About me

Joel Santos, Senior Art Director and freelance graphic designer.

His many successes as a young painter and visual artist lead him to study at Altos de Chavon
in La Romana, D.R. After many more successes as a maturing artist and visual designer, and
graduating with distinctions, Joel's achievements earned him full scholarships to continue his
studies at Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY.

Joel Has taken responsibility for entire projects from the pitch stage to delivery of the
final product.

He works well under tight deadlines and can be relied upon to deliver an error-free
product under them.

Feel free to contact me for further details.

 

Contact data

Professional experience

FREELANCE DESIGNER
Present

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR
BBDO | 2008-2010
Create and modify graphics
for print and website production

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR
Vista Print | Boston, MA 2005-2008
Responsible for developing graphic
user interface for promotional web sites.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Greenteam Advertising | New York, NY 1998-2004
Advertising, web page design and layout.
Contributed to logo explorations for variety of clients.

Technicals Skills

-Photoshop
-illustrator
-Flash
-InDesign
-Dreamweaver
...

Education

PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN
New York, N.Y. 2000
BFA | Communication Design

ALTOS DE CHAVON LA ESCUELA DE DISEÑO
Dominican Republic 1998
AAS | Communication Design

UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE STO. DGO.
Dominican Republic 1996
BFA | Advertising

Awards

CHARLES BLUDHORN MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
Parsons School of Design
1998 – 2000

CHARLES BLUDHORN
Altos de Chavon La Escuela de Diseno
1996-1998

Languages

Spanish
Native

Portuguese
Fluent