant, VCU Dean of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Responsible for maintaining and building the Art History Department Web presence. Researched and built Web applications for the promotion of VCU Arts.
2008–2009
Apple Campus Rep, Volt Services Group, Richmond, Virginia
Promoted Apple products to VCU. Acted as a resource for support to students and faculty.
2006–2008
Music Director and Manager, WVCW, Richmond, Virginia
Managed operations on a day-to-day basis. Accomplished more in two years than what was completed in the last ten.
2006–2009
Additional Experience
Objects+Methods
Lecture series at VCU with guests including Massimo Vignelli, Ivan Chermayeff and Chaz Maviyane-Davies.
2006–2009
Tasmeem Design Conference
International design conference, Tasmeem, in Doha, Qatar where I participated and presented a charette-style project on the problems with transportation in a growing city.
2008
Education
Norfolk Academy, High School
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Studied Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Graphic Design
2004
2005
2009
Range of Design Skills
Adobe CS4, Web design concepts and coding, identity design, typography, Web standards, usability, accessibility, team building, the grid and commercial printing.
Technical Expertise
XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, CSS 2 & 3, HTML 5/XHTML 5, Processing, Actionscript 2, Blueprint and similar CSS frameworks, jQuery
References available upon request