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Cristian Ciureanu
E-mail: cristi.ciureanu @ yahoo.com
Phone RO: (0040) 723 240 883
BRIEF:
- Artworker, Graphic Designer – 15+ years of experience
- a wide range of work types: newspapers, magazines, for printing houses, in production lines, for advertising agencies; both permanent contracts or freelance;
- 2+ years hard working in the package industry;
- on-site printing house experience in Romania, Italy, Türkiye;
- from a business card to a 16x6m OOH, the results are very good, “attention to details” is a phrase I learnt it very well; I almost never say “this cannot be done”;
- member of staff (as an Artworker) in couple of Romanian election campaigns: Presidency (2009, 2019), Senate (2010), Mayors (2009, 2012, 2020);
- software expertise: Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver), Quark XPress, Corel Draw; related: FontLab, Microsoft Office;
- amateur photographer (with own professional equipment; sometimes I get some freelance jobs);
maintenance of computers (configuring, repairing, upgrading, software installation); - webdesign (updating, template modification);
- hard worker, quick learner, reliable.
EXPERIENCE:
present
Artworker/ Graphic Designer – freelance
Artworking and creation and of materials and packaging for various customers (Huawei, Nestlé, Purina, Heidi, Bergenbier, Carrefour, ImaginiTactile); working and in the company headquarters (last collaboration, with the Mercury360 agency). I do also 3D simulations of packaging (for press, catalogs, and websites).
September 2017 – July 2019
Artworker for Propaganda Creative Services propaganda.ro
Packaging artworker for various cliends held by this company
I worked various packaging, from beer cans to jar labels, big boxes, or chip bags.
I also did 3D simulations for many of these packaging (for press, catalogs, and websites).
Clients I worked for: Napolact (all products), Penny Market (various brands held by this company), Ursus, Timișoreana, Ciucaș, Silva, Farmec (Gerovital), Milli, Frico, Inedit, BIC, Mirinda, Meda, Mathaus, Jagermeister, and more.
2013 – 2017
Artworker, Graphic Designer (freelance, while “upgrading” my studies)
Freelancer artworker (from home) for various projects in Romania and Belgium
Octomber 2008 – November 2012
Artworker for AdVenture – advertising agency
Artworker for most of the projects held by this company. I am/was involved in projects for clients as UEFA (The Final Cup 2012), CEZ, Volvo, Nestle-Purina, Motorola, Academica… ATLs and BTLs.
January 2008 – September 2008
Artworker for “Romanian in UK” newspaper, London (freelance) romaninuk.net
editing the newspaper “Romani in UK”: designing pages in InDesign (by templates or from scratch), image processing. High level of accuracy achieved: my freelance job started with 4 pages and I evolved to 14 pages workload; I also was the text editor for one of them and I was the designer and sponsor for one contest with prizes (dictionaries and books).
February – July 2008
Artworker for RCN Publishing Company, London (freelance) rcn.org.co.uk
Artworker for Nursing Standard magazine: designing pages in Quark (by templates or from scratch, using special styles), image and graphics processing.
January 2008 – April 2008
Temporary Support for Asset Upload – Group Production department, HarperCollinsPublisher UK, London (fixed term contract) harpercollins.co.uk
Upload book files into our Digital Asset Management system (DAM); spot checking of file quality to ensure all titles are complete and of acceptable standard; recognising complete files before uploading; aiding with the correction of error files (in Quark).
April 2007 – October 2007
Artworker for AdVenture – advertising agency
Artworker for most of the projects held by this company. I was involved in projects for clients as Volvo, Porsche, Motorola, SensiBlu, Realitatea TV… ATLs and BTLs.
February 2006 – April 2007
Artworker, Graphic Designer for the publishing house Bucharest Business Week
Editing the weekly English language newspaper “Bucharest Business Week”; scanning and image processing; weekly update of the website; administration of the relation between the website programmers (other company) and the company = checking and solving issues/needs; creating advertisement for BBW projects, finishing (PDFs) and sending the newspaper to the printing house, casual photographer at BBW events
April 2004 – December 2005
Artworker, Graphic Designer for the publishing house Publi-Cartier
Editing and layout design for the newspaper Publi-Cartier, supervision of the printing process at the printing house, conception and design of advertisements, presentation materials, business cards, outdoor banners. Other activities: creation of a presentation CD (Website style – software programs: Dreamweaver, Adobe ImageReady); update of the company’s website.
May 2003 – April 2004
Artworker, Graphic Designer for the publishing house ERC Press
Graphic design and layout for the newspaper “Anunturi gratuite” and its weekly supplement – TV guide, including prepress; scanning and image processing; conception and design of advertising materials (small and large size); configuration / maintenance for computers. Achievements: I was like a small team-leader: I’ve succeed to optimize the working schedule (to cut down the production time with 25%), to raise the quality of the newspaper (more accurate information in real time).
October 2002 – February 2003
Desktop publisher for the daily newspaper “Cronica Română”
May 2001 – September 2002
Desktop publisher for the daily newspaper OBIECTIV – Vaslui edition
1996 – 1997
Substitute teacher of Informatics at “Stefan Procopiu” High school, Vaslui
EXPERIENCE (freelance):
2006 – Graphic designer for the photographer Mark Oostendorp
2004 – 2006 – Graphic Designer for Perfect-Tour – travel agency perfect-tour.ro
2005 – 2006 – Artworker, Graphic Designer for the publishing house Fin Watch finwatch.ro
2004 – Artworker for Arena Communications – advertising agency
2004 – Graphic Designer for International School of Bucharest www.isb.ro
OTHER MEDIA/ADVERTISING PROJECTS:
I made subtitles for movies – when I like a movie and I don’t find the subtitle in Romanian. By doing this my English was much improved.
2012 – Volunteered photographer for Nicusor Dan – one of the candidates at the Bucharest mayor elections (he’s an independent and an ecologist – I was happy to help)
2011 – Volunteered photographer for the NGO “Save Bucharest” – covering the massive demolition in a historic area of the city.
2011 – Freelance photographer for n-ost “Netzwerk fur Osteuropa – Berichterstattung”
I covered the event mentioned above (a massive demolition in a historic area of the city) – one of my photos was published in the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”
one of my photos made at the opening of “China Town – Bucharest” was also published in “Die Presse”, other photos was used to illustrate another article, this time on kulturama.org website.
2008 – 2011 – small actor in couple of videos (click on names if you want to see them):
Volvo teasing video for “Volvo Unlimited Naughty” campaign: Unlimited Naughty Take 1
“Bucharest is growing green” – a recycle campaign: Ecologie and Ruj ma!?
2008 – during my stay in London I was host for a radio show on “Ciocârlia Radio”, on-line radio. A radio-drama show: Romanian radio-drama for Romanian expats
1999 – host for a radio talk show – 2 months (a radio in my hometown)
1994 – inspired by the TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210” I’ve lobbied the Board of School to start a high-school radio. I was also the Project Manager: responsible for acquisition of equipment, school infrastructure (speakers in every rooms, cabling), installing, first shows, jingles.
Languages: Romanian – mother tongue, English – fluent, French – intermediate, Italian – beginner
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