As a dedicated and meticulous creative professional, I bring a holistic approach to complex projects. My success working with clients and colleagues alike stems from my ability to cultivate an intuitive understanding of their needs, enabