Resume and Portfolio

Hello there!

RES U ME AN D PO R TFO L IO

untis rusa

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urrently looking for an internship as a digital designer and concept developer.

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Tabel of contents

04 Curriculum vitae

08 Project -Svanholm

09 Project - Wemind

10 Project -Falck Healthcare

11 Digital design

12 Logo design

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Curriculum vitae

teamwork and we have to decide which path to go for solution or it’s my personal work. It help us to take away bad ideas and starts a discussion leading to hopefully a better result.

A short introduction about myself and motivation to work for you.

I am a digital designer with a passion for advertising, currently studying professional bachelor programme E-Concept Development at Copenhagen school of Design and Technology with subject choice of Digital communication, design and media technologies. During our studies we have worked with real clients such as Hi3G Denmark, Wemind, Falck Healthcare, Calsberg and Svanholm.

Professionally I have 2 years experience as a digital designer. Already in high school I knew that I want to study abroad, because I wanted to develop myself as a person and be more independent. I chose to study Multimedia Design and turned out I had an eye for design and I fell in love with it. In 1 and half year I developed portfolio, which got me an internship as junior designer in very fast growing digital agency in Latvia. In those 3 months I worked with 20 smaller and bigger projects, like single page websites, webshops, mobile applications or

I love simplicity and I think that you can turn very complex messages or things into something simple yet outstanding. I like to question things, whenever it’s in a

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campaign sites. After those 3 months I was hired there as a freelancer.

trying to explore it all. Love to hear my favourite bands and artists to perform live.

I am very positive person, a dreamer. I love what I am doing and I believe in a hard-work and I will always work after hours if needed and bring clients brief,in collaboration with team members, into concept you are proud to pitch. As my disadvantages I could mention that sometimes I can’t put my thoughts into words .

With this internship I want to gain an experience within digital world, because there is so much I don’t know yet and by exploring my capabilities of working in digital industry, learning from experts I will open possibilities for me as a digital designer.

To inspire for my work I read and follow adweek.com, mashable.com, awwwards.com and of course Behance, which is my biggest inspiration source. I am also a music, TV series and movies freak, so much great things to see and listen, too little time, but I am

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Ølbyvej 153 Køge 4600

Guntis Rusa 11.06.92 Latvia

+45 40 33 60 39

guntisrusa@gmail.com http://alturl.com/5nfwt

EDUCATION WORK

SOFTWARE HONORS

1999 - 2011

Ulbrokas Vidusskola Secondary school

2011 - 2013

ZIBAT - Campus Køge AP Degree, Multimedia Design and Communication

2013 - 2015

Copenhagen School of Design and Technology PBA, E-Concept Development

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SEM.lv Ltd Junior Designer Internship

2014 Co-founder of Creative Collaborations Finalist of AFSNIT I festival

EXPERIENCE HONORS

LANGUAGE

INTRESTS PERSONALTY

ID

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Music Tv series Movies Books Swimming Commericals Photography Festivals Concerts

Positive Creative Shy Questions Critical Rock’n’roll Progressive Experience Sarcastic

Team work

Marketing

Creative thinker

Communication

Project management

Punctual

Concept development

Researching

Latviešu

Russkiy

English

Dansk

Working with Guntis was a real pleasure. He is one of the most enthusiastic people I have ever met. Passionate about design, positive and curious, Guntis has strong design skills, is a fast learner and he is always up to date with the latest design trends and news.

Simona Lazeu Inbound Marketing Responsible at BetterNow

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roject Portfolio

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Project - Svanholm PROBLEM AREA

QUESTIONING PHASE

Svanholm is an organic and agricultural community that produces high quality goods.

Svanholm‘s goal is to became a knowledge-center for sustainable lifestyle.

Their main challenge is to achieve this goal with 1 mil dkk budget in a 2 years timeframe.

We started with formulating a problem formulaton based on problem area. We decided on that during insight phase we will identify target group and its interests, behaviour and lifestyle, knowledge center characteristic and trends.

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CLIENT GOAL Educate and inspire people, especially kids and families, towards sustaina- ble lifestyle by using digital platforms and/or hands-on experiences.timeframe.

QISH MODEL QISH is a process structure framework developed

by Kea E-Concept Development programme lectures.

INSIGHT PHASE

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During our insight phase we conducted several analyses. STP which lead us to our target group: schools from region Zealand in Denmark as a decision makers and children between ages of 7 - 13.

Field research showed us that most of the kids prefer hands on experience over reading, most of the own a smartphone or tablet.

LINKS SOLUTION PHASE

Infographic video: http://vimeo.com/76071265 Launch page: http://vimeo.com/76071265

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We developed a maze which will work as a reversed time machine.

We want to show (in an interesting, funny and not scary way) how the world will look by the year 2050 if we do not take sustainability and organic living into consideration. During your walk in the maze you will experience different platforms, an infographic videos and touchscreans related to each rooms topic.

HANDOVER PHASE

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For our client pitch we developed an infographic video as example, a launch page prototype for booking and further educational materials. Client rated my group with the highest mark (5). During this project I was highly involved in field research, desktop research, idea generation, concept development, launch page, maze protoype and pitch presentation design.