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Lydia Smolin

Bis 2019, Art Director, Aperto - An IBM Company
Berlin, Germany

Skills

Concept art
Graphic design
Art Director
Artistic direction
Motion Graphics
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe After Effects
HTML
CSS
Adobe Sketch
Apple Final Cut Pro
MS Office
PowerPoint
Keynote
CMS
Adobe Premiere
Illustration
Photography
Film
Editing
Webdesign
Lighting Design
Carpentry
Augmented reality
Virtual Reality
Set Design
Spatial Design
Multimedia
JavaScript

Timeline

Professional experience for Lydia Smolin

  • 6 months, Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

    Art Director

    Aperto - An IBM Company

    Involved in hiring design staff, lead a team of 3 designers, involved in project coordination and workflow organisation, concept art, motion design, Webdesign, print collateral design, logo design, styleframes, Storyboard, direction of photoshoots

  • 1 year and 11 months, Nov 2013 - Sep 2015

    Motion Graphic Designer

    RTÉ Ireland’s National Broadcaster

    Styleframes, storyboard, illustration, concept art, animation, branding, set design, prop design

  • 3 years and 7 months, Mar 2012 - Sep 2015

    Multimedia Designer

    Lydia Smolin

    Graphic design, art direction, branding, illustration, motion graphics, film, editing, Webdesign, photography. Clients included: Vogue Russia, Windmill Lane VFX, RTÉ National Television Broadcaster, indiepics, SEA LIFE.

  • 2 months, Jan 2012 - Feb 2012

    Digital Designer

    BBDO New York

    Involved in client presentation preparation, App interface design, image editing and composing, creating moodboards

  • 7 months, Nov 2010 - May 2011

    Graphic Designer

    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    As part of the online communications team I worked on: website redesign, banner design, branding, logo updates, Brand guideline creation from content to design, company typeface selection, brand rules, final print, print collateral, brand video

Educational background for Lydia Smolin

  • 2 years and 1 month, Oct 2015 - Oct 2017

    Media Spaces

    University of Applied Sciences Europe

    Conceptual art, interactive art, data visualisation, App design, 2D/3D spatial, set design

  • 4 years and 1 month, Sep 2006 - Sep 2010

    Visual communications

    Institute of Design, Art and Technology

    Typography, photography, 2D/3D spatial, layout, motion graphic design, Webdesign, graphic design

Languages

  • English

    First language

  • German

    Intermediate

  • Russian

    Basic

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