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Joshua Timothy TaylorVisual Designer
(541) 337–7200
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4856 Holly StreetSpringfield, OR 97478Home
207 E 5th Ave Suite 200Eugene, OR 97401-2774Work - Sococo Eugene
The Pitch:I care for my coworkers, doing my work with loyal-ty to serve them. Designing UI using the ‘material design’ aesthetic is the best. Amazing illustra-tions explode out of me, everything from charac-ters to UI in adobe illustrator. I’m looking to learn from others and grow while being part of a great team whose products help people.
Fun Facts:I like basketball and ping pong.I enjoy my coffee with creamer.Winner of ‘Dancing Fool’ Award.Don’t ask me to sing unless you know me.I have a beautiful wife, son and daughter.
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Visual Design & Illustration
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http://joshuataylorillust.wixsite.com/mysite
Production Artist & DesignerSococo, Inc May 2012 - Present
Working with our customer team playing the role of digital carpenter, creating UI space maps for companies like Intuit, Pearson, G4S, & Anthem. In a revolutionary application whose main UI is a Cartoon style map of an office building.
In this Role I have been coached directly by; Matt Leacock (Principle Designer at Yahoo, also you might own his board games) and Joe Maruschak (GM Garage games).
Visual DesignWork Experience
Visual Designer & illustrator | App Artist & Designer 5 Years | Retail Space Designer 4 Years | Design work for a variety of brands such as Intuit, Pearson, G4S, Anthem, Safeway and Whole Foods
Illustrator - Blog postsSococo Bob— I got to illustrate for Sococo’s Blog, I enjoyed the creative freedom, and fun of puting our main character in various sen-arios.
Contextual InquiryCustom Maps — Working with our team I visit our customers digital workplaces, listening and observing the way they work & gathering map design requirements.
UX Research - BegninnerWebsite Analysis — I researched user experi-ence testing, studied statistics, and created and executed a benchmarking analysis of the Sococo website. So that we could test how much our new website improves the user experience.
Adobe Illustrator - AdvancedPixel Perfect Design — I illustrated almost all of the maps in Sococo. Also in the early stages of our web-based material design inspired web app I created high fidelity mockups for the dev team helping them to define the look. I have crafted material design inspired application icons. Designed and illustrated characters for in app mes-saging. In the classic app I worked with Matt Leacock to update design specifications for a design of chat, website layouts and graph-ics for two different website updates. Creat-ed mockups for a classic mobile iphone app.
Working with the CTO i created the UI and back-grounds for Billionaire Poker, Playscreens best looking game for Ipad and Iphone. Each inter-face started with a sketch based on the require-ments. Then photoshop for several revisions, then on to Adobe illustrator, for polish and export of all the graphics. I packaged up the graphics with coordinats for the location of each graphic on the screen and delivered them to our develop-ers for implementation.
ArtistPlayScreen - Jan 2011 - March 2012
UI Design - Thinking like a UserWire frames — I cut my teeth on UI design for games, designing a the UI for all of our poker games interactions. Illustrated and acted out wireframes interactions on video.
I assisted the senior designers by modeling store interiors in Sketchup, designing graphics and signage. And creating concept illustrations combining sketchup and photoshop.
Academy of Art University - 3D Lab Tech | GarageGames Summer Intern | Timothy Project - Graphic Artist | Video Production Intern - Young Life | Drywall Finisher
DesignerKing Retail SolutionsSept 2006 to Jan 2011
3D Animated Store TourQatar, UAE — I modeled a store interior with a Senior designer, then in Sketchup and Final Cut pro i created a store walkthough animation of a grocery store for our custom-ers in the Qatar.
3D Rendering (3D Viz)Backburner — Taught samples rendering & network rendering.
BFA Multimedia Design, University of Oregon 2002-2004 | Lane Community College 1998-2002 | Thurston HS Class of 98’
Education
Work History Brief