SEAN HEMAK
Design Supervisor
La Mesa | United States
Skills
No information
Interests
Photography
Design
Creative direction
Illustration
Art direction
In my own words
— SEAN• Specializing in creative direction, branding, advertising and marketing.
• Over 15 years of professional management in creative fields. • Spearheaded projects with budgets ranging from $100- $10M. • Pioneered entrepreneurial assets yielding profit margins up to 400% • Keen ability to communicate client vision resulting in high quality creative work with brand continuity. • Coordinated projects with up to 15 major brand identities involved in a single project.
Trajectory
Dec 2016 — Now
Design Supervisor · Disguise, Inc.
• Manage and oversee our team of designers, engineers, photographers and image re-touch artists while fostering an empowered creative culture.
• Initiate direct daily correspondence and in-person conferences with top-tier brands such as Disney, Lego, Hasbro, Microsoft and more. Advised branding direction and negotiated asset usage for product design and packaging.
• Delegate task directives for our overseas factories and suppliers. Accelerated and centralized communication to ensure proper guidance for time-sensitive solutions.
• Prompted company-wide meetings to motivate and optimize processes, procedures and cross-training.
• Created and executed streamlined processes for design templates, asset management, SOP and inventory to effectively reduce redundant workflow by 40%.
• Organized and collaborated with licensors to capture R&D for consumer products based on actual costumes used in current film production.
• Prototype and produce creative work such as design, storyboarding, photography and strategic concept boards.
Apr 2015 — Dec 2016
Costume Designer · Disguise, Inc.
• Costume graphic design for global brands and proprietary styles.
Jan 2008 — Dec 2016
Creative Director · PSC Graphx (Pacific Service Center)
• Conceptualized and implemented PSC Graphx, a new company division, which functions as an advertising/marketing agency and full-service graphics house.
• PSC Graphx grosses $2 million/year and attracts an estimated 15-20% increase to incoming sales for other divisions within the company.
• Functioned as Corporate Creative Director across six company divisions.
• Lead our team of creatives with a portfolio of over 500+ accounts.
• Successfully launched nation-wide advertisement strategies, campaigns and branding development for companies and organizations such as Pepsi, Franz, Major Soccer League and Goodwill.
• Orchestrated, produced and prototyped creative work: graphic design, copy, AV content, custom website design, dioramas, architectural/structural plans and more.
Feb 2009 — Nov 2011
Video Game Designer + Illustrator + Foley Compositor · The Solo Projects
Create assets for Waste Land video game.
Dec 2002 — Dec 2011
Illustrator + Graphic Designer · Omnicide Records
Lead designer for all layouts, photography and illustrations for all upcoming shows, productions and company identity.
Apr 2008 — Sep 2008
Illustrator + Writer · Dark Horse Comics
Write and illustrate The Haunted House by Creature Mountain.
Sep 2007 — Oct 2008
Graphic Designer + Animator · Intel
Design, animate and produce marketing materials for Intel’s P1266 computer chip and wireless technology. I designed the main logo for this division of Intel.
Jan 2007 — Jan 2008
Creative Manager + Lead Graphic Designer · Stellar Signs
Lead graphic designer for all in-house projects. Manage employees and sub-contract work.
Mar 2004 — Oct 2008
Illustrator · Cackling Imp Press
Design and illustrate pages for Hotrod Horror comic book anthologies.
Feb 2006 — Jan 2007
Creative Director · Pacific Truck Colors (PTC)
Oversee and direct creative employee tasks, files, artwork, product application, import/export of graphics, and sub-contract work. Lead creator of designs, layouts, logos, advertisements, promotional material and automotive graphics for clients and PTC.
Mar 2005 — Jan 2006
Graphic Designer + Illustrator · KISS / Kisstorysource
Create design for the largest retailer of licensed and unlicensed KISS merchandise in the world. Design and promote images for KISS Army.
Jan 2001 — Jan 2002
Illustrator · Canon USA, Inc.
Illustrate backdrops for video commercials.
Aug 1999 — Nov 1999
Makeup Artist · Universal Studios
Apply makeup to actors.
Activity
Education history
Alma College
Certificate in Fine Art | 1995 - 1995
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Certificate in Industrial Design | 1995 - 1995
Association for Integrative Psychology
Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming | 2018 - 2018
Kendall College of Art & Design
Bachelors | 1996 - 2000
