ALEKSEY KARCHIKOV
UI/UX GRAPHIC DESIGNER


MAIN SPECIALIZATION

 
– Brand Design. Corporate identity and logo design, packaging design;
– Web-Design. Sketching, wireframing  and design of browser games, snapchats;
– Visual Digital Design. Web banners, GIFs, icons, illustrations, photo editing;
– Print Design. Flyers, posters, brochures, catalogs. Preparation of printing products;
– Store Planning and Design. Storefront Design. Advertising signs, billboards, banners;
– Product Display Design. Design of display products and exhibition stands;
– Restaurants and bars interior design with author’s supervision during construction;
– Specific Personal Design of menu for restaurants, cafes, and bars;
– Photographer.



 
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 
Sketching, drawing, academic and technical drawing, the art of painting and drawing pictures, sculpture.
Adobe Creative Suite: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Bridge;  Autodesk 3ds Max + V-Ray, Corel Draw, Flexi Sign; Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel including PowerPoint and Outlook; some experience in HTML / CSS; Windows or Macintosh platform.
 

 
 
EXPERIENCE

Freelance UI/UX Graphic Designer. Since 2016 to present.
Work on various graphic design projects from concept creation through completion.
Work closely with clients to create a vision, conceive designs, and consistently meet deadlines and requirements.


• Graphic Designer Internship. October 2016 – January 2017.                                           
Joonbug.com LLC, New York, USA.
Main Responsibilities:
Design marketing materials, which included brochures, newsletters, and presentations. Web designs and print materials for ticketing platform.
letter of recommendation

 
Senior Graphic Designer, Design director. 2009 – 2016.
Lemonade, Advertising and production company LTD. Moscow, Russia.
Main Responsibilities:
– Pre-press preparation of prints, preparation templates for producing advertising materials with drawing up requirements specification for execution;
– Creation of graphic concepts of advertising and design of product stands;
– 3D design and development of interior design of restaurants + maintenance;
– Maintenance and updating of content of web sites, creation of web banners, analysis with following increase in traffic of the website, management of a contextual advertising;
– Subject photographing and photo editing;
– Communication with clients, studying of client requirements, booking, development and support of the project;
– Management and control of design and out of home advertising department;
– Development of structure and creation of models design;

 
Graphic Designer. 2006 – 2009. 
Fifth Height, Advertising and production company LTD. Moscow, Russia.
Main Responsibilities:
– Prepress preparation, preparation of models for producing advertising materials;
– Development and creation of printing products models design, souvenir products, interior and outdoor advertising;
– Drawing up requirements specification for producing advertising materials;
– Project manager, support of orders.
– Management and control of design and out of home advertising department;
– Communication with clients and studying of client requirements;
letter of recommendation
 
 
Lecturer of Theory and History of Arts and Drawing. 2004 – 2006. 
Chuvash State Pedagogical University. Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia.
Specialization:
– Lecturer of the Academic Drawing on the History of Arts and Drawing Department;
– Lecturer of Technical Drawing on the Design Department;
– Supervisor of the first-year students.
letter of recommendation


Junior Graphic Designer & Advertisement Sign Maker. 2002 – 2004. 
Time-TV Advertising  Agency LTD. Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia.
Specialization (Part-time):
– Sketching and Design of some projects. Advertisement Sign Maker.


 
 
EDUCATION
 
Master of Arts in Visual Arts. 1999 – 2004. 
Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia.
– upon graduating is recommended and accepted on a competitive basis as a Lecturer of department of history of arts and drawing, I. Ya. Yakovlev Chuvash state pedagogical university;
– honors degree;
– presidential scholarship;
– senior student of the year;
– the winner of the annual open conference festival of scientific creativity students "Youth of Big Volga" 2002, 2003.
character reference