Creative Director or Creative Lead or Creative Manager or Senior

Resume - Kevin Grimm - Creative Director www.kevingrimm.com - for online samples of my wor k 2008-Present CREATIVE LEAD White Box Studio - Atlanta Corporate Branding and Design Studio Created new Branding and logo identity for Wing Zone. (a 100 store chain of res taurants specializing in chicken wings). Rebranded logo and colors, also redesigned building structure inside and out fo r Huddle House restaurant chain, (a 500 store breakfast chain located mainly in the South East. Building designs, signage and interior concepts). Character designs for animation. Created a series of characters that were used for a print and internet campaign Logo, collateral design for "The Zac Brown Band" Ad campaign for Merchant's Link - Designed and illustrated unique characters fo r CGI development and web animation 1994-2007 CREATIVE DIRECTOR Amerifit Brands, Inc - Connecticut Health and wellness company producing natural healthfood products. Responsible for 8 national brands and a medical divisionwith design studios in the U.S. and in Europe. Large focus on package design of nearly 30 mass market products. Managed multi-million dollar budgets. Analyzed customer requirements, establish ed and ensured adherence to project time lines and budget constraints. Creative director on set for all national ad campaigns. These were shot on sets in New York, Toronto, Miami and LA. Created the advertising campaign for Estroven Brand, the number one selling nat ural hormone replacement product. I lead the team that took the product from it' s inception to a 50 million dollar brand in only 7 years withNational and Intern ational television advertisement and print campaigns. Developed a "virtual studio" to save money and speed up productivity. I created 3D bottles, boxes and cans to match the labels for 300 of our products. Speedin g up the creation of catalogs and ad layouts saving the company tens of thousand s of dollars per year. 1991-1994 CREATIVE DIRECTOR Weider International - Los Angeles/Salt Lake City/Montreal Premier Health and Fitness company The Creative lead for in-house agency with studios in 3 states and 2 countries. Managed multi-million dollar budgets for advertising and art production Also responsible for all advertising in Weider owned pubs, which included: Shap e, Muscle and Fitness, Flex and Men's Fitness magazines. Rebranded the Schiff line of vitamins, it became one of the best selling vitami n brands in America My responsibilities also included Weider's Home Gym division. Exclusive manufac turer and provider to Sears Department Stores. It was the largest manufacturer o f home gym equipment. Designed sets and directed complex photo shoots and television commercials with famous actors and popular body builders. 1989-1991 SENIOR DESIGNER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR Pharmavite - Los Angeles Private label vitamin manufacturer

Designed private packaging for companies such as K-Mart, Walmart, Osco Drugs an d Target. Updated the Nature Made Vitamins brand with print campaigns and television ads Transitioned the art department from traditional past up tables to the computer 1987-1991 DIC ENTERTAINMENT Animation Studio - Los Angeles/Tokyo Lead creative for television shows such as: Inspector Gadget, Ghost Busters, De nnis the Mennis and 70 other popular animated cartoons. Character designer, cell painter . Regularly traveled to Tokyo, Japan to produce TV shows. Creative design for PeeWee's Playhouse. 1985-1987 WALT DISNEY Animation Studio= Los Angeles Roger Rabbit and the short film Tummy Trouble; background painter. Helped transition and preserve traditional cell paint colors by spectral analys is converting them to standard, easily reproduced color formulas. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Designed and developed Estroven Brand, instrumental in pushing it to 50 million in sales Wrote, directed and animated "Looking Glass" - CGI video for MTV Member of the Portrait Society of America Helped produce and animate over 70 popular cartoon shows, including; Inspector Gadget, Care Bears, Dennis the Mennis and The Real Ghostbusters Own a U.S. Patent for unique packaging structural design Designed and branded Huddle House, Wing Zone and McDonald's Gourmet Coffee rest aurants CD cover designs for: The B52s, Hypnogaja, The Jebbs and Sara Haze EDUCATION Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, Kentucky Degree: Bachelor of Fine Major: Design Emphasis: Illustration Murray State University Kentucky Institute for European Studies Bregenz, Austria Life Drawing and Figure painting