Gabriel Taylor

Experience

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  Girls Supporting Girls

  Sept 2017 - Jul 2021

  Creative Consultant

  I've spent a lot of time volunteering for Girls Supporting Girls-- I've created videos and production materials for their annual Build Bash events, helped consult on their website design, wrote copy, designed a Powerpoint presentation for all-hands meetings, created posters and more.

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  FCB Chicago

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Intern/Steelseries Project Consultant

  I worked on and off with Foote, Cone and Belding Chicago, starting as an intern for a month, thencoming back to help advise on a marketing project for local gaming peripheral manufacturerSteelseries, which launched in September of 2018.

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  Fiverr

  Sept 2018 - Jun 2020

  Freelance

  I did freelance work for sometime with Fiverr in the Photoshop/photo editing and thevideo editing categories to help get more experience in the professional client/professionallandscape-- I ended up doing dozens of jobs for people across the world-- while maintaining a5 star rating the entire time.

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  Camp Anokijig

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2020

  Junior Counselor

  At Anokijig I engaged with and worked with kids and their parents to create a warm, welcoming experience and help kids grow through experiential learning. My time here became the basis of my short film Around the Campfire.

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  Merz Apothecary

  Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

  Packer

  I worked with Merz & their online storefront Smallflower to work through a backlog of holiday orders and improve their shipping turnaround by over 3 days to a typical day-of shipping for most orders.

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  University of Oregon

  Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

  Global Programs Assistant - Division of Global Engagement

  Worked with the University's study abroad division to create engaging video and social content that drove applicants to our site, including messaging related to the 2022 World Athletics Championships.

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  Camp Anokijig

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2023

  Director, Digital Photography Programs

  Designed and built a Digital Photography curriculum from the ground up, allowing students to freely choose from over 40 projects, level up, participate in challenges, and find their own creative voice when it comes to photography. Managed and directed my own team of staffers.Over the course of the summer, taught over 2000 campers of all ages.

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  Focal

  Jan 2023 - now

  Co-Founder, Head of Creative

  Focal is the first startup created through the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications' Media Innovation Lab, looking to reinvent local news for a new generation of students and young people looking to explore the new places they find themselves in. Since it's inception, I've led the creative team at Focal, taking a part in designing everything from our brand to our interface to our identity. We're currently in stealth but we're working to make our vision for local news become a reality. Show less

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  UO Ad Team

  Jun 2023 - now

  Ad Team is the UO SOJC's team that competes in the National Student Advertising Competition-- for the 2023-24 school year, I worked on the team as an Art Director & Designer working to help the team and produce a campaign for Tide encouraging young audiences to wash on cold. On the team, I:-Created and designed an award-winning set of mobile UI/UX mockups-Created moodboards and reference samples for multiple versions of our campaign for Tide-Aided and helped the the creative team in creating assets for all sorts of things from custom washing machines to laundry tags to a wipeout-style obstacle course-Was one of four presenters for the campaign, helping to write, structure and design the 120-slide presentation from start to finish with a 2-week turnaround-Completely rebranded the team with a new logo, identity and design language-Designed custom merch, social media assets, and more for that identity-Prepped and recruited for next year, when I'll be a director Show less

  • Director, Art Direction & Design

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Art Director & Designer

    Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
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  Oregon Accelerator

  Oct 2023 - now

  Creative Producer

  Oregon Accelerator is an student-led incubator within the University of Oregon's Lundquist School of Business & School of Journalism and Communications dedicated to helping student athletes in taking the best advantage of NIL (Name, Image & Likeness) opportunities. Highlights have included:-Rebuilding and designing the organization's website from the ground up-Building a onesheeter for the football team on their way to the final Pac-12 Football Championship on how best to use their moment in the social media spotlight-Photoshoots for multiple athletes and organizations across teams and disciplines at UO-Designed and helped to source merch for everyone at OA Show less

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  NBCUniversal

  Oct 2023 - now

  Campus Representative

  Working to make connections and create experiences around campus to promote Universal Studios' upcoming releases, including holding advance screenings, bringing opportunities to local journalists, working with campus orgs and more to create and execute campus-wide campaigns in alliance with a national/international marketing strategy. Highlights included:-Working with Universal's national partnerships team and Illumination Pictures to facilitate a partnership between Oregon's athletics dept. and the movie Migration.-Promoting, scheduling, planning and facilitating a screening for The Fall Guy on campus for a crowd of over 80 students-Working with campus orgs to bring a unique spin to a campus screening of Kung Fu Panda 4-Working with influencers on campus to create organic promotion for KFP4, Dev Patel's Monkey Man, Five Nights at Freddy's and Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Show less

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  The Rising Project

  Oct 2023 - Mar 2024

  Producer

  Rising is an accelerator within the University of Oregon working to promote sustainability on campus in a way that resonates with students in and around Eugene and the university.For fall term, I wrote, directed and edited a short film on cooking in a more sustainable way as part of a mini film festival on a tight timeline.

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  Artists Dept.

  Apr 2024 - now

  Founder

  Artists Dept. is a new organization focused on finding, spotlighting and engaging up-and-coming creative talent at the University of Oregon. Among other initiatives, I'm curating '30-under-30'-style class of artists and building a space for them to connect and collaborate while honoring their creative work and talent.