About

Ronny Carlson
Design, Marketing & Advertising
Chicago

Seasoned Designer and Art Director who worked with many leading B2C and B2B companies developing successful advertising and marketing campaigns that built brands and increased sales. Simple ideas, humor, beauty, honesty and the human touch transform prospects to buying customers.

Call, text or e-mail me to learn how I can help.

Ph: 312-282-0660
E-mail: ronnycarlson@email.com

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Ronny Carlson
Chicago
Ph: 312-282-0660
E-mail: info@ronnycarlson.com
Portfolio Website:  www.roncarlsonswebsite.com

Profile
Energized Creative Director and Art Director with senior level strategic and conceptual skills. Served clients with all aspects of their design and marketing needs including integrated media planning and media buying, online marketing and brand strategy, analyzing online data, setup of client’s social media accounts and strategies, Google Adwords, Google Adsense and Google Analytics, Develop ideas and concepts that can be used in any media and integrated campaigns without loosing impact or meaning of the intended message. A creative portfolio of big ideas and powerful design executions. A history of creating platform strategies, design concepts and ideas that has defined a new way for clients and customers to think about their brand and products. Positive with a sense of humor. Multi-cultural experience. Swedish with BFA & MFA in the USA. Fluent in English and Swedish.

Professional Experience
Bring insights from big advertising agency employment and experience manage own Chicago based creative firm serving leading companies with breakthrough strategic work that changed their markets and increased sales nationally and internationally
Experience presenting strategies and creative work to C-level executives in client’s organizations and inspired to action
Managed and inspired creative teams to go the extra step to produce outstanding creative work

Skills:
Strategic development, conceptual development, design development, project management, media planning and strategy, visual branding, development of marketing content for integrated multi-media campaigns, website hierarchy organization, website content, landing pages, social media setup, collateral print and digital materials, trade show booths, billboards, scientific and technical background, skillful to simplify and conceptualize advanced science and complex competitive advantages, able to use complex customer data and make smart strategies, quick to draw conceptual ideas into sketches, marker layouts and motion storyboards. Experience developing creative solutions targeting almost every consumer group with campaigns they found exciting and inclusive.

Employments
Owner, Creative Director, Art Director, Project Manager, Orbit Advertising & Marketing Inc., Chicago

Art Director, Freelance in Chicago advertising agencies through Paladin Creative Staffing Agency. Employers included: Publicis, Hal Riney, Bozell, Frankel, Italia Advertising, Brian Keith Advertising, Kimball Group, Lipman Hearne Inc., O’Connell, Norton & Partners, Ryan Partnership, Acco Brands, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Corbett Health Connect, Abbot, Fergus & Associates, Inc., Graziano, Krafft & Zale, J. Gleason & Associates, Martin E. Janis & Company, Inc., Stanaszek Goodwin Design Partnership, National Restaurant Association, The Nahser Advertising Agency

Art Director Grant/Jacoby Inc. Advertising Agency Inc., Chicago

Software: Adobe CS / Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office, Final Cut Pro, WordPress & more

Education:
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Pre-Medical/Pre-Engineering Degree (Naturvetenskaplig Gymnasium Degree), Sweden