United States

Graphic Design

Branding and Identity Design

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Greg Althoff

Design Director

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Branding

Design systems

Adobe Creative Suite

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

- Leadership and responsibility for Tide’s business at Landor, maintaining some of the highest profit margins within the Cincinnati office.

- Contribute insight-driven creative concepts within and outside my teams as necessary.

- Partner with client services to ensure work is delivered on-time, within budget and creatively excellent.

- Direct the design team’s work against project objectives, suggesting refinements as necessary.

- Effectively craft goal-oriented presentations to clients, up to the most senior leadership.

- Lead cross-agency collaboration across initiatives with Saatchi & Saatchi, Integer and Arc.

- Lead the development of an iconic brand vision and theme for Tide, leading to long-term guidelines which will guide the choices made across touchpoints now and into the future.

- Created the lead design strategy for Tide’s most recent shelf redesign, directing implementation across the entire shelf lineup.

- Lead the management and implementation of the final design concept for Tide PODS packaging.

- Strategic branding and consulting agency.

- Experience developing idea-based creative campaigns while tailoring creative tactics to the media channel.

- Brand Strategy Execution: Research-driven execution of foundational brand elements (e.g., interactive and social media, broadcast, direct response, print, POS , packaging, etc.)

- Engagements with Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, MillerCoors, Charter Communications, and many mid-sized firms and entrepreneurial start-ups as well.

- Experience working across industries, including CPG, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, foodservice and more.

- Innovation: Analysis of white space, identification of consumer needs, concept ideation, consumer testingand refinement for clients.

- Primarily responsible for design leadership in video game publishing, encouraging creativity and innovation among team members, providing visual direction through all phases of video game marketing.

- Participated in development and production of concepts in design; print, identity and packaging with one of Austin’s most respected design consultancies.

- Applied experience in graphic design to three-dimensional applications for retail, corporate and institutional environments.

- Flourished when given responsibility in a fast-paced, team-oriented project environment.

- Responsible for establishing a relationship with the University of Cincinnati professional practice program.

- Assisted the principals of a small design firm. 

- Directly involved in spearheading concepts for a software interface project, while managing various print and identity projects from initial concept to final production.

- Involved in the concepting, design and production for a variety of print, identity, packaging and multimedia projects, serving clients such as Amazon and Palm, inc.

- Worked closely with an innovative, multi-disciplinary group of designers in environmental and interactive design. 

- Responsibilities ranged from the design of environmental graphics to the design of components for interactive displays. 

- Exposed to how a wide range of disciplines work toward a total, multifaceted design solution.

Greg Althoff🇺🇸

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