Celso Braz
870 Campus Dr. #304.
Daly City, CA 94015
Phone: (650) 757-4936
[email protected]
http://www.celsobraz.com

Overview

Graphic Design, User Interface Design, Web Design, Illustration and Animation


Professional Experience


BZ Web Corp, Los Altos, CA, USA

Creative Director 2005-present

����Concept, design of page layout, logos/brand identity, collateral material, user interface design, animated banners and web graphics.

BrasilBest Magazine, Pacifica, CA, USA

Art Director, Senior Designer, User Interface Designer 2003-present

����Concept, design of page layout, logos/brand identity, collateral material, user interface design, animated banners and web graphics.

DIRECTV DSL, Cupertino, CA, USA

Senior Designer, User Interface Designer 2001-2003

����Design and production of, user guides, logos and collateral material. Concept, design and production of software interface and web graphics.

Queganas.com, San Francisco, CA, USA

Art Director, User Interface and Game Designer 2001

����Design and production of identity/brand, web site and games (Java based) for the internet. Head Designer for all the creative development, from brand to web and games interface design.

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior Designer, User Interface Designer and Project Manager 2000

����Design and production of animated banners. Created a worflow system for choosing and purchasing images for the three Web sites during the merging betwenn Bank of America and Nations Bank.

Telocity, Cupertino, CA, USA

Senior Designer, User Interface Designer 1999-2000

����Creation and production of, catalogs, packaging, manuals, logos and
web site. Development of entertainment software documentation and marketing material.

Direct Language Communication, San Francisco, CA, USA

Associate Art Director 1997-1999

����Localization of packaging, catalogs, ads, manuals and logos. Project flow and human resource management of ten member staff. Supervision of the pre-press material.

BrazSoft U.S. Corporation, San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior Graphic Designer 1996-1997

����Creation of packaging, catalogs, ads, manuals and logos. Supervision of the pre-press and print production of entertainment software documentation and marketing material. Project flow and human resource management of six member staff. Established company desktop publishing guidelines for employees and contractors.

Quadrata Graphic Art Studio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Graphic Designer 1983-1993

����Created catalogs, ads, book covers. For ten years, acted as supervisor of the publications, controlled work flow and supervised twelve member staff.

O.G. Plan Advertising Associates, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Graphic Designer 1990-1991

����Created and produced ads, book covers, CD covers, logos and packaging.

PROPEG Marketing and Advertising, Bahia, Brazil

Junior Graphic Designer, 1982-1983

����Created ads, posters and album covers.

Braz Live, Bahia, Brazil

Cartoon Artist, 1986-1993

����Published cartoons in magazines and newspapers, wrote and drew comics and participated in humor and comic exhibitions:

  • 1987 Rio Design Center Humor Festival
  • 1988 Minas Gerais Humor Festival
  • 1993 Rio de Janeiro Comic Contest.

Education

  • Stanford University, Stanford CA (2002), Professional Publishing. This course is designed to provide participants with an immersion into today's most advanced publishing processes--sequenced to cover editorial development layout/design, production, marketing, sales promotion, financial issues and brand extensions.

  • Wild Brain, San Francisco CA (1999), Internship in animation.

  • Academy of Art College, San Francisco CA (1997-1998), 3D Animation Program

  • City College of San Francisco CA (1994-1996), Graphic Communications Program

  • DPI (Digital Pre-press International), San Francisco CA (1996), Internship in Pre-press production and
    Digital Printing
  • Rapid Lasergraphics, San Francisco CA (1996), Photoshop for pre-press

  • Auto-Grafica, New Jersey, Massachussets (1991), Workshop with Agfa PostScript Imagesetters.

  • Walt Disney Studios, Los Angeles CA (1990), Workshop in classical animation.

  • Peter Gasper QUANTA, Rio de Janeiro (1988), Lighting workshop for cinema, television and theater.

  • H�lio Alonso University, Rio de Janeiro (1983), Undergraduate coursework in Communication.

  • Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Rio de Janeiro (1981),l Certificate course in Marketing.

Skills

Software:��Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Image Ready, Dreamweaver, HTML , Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat, Composer, Pandemonium.

Languages:��Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

References and portfolio available on request.


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