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Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toptal Member Since
December 7, 2015
Balazs is a senior art director and graphic designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. With 10 years of experience, he is focusing on brand identities, strategy, web, and digital product design, working with established agencies and inspiring startups around the globe.
Work Experience
Visual Designer, Brand Strategist
2015 - 2015
Crowdsail
- Developed a brand strategy from the ground up.
- Contributed to finalizing the product strategy.
- Built a flexible and expandable brand identity system.
- Designed a marketing site and developed style guides and content strategy.
- Refined the product's early release (UX/UI).
Technologies: Adobe CC
Art Director, Graphic Designer
2014 - 2015
Seventails Medicals
- Owned complete brand development and product strategy, from naming to product concepts.
- Branded, provided visual identity, and built product mockups.
- Created custom illustrations and artwork for product packaging and branded apparel.
- Composed and designed investor presentations and pitch decks.
Technologies: Adobe CC
Branding, Graphic Designer
2014 - 2014
Eurika
- Created brand strategy and development for the Vancouver (BC) based startup With The Still Brandworks. A result of extensive team work, the comprehensive project included branding and content strategy, a sales site, animations and a dynamic video platform.
- Helped Eurika develop and focus their target audience.
- Built a complete brand and style guide (marking, usage, color, typography, imagery, illustration, and icon styles).
Technologies: Adobe
Visual Designer, UX Designer, UI Designer
2014 - 2014
Hubl Classifieds
- Developed and innovated brand concept and product strategy.
- Created UX explorations and wireframes.
- Provided a complete product design (Early Release and Beta), UX, and UI design.
Technologies: Adobe
Visual Designer
2012 - 2014
The Still Brandworks (Agency)
- Created branding and visual design of large-scale, results-focused, comprehensive projects in a high-paced agency position with high levels of responsibility. Clients including: SAP, McLaren, Adobe.
- Developed brands, visual identities, style, and brand guides for a number of well-funded local and international clients, startups, and large and medium sized businesses.
- Designed websites and contributed to UX/UI design, animation, and video projects.
Technologies: Adobe CC
Visual Designer
2013 - 2013
Slipway
- Built a dynamic web page to measure the professional community's interest in an innovative PaaS tool, Slipway.
- Branded and designed the web page: keen, detailed visuals were implemented to build trust, create buzz, and generate early signups.
- Illustrated and created parallel scroll animations.
- Strategized content and user journey.
- Designed icons.
Technologies: Adobe
Art Director
2013 - 2013
Giorgia Fonyodi
- Developed a an iconic visual identity for the young, yet already acknowledged luxury label.
- Created brand strategy and design.
- Provided custom type work (wordmark, corporate typeface).
- Presented to investors.
- Provided concepts and mock-ups for industrial design (fashion accessories, branded apparel).
Technologies: Adobe CC
Branding, UI Design
2012 - 2013
NodeFly
- Completely redesigned and rebranded Nodefly - a real-time Node.js monitoring application which grew to become an essential tool on the market, acquired a year later by core node.js contributors, IBM's Strongloop.
- Provided a complete rebranding, including brandmark and style guides.
- Did a complete product redesign, including UI, iconography, style guides, and information design.
- Branded gifts, marketing material, and apparel.
- Worked closely with the developers.
Technologies: Adobe
Graphic Designer
2006 - 2011
Radnóti Theatre, Budapest
- Engaged in various creative design tasks, graphic design, and poster design. My five years working at the prestigious Hungarian theatre was career-defining. I got to work with with acclaimed performance artists, actors, directors, literalists, and photographers.
- Worked on decoration and set design.
- Built a new, comprehensive brand concept for the theatre, as part of my MFA diploma thesis.
Technologies: Adobe
Graphic Designer
2007 - 2010
Corvus Design Advertising Agency
- Provided print design, publications, packaging design, and prepress production skills at this full-time agency position, working 4 (non-consecutive) years at the award-winning agency.
- Designed web features.
- Branded, did graphic design, and created advertisements and illustrations.
- Won numerous Hungarian design awards.
Technologies: Adobe
Visual Designer
2008 - 2009
Quince Communications
- Did branding and graphic design at this full-time agency position at the Budapest branch of one of the pioneers of digital advertising in The Netherlands (quince.nl).
- Created Flash animations and digital designs.
- Clients at this multinational company included: Samsung, Whirlpool, Philips.
- Worked with distributed global teams.
Technologies: Adobe
Education
2001 - 2006
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design
Hungarian University of Fine Arts - Budapest, Hungary
Experience
Collaboration That Works
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