Johanna Taylor

 COMIC ARTIST  ✦  ​ILLUSTRATOR  ✦  AUTHOR  ✦  GRAPHIC DESIGNER

WORK EXPERIENCE

GRAPHIC DESIGNER - ZEROREZ INC (2024-PRESENT)
  • Created and designed all graphics for digital and print, according to Zerorez branding guidelines
  • Co-authored and designed the Zerorez branding guidelines
  • Designed ads for social media, magazines, billboards, Google banners, large-format signage, decals, postcards, mailers, brochures, booklets, email, newsletters, web pages, icons, illustrations, animated GIFs, motions graphics, etc. across both RGB and CMYK formats and a wide range of sizes and file types
  • Pre-press experience in layout and setup of books, flyers, and anything designed to be printed out
  • Pitched and storyboarded commercial concepts and assisted on sets for Zerorez photo shoots and TV commercial shoots, including production coordination, direction and staging of shots, and assisting the photographer, videographer and models
  • Designed, organized, and maintained company-wide Digital Asset Management system using Brandworkz
  • Created concept designs for Zerorez corporate website and newsletter, with careful attention to ADA compliant color combinations, text sizes and formatting
  • Worked closely with marketing team to discuss designs for new ads
  • Accepted feedback and critique to revise ads to clients' specifications, while keeping communication open and consistent concerning timelines and schedules
  • Designed collateral for corporate events, including badges, flyers, swag and merch designs, signage, agenda booklets, etc.
  • Worked with and contacted vendors, sending print-ready files and making sure products were printed and delivered on time

GRAPHIC DESIGNER - CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING (2015-2017)
  • Created motion graphic explainer videos for various university departments according to creative briefs from clients
  • Designed, rigged and animated characters to move and lip-sync to voice-acted scripts using After Effects

GRAPHIC DESIGNER - BYU STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE (2014-2016)
  • Designed and launched a full rebranding of the Student Employment office, including signage, web pages, graphics, slideshows, and illustrations
  • Assisted a photographer on shoots of stock photography for use by the student employment office

AUTHOR/ARTIST FOR COMICS (2017 - PRESENT)
  • Author/Illustrator of comics and graphic novels, including front & back covers and interiors
  • Represented by Laurel Symonds of KT Literary

FREELANCE ILLUSTRATOR (2017 - PRESENT)
  • Provided illustrations for video games, children’s book, tabletop RPGs, character designs, and comics
  • Clients include Penguin Random House, Limit Break Comics, 2CGaming, MIT Press, Lion Forge Comics, Iron Circus Comics
SKILLS
  • Illustration for Young Adult, Middle Grade and children’s demographics
  • Collaborative storytelling
  • Coloring for comics
  • Caricature portrait art
  • Book cover illustration
  • Writing for graphic novels
  • Character design principles
  • Art direction
  • Accepting direction & feedback
  • Concept art for 2D and 3D pipelines
  • Motion graphics
  • Storyboarding
  • Running booths at conventions
  • Creating merchandise
  • Visual development for film, TV & games
  • Graphic Design
  • Hand-lettering
  • Copy-editing
  • Pre-press for printing digital files


SOFTWARE
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe After Effects


EDUCATION
BFA in ANIMATION - Concept Art (grad. 2017)


CONTACT
[email protected]