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CONTACTS
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Private number: 07598471363 E-mail: dargisd92@gmail.com Online portfolio: http://cargocollective.com/DeividasDargis My full name is Deividas Dargis and I describe myself as a creative and hardworking Graphic Design graduate with innovative thinking and passion for design and digital art. Professional fine and digital art and graphic design skillset gained after years of learning, practicing and graduating in two fine art schools and achieving Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design in Coventry University. Now looking forward to enhance skills and experience in Graphic Design industry.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Coventry University (BA) Graphic Design. Graduate 2015 May (Expected 2:1); Adobe Certified Associate in Visual Communication using Adobe Photoshop since 2014; Klaipeda Eduardas Balsys Gymnasium of Arts from 2010 September to July 2012; Plunge “Saule” Gymnasium, from 2008 September to 2010 June; Plunge Mykolas Oginskis School of Arts, from 2002 September to 2010 June; Plunge academician Adolfas Jucys Primary school, from 2000 September to 2008 July.
ELECTIVE MODULES Add + Vantage module Coventry University: Certified Adobe Photoshop (ACA) 2014; Add + Vantage module Coventry University: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator 2013; Add + Vantage module Coventry University: Introduction to Adobe InDesign 2012.
SOFTWARE SKILLS • Adobe Creative Suit: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign CC, Adobe After Effects CC, Adobe Premiere CC, • Computer literacy: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power point. PC/MAC user.
ARTISTIC SKILLS Watercolour, Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Academic drawing, Sketching, Flat/Spatial Composition, Typography.
LANGUAGE SKILLS Lithuanian (native), English (fluent), Russian (beginner)
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE • Commissioned to design branding for Deep House HQ internet music blog in 2015. My part included designing the logo, retouching photos and preparing them to be used in the website. Having limited options to have face-to-face meetings, project was mostly done communicating throughout online video conferences and e-mails; • Logo design for Royal Flush poker club in Lithuania in 2012; • Logo design for Silver Wolfs biker club in Lithuania in 2010.
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS • Leader of 2015 Coventry University Graphic Design Degree Show management team. My role included running meetings up to 40 people, liaising and closely working with responsible teams, setting up timetables and dealing with any upcoming problems with confidence and professionalism. • 3rd place in video commercial contest for movie theater ‘’Forum Cinema ’’ in Lithuania in 2012; • Participant in International art exhibition EXPERIMENTA¡ in Tallinn in 2011. I was a member of 5 people team to set up a major fine art exhibition for Lithuanian delegation.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT Part-time store assistant in supermarket ALDI 2012-2015. Daily face-to-face conversations with cross section of public helped me to develop excellent customer service, active listening and verbal communication skills. I gained experience in handling customer queries and complaints and deal with them professionally. In order to promote positive work environment and customer experience I have learnt to develop my interpersonal skills to provide a friendly and helpful manner. TRANSFERABLE SKILLS Managing a 20-30 hour per week part-time job and studying at the same time helped me to develop time management and organisation skills. University projects and additional creative briefs for self-development helped me gain multitasking, teamwork and personal motivation skills.
INTERESTS Interested in digital arts, fashion and history of art. Sports - achieved several awards in athletics and football. Now I’m training in bodybuilding.
REFERENCES Available upon request
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PROJECT NAME: IT’S ONLY ROCK n ROLL CREATIVE CHALLENGE: To produce a series of integrated graphic solutions to help identify and promote a major exhibition to be held at The Victoria and Albert Museum. CONCEPT: The visual solution is based on digital marble busts of famous music icons. The composition contains other elements such as their music influences and graphic expressions of identical fashion elements. OUTCOME: Four graphic posters and three moving digital posters. YEAR: 2014 - 2015
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CREATIVE CHALLENGE: Design a Type Speciment that showcases NEW AND CLASSIC FONT FAMILIES RELEASED BY MONOTYPE. CHOSEN FONTS: Metro Nova Pro, Stempel Garamond. CONCEPT: Create a set of illustrations for each font family which would represent key details of the font. Experimenting with type and human drawings in the same illustration creates a metaphor of typography being something more than just letters, something intimate and authentic. OUTCOME: 2 sets of card collections held in hand made folders. YEAR: 2014
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METRO NOVA PRO CARD SET PAGE 12
STEMPEL GARAMOND CARD SET
PROJECT NAME: Penguin Random House Design Award 2015 CREATIVE CHALLENGE: to create a book cover for chosen category CATEGORY: Adult Non-Fiction book design TITLE BRIEF: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner CONCEPT: An ‘army’ of wolfs in the front cover is a parallel of everything that spreads a deluded reality from corporations to false sense of mind throughout society and a hidden sheep in the middle of all the wolfs is a ‘freakonomic’ - an individual who thinks differently and looks at the world from a different angle and reveals the true colours of our world. The back cover contains an illustration with an impaled wolfs head which is an expression of a dispelled false illusion of the reality. YEAR: 2015
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PROJECT NAME: Shoreditch Kitchen menu CONCEPT: Knowing Shoreditch as one of the trendiest, unusual and artsy areas in London, doodle illustrations, a sense of imperfectness and cold edgy background was the idea for the menu to represent this ritzy feeling of the area. YEAR: 2015
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PROJECT NAME: Project Malawi CREATIVE CHALLENGE: Create a 15-25 sec length video that targets a specific health issue in Republic of Malawi and informs local people how they can protect themselves. HEALTH ISSUE: HIV/AIDS Targeted Audience: Local people of Republic of Malawi who are likely to live in poor regions of the country with low health care conditions. CONCEPT: Design lottery tickets with a message how easily people can prevent themselves from HIV. Scratching off tickets with a coin then using a condom is a parallel of safe and unsafe sex which the highest risk of getting HIV. OUTCOME: 25 sec length video & one poster. YEAR: 2015
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STORYBOARD
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Self-briefed projects. Illustrations/Posters/Digital PAINTINGS. year: 2012 - 2015
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SKETCHES
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WORK PROGRESS. tHE MAIN SKETCH FOLLOWS LINE ARTWORK THEN PLAIN COLOR VERSION AND THE LAST ONE IS a finished piece.
ACADEMIC DRAWING
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sculpting
SKETCHING
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SKETCHING
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