Colston Lyons

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  • Timeline

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

    Teacher’s Assistant | Research Assistant

    Appalachian State University
    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024

    Contract Brand & Print Designer

    Executive Personnel Group
    Jan 2024 - now

    English & French Teacher Assistant

    British Language Academy
    Current Company
    Mar 2024 - now

    Graphic Design Intern | Creative Production Strategist

    La croisée des chemins
  • About me

    Graphic Designer | Multimedia Artist | TEFL Certified Educator | Aspiring Creative Technologist

  • Education

    • Appalachian state university

      2018 - 2023
      Bachelor of fine arts - bfa graphic design
    • Université catholique de lyon

      2022 - 2022
  • Experience

    • Appalachian state university

      Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
      Teacher’s assistant | research assistant

      Advised a class of 24 students in honing artistic techniques and fostering skills in print and web media. Presented 3 Risograph and Offset printing workshops involving the preparation of digital files, and teaching color separation techniques. Collected visual research for the course professor, throughout 15 online academic databases, to help in the production of personal design projects.

    • Executive personnel group

      Sept 2023 - Jan 2024
      Contract brand & print designer

      Redesigned 20 company templates, including resumes and recruiting documents using InDesign, to enhance visual consistency. Assumed responsibility for the curation of the EPG brand identity for all brand materials and guidelines. Suggested marketing solutions, to the team, to optimize staffing and data collection.

    • British language academy

      Jan 2024 - now
      English & french teacher assistant

      Facilitated discussions in both English and French among 9 different classes to help students improve their conversational fluency. Developed specialized curriculum materials for Art and Design classes, focusing on English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

    • La croisée des chemins

      Mar 2024 - now
      Graphic design intern | creative production strategist

      Recommended and implemented new strategies for retouching photo libraries for large scale photo book projects, by leveraging Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign reducing turnaround times for print projects by 50%. Guided a team of 6 mid & senior level designers on implementing new Adobe Creative Cloud features and Integrated Artificial technology in everyday tasks.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certificat de lange et culture françaises (niveau b1 en course d'acquisition)

      Universit�� catholique de lyon
      Jul 2022
    • Teacher of english to speakers of other languages (tefl)

      International tefl academy
      Jan 2024
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