Stephen Moss
Graphic Design and Illustration

1329 West High Street #3 · Ballston Spa, NY 12020
518·928·7216 · steve@retroimg.com

Portfolio

Available online at retroimg.com

Summary

Free-thinking detail-oriented lefty designer/illustrator/media geek seeks design team. Plays well with others; works well alone. Must love to laugh, champion creativity and prize individuality.

Experience

Junior Artist2008-present
Vicarious Visions, Inc./Activision

  • Create interface illustrations, character portraits, virtual guitars and packaging elements for Nintendo DS game Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades. (pen & paper, Photoshop, Pro Motion)

User Interface Designer/Graphic Designer2007-2008
MediaBids, Inc.

  • Redesign logo, layout page templates, re-envision user processes for upcoming website relaunch of publishing advertising auction service MediaBids. (pen & paper, Photoshop, HTML, CSS)
  • Specify visual standards, code CSS and provide graphics for mediabids.com (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)

Senior Graphic Designer/Music Merchandising Assistant2002-2007
WURLD Media, Inc.

  • Draft logo, style and evolve application interface, design and code internal pages, conceptualize advertisements and layout for digital media service Peer Impact. (pen & paper, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Execute design, code and graphics for peerimpact.com (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)
  • Select weekly music specials and create banner ads for Peer Impact/peerimpact.com
  • Code and maintain corporate websites. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)
  • Cross-brand, build and maintain affiliate shopping rewards portals for BuyersPort Networks/Grow Hope. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)

Assistant Art Director2002
Home Theater Builder Magazine

  • Produce magazine and corporate logos and collateral, including business cards and letterhead. (pen & paper, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word)
  • Fashion graphics, layout and front-end code for hometheaterbuilder.com (HTML, Photoshop)
  • Diagram articles and build internet ad banners. (Photoshop)

Graphic Designer1998-present
Retrograde Imageworks

  • Brand custom Winamp interface skins for clients including:
    AOL Time Warner, Atlantic Records, Coca-Cola, Elektra Records, Grand Royal Records, New Line Cinema, Pizza Hut and Warner Bros (Photoshop, Winamp)
  • Produce weekly online advertisements for winamp.com (Photoshop)
  • Create corporate logo and website, photo manipulation, print advertisements and branded promotional material for cleanersbid.com (Photoshop, HTML, Illustrator)
  • Design and code website, photo manipulation and packaging for NYC band The Diamond Club. (HTML, Photoshop)
  • Build, write, and administer retroimg.com, glorifieddemos.com and memlo.net (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)

Art Designer1998
Tsarevna Ilyana
An 18-minute film with CGI sets, shot against a blue screen, designed to look like a living etching.

  • Illustrate prologue, epilogue and end credits.
  • Render hand-drawn elements, used as textured 'flats' in virtual sets. (pen & paper, Photoshop)

Graphic Designer1997-2000
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation

  • Draft promotional posters, movie theater slides, and schedule covers for quarterly student screenings and annual Honors Shows. (pen & paper, Photoshop)

Technical

Fluency on PC and Mac computers, and the following software/skills:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, AVID MCXpress, AVID Media Composer, Corel WordPerfect, CSS, FTP, HTML, JavaScript, Mac OS, Macromedia Sound Edit 16, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Pro Motion, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, Sonic Foundry Vegas.

Prowess in Film/video production:
writing, directing, storyboarding, animation, editing (film and non-linear digital), camera operation (silent and sync 16mm film; VHS, SHVS, HI-8, DV and MiniDV), lighting, prop manufacture, sound recording, sound mixing, and sound design.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Honors, School of Film and Animation 2000

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, Massachusetts
Animation and Comic Book classes 1989-1993

References

Available upon request.