Anna Kapitanova

Experience

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  Esquire magazine

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2009

  Graphic Design Intern
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  Art. Lebedev Studio

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2010

  Graphic Design Intern
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  Look At Media

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2014

  Web and Graphic Designer

  🔸 Boosted the readership coverage and attention of readers by 20%;🔸 Created a pool of illustrators, who were responsible for all media articles illustrations.🔸 Independently led the budget and considered the fees.🔸 Been responsible for all online media articles design;🔸 Leaflets, brochures, posters design, resize & prepress;🔸 Retouching & searching for imagery;

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  YOU NEED IT LLC

  Oct 2013 - Sept 2018

  Freelance Senior Art Director

  You Need It was the first Russian online organic beauty store. Among the brands they sold, were such as Hurraw, Lucas Papaw, EOS, BeautyBlender, Clark's Botanicals, Dr. Bronner's, Yogi and 200 others. In 2015 they launched own beauty line and started to develop offline retail. 🔸 Designed the website and initial branding🔸 Created the launch campaign🔸 Supported regular design needs — website banners, ads, social media formats🔸 Managed team of 5 people (content manager, PR-specialist, photographer, retoucher, graphic designer)🔸 Created a package design for 8 organic products Show less

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  Leo Burnett

  Oct 2014 - Nov 2015

  Graphic Designer

  🔸 Achieved faster delivery of all projects, incl. in-studio prepress preparation🔸 Established contact with all agency managers, speeding up the work of designer teams🔸 Maintained agency clients: Nike, MaxFactor, McDonald’s🔸 Prepared key visuals according to art director’s brief🔸 Developed leaflets, brochures, posters design, resize & prepress, Keynote presentations🔸 Retouched imagery🔸 Participated and contributed in brainstorm sessions🔸 Attended meetings with the client and the agency manager Show less

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  Serviceplan Group Middle East

  Nov 2015 - Dec 2016

  Junior Art Director

  🔸 Set up a team of agency freelancers. Due to this, the design department's productivity increased by 25%🔸 Organized work in Keynote, increasing the delivery of presentations in a half🔸 Independently took all the preprint preparation, saving the agency budget by 15%🔸 Supported the agency clients: Adidas Originals, Estee Lauder and MediaMarkt;🔸 Collaborate with Art director, Production Manager, Copy writer, Retoucher, 3D artist, Asset manager, Traffic controller, Marketing and Creative teams.🔸 Prepared key visuals, printed materials, Keynote presentations, banners resize & prepress;🔸 Meetings with clients with direction from the CPM and Creative Lead;🔸 Freelance designers team management (up to 6 people); Show less

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  Beautyhack.ru

  Sept 2016 - Jun 2018

  Freelance Art Director

  “Beautyhack” is the leading Russian women’s web-magazine about beauty. From the period 2016-2018, I collaborated as project art director. 🔸 Created advertising formats in collaboration with web designers🔸 Designed the visual guide (brandbook) for online advertising🔸 Selected font pairs, basic colors and the corporate style components for online articles🔸 Edited the guidebook according to company needs 🔸 Developed visual commercial proposals for guest ads: Chanel, Estee Lauder, Dior. Show less

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  A&A Bureau

  Dec 2016 - now

  Art Director

  🔸 Created a design department at SMM agency;🔸 Adjusted the work process by building a team of in-office designers (up to 12 people)🔸 Increased the customer's involvement up to 30%🔸 Redesigned agency website🔸 Exercised judgment, analyzed situations, identified problems🔸 Created brand identity, digital design, and POS materials🔸 Maintained shared design systems and libraries