Personal Info

About

Senior art director and illustrator with experience in print, packaging, web design, event planning/design, online/broadcast video, social media, and client relations

Physical Location

HomeSaint Louis, Missouri, USA

Digital Location

HomeWorldwide

Skills

Illustration Media

  • Vector Illustration
  • Photoshop Illustration
  • Graphite
  • Pen & Ink
  • Colored Pencil
  • Watercolor
  • Acrylic

Experience

Sep 2008

Senior Art Director

Checkmark Communications (Nestlé Purina PetCare Company), Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

  • • Strategically plan and design print, packaging, store displays, and special event materials for Purina Cat Chow brand and Purina TBonz brand

  • • Designed and help run multi-city PR national tour to interview for the new position of Purina Cat Chow Correspondent, followed by a “Finalist Day” interview, photo, and video shoot, and follow-up photo shoot of the winner

  • • Concepted and storyboarded a TV commercial that won against Purina Cat Chow’s TV commercial agency

  • • Won additional video work for CheckMark by being a one-man camera operator, director, producer, and editor for a small series of real-time web videos uploaded to social media outlets

  • • Actively involved in developing a video production department within the agency

  • • Trained and directing a group of external brand representatives for social media video and communications

  • • Illustrate for and participate in company-wide ideation brainstorm sessions

  • • Assisted in and art directed episodes of an Animal Planet reality television show “Housecat Housecall”

  • • Maintain excellent client relations while exceeding expectations in design, direction, and ideation

May 2003 to Aug 2008

Art Director

the minnow PROJECT, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

  • • Produced print, tv, and web design for eclectic range of clients

  • • Created print ads, packaging, brand identities, logos, 2D animation, websites, web banners, tv commercials, and illustrations

  • • Participated in training and supervising internal design team
April 2002 to May 2003

Web Design Intern

Sandhills Publishing, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

  • • Designed and coded websites for contracted clients of trader publications
Aug 2002 to May 2003

Graphic Designer & Illustrator

The Sower newspaper, Seward, Nebraska, USA

  • • Produced advertising designs for local businesses

  • • Created illustrations for featured newspaper stories

Education

May 2003

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Commercial Art

Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska, USA

Awards

2011

2011 Purina Marketing Summit: The People’s Choice Award: Winning with Social Media

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2009

Al Stefl Summit Award

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2008

Hospitality Sales & Marketing Assoc. International Bronze Medal Award

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2008

AMA Lincoln Chapter Prism Award

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2007

Nebraska Silver Addy, Out-of-Home Interior category

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2006

2 Gold Awards, 2006 Heartland Print Gallery: Carnival of Color

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

the art & design ofPaul Schmidt

I am Paul Schmidt. I design, illustrate, direct, and create and I would love to work with you.view resume
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