Christen Cushing Illustrator / Graphic Designer :: Los Angeles :: christencushing.com :: 213.321.8446 :: christen@christencushing.com

Illustrator :: Effing awesome illustrations, working with the best clients, jobs that range from creating Illustrations for clients such as Real Husbands of Hollywood for use in recent episodes, to Online Interactive Coloring book pages for FX, to creating cute children's book illustrations for the nice people over at Turkey On The Table, or instructo-art for ErgoBaby Carriers! I've also had a few agencies in LA that hand me jobs here and there as needed, range from murals to illustration and design. I love my job.

Graphic Designer / Illustrator :: (when I work full time which isn't often but when you're a great brand I make exceptions) Ergo Baby / Orbit Baby, Los Angeles CA - 2015 – Illustrations for packaging and instruction manuals and web. Graphic Designer for Tradeshows, Marketing Booklets, etc. Worked with the Digital Marketing Team to create web banners including animated GIFs ( I transitioned into their freelance illustrator creating all instruction manual illustrations) Licensed Painter :: 2016 Creating paintings on canvas to be printed for mass production in retail stores, Crystal Art Gallery

Book Illustrator / Graphic Designer :: -TRUCKTOWN, 2011-2012 worked for Simon and Schuster, Production Artist, digitally painted illustrations for the series -HEAVENITES BOOKS, 2008- 2013 Illustrator, Character designer, and graphic designer for Character Design, Illustrations, and graphic design for an AWARD WINNING series of children’s books, from early learning ABCs to first reader books -TURKEY ON THE TABLE, 2014-2016 Graphic Designer, and Illustrator, Created a character, and illustrated instructional how-to story book to accompany the product. Also created the logo and did all the Graphic Design for the product -THE BEAST, 2016 Wrote, illustrated, and created characters, made into music video for YouTube, this is my personal project and will be published early next year

Graphic Designer / Illustrator :: REVELATION PRODUCTS, 2007- 2014 Continued to do contract work creating designs for packaging, card deck design, toy design, toy packaging

Illustrator for Social Media :: Freelance Illustrator for Social Media working with Resource Interactive in Columbus, Ohio 2010- 2014 as “Always on Illustrator”

Mural Company Owner / Artist :: Owner and Artist, Painter, 2007-2015

Caricature Artist :: Tom Richmond Illustrations Six Flags St. Louis 1999- 2003 Worked as an independent contractor for 4 years. Using Lead Pencil and Airbrush

Elementary School Art Teacher :: Living Water Academy, 2005

Education :: Columbus College of Art and Design, Illustration National Awards :: Women’s Press Association, 1998 First Place Editorial Cartooning National Headache Foundation, 2003 Award of Merit, “Migraine Masterpieces

Proficient in :: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign

A few of my major Illustration Clients include :: BET (Real Husbands of Hollywood) FX ION HAIRCOLOR GILLETTE VENUS HEAD & SHOULDERS PANTENE PRO-V VICTORIAS SECRET SIMON AND SCHUSTER FOCUS ON THE FAMILY ERGOBABY

REFERENCES :: I get along with everyone, but here are a few favorites

Ergo Baby in LA- Perry, Creative Director (310) 801-8258 Lalita, HR Coordinator/ Hiring (213) 607-1947

Resource Interactive in Ohio- Todd, Creative Director (614) 371-5424 Revelation Products in St Louis- Robin Kruse, Creative Director (314) 609-5712

Nicole Bromley in Ohio, (friend over ten years, worked with her non-profit) (614) 204-5562