GRAPHICDESIGNERROBERTOBLAKE

ROBERTO BLAKE PHONE: 910.551.6170 EMAIL: RBALKE@ROBERTOBLAKE.COM WEBSITE: WWW.ROBERTOBLAKE.COM

My creative journey started at a very young age. I’ve always been fasicnated by art and begun illustrating and selling my own comics in elementry school. In middle school I taught myself HTML back in the days of AOL dial up. By the time I reached high school I began working as an assistant photographer for a couple I met in my church, and had been introduced to Photoshop by one of my teachers, the rest as they say is history.

In early 2007 I began working for the IT/Web Hosting company (AIT) Advanced Internet Technologies as an in-house Graphic/Web Designer. I worked directly with Web Developers, Programmers and Sales and Marketing Managers on a daily basis, and learned coordination, managing client relationships and project management, at a very high level as a result.

During my time there I was responsbile for helping to redevlop the entire visual presentation of the company, as well as design and maintain the websites of the company, its clients and its subsidiaries. I also was made responsible for improving the companies SEO and SEM. Sales increased for specific products and promotions directly as a result of my efforts, as did our overall presence and standing in all of the major search engines.

During my freelance career I had honor of being featured in Advanced Photo-shop and Photoshop Creative, two publications that are globably syndicated and highly respected in the creative community. I also won an award from the website: ILoveDesign.com for Design of the Week.

In Eearly 2010 I began working for an Entertainment Advertising Agency in Manhattan, Pere360. During my time with the agency During this time I had the opportunity to work with high profile cable and television networks such as: HBO, HBO Sports, WETV, CNN, NBC, Big Ten Network and many others. While at Pere360 I redesigned the company website, produced work for various clients under the Creative Direction of the CEO fo the company, and produced the companies external marketing materials and presentation books.

ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGNER

ROBERTO BLAKE

PERSONAL WORKTHE fOLLOWING CrEATIVE SAMPLES ArE SOME Of My WOrk THAT HAS BEEN PuBLISHED AND fEATurED IN rECOGNIzED DESIGN MAGAzINES, WON AWArDS Or rEPrESENT SOME Of My OWN “fAVOrITE” PrOjECTS AS WELL AS TuTOrIALS I’VECrEATED fOr VArIOuS WEBSITES.

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ PrOjECT: Personal artwork, featured in an online tutorial on youtube.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Photo Manipulation.

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ fEATurED IN ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP AND PHOTOSHOP CrEATIVE MAGAzINESPROJECT: Personal artwork originally entered in Deviant Art contest, qualified in Top 10.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Photo Manipulation,

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ fEATurED IN PHOTOSHOP CrEATIVE MAGAzINEPrOjECT: Personal artwork, featured in an online tutorial on youtube.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Photo Manipulation.

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ fEATurED PHOTOSHOP CrEATIVE MAGAzINEPrOjECT: I created a digital painting of fallen angel using stock photography and personal custom brushes and textures.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, Digital Painting

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ fEATurED IN ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP AND PHOTOSHOP CrEATIVE MAGAzINESPrOjECT: .Personal artwork using custom brushes and textures I photographed myself.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Photo Manipulation.

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation based on music and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation based on music and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation (Collaboration with W.Scott Nicklen)

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Various personal art projects.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PErSONAL ArTWOrk/ ONLINE TuTOrIALPrOjECT: Create a beautiful photo manipulation and build an online tutorial around it.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Photo retouching, Photo Manipulation, Typography

fREELANCE WORKTHE fOLLOWING CrEATIVE SAMPLES ArE SOME Of THE WOrk THAT I HAVE DONE fOr My OWN CLIENTS AS A frEELANCEr. IN MANy Of THESE PrOjECTS I HAD TO PErfOrM SEVErAL rOLES INCLuDING BuT NOT LIMITED TO MANAGING THE OVErALL rELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLIENT.

CLIENT(S): ErIN DAVIES, ArT POSTErPrOjECT: Create a dynamic urban Hip Hop poster.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): LByL fILMS, MOVIE POSTErPROJECT: Create a visually stunning movie poster for the film Desperate Endeavors .rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, retouching, Photo Manipulation, Logo Design

CLIENT(S): jOHN COVINGTON, LIDOS EurO SPOTPROJECT: Create a promotional flyer for the Model’s Night Out fashion event on Tuesdays at LIDOS.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, retouching, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): PArTNErSHIP fOr urBAN DEVELOPMENT, INDEPENDENT ArISTOCrATS GrOuP,PROJECT: Create a promotional flyer for Martin Luther King Day of Service Event.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Typography, Logo Design

CLIENT(S): PArTNErSHIP fOr urBAN DEVELOPMENT, PROJECT: Create a promotional flyer for Partnership For Urban DevelopmentrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, Copy Writing, Logo Design

CLIENT(S): HOWArD LEE A.k.A MNOVAPrOjECT: Create 2 Pieces of album art for MNOVA’s duel release album “State and Soul”. Album art on the left represents the “State Side Album”, which is in English, and the art on the right represents the “Seoul Side Album” which is in korean.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography/Logo Design

CLIENT(S): MArC BENjAMIN A.k.A SIr BEN MArxPrOjECT: Create album artwork for the release of “Star Cluster” and Starchild7 Love Entelchy” albums.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography/Logo Design

CLIENT(S): MArC BENjAMIN AkA SIr BEN MArxPrOjECT: Create a poster for Sir Ben Marx based on the artwork from the Star Cluster album cover I designed for him.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, Logo Design, retouching, Photo Manipulation

AD AGENCY WORKTHE fOLLOWING CrEATIVE SAMPLES ArE SOME Of THE WOrk I DID WHILE WOrkING AT THE NEW yOrk BASED ENTErTAINMENT ADVErTISING AGENCy PErE360.

