Ricardo Tringali, Graphic Design Resume

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C O N T A C T T E C H N O L O G I E S R E S U M E H I G H L I G H T S W E B D E S I G N S O F T W A R E D E S I G N G A M E D E S I G N G R A P H I C D E S I G N P A C K A G E D E S I G N I L L U S T R A T I O N I N D U S T R I A L D E S I G N L O G O D E S I G N C I N E M A T I C D E S I G N T H E A T R I C A L D E S I G N S T O R Y B O A R D S& C O M P S F I N E A R T S C O M M I S S I O N S D E C O R A T I V E A R T S G A L L E R Y S H O P		*Education* San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA: BFA, MFA Fine Arts Painting – 1981 Thomas Jefferson College - Grand Valley State: Graphic Design & Illustration - 1972) Kendall College of Art and Design: Graphic Design & Illustration - 1975) Overview: Artist, illustrator and design professional with more than 30 years on industry experience, a results-oriented creative architect with proven ability to deliver award-winning, innovative design, creative business insight. I have worked as an experienced in transforming brands, user experiences, products designs, and e-businesses solutions, resulting in strong, sustainable strategies, revenues opportunities and profits for my clients. Recognized as a leading designer implementing media solutions for a wide variety of clients. My clients include Fortune 500 Companies, non-profits, R & D laboratories, and high-tech start-ups including local gaming design companies like Lucas Learning and Hasbro Interactive and more. During my professional career I had to work intimately with designers, illustrators, photographers, audio professionals, videographers, video editors, software designers, multimedia designers. My experience working with printers from traditional to the digital, with a full understanding of the printing process let me help you save where it counts, and get more from your printing dollars. This is a collaborative business. It takes talent, working together, to develop winning concepts. Ask the right questions, encouraging collaboration, the ability to hit the ground running, and handle stress are key in this industry. Back to top Career Summary: I am a MFA designer and professional with more than 30 years on industry experience. A results-oriented creative architect with proven ability to deliver award-winning, innovative design, creative business insight. Experienced in transforming brands, user experiences, products designs, and e-businesses solutions, resulting in strong, sustainable strategies, revenues opportunities and profits for my clients. Objective: As an experienced designing professional, I would use my years of experience and knowledge designing and developing art and design business solution for your company Core Strengths: Experienced, highly creative and proficient Ability to complete tasks within limited time period and handle multiple tasks simultaneously Possess excellent organizational and artistic skills Excellent communicator with good negotiations skills Possess a good knowledge of computer graphics Familiar with the workings of digital, print and film media Possess excellent leadership and time management skills Highly skilled in hand drafting with an exceptional color and design sense 3D texture mapping and character design Familiar with 3D Studio and Maya Level designer, game strategist, advanced game designer for several titles Back to top Skills: Experience of 12 years as an Illustrator and designer in the Bay Area Proven ability designing award winning layouts, designs, logos and websites A history of planning, organizing and managing projects Sound Knowledge of current technologies and design techniques Proven creativity on a wide variety of projects and products Concept design, packaging, logos, graphics, UI, character, level design and textures Experienced with state of the art print production including traditional art prepress and production Proficient with traditional drawing, sketching and painting techniques Educational Summary: Master of Fine Arts / Painting-Sculpture – 1981, San Francisco Art Institute Bachelors of Fine Art / Painting –Sculpture – 1979, San Francisco Art Institute Technical Degree /Graphic Design – Illustration 1975, Kendall College of Art & Design, Michigan Professional Experience: Idea Corporation, San Francisco - 2007-2009 ideaproductdesign.com Idea Corporation is a strategic-creative product development consultancy providing start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies end-to-end research, strategy, design, engineering, brand & experience services. They have gathered exclusively top-notch, creatively-driven talent from diverse global companies, and recruited from the best learning institutions worldwide. Their multi-disciplinary teams focus on delivering product innovation to clients within consumer products, telecommunications, medical transportation, and lifestyle product categories. Responsibilities: Provide clients with insight, interface and user experience driven brand and product development Identified, recruited and supervised our team of 100 artist/designers in the U.S and in India Clients: Shell, Ingersol Rand, Polycom, Volvo, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Phillip Morris, Iridex, and GE Develop the Idea Corporation brand Provide strategic-creative brand development, product, packaging, marketing and business solutions Designing internal video, marketing, sales, catalog and tradeshow materials through to fulfillment Back to top AbsolutelyNew,, San Francisco - 2001-2007 .absolutelynew.com AbsolutelyNew’s team includes veterans of Apple, Clorox, Motorola, The Sharper Image, Microsoft and other companies. AbsolutelyNew is privately held with VC backed. AbsolutelyNew is the consumer goods company that partners with inventors (plus manufacturers and retailers) to launch innovative products. Their mission, launch the best products from inventors, helping to develop and refine their products, foster licensing relationships and developing and marketing innovative new products under the AbsolutelyNew brand. Responsibilities: Provide clients with insight, marketing solution, user experience and product development services Recruited and assembled a unique group of artists and illustrators able to realize clients products Interfaced with our team of industrial designers and CGI professionals in India Develop the Absolutely New brand Provide strategic-creative brand development, products, packaging, marketing and business solutions Back to top eStudioSF, Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco - 2000-2001 deloitte.com/ Deloitte Consulting was attempting to develop a spin-off an eStudio’s that would capture some of the business that they were losing the boutique startups emerging in the eBusiness space. Responsibilities: Evaluate the brand equity of Deloitte Consulting brand Establish e-studio brand leveraging business strategy, at offering world class solutions Provide strategic creative brand development, product, marketing and e-business Generate business concepts and growth potential tactics for clients, from incubation to fulfillment Provide Fortune 500 clients with strategic-creative consulting solutions Identified emerging market opportunities, transforming ideas into compelling products and services Deliver business strategy, cutting-edge web design technology and high-impact design Coordinate efforts between the seven e-studio locations throughout America and Europe Selected Projects: (partial list) Johnson’s Wax Professionals, B2B Website, Web Re-design Designed a web presence that focused on the pre-existing brand equity, and how we could leverage that to bring their company into a sharp focus with one message, look and experience including User Interface Design, and defined how it will be integrated with application development. New Jersey Child Welfare Information System Created identity (including logo, designed layout, created graphics and overall look and feel for the site, User Interface Design, and defined how it will be integrated with application development. Assisted in user interface testing and web architecture analysis. Created an interactive prototype to demonstrate how the New Jersey Child Welfare Information System will perform. Siebel eCRM Life Sciences, & Healthcare PAYOR Sales Force Automation Solution Designed graphical interface, and layout for a Flash Demo, the Siebel eCRM Solution, which demonstrated capabilities of Siebel applied to the Health Services Industry. Worked with our Siebel team on the Development of the Demo, and managed Design and implementation of the animation, as well as the illustrative and graphical elements Back to top Lucas Learning, Industrial Light & Magic, Marin - 1999-2000 .lucaslearning.com/ "Super Bombad" is a Gungan term that loosely translates to "supercool." Lucas Learning's entry into the kart-racing genre earns that title” “Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing is Lucas Learning's contribution to the kart-racing genre, which has played host to several well-known licenses and mascots since the 1992 debut of Super Mario Kart. Featuring super-deformed (small bodies with large heads) characters from the Star Wars universe, Super Bombad Racing is a no-holds barred, mad dash across nine courses, each of which is set on a recognizable world from the film series. “ Responsibilities: Lead texture artist developing unique texture sets for all levels Develop environmental look and feel Concepts Design Environmental Development Special Effects Animation Visionary Media, Inc., Corte Madera, CA - 1993 to 2000 visionarymedia.com Responsibilities: Architectural style Guides Art Direction Character Development Storyboard and Concept Design Environmental Design Lead Texture Artist Illustrations and Matt Paintings Map Layouts Special Effects Back to top Selected Projects: (partial list) Nerf ArenaBlast, Hasbro Interactive Art Director, Level Developer, Graphics Designer, Lead Texture Artist An exciting multiplayer 3D action game that we developed for Hasbro Interactive, Inc. The game is both upbeat and unusual, and combines the excitement of real-time competitive sports with the addictive 3D action that has made games like Quake and Unreal blockbusters. It brings the Nerf (tm) experience to the computer, and at the same time broadens the appeal of 3D action fun to a much larger mass audience. Star Trek: First Contact, Microprose Art Director, Designer, Lead Texture Artist Featuring all of the main Star Trek: The Next Generation characters, including Captain Jean-Luc Picard TM, Commander William Riker TM and Lieutenant Commander Data TM, Star Trek: First Contact will dramatically recreate the intense battle with the evil Borg for control of the Enterprise-E. First Contact's play mode is designed to immerse players in the look, feel, action and suspense of both Star Trek: First Contact, the film and the Star Trek series. Firewall: LG Software Art Director, Designer, Lead Texture Artist Released world-wide by L G Software and GTI for Windows '95 in 1996. Firewall is an action thriller featuring a remarkable ride into cyberspace of the next century using custom interactive streaming technology developed by Visionary Media, Inc. The game includes unique art and an original game design which takes the player to the heart of cyberspace as it has never been seen before. Back to top Strgaazer, Bell Atlantic Art Director, Designer, Lead Texture Artist Visionary Media, Inc. was a primary contractor with Bell Atlantic and Tele-TV initiating their interactive television venture, Stargazer. Beginning on the project late in 1993, VMI was significantly involved in interface design as well as overall application design. The current prototype of Stargazer features random access, high-quality full screen video playing from CD. The software driving the prototype was created by Visionary Media, Inc. and is Proprietary to the company Earth Command/Earth Command Mac, Phillips Interactive Art Director, Designer, Lead Texture Artist This CD-ROM is a simulation of the next 40 years on Earth. It takes place in a UN ECOM (Environmental Command) spaceship orbiting the Earth. The player has just been named commander of an emergency effort by the UN to meet upcoming environmental crises around the planet. Features video footage and pictures supplied by the UN, CNN, Greenpeace, and many others, as well as originally produced video of the ECOM Director and crew. Full screen 3D animations are used interactively to permit the player to zoom down to control policy or receive reports from anywhere on the planet. Released in five languages on CD-I and on CD-ROM for Macintosh by Philips. CKS Pictures, Art Director, Designer, Lead Artist Design, implementation and consultation for advanced MPEG based ITV ads for Apple and Norwegian Cruise Lines under contract to CKS Pictures. These were prepared as prototypes for US West's broadband delivery system. Broadband, prototype interface design and implementation Forecross, Website design, illustration and client rep Brand Identity, design, implementation and consultation for their web upgrade. Forecross Corporation is the world's leading authority on the development and use of automated conversion software and services for Enterprise computing. Through their legacy-to-web products and custom services, Forecross extends the value of existing applications. Back to top Xaos Inc., San Francisco CA 8/88 to 8/93 xaos.com Responsibilities: Architectural style Guides Art Direction Character Development Storyboard and Concept Design Environmental Design Lead Texture Artist Illustrations and Matt Paintings Map Layouts Special Effects Projects: (partial list) Pagemaster, Hanna Barbara A film incorporating traditional film with 3D animation as a bridge to traditional animation. Xaos created its own proprietary metaball technology to create the dripping ceiling, and the waves of color that wash the player into the story. In addition a host of other Xaos effects were used to post process traditional film into swirling paint. Lawnmower Man, Bret Leonard, New Line Cinema One of the first films to incorporate computer animation in a feature film. Amazing special effects highlight this high-tech thriller that explores the frontier of the human mind. A scientist experimenting in "virtual reality" uses a retarded gardener as a guinea pig, only to have his latter-day Frankenstein monster turn on him. Infrared Roses, The Grateful Dead Xaos created a computer animated short to be included in a special video type produced by the Grateful Dead. This segment included traditional computer animation effects, as well as some of the Xaos tricks of image manipulation, including a techniques of image modeling from extruded luminance maps. Back to top Additional Projects: Freelance Artist, San Francisco/Vallejo, CA 5/78 to present I have worked with a wide variety of clients in the bay area, see list below. Responsibilities included graphic design, logo design, animation, package design, illustration, scenic design, story boarding for commercials, and film. Computer Graphics Client/Project (partial list) Nerf ArenaBlast, Interactive CDROM 3/D Game (PC), Hasbro Interactive AAMCO, Design/3-D Animation Commercial, V/R Drive through Africa’s Elephand Kingdom, Modeling/textures, Xaos Inc./Discovery Films, Bell Atlantic, Interactive Interface Beyond Chaos, FX/Modeling, Xaos Inc./Volkswagen, 70mm Simulator Ride Continental Airlines, Design/3-D Animation Downy Ultrasoft, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Earth Command, Interactive CD-ROM Game (CD-I/Mac), Philips Interactive Efferdent, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Firewall, Interactive Game (3DO/PC) LG Software FTSP, Fox Television Production, Design/3-D Animation Station ID Grip, Michilan Tire, Design/3-D Tire Commercial InfraRed Sightings, 3-D Animation, Video Short Inner Space/Your Space, Rheem, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Island of the Sharks, Modeling/Textures, Nova/WSBH Boston 70mm IMAX film Jolly Rancher, Design/3-D Animation Commercial KPIX, Evening Magazine, Design/3-D Animation Show Open/Donut KTVU, Oakland, Design/3-D Animation Station ID LawnMower Man, New Line Cinema, Design/3-D Animation, Special Effects Levi's Television, Levi's Corporation, Design/3-D Animation Station ID Liquid Television, Design/3-D Animation Show Intro/Donut MacGillivray Freeman ID, Compositing, Xaos Inc./MacGillivary Freeman Mentadent, Storyboard Design and texture support Nerf ArenaBlast, Interactive CDROM 3/D Game (PC), Hasbro Interactive Nike, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Oil of Olay, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Pac Bell, Design/3-D Animation for Internal Educational Videos Pagemaster, Hanna Barbara, Design/3-D Animation Special Effects Shots Pioneer, Japan, Design/3-D Logo Animation Rheged: The Lost Kingdom, Compositing/Texutres, Xaos Inc. 70mm Imax Film SciFi Channel, Station ID, Design/3-D Animation Spirits of Silicon Valey, Modeling/Textures, Xaos Inc./SBK Pictures Omni-max, San Jose Tech Museum Star Trek: First Contact, Interactive CDROM 3/D Game (PC), Microprose Truevision, Design/3-D Logo Animation & Morphing TU Electric, Texas Electric, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Vibrance, Design/3-D Animation Commercial Back to top Technical Summary Adobe Illustrator CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3 3D Studio Adobe Acrobat Flash Dreamweaver Front Page Microsoft PowerPoint PageMaker Quark Express Microsoft Word Outlook Excel Graphic Design / Illustration Freelance Artist Working in the Bay Area since 1976 (partial list) ACCUSON, CA BANK OF AMERICA, San Francisco BAY MODEL, Sausalito, CA BAYER, Oakland, CA BOTSFORD KETCHUM, INC., San Francisco BOZELL & JACOBS, INC., Palo Alto, CA BUSSE & CUMMINS, INC., San Francisco CBS, Los Angeles C & H SUGAR, Port Costa CANDID CAMERA, Allen Fundt Ranch, Monterey, CA CLOROX, INC., Oakland, CA D'ARCY-MAC MANUS & MASIUS, INC., San Francisco DAILEY & ASSOCIATES, San Francisco DREYER'S. INC., Berkeley, CA GENENTEC, Palo Alto, CA GORILLA GRAPHICS, INC., San Francisco HALBERG-SCHIRESON & SUR, San Francisco INTEL, Palo Alto, CA LUCAS LEARNING, San Raphael, CA KINGSFORD, Oakland MC CANN-ERICKSON, San Francisco MTV, through Colossal Pictures, San Francisco MARSHALL CAVENDISH PUBLISHING CO, London, UK MILES LABORATORIES, Palo Alto, Ca MIRAMAR PRODUCTIONS, Los Angeles NBC, Los Angeles NEW REALITIES MAGAZINE, San Francisco OAKLAND TOURIST & INFORMATION OGLIVY & MATHER, San Francisco SAATCHY & SAATCHY, San Francisco RAINOLDI, KERZNER & RADCLIFFE, San Francisco RAINY & ASSOCIATES, San Francisco ROBERT LA POINTE ADVERTISING, San Francisco TECH CENTER, Palo Alto, CA WALCOTT GROUP, Oakland, CA WALTER LANDOR & ASSOCIATES, San Francisco WILTON, COOMBS & COLNET, INC., San Francisco SOUTHERN PACIFIC, San Francisco Back to top Honors & Awards 1993 Pix Ars Electronica, Austria, for Grateful Deal, Infrared Roses Spike N Mike’s Festival of Animation, for Grateful Dead, Infrared Roses Imagina Finalist, for Sci-Fi Channel Open, & Grateful Dead, Infrared Roses Broadcast Designers Association, Bronze, Grateful Dead, Infrared Roses Mill Valley Film Festival, Grateful Dead Infrared Roses National computer Graphics Association, for the Sci-Fi Channel Open International Monitor Award, for Sci-Fi Channel Open New York Festival God Award, for Michelin Grip 1992 Spike n Mike's Festival of Animation, for Wet Science National Computer Graphics Association, for BDA Open Le Festival Du Dessin Anime, Brussels, BDA Open Prime time Emmy Award, Academy of Television Arts, for Liquid Television American Institute of Graphic Arts Recognition, for Liquid Television Broadcast Designers Association, Silver Award for Liquid Television Siggraph Electronic Theater, for LawnMower Man Collection of the London Film & Video Umbrella Exhibition Nicograph, Nippon Computer Graphics Association, Japan Infrared Roses Imagina, Monte Carlo Finalist, for Wet Science Collection of the Georges Ponpidu London Computer Animation Festival, for Wet Science Los Angeles Animation Celebration, for Wet Science National Computer Graphics Association Award, for Wet Science Nicograph, Nippon Computer Graphics Association, Japan Pix Ars Electronica, Austria, Honorable Mention, for Wet Science True Vision Eagle Award, for Wet Science 1991 Broadcast Designers Association, God Award, for Wet Science Imagina, Monte Carlo Finalist, for Wet Science Collection of the Georges Ponpidu London Computer Animation Festival, for Wet Science Los Angeles Animation Celebration, for Wet Science National Computer Graphics Association Award, for Wet Science Nicograph, Nippon Computer Graphics Association, Japan Pix Ars Electronica, Austria, Honorable Mention, for Wet Science True Vision Eagle Award, for Wet Science Back to top References: Skip DeVine, CEO DeVine & Tang, Fairfield, CA 707-322-3497 Ajay Gupta, CEO Absolute Health, Fairfield, CA 707-864-4040 Sky Hallberg Cogito Creative, Sonoma, CA 707-776-4630 Additional Information: CGI/Graphics Clients (partial list) AAMCO, Design/3D Animation, VR Drive Through Africa’s Elephant Kingdom, Modeling/textures, Xaos, Inc., Discovery Films, 70mm IMAX Film Bell Atlantic, Interactive Interface Beyond Chaos, FX Modeling, Xaos, Inc., Volkswagen, 70mm Simulator Ride Continental Airlines, Design/3-D Animation Downy Ultra soft, Design/3D Animation Commercial Earth Command, Interactive CD-ROM Game for PC/Mac, Philips Interactive Efferdent, Design/3D Animated Commercial Firewall, Interactive Game, 3DO/PC, LG Software FTSP, Fox Television Production, Design/3D Animated Station ID Grip, Michilan Tire, Design/3d Animated Commercial Infrared Sightings, 3D Animated Video Short Inner Space/Your Space, Rheem, Design/3D Animated Commercial Island of the Sharks, Modeling/Textures, Nova WSBH Boston, 70 mm IMAX Film Jolly Rancher, Design/3D Animated Commercial KPIX, Evening Magazine, Design/3d Animated Station ID KTVU, Oakland, Design/3D Animated Station ID LawnMower Man, New Line Cinema, Design/3D Animation & Special Effects Levi’s Television, Levi’s Corporation, Design/3D Animated Station ID Liquid Television, Design/3D Animated Series Mac Dillivray Freeman ID, Compositing Mentadent, Storyboarding/Design & Texture Support Nerf ArenaBlast, Interactive CDROM 3D Game, for PC, Hasbro Interactive Nike, Design/3D Animated Commercial Oil of Olay, Design/3D Animated Commercial Pac Bell, Design/3D Animated Short PageMaster, Hanna Barbara, Design/3D Animated Special Effects Pioneer, Japan, Design/3D Animated Introduction Sci-Fi Channel, Station ID, Design/3D Animation Spirits of Silicon Valley, Modeling/Textures SBK Pictures Omni-max, San Jose Tech Museum Star Trek: First Contact, Interactive CDROM, 3D Game for PC, Microprose Truevision, Design/3d Logo Animation & Morphing TU Electric, Texas Electronic Design/3d Animated Commercial Vibrance, Design/3d Animated Commercial Back to top Graphic Design/Illustration (partial list) Accuson, CA Bank of America, San Francisco Bay Model, Sausalito, CA Bayer, Oakland, CA Botsford Ketchum, Inc., San Francisco Bozell & Jacobs, Inc., Palo Alto, CA CBS, Los Angeles C& H Sugar, Port Costa Candid Camera, Allen Fundt Ranch, Monterey, CA Clorox, Inc., Oakland, CA Dailey 7 Associates, San Francisco Dreier’s, Inc., Berkeley, CA Genentec, Palo Alto, CA Gorilla Graphics, Inc., San Francisco Hallberg, Schroon & Sur, San Francisco Intel, Palo Alto, CA Landor & Associates, San Francisco Lucas Learning, San Raphael, CA Kingsford Charcoal, Oakland Mc Cann-Erickson, San Francisco MTV, Colossal Pictures, San Francisco Marshall Cavendish Publishing Co., London, UK Miles Laboratories, Palo Alto, Ca Miramar Productions, Los Angeles NBC, Los Angeles New Realities Magazine, San Francisco Ogilvy & Mather, San Francisco Saatchi & Saatchi, San Francisco Rainondi, Kerzner & Radcliffe, San Francisco Robert LaPointe Advertising, San Francisco Tech Center, Palo Alto, CA Walcott Group, Oakland, CA Wilton, Combs & Colnet, Inc., San Francisco Back to top	*Design Resume* (PDF) Fine Art Resume Theatrical Resume Select from the resumes listed above to view a selected portion of my resume *Client List,* (Partial List) Abstract Expressionist Bayer California Fruit Board C&H Sugar Center for the Arts Clorox Cutter Biological Delmonte Dole Dreyer's Folded Corner Gatoraide Herb Ritts Iannetti Lanzone Gallery Idolon, Inc. Intel Corporation Kingsford Mercedes Miles Laboratories Museum of Modern Art Neumann Lighting Palace Press Pasquale Iannetti Gallery ScoopAway Smith Kline Spice Island Tech Center Thoratec Walcott-Ayers Group Walter Landor Wiegand Gallery Xaos, Inc
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