Nicole Kowalchuk
Nicole Kowalchuk
Freelance Designer - Digital & Print
Calgary | CA
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red penny design
Freelance Designer - Digital & Print | 11/2007 - Current
red penny design offers solid, sophisticated and successful design solutions. Approaches each project with creative flair.
Clients: Oil & Gas Calgary, Canadian Rocky Mountain Ski Industry, Insurance, Home Builders, Clothing Brands
Responsibilities include:
• Developing concepts and communicating ideas
• Balancing strategic development with client business objectives
• Creative lead on a number of integrated online and traditional marketing campaigns
• Ensure designs are aligned with creative briefs and marketing strategy
• Provide quality assurance on all creative deliverables
• Ensure projects are sufficiently resourced, and delivered on time and on budget
• Establish and nurture good client working relationships
• Create new business development activities - social media media buys
Ball Retail Marketing
Visual Designer | 04/2021 - 11/2021
Ball Retail is a strategic marketing and branding agency.
• Provided creative approaches as well as attention to detail and quality under challenging deadlines - social media campaigns, franchise opening packages - brand & identity
• Worked independently and on a team under the direction of the Brands and Strategy Director/ owner - video editing in Premiere and After Effects and asset creation such as vector animations
• Designed campaign collateral including digital for mobile, print and video for social media and broadcast platforms - Advanced Photoshop skills, UX experience
• Able to meet and exceed project deadlines and commitments - Zoom, VPN, DropBox, package projects for vendors
ClearMotive Marketing Group
Visual Designer | 02/2014 - 04/2016
A member of 3 on Honda’s 2016 site relaunch - Honda Canada’s ATV & Side-by-side, responsive as well as conforming to (WCAG) 2.0 AA accessibility. I was responsible for the responsive and mobile concept creation and roll-out production - concepts based on desktop wireframes by Art Director. Created impactful imagery for many campaigns for Honda Motorcycles, ATV, Side-by-side, Marine and Power Equipment products.
Intoria Internet Architects
UI Front-End Designer | 10/2013 - 05/2014
Created several high-level brand UI concepts and CSS styling for client sites and worked with the Intoria UX team.
Harkus Communications Inc.
Freelance Designer - Digital & Print | 09/2013 - 01/2014
Concept development, designer for various Calgary-based businesses. I created and implemented strategic brands for various
purposes based on client needs.
MacLaren McCann
Graphic Designer - Digital & Print | 08/2012 - 03/2013
Effectively communicated many projects with art directors, other designers and writers to execute collateral for various accounts - Bayer CropScience, MARK’S, SAIT, Imperial Oil, General Motors etc. Worked cross-departmentally in order to transform studio needs into tangible design executions.
