Experience
As a seasoned Graphic Designer, I pride myself on my design and communication skills. With over a decade of visual design and marketing experience, I love to get together with clients, collaborate through a creative brief, and ensure every step of a project hits the design criteria from the initial “we don’t know what we want” brainstorming through the sign-off on final deliverables.
I love to get to the bottom of what is important in messaging, both written and visual. A passionate lifelong learner, I am always up for a challenge in learning new design skills, software, or working with new stakeholders.
Graphic Designer
Propeller - March 2023 – current | Denver, CO - Hybrid
Propeller is a management consulting firm that helps businesses thrive in change by delivering impact-driven solutions that build momentum. We’re consultants, strategists, builders, and doers — but mostly we are a company full of people who love the adventure of solving complex problems. We have offices in Portland, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Denver, Dallas, and Minneapolis. Please feel free to get in touch to learn more about how we can help your organization solve its toughest challenges.
As a Graphic Designer, my responsibilities include multi-disciplinary visual design for motion, digital, and print collateral. Brands include the Propeller brand, as well as some well known client brands.
EXPERIECE
Conceptualizing and executing multi-disciplinary visual design for catalogs, advertising campaigns, conferences, apparel, with assets spanning motion, digital, and print collateral across brands.
Creating big picture, complex visual projects including advertising campaigns, brand development, campaign storyboarding for photography and video assets, and creating compelling presentations for client buy in at critical project points.
Executing on design briefs and seeing projects through to completion by working with outside vendors and partners.
Contribute to and participate in the AI Taskforce, defining AI opportunities and guardrails for design work
Moving seamlessly among brands and their individual brand guidelines, working with consultants, vendors, and internal departments to foster a collaborative and inclusive user-centered design process.
Creating and organizing visual assets for multiple brands, including stills, video, and digital assets.
Additional employment history includes working as a Graphic Designer+Photographer+Drone Operator for a family of fun brands, Marketing Department of One for an award winning lighting design company, Graphic Designer for a large construction management company, a small children’s museum exhibit design company, and a whole lot in between. Read more.
SOFTWARE
Adobe CC & Related
Illustrator - Illustration, Data Visualization, Layouts for Print and Web
InDesign - Multi-page print and digital layouts
After Effects - Motion and video editing
Premiere Pro and Resolve - Video processing, editing, and color correcting
Photoshop/Camera Raw - Single image touch-up and editing
Lightroom - Photography batch processing
Bridge - Set-up and upkeep of photography database
Acrobat Pro DC - “Can you change this on this PDF?” Yes, yes I can.
Microsoft Office Proficienct- PowerPoint, Word, Excel
CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON
Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve - learning best practices for videography, as well as editing, composition, effects, and mild audio editing
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Current: FAA Part 107 Certified Commercial Drone Pilot
Current: AIGA Colorado Member (since 2018)
Current: Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) through the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS)
2023 - Animation Bootcamp, School of Motion
2022: Agile Project Management and Delivery Certificate
2019-2021 - Served on the Communications Committee for SMPS Colorado Chapter
2021 - Participated as a mentee in the 2020 SMPS ONE2ONE Mentorship program
2019 - Published “Pencils Down. How to Implement a Team Writing Process” in SMPS’s Marketer, the Society’s award-winning bimonthly journal, reporting on current business development and marketing practices, issues, and trends.
2018 - Served as judge for SMPS National Marketing Excellence Awards
2017 - Recipient of the Marketing Excellence Award for the "Shoe-String Budget" category for an in-house website redesign and data tracking
IN A NUTSHELL
“You have the tools, now get out there and build the house, add on the pool and throw yourself into the deep end.” - Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
Contact
Shoot me an email.
martinovicha@gmail.com
Currently living in Denver, Colorado.
All of the rumors are true, it is amazing here.
Education
University of Cincinnati, DAAP
(College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning)
Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design
Recent Projects
FAA Part 107 Certified Commercial Drone Pilot
Go Places Do
Small but mighty Etsy shop selling digital files for craft-focused projects.
Nimbleslick
Worked as a Graphic Designer with a professional band management company to create and maintain collateral used to promote bands.
Ear Nuggets
Co-owner of the now defunct concert and festival promotion website. Responsibilities included live music photography, pre-show promotion as well as post-show reviews, coordination with other promoters, band managers, and music organizers for the digital promotional pushes, social media posts, artist interviews.