TrendyMinds

Collaborated with lead designers and video directors and served as graphic design support. Worked on conceptual development, client presentations, and brand assets. 

Industry:

Advertising & Marketing

Role:

Junior Designer / Pre-Production Artist / Junior Motion Graphics Artist / Illustrator

Duration:

2014 - 2015

In Collaboration

Creative Director / Designers / Project Managers / Production Team / Producers / Developer Team / Copy Writers

Project Types

Brand Identity Design / Creative Direction / Educational Design / Illustration / Game Design / Marketing Collateral / Visual Identity / SystemPitch & Proposal Design

TrendyMinds

Collaborated with lead designers and video directors and served as graphic design support. Worked on conceptual development, client presentations, and brand assets. 

Industry:

Advertising & Marketing

Role:

Junior Designer / Pre-Production Artist / Junior Motion Graphics Artist / Illustrator

Duration:

2014 - 2015

In Collaboration

Creative Director / Designers / Project Managers / Production Team / Producers / Developer Team / Copy Writers

Project Types

Brand Identity Design / Creative Direction / Educational Design / Illustration / Game Design / Marketing Collateral / Visual Identity / SystemPitch & Proposal Design

TrendyMinds

Collaborated with lead designers and video directors and served as graphic design support. Worked on conceptual development, client presentations, and brand assets. 

Industry:

Advertising & Marketing

Role:

Junior Designer / Pre-Production Artist / Junior Motion Graphics Artist / Illustrator

Duration:

2014 - 2015

In Collaboration

Creative Director / Designers / Project Managers / Production Team / Producers / Developer Team / Copy Writers

Project Types

Brand Identity Design / Creative Direction / Educational Design / Illustration / Game Design / Marketing Collateral / Visual Identity / SystemPitch & Proposal Design

Production

Think Ahead Studio

Collaborated with producers, project managers, and senior motion graphic designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to pre-production through key-shot pitch illustrations, shot planning, storyboarding, and animatics, as well as producing animation assets. Clients included Covanta, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), IU Health, PhRMA, and Hurst’s HamBeens.

Production

Think Ahead Studio

Collaborated with producers, project managers, and senior motion graphic designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to pre-production through key-shot pitch illustrations, shot planning, storyboarding, and animatics, as well as producing animation assets. Clients included Covanta, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), IU Health, PhRMA, and Hurst’s HamBeens.

Production

Think Ahead Studio

Collaborated with producers, project managers, and senior motion graphic designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to pre-production through key-shot pitch illustrations, shot planning, storyboarding, and animatics, as well as producing animation assets. Clients included Covanta, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), IU Health, PhRMA, and Hurst’s HamBeens.

Responsible for client pitch key-shot illustrations, shot planning, and storyboarding.

From Concept to Storyboard: Hurst’s HamBeens

For Covanta, I designed a one-sheet fact sheet and carried the visual language consistently into pre-production storyboarding, then built out animation assets for motion graphics. This project spanned from marketing collateral design to motion graphics advertising. Covanta ultimately won the bid to become Indianapolis’ recycling center with a 14-year contract.

Responsible for client pitch animatic, storyboard, and animation assets production

For PhRMA’s Clinical Trial educational motion graphics, I was responsible for developing the visual style, creating storyboards, and producing animation assets.

For the Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), I was responsible for developing the visual style, creating storyboards, and producing animation assets.

For Indiana University Health (IU Health), I was responsible for developing the visual style, creating modular character animation assets that could be customized for variations, and designing animation environments and elements. (See STOM project for more details.)

Design

TrendyMinds

As a junior design collaborating with creative director, project managers, and senior designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to marketing collatoral, editorial assets, to game design. Clients included Eli Lilly, IU Health, KNOZONE, Liberty Mutual, Rev, Salesforce, and Skjodt Barrett.

Design

TrendyMinds

As a junior design collaborating with creative director, project managers, and senior designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to marketing collatoral, editorial assets, to game design. Clients included Eli Lilly, IU Health, KNOZONE, Liberty Mutual, Rev, Salesforce, and Skjodt Barrett.

Design

TrendyMinds

As a junior design collaborating with creative director, project managers, and senior designers on a variety of client projects. Contributed to marketing collatoral, editorial assets, to game design. Clients included Eli Lilly, IU Health, KNOZONE, Liberty Mutual, Rev, Salesforce, and Skjodt Barrett.

Contributed to game graphics development from the proposal stage and client pitch decks through to production. Designed modular character systems for customizable player settings, built 50+ background environments, and produced game maps and 200+ supporting assets. STOM II and STOM III received highly positive feedback from IU Health and won two consecutive ADDY Awards.

Editorial Illustration

Misc Illustration

As a hybrid Junior Designer at TrendyMinds, I worked across design, motion graphics, and illustration projects. I collaborated with three agencies within the TrendyMinds network—TrendyMinds, Pivot Marketing, and Think Ahead Studio. Below is a selection of editorial illustration projects completed across these teams.

Editorial Illustration

Misc Illustration

As a hybrid Junior Designer at TrendyMinds, I worked across design, motion graphics, and illustration projects. I collaborated with three agencies within the TrendyMinds network—TrendyMinds, Pivot Marketing, and Think Ahead Studio. Below is a selection of editorial illustration projects completed across these teams.

Editorial Illustration

Misc Illustration

As a hybrid Junior Designer at TrendyMinds, I worked across design, motion graphics, and illustration projects. I collaborated with three agencies within the TrendyMinds network—TrendyMinds, Pivot Marketing, and Think Ahead Studio. Below is a selection of editorial illustration projects completed across these teams.

Cover Art (Editorial Illustration)

Editorial illustration: Old Money

Editorial Illustration: Lyrics on Trail

Bluebridge Website Icon Set

Work

Work

Work

madkidgenius

Created by Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius

© Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius

madkidgenius

Created by Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius

© Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius

madkidgenius

Created by Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius

© Aaron Shyr aka madkidgenius