Jason Yim

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Art director at Oyster
Los Angeles | US

Skills

  • Typography
  • Color Theory
  • Art Direction
  • Wireframing
  • Image Design
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Fashion
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Jason

<p>Multidisciplinary designer living in Los Angeles.

I am passionate about leveraging my expertise to drive the growth of brands and companies. With a keen eye for visual storytelling, I bring a unique blend of creativity and strategic thinking to enhance marketing initiatives, crafting compelling narratives that resonate with audiences and elevate brand presence. I've had a mixture of career experiences in Apparel Design at Benny Gold, Brand Design at Intercom, and most recently Art Direction and Design at Oyster HR.</p><p><br></p><p>Work available to view <a href="www.jason-yim.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

Trajectory

Sep 2023 — Now
Designer for Events and Brand Experiences · Paramount
Sep 2023 — Now
Brand Designer · Retool
May 2024 — Aug 2024
Brand Designer · City Storage Systems
Feb 2024 — Mar 2024
Art director and Designer · Fivetran
Sep 2023 — Sep 2023
Illustrator · Marco Experiences
Oct 2022 — Sep 2023
Art Director · Oyster®
• Created bespoke campaigns aligning with brand strategy, boosting brand loyalty and awareness. • Designed and managed company swag enriching company culture and visibility. • Directed and designed booths for industry conferences. • Created design systems and components. • Developed landing pages from wireframes to final, ensuring visual consistency and user engagement. • Illustrated branded elements. • Collaborated cross-functionally with marketing partners, and founders. • Directed internal designers, meeting project deadlines and maintaining quality standards. • Managed contractors, ensuring project deadlines were met and quality standards maintained. • Directed two internal brand refreshes. • Revamped the photography style to align with brand identity to step away from stock photography. • Developed various branded collateral, including brochures, infographics, and digital assets, to reinforce brand presence.
Nov 2022 — Sep 2023
Brand Designer · Laudable
Oct 2021 — Oct 2022
Senior Brand Designer · Oyster®
Dec 2017 — Oct 2021
Brand Designer · Intercom
• Created Intercom's first out of home marketing campaign. • Directed illustrators for editorial illustrations for Inside Intercom blog. • Created new visual identity for Intercom's podcast Scale. • Photographed and produced internal photography for events, marketing, internal and external brand initiatives. • Designed ads for social, newsletter, webinar, and marketing campaigns. • Designed visual assets internally and externally with consistency with the Intercom brand. • Worked independently, and cross functionally with different orgs in the company. • Created icons, illustrations, and abstracted product UI • Designed and produced printed materials such as posters, swag, books, ABM seeding packages, etc.
Nov 2010 — Dec 2017
Staff Photographer · Benny Gold
• Maintain consistency for product shots, and overall look for brand visual assets. • Photograph and edit product shots for online store. • Art direct, assist, and create call sheets for seasonal lookbook shoots while maintaining within budget. • Create new and interesting marketing content for specific product. • Collaborate with photographers, stylists, and models. • Provide support in pre-production work, and post-production follow up with photographer. • Explore new opportunities to create efficiency for future shoots. • Create mood boards for each shoot guiding overall direction.
Nov 2010 — Dec 2017
Apparel Designer · Benny Gold
• Designed seasonal cut and sew offerings including hats and accessories. • Developed tech packs, patterns, and silhouettes, ensuring high-quality production standards. • Collaborate with owner Benny Gold, and graphic designer ton mood boards, enhancing seasonal collections and collaborations. • Present trend forecasting, theme inspiration, and color direction for each seasonal collection based on research. • Managed all made in USA production for denim and shirting. • Managed vendor relationships and helped transition production to overseas, maintaining quality and reducing costs. • Communicated all fit comments and answering all factory questions for both domestic and overseas factories. • Oversaw development from first proto, sales man sample, then pre-production sample. • Develop seasonal catalogs, providing detailed product descriptions, illustrating CADs and constructing layout. • Sourced and organized trims, achieving cost-effective final products. • Refined fabric selection process, enhancing material quality and garment longevity. • Collaborated with brands such as Nike, Be@rbrick, Publish Brand, Zumiez, Modernica, 47 Brand/Super Bowl 50, Jansport, Goodworth, and Pendleton. • Maintained a seasonal schedule with our product release calendar. • Attended trade shows, and inspo trips for trend research and development.
Nov 2010 — Dec 2017
Graphic + Production Designer · Benny Gold
• Produce graphic assets including emails, web banners, packaging, social media, and print pieces. • Photoshop retouching and image selection for product launches. • Present trend forecasting, theme inspiration, and color direction for each seasonal collection based on research. • Art direct, assist, and create call sheets for seasonal lookbook shoots while maintaining within budget. • Create new and interesting marketing content for specific product. • Explore new opportunities to create efficiency for future marketing campaigns. • Create mood boards for each shoot guiding overall direction. • Develop seasonal catalogs, providing detailed product descriptions, illustrating CADs and constructing layout.

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Education history

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Academy of Art University

Bachelor's Degree | 2007 - 2010

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Cody Gaulin

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Gnomon School of VFX

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