(About Me)
Since the age of 5 Maurice has been a creative being drawing and painting things that fascinate him. By the age of 8, his parents in rolled him into "The Super Saturday Arts Program" at City College High School in Baltimore MD. There, meet his mentor and friend Larry Poncho Brown. Whom would take Maurice under his wing and gave him a firm foundation for all things creative. Later in Maurice's development, he enrolled into Carver Center for Art & Technology High School. Here he was exposed to live figure drawing and painting. Learning the classical techniques of the traditional art world such as finding the ish in still life painting. In August of 2000 he continued his education at the Maryland Institute College of Art for even more refinement of his technical skills. Here he met a friend for life TT the artist. Living in a modern technology world Maurice's creativity grow into a passion for digital art and visual communication. After college, he developed moesartdesign.com with the help of his parents Maurice & Dora Bradford. At Moe's Art & Design he began to travel from state to state at art trade-shows selling his paintings. He began to take on graphic design and photo editing clients. Majority of his clients are from the greater Baltimore area, and working with them to bring their visions too life is extremely rewarding to say the least. He feels accomplished and fulled engaging the community in this manor. He and his brother, Marcus "Max Milli" Bradford would take business to the next level and formed DMVjams.com. Art runs in the family his brother became an amazing photographer well known a loved throughout the city. DMV Jams was an artist co-op with the intensions to unify the DMV community through music and the arts. Here is where Maurice's passion for branding and marketing would take off like a rocket-ship. In 2013 DMV jams reached its height of website traffic in the USA of 30,000 ranking. Globally reaching a height of 60,000 according Alexa.com. Maurice expanded his knowledge in with a crash course in social media marketing, search engine optimization and some simple html coding. Fortunately, this would take him on a path to continuous improvement and self learning development. Thus is evolution into becoming a visual communication specialist.
MAURICE BRADFORD, JR
3012 Grantley Ave. Baltimore, MD 21215 • 410-297-1927 • Maurice.Bradford.Jr@gmail.com • iammoeluv.myportfolio.com
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
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Fine artist and graphic designer with ten plus years of experience. Technical skills and competencies include: 2D drawing, video/video-editing, multi-media-marketing, and creating graphics using Adobe Creative Cloud. Able to render visual communications forming branding-identities for clients to engage target audiences. Willing to research challenging creative task and assist peers with design projects. Clearly convey visual concepts to novice and clients alike.
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• Imagination • Diplomacy • Resilience • Focus
• Sales • Courage • Good Design Sense • Punctuality
• Problem Solving • Public Speaking • Marketing • Search Engine Optimization
• Assess Engagement • Flexibility • Time Management • Social Media Networking
• Communication • Facilitation • Leadership • Self-motivation
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Freelance Graphic Designer June 2007 - Present
Moes Art & Design, LLC., Baltimore, MD
• Meet with clients either in person or online to discuss their visual communication needs highlighting deliverables and cost throughout the milestone process.
• Advise clients on the best design strategies and layouts for their products to reach target audiences.
• Create custom unique branding materials, images, illustrations, and logos for customers.
• Review all projects to ensure the end product is error free.
• Ensure 100 percent customer satisfaction by presenting art to clients for a final review and feedback session.
Graphic Designer June 2013 - March 2015
Max Lighting & Supply, LLC., Baltimore, MD
• Conceive and design all brand essentials which include logos, websites, infographics, photographs, social-media-campaigns, online-advertisements and banners to companies satisfaction.
•Design custom-display-furnishings for lighting-trade-show-presentations, actively participate in marketing and brand awareness increasing sales by 32% throughout the Mid-Atlantic-Region.
• Recommending the use of freelance designers for large-scale projects affected bottom line profits by 48% cutting cost of additional labor.
Produce sales-pages, fixture-graphics, and manage over 3,500 electronic art-files.
Senior Creative Director January 2011- April 2013
DMVjams, LLC., Baltimore, MD
• Direct oversight of fifteen creative associates and two managers for all things branding concerning DMV jams and their clients.
• Assessed and assigned photographers, graphic designers, fashion stylist, beauticians, video editors and illustrators as needed to meet client demand for music video and promotional advertisement.
• Completed high-end print-production with color-correction accuracy.
• Established identity guidelines for multiple events.
• Produced visual and digital products, including apparel to drive positive-revenue results. Grossing 15,000 in the first two-weeks of sales from a website increasing merchandise profits by 300%.
• Conducted interviews, contributed articles and created layouts as needed.
• Introduced search engine optimization increased web-traffic by 73%.
• Crafted a unique approach to increase celebrity involvement with our social media for promotion of the website-content resulting 10,000,000 impression in one day from Chris Brown tweeting a link from the website.
Creative Media Specialist September 2006 - November 2010
(MWMCA) Mary Washington Minority Contractor Association, Baltimore, MD
• Inspired the business owner to introduce a new service called “Get Clipped.” Creating a new revenue stream for the company which is currently still doing well grossing over 200,000 in the first year of implementation.
• Managed and led a four-person team in the production of marketing-materials: video/video-editing, photography, graphic-design and copywriting.
• Trained video production staff for “Get Clipped” digital product.
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EDUCATION
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MAY 2005
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART
JUNE 2000
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, CARVER CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY
