Art Director/Brand Designer

About

The detail-oriented, the planner, the prioritizer. Willing to adapt to your visions to present your brand, with design and creative integrity.

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Sasha Andersen

Currently available for remote work.
Located in Central/West Oregon.

Art director, designer, and brand strategist with over a decade of experience in the design of physical retail, restaurant spaces, corporate brand and marketing design, and some digital interfaces. I've worked as a part of creative teams, collaborated with client creative and have completed many projects as the sole designer for national, international and small-business specialty brands. Understanding the needs, motivations, and mindsets of customers allows me to design engaging and usable experiences. 

My work includes large and small scale design: graphics, brand strategy, marketing, decor, site strategy and management. Each project begins and ends the same way—with a process that includes fine-tuning and customizing details of all parts for each project.

I strive to make the mundane of everyday experiences meaningful by transforming the labor of creative work into creative inspiration to sustain momentum and deliver successful projects.

I am also a pretty chill person and find it important to find the humor in whatever gets thrown my way.


Technical Skills
Proficient: Mac platform | Keynote | PowerPoint
Adobe: Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign

Location

Central/West Oregon
(just south of Portland, just north of Eugene)

 

Specialities

visual/graphic design, team oversight and collaboration, creative brief and brainstorming facilitation, art direction, brand strategy, conceptual design, customer motivations/experience, promotions, content development, branding, executive presentation, space/exhibition design, ice cream connoisseur, humor enthusiast.


Experience

Link Logistics: Creative Services
Freelance Designer
October 2021 – December 2023

Imagine: Retail Communication Design
Freelance Associate Creative Director
June 2012 – October 2021
(formerly GFX International)

Studio Kander: Brand and Strategy Group
Art Director & Visual Designer
May 2014 – July 2016

Recess Creative: Full Service Design Agency
Visual & Conceptual Design Intern
Fall 2011

Cleveland Institute of Art: Marketing Department
Marketing & Graphic Design Intern
2010-2012

Liggett Stashower: Advertising Agency
Graphic Design Intern
Summer 2010

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Education

Cleveland Institute of Art | Bachelor of Fine Arts

• Communication/Graphic Design (Major)
• Film, Video and Photographic Arts (Minor)

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