SEAN HEMAK
Design Supervisor
La Mesa | United States
Skills
No information
Interests
Photography
Design
Creative direction
Illustration
Art direction
Summary
Activity
Work experience
Disguise, Inc.
Design Supervisor | 12/2016 - Current
• 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.
Disguise, Inc.
Costume Designer | 04/2015 - 12/2016
• Costume graphic design for global brands and proprietary styles.
PSC Graphx (Pacific Service Center)
Creative Director | 01/2008 - 12/2016
• 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.
Omnicide Records
Illustrator + Graphic Designer | 12/2002 - 12/2011
Lead designer for all layouts, photography and illustrations for all upcoming shows, productions and company identity.
The Solo Projects
Video Game Designer + Illustrator + Foley Compositor | 02/2009 - 11/2011
Create assets for Waste Land video game.
Intel
Graphic Designer + Animator | 09/2007 - 10/2008
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.
Cackling Imp Press
Illustrator | 03/2004 - 10/2008
Design and illustrate pages for Hotrod Horror comic book anthologies.
Dark Horse Comics
Illustrator + Writer | 04/2008 - 09/2008
Write and illustrate The Haunted House by Creature Mountain.
Stellar Signs
Creative Manager + Lead Graphic Designer | 01/2007 - 01/2008
Lead graphic designer for all in-house projects. Manage employees and sub-contract work.
Pacific Truck Colors (PTC)
Creative Director | 02/2006 - 01/2007
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.
KISS / Kisstorysource
Graphic Designer + Illustrator | 03/2005 - 01/2006
Create design for the largest retailer of licensed and unlicensed KISS merchandise in the world. Design and promote images for KISS Army.
Canon USA, Inc.
Illustrator | 01/2001 - 01/2002
Illustrate backdrops for video commercials.
Universal Studios
Makeup Artist | 08/1999 - 11/1999
Apply makeup to actors.
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




