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Individual Entrepreneurship INGA DESIGN is held and operated by Graphics Artist Inga Ropsa and this is why, for your kind consideration Inga resume is presented. INGA DESIGN is strongly concerned, that you need to know, that before starting her own business, she was in advertising design business field for more than ten years, and that her creative roots are coming from Applied & Fine Visual Arts studies. her fist degree was Stained Glass Artist and Glass Artist with strong interest in watercolor painting and mixed media painting. |
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Skills and
Experience |
Illustration/
Graphics&Desktop design projects
March 2014 - August 2009
Serving Publishing House SANTA (www.manizurnali.lv) as Graphics artist/Layout artist, on contract basis, half-time shift |
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Illustration/
Graphics&Desktop design projects
August 2009 - December 2005
Graphics artist/Desktop artist for Advertising Agency SANTA
(www.santa.lv)
Projects & advertisements designed for magazines issued by Publishing
house SANTA (www.manizurnali.lv), like SANTA, SHAPE Latvia, IEVA, KLUBS,
MansMazais, AutoBild Latvia etc. as well as for other printed medias
(magazines FHM, UNA, Ilustrt Zintne, Vnu Pasaule etc.).
Clients: Olympus Latvia Ltd., Adidas Latvia, Interbaltija
Latvija AG, German Baltics Prod., supermarket Liiba, Brands: Laima,
Staburadze, Yves Saint Laurent, Shiseido, Penfolds, SanPedro, GatoNegro,
Lindemans (Australian Wines), and etc.
Full-style servise advertising and product promotion projects:
product promotion leaflets, brochures up to CREATIVE IMAGERY. High
style original design. Outdoors. Billboards. Direct marketing advertising
materials.
Branding design (Corporate Identity design, for
ex., branding/logotypes).
From original unique logotype – branding design, up to full-style
CI book. From single business card up to stationery package.
Getting involved in desktop publishing deep-insights.
Mastering up original artwork, Corporate Identity adaptations, Pilot
projects run, Logotype projects done, Sales promotion materials
created. Product and Imagery photographs done. Original illustrations
for brand&product advertisements, product promotion materials.
WEB: simple flash animations done for web portals. |
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Illustration/
Offset design projects
March 2004 - August 2002
In-House Graphic and Web Designer for Business
Administration School Turiba Ltd., Riga, Latvia
April 2004 - March 2004
Senior Graphic Designer at Full-style advertising agency ESPLANADE,
member of ComWorld Communications |
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Had been designing illustrations
for posters and brochures. My full stock of logotypes was designed
from startup sketches and sketching process maintained until digitalized
final output is achieved. Focusing on collateral and promotional design
materials like flyers, posters, booklets, brochures, stationary, labels,
business cards. My main interest is to design greeting cards, logotypes
and exhibition billboards, in an environment where i can work together
and cooperate with other team members and where the final product/output
mainly consists of the whole creative set achieved by the working
team. |
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Design
and Web Design |
In-House
Designer
July 2001 - November 1999
Web designer for TELIA SWEDEN branch TELEMEDIA Latvia (nowadays ENIRO
LATVIA) |
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Have completed numerous and
diverse projects from business cards and stationery to exhibition
billboards and outdoor posters. Web projects run from flexible modifications
to complete mainstreaming of the project from startup sketches, business
needs visualization, embedding textual material into website until
final completion and further maintenance. |
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March
1999 - September 1998
On-line Digital Designer for Television Company LNT
LATVIA, The Evening News team |
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As a member of "The Evening
News" team have been performing work on PC's, involved in visualizing
and interpreting all given material, working in close professional
contact and cooperation with producers/news managers to broadcast
events as multimedia content, was responsible for airing design packages
during TV performances. |
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Education |
Academy
of Arts of Latvia
1995 MA
in Arts Sciences and History
1993 BA in Applied Arts and
Design
Completed courses in Drawing, Painting, Industrial Design, Sculpture
and modeling, Stained Glass Design, Arts History and Research etc.
1990 Granted workshop
in Applied Arts Department of Arts Institute in Wroclaw (Poland)
1991 Group Exhibition
in Art Gallery BASTEJS, Riga, Latvia |
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Riga
Applied Arts College
June 1988 - September 1984
Obtained diploma of artist-craftsman and artist-executive
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PC and MAC
Literacy |
MAC OS X platform:
Familiar with Adobe InDesign CS3 and basics of CS5, Illustrator CS3, Adobe PhotoShop
CS3, Flash CS3 (developed knowledge of dynamic banner design), AdobeFireWorks
CS3, Dreamweaver MX, Quark 6. Operational knowledge of WINDOWS
XP platform. |
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Letters of Recommendation available upon
request. |
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