Video Resume
SARAH YAKAWONIS
Portland, Oregon
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
• Adobe Illustrator 2004–2021
• Adobe Photoshop 2004–2021
• Adobe InDesign 2005–2021
• Adobe Premiere 2017–2021
• Adobe Lightroom 2018–2021
• WordPress experience
• Wix experience
• Squarespace experience
• MS Office experience
• Google Suite experience
• Mac OS experience
• Windows 10 experience
SKILLS
• Social media management, content creation, and digital marketing
• Video storyboarding, production, and editing for YouTube and other platforms
• Typography, hierarchy, and layout
• E-commerce and search engine optimization
• Book and print design
• Logo design
• Trustworthiness, humbleness, and teachability
WORK EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE CONTENT CREATION, REMOTE, 2021– 2022
Working primarily in short vertical videos. I create inspirational videos featuring. Working with After Effects, Premier Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop. With a focus on the metaphysical and caching community.
• quotes
• journaling prompts
• affirmations
• mindful moments
• mini-documentaries
• animating still images found in the public domain
PAPER CHICKADEE, SEATTLE AND TACOMA, WASHINGTON, 2014–2020
Product designer and owner
With kits and in-person workshops, Paper Chickadee was an innovative papercraft company focusing on exceptionally detailed paper flowers.
• Created innovative kits featuring Patal Perfect Paper that allowed my customers to make stunning paper flowers
• Did ideation, identified problems, and found solutions to keep moving forward
• Designed full-color, full-bleed instructional booklets
• Created a shoot list, shot and edited images, and wrote all instructions
• Created an instructional video, doing storyboarding, shooting, and editing with two cameras
• Created and executed a social media calendar to promote online sales and in-person events
• Set and implemented brand standards consistently across all creative materials
• Created a packaging design showing the uniqueness of the product with an at-a-glance understanding
• Budgeted by gathering quotes from many vendors to balance quality and value
• Designed and constructed a highly engaging and multidimensional booth for craft shows
• Confidently pitched workshops to universities, museums, and creative spaces through email exchanges and in-person meetings
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Vendor at the highly competitive Urban Craft Uprising Winter Show in Seattle, Washington
• Commissioned Monet Water Lilies-inspired photo backdrop by Tacoma Art Museum
• Commissioned drop-in workshops by the Portland Museum of Art
• Featured on Vice Media’s Creators Project on Instagram
• Increased @yakawonis’s Instagram following to over 14K
YAKAWONIS QUILLING, REMOTE AND PORTLAND, MAINE, 2010–2016
Illustrator and owner
Beginning with a series of anatomical illustrations made from paper quilling, I opened a successful e-commerce shop selling fine art, prints, and home goods with my paper illustrations printed on them.
• I created over 100 illustrations, combining paper quilling, cut paper, and vector elements
• Photographed the work so that it retained the illusion of dimensionality
• Worked methodically with attention to detail and follow-through
• Created products for print-on-demand from Art of Wear
• Developed illustrations, logos, and other designs digitally and by hand
• Designed business cards, optimized digital images for web, email, and digital advertising
• Valued the importance of pixel-perfect assets
• Product photography and image editing for e-commerce
• Tracked and tried trends in home decor, color, and popular culture
• Pitched to popular blogs and reporters for features and interviews
• Fulfilled orders in a professional and timely manner
• Managed inventory to always have enough on hand while not having too much
• Wrote contracts with an understanding of copyright law and professional best practices
• Conducted SEO research, maintained and updated hundreds of listings
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Commissioned 7 spreads by Better Homes and Gardens, Diabetic Desserts specialty magazine
• Commissioned drop-in workshop by the Anchorage Museum
• In the top 5% of Etsy sellers in the years 2012–2014
• Featured on All Things Paper, Colossal, multiple Buzzfeed Listicals, RadioLab’s Tumblr; and many more
BLUE DESIGN, PORTLAND MAINE, 2007–2012
Graphic Designer
With a focus on publication design, Blue Design is a fuller-service design agency. I was hired as a summer intern in 2007, and I was kept on as a junior designer and promoted to designer.
• 5 years of agency experience
• Produced finished creatives and artwork, ensuring that all creative materials were provided in the correct format for publication, including file preparation and output, pre-press, and printing.
• Photo-editing, color correction, retouching, and masking
• Brochure, magazine, and catalog design
• Book design including coffee table, children’s, novels, and cookbooks
• Made client edits in several different proof cycles
• Maintained electronic files and archives of all design work, photos, and images.
• Sourced stock photography from many services, with an eye toward variety, quality, and price
• Sourced print quotes from many print companies, working with American and international Printers
Education
Bachelors of Fine Art with a focus in graphic design 2009
Maine College Of Art and Design
For a PDF, please send a request to Yakawonis.design@gmail.com