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Joss Pursley

Artist and Consultant

  • Motion Graphics
  • Graphic Design
  • Creative Direction
  • Video
  • Social Media

Contact

  • josspursley[at]gmail.com
  • http://josspursley.com
  • 310.948.0663

Brands Served

  • Beautycounter
  • Electronic Arts (EA)
  • The Sims FreePlay
  • SimCity BuildIt
  • Tetris Blitz
  • NBA LIVE Mobile
  • The Simpsons: Tapped Out
  • Bejeweled Stars
  • Coca-Cola
  • FedEx
  • Ohio State University
  • Memphis Grizzlies
  • St. Louis Cardinals
  • Ashley Furniture HomeStore
  • MTVu
  • T-Mobile
  • CBS Mobile

Education

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, The University of Memphis
  • Awarded Academic Dean’s Scholarship
  • Awarded Academic State Hope Scholarship
  • Graduated with Academic Latin Honors Distinction, Cum Laude

Experience

Beautycounter

  • Lead Motion Design, Senior Graphic Design, Paid Media, Social Media, Video, Motion Brand Strategy
  • October 2016 – Present
  • Individually direct and help direct the conceptualization, design, strategy, and execution of both static and animated social marketing assets across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Instagram Stories, Snapchat, Pinterest, organic social media, and paid social media. Create dynamic, on trend, compelling, agile, and engaging social media content for social channels totaling over 260,000 followers. Work closely with internal social media teams, design teams, copy writing teams, video teams, and marketing teams to deliver both consumer facing and business facing static and animated digital and short form video content and long form video content.

Electronic Arts (EA)

  • Lead Motion Design, Senior Graphic Design, Paid Media, Social Media, Video
  • March 2016 – October 2016
  • Direct the conceptualization, design, and execution of static and animated paid media and mobile acquisition marketing and advertising. Help to ensure high levels of quality within the team. Work closely with other team members to deliver static and animated marketing solutions for EA mobile games across various ad networks, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Collaborate with the mobile publishing team to design static creative and animated .gifs for feature placement in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Apply learnings and leverage analytics from the consumer insights team to refine, optimize, and deliver static and animated creative for specific target audiences. Direct other designers within the domestic and global creative team.

VIA Production

  • Art Director, Creative Director, Lead Motion Design, Lead Graphic Design
  • February 2013 – January 2016
  • Design, animate, edit, and direct the visual design and motion strategy for broadcast television commercials from start to finish that will air throughout 13 US States and Canada. Manage client based brands and internal company brands through the development of logos, colors, typefaces, identities, ads, and web presences.

Deluge Studios

  • Project Manager; Graphic Designer; Web Developer; Web Design, UI, UX
  • April 2011 – February 2013
  • Manage and direct all phases of web design and web development projects from start to finish. Responsibilities include project management, graphic design, branding, logo design, front end development, back end development, content management system design, UI design, UX design, and e-commerce development.

S2N Design

  • Lead Web Developer, Graphic Designer
  • October 2010 – March 2011
  • Manage and direct all phases of web design and web development projects from start to finish. Responsibilities include project management, graphic design, branding, logo design, front end development, back end development, content management system design, UI design, UX design, and e-commerce development.

Disciple Design

  • Graphic Designer, Web Developer
  • May 2009 – October 2010
  • Design poster, key art, advertisements, logos, branding, signage, etc. for various companies through agency process. Collaborate in all phases of web design and web development projects from start to finish. Responsibilities include project management, graphic design, branding, logo design, front end development, back end development, content management system design, UI design, UX design, and e-commerce development.

YouTube Channels

  • Content Writing, Writer, Director, Editor
  • January 2005 – April 2010
  • Write, direct, and create original, digital social content for Google partnered YouTube channels with over 220,000 subscribers and 60,000,000 views, respectively. Collaborate with fellow writing team to develop scripts and conten for brands like T-Mobile, MTVu, CBS Mobile, and others.