WHILE AT THE AGENCy I HAD MANy DIffErENT rESPONSIBILITIES, INCLuDING GrAPHIC DESIGN, PrINT PrODuCTION AND CLIENT PrESENTATIONS fOr HIGH PrOfILE CLIENTS SuCH AS: HBO, CNN, WETV, NBC, BIG TEN NETWOrk AND MANy OTHErS.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING US THE #1 MORNING SHOW FOR 15 YEARS AND COUNTING.

MEREDITH, MATT, AL AND ANN

WHEN

AMERICA RISES,

WE SHINE.WE SHINE.

Thur. Oct. 7 9 pm et/ptTHE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

A N H B O D O C U M E N T A R Y S P E C I A L

DEBUTS SUNDAYMARCH 13 7E/6C

Presented by Principal Financial Group

www.BigTenNetwork.com

23 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS OF NCAA COVERAGE. FOLLOW OUR BIG TEN TEAMS EVERY NIGHT STARTING MARCH 13.

A BRIEFHISTORYOF TIME

STEPHENHAWKING

STEPHENHAWKINGWITH LEONARD MLODINOW

A BRIEFERHISTORYOF TIME

STEPHENHAWKING

A U T H O R O F A B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F T I M E

AND OTHER ESSAYSAND BABY UNIVERSES

BLACK HOLES

CLIENT(S): rANDOM HOuSE PuBLISHING/ STEPHEN HAWkING AGENCy: PErE360BrIEf: Create a series of new book covers for a re-release of a set of Stephen Hawking titles.rOLE: Design, Photo Manipulation, retouching, Typography

CLIENT(S): rAINBOW MEDIA/ IfC AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT:Create an ad annoucing DISH NETWOrk dropping programming rOLE: Design, retouching, Typography

CLIENT(S): rAINBOW MEDIA/ AMC/ WETV/ IfC AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT:Create a Mad Men based ad annoucing AT&T dropping programming from these networksrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Typography

CLIENT(S): rAINBOW MEDIA/ AMC/ WETV/ IfC AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT:Create a Mad Men based ad annoucing AT&T dropping programming from these networksrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Typography

CLIENT(S): rAINBOW MEDIA/ AMC/ WETV/ IfC AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT:Create a Mad Men based ad annoucing AT&T dropping programming from these networksrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Typography

CLIENT(S): WETV AGENCy: PErE360BrIEf: Create a series of rotating web banners for new series joan & Melissa, based on WETV’s new on-air branding.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, retouchintg, Animation, Effects

CLIENT(S): WETVBrIEf: Create a series of rotating web banners for new series joan & Melissa, based on WETV’s new on-air branding.rOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, retouching, Animation, Effects

THANK YOU FOR MAKING US THE #1 MORNING SHOW FOR 15 YEARS AND COUNTING.

MEREDITH, MATT, AL AND ANN

WHEN

AMERICA RISES,

WE SHINE.WE SHINE.

CLIENT(S): NBC/ THE TODAy SHOW/ WALL STrEET jOurNAL AGENCy: PErE360BrIEf: Create an advertisement for NBC’s TODAy Show to run in the Wall Street journalrOLE: Design, Typography

PARKER SPITZERA NEWS SHOW SO SHARP, YOU’LL ALWAYS GET THE POINT.

PREMIERES OCT. 4 AT 8PPS: we’re here to inform you.

CLIENT(S): CNN/ PArkEr SPITzEr AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop Creative for launch of CNN’s new show Parker SpitzerrOLE: Design, retouching, Typography

DEBUTS SUNDAYMARCH 13 7E/6C

Presented by Principal Financial Group

www.BigTenNetwork.com

23 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS OF NCAA COVERAGE. FOLLOW OUR BIG TEN TEAMS EVERY NIGHT STARTING MARCH 13.

CLIENT(S): BIG TEN NETWOrk AGENCy: PErE360BrIEf: Create an advertisment for BIG TEN NETWOrk’s Big Ten Basketball & Beyond Tournament EditionrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, Typography, Photo Manipulation, retouching,

CLIENT(S): HBO fILMS AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO Bruce Springsteen DocumentaryrOLE: Creative Direction, Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation, Logo Design

Thur. Oct. 7 9 pm et/ptTHE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

A N H B O D O C U M E N T A R Y S P E C I A L

Thur. Oct. 7 9 pm et/ptTHE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

A N H B O D O C U M E N T A R Y S P E C I A L

CLIENT(S): HBO AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for Brave New Voices HBO event.rOLE: Creative Direction, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ Vince Lombardi DocumentaryrOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 8PM ET /8:30PT

GRANITE.GREATNESS.GRUELING.GRIT.GREEN BAY.

AN HBO SPORTS FILM

LOMBARDI

CLIENT: HBO DATE: 10.15.10 AGENCY: PERE PARTNERSHIP ASSIGNMENT: LOMBARDI ROUND: 1 CONCEPT: 1

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS/ WOrLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOxING AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ Boxing Event: khan vs. MaidanarOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS/ WOrLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOxING AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ Boxing Event: Martinez vs. Williams IIrOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS/ BryANT GuMBEL AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ rOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS/ BryANT GuMBEL AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ rOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation

CLIENT(S): HBO SPOrTS/ WOrLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOxING AGENCy: PErE360PrOjECT: Develop creative for HBO SPOrTS’ Boxing Event: BErTO VS OrTIzrOLE: Design, retouching, Typography, Photo Manipulation