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OVERVIEW

Brooklyn, NY, 11222 • (732) 766-7374 • mad.m.fia@gmail.com • matssondesign.com

FIA MATSSON - RESUME 

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Highly creative, motivated, and multitalented Art Director / Designer with nine years of experience within Advertising, Tech Start-Ups, and within the Fine Arts. Since leaving my fulltime position at Foursquare, I have been freelancing for companies and individuals within branding, illustration, template and layout design, among other design needs. I am passionate about visual storytelling and working with others to develop a successful design strategy across all platforms. I create content consistent with the brand’s voice and as a natural leader, I bring a worldly point of view to everything I take on.

Key hard skills include:

Digital Campaigns | Branding | Infographics | Video & Photo Editing | Marketing | Copy-Editing 

WORK EXPERIENCE 

Freelance Art Director / Designer / Illustrator

 New York + Internationally (E.U.)

2017-present

I utilize my broad skillsets to meet clients' needs from logos & branding to designing reports, catalogs, and illustrating children's books.

Sweden-based healthcare tech start-up, using digital solutions to assist in elderly care.

Cenvigo

Freelance Art Director

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 New York, NY

2022-present

  • Re-designed website in terms of color, illustration, font, and more

  • Communicated with CEO and Business Director on how to make their site more approachable

  • Translated the site from Swedish to English

My Vinyasa Practice 

Visual Designer & Copy-Editor  

Austin based Yoga Studio and Teacher-Training School  

  • Redesigned the layouts for the teacher-training manuals, including graphs and photo-editing 

  • Read over the teacher-training content to ensure accuracy and consistency   

  • Substitute teach Yoga classes virtually 

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Yoga Specialists 

Visual Designer & Web Designer 

Yoga, Health & Wellness network that provides further education

  • Designed website and organized content

  • Art Direction for look and feel

Remote

2020-present

Remote

2020-present

Remote

2020-present

Remote

2020-present

Chelsea gallery I work for on a need basis, mostly remotely, to help organize upcoming shows.

Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art 

Marketing & Design Specialist         

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 New York, NY

2017-2020

  • Communicate with Artists regarding catalogs and Press Releases

  • Design catalogs, write Press Releases, and create promotional material for openings

  • Promote gallery through third-party platforms such as Artsy, Artnet, MailChimp

ShipArta 

Visual Designer  

 New York, NY

2017 - 2018

A digital platform and API delivering global white-glove logistics and services. Worked for them

remotely creating brand consistent templates, infographics, and other diverse design needs.

Foursquare 

Art Director   

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New York, NY

2013-2017

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Worked across digital and physical design needs and touched everything from promotional assets, digital experiences, complex infographics, event design, and strategy. Managed projects from concept through completion. Supported Sales and Marketing teams through the creation of presentations and promotional material. Interviewed potential new hires.

  • Designed original data-based visual marketing material to promote the power of the API resulting in more brand awareness and revenue through investors and clients

  • Spearheaded the re-brand of the Enterprise Business side of the company

  • Established trusting relationships across the company with engineers, marketers, and key clients

Blast Radius

Visual Designer   

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New York, NY

2013

Advertising Agency part of WPP plc where I freelanced as a deck designer and came up with concepts to win business including Bonefish Grill.  

EDUCATION

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture - MFA in Painting, 2019 - NY, NY

Hyper Island - Certificate in Digital Media, 2012 - Stockholm, Sweden

Concordia University - BFA in Studio Arts, 2008 - Montreal, Canada

SKILLS

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro), Keynote, Powerpoint, Sketch, PC, MAC, hand-drawing, layout design, cross-cultural communicator

LANGUAGES

English, Swedish, German, French, Spanish

(References Available Upon Request)

CLIENTS 

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FOURSQUARE

ShipArta

Heineken

COORS

Bacardi

Patron

Hennessey

Starbucks

Bukowskis Stockholm

Comic Con NYC

CARAT

DEANE CORPORATE FINANCE

University of California Berkeley 

FedEx

Visa

Kraft

Marriott

SERAPHIM SHOCK 

The Green Building

Oreo

Skittles

Bonefish Grill

Gillette Venus

DOVE Chocolate

PORTFOLIO 

Infographics - Art Direction, Design, Illustration

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Reports / Whitepapers - Art Direction & Design 

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Catalogs - Art Direction & Design 

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Promotional Material - Art Direction & Design 

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Explainer Video - Art Direction, Storyboarding, Sound Editing 

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Invitations, Cards, Menu - Chalk Art, Illustration, Animation, Art Direction 

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Deck Design

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