Ryan Williams — Art Director at Rhyno Studios — Gardena, CA
Ryan Williams
Art Director
Gardena | United States
Skills
No information
Interests
Travel
Hiking
Photography
Action sports
Racing
Industries
Outdoor
Skate
Surf
Work experience
Rhyno Studios
Art Director | 05/2015 - Current
• Develop branding, strategies and style guides
• Photograph product and real estate for both print and digital uses
• Shoot and edit videos for product launch campaigns and use on social channels
• Design initial concepts through final completion of all marketing campaigns, packaging, and front-end website creation
• Work with outside vendors to produce final deliverables as needed

K1 Speed, Inc
Creative Director | 07/2017 - 03/2018
• Rebrand the company’s look and feel: new logos, style guides, updated imaging, and sites as the company began to franchised globally
• Redesigned the front-end look and feel of K1 Speed site, and styling for the K1 Racegear e-commerce site
• Established design direction for quarterly and annual releases to ensure work stayed on brand across all marketing campaigns and packaging for consumer-facing products
• Created marketing initiatives, promotions, and campaigns to drive revenue during peak months and traditionally slow quarters alike by engaging specific targeted audiences at the store level
• Allocated budgets towards branded promotions across multiple social channels including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter
• Created campaigns and designs to increase engagement and social followings from 30k to 260k
• Implemented and created design templates that led to increased designer efficiency and kept designs on brand
• Directed photo shoots and provided feedback
EVS Sports
Lead Designer | 05/2015 - 06/2017
• Captured action and product photography for marketing collateral, national publications, social, and web
• Shot and edited videos for product releases, rider profiles and promotional pieces for social channels including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube and Twitter
• Designed initial concepts for approval by owners & sales team
• Worked with design team to translate approved concepts into actionable deliverables across all marketing categories
• Designed mood boards for quarterly and annual releases to ensure work stayed on brand across all releases
• Created style guides to ensure 3rd party content was on brand
• Developed social and direct marketing campaigns that corresponded with print and digital marketing touch points
• Allocated budgets towards ad, site takeovers, and retail banner spaces to reach target market groups
• Made quarterly product and annual brand release schedules to hit sales goals within budget
Konami Digital Entertainment
Senior Graphic Designer | 08/2007 - 05/2015
• Transformed concepts into tangible deliverables by creating sketches and initial designs to communicate ideas and direction to reduce edits, and increase efficiency
• Pitched concepts to senior leaders from both a style and look, to die lines that will properly highlight the product to ensure packaging stands out from our competitors
• Assigned projects to team members, communicated design direction, maintaining constant contact with the team to manage the workload and ensure that all deadlines were met
• Led a daily design meeting to foster discussions on current projects ensuring consistency and encourage new ideas
• Reviewed files before they were sent to press to ensure brand consistency and proper packaging of files
• Double checked printer proofs to verify accuracy, during print runs
• Inspected final packaging samples to ensure proper ratios were achieved during the pack out process
