Blake Himsl Hunter

Experience

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  Art Instruction Schools

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2009

  Art Instructor

  •Instructed and coached students through distance education. Specialized in color, design and cartooning lessons.•Served as Project Manager on revision of “Drawing Objects” and “Cartooning” textbooks. Both projects completed under budget and deadline.•Managed workflow of beginning lessons among instruction staff and trained junior instructors.

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  Bchhstudio.com

  Jan 2006 - now

  Freelance Illustrator and Graphic Designer

  •clients include Polivka Logan, Logic PD, GC Records, Stand Up Records! Kohls•specialties include quirky visuals and hand drawn typography•work has appeared in gallery shows, on corporate holiday cards, album covers, promotional material, apparel, and a children's book•designed line of embroidery patterns sold at independent retail outlets•currently on C2 Graphics creative roster

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  Crafters local #612

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2012

  Art Director and Graphic Designer

  •promote local crafters and organize No-Coast Craft-O-Rama, bi-Annual craft event attended by 10,000 people•help create and prepare images to be used on posters, ads, and other promotional materials•select and work with outside talent in creation of graphics and websites•wrote blog posts St Paul Craftmafia before merging with Crafters Loacal #612

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  Craft Brew Labels Powered By Lauterbach Group, Inc

  Dec 2011 - Aug 2012

  Client Service Representative

  •Provide timely, accurate, estimates and quotes to Account Executives and Customers, based on established standards.•Coordinate with Manufacturing, Purchasing, sales departments, and customer informing them of schedules, needs, and order status.•Attend and participate in weekly sales meetings and daily productions meetings.•Coordinate activities, internally and externally, to insure that proof and job tickets accurately reflect the customer's purchase order.•Enter new customer account information into customer master file and verify critical customer account information. Show less

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  GLD Products

  Aug 2012 - Feb 2015

  Graphic Designer

  GLD Products has been manufacturing and distributing well-known family gaming products for over 30 years. GLD is proud to be America's leading innovator of darts, billiards, table games, home casino games, and classic board games, developing products for serious darters and game players of all ages and skill levels. GLD’s headquarters are located in Muskego, Wisconsin.•Research market trends and present ideas to expand and protect company brands.•Serve as project manager on marketing and packaging material.•Creating original graphics for products and packaging. •Create virtual mock ups for incentive groups.•Prepare product images for internet and print presentations.•Designed annual catalog and price list.•Contact and meet with printers to obtain quotes for projects.•Art Direct photo shoots.•Establish style guides for product classes.•Create and implement procedure for proofing work, including preflighting and packaging art files.•Participate in product development and marketing meetings.•Prepare and write HTML code for A+ Content pages for Amazon.com.•Develop Plan-o-grams.•Write press releases.•Research new programs for department.•Create sell sheets.•Attend press-sittings.•Write job postings for new positions.•Participate in interviewing candidates to fill department needs.•Provide copy for new products.•Produce instructional videos. Show less

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  Kohl's

  Mar 2015 - Oct 2017

  Packaging Production Designer - Contractor
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  EPIC Creative

  Oct 2017 - now

  • Senior Production Artist/Illustrator

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Production Artist

    Oct 2017 - Dec 2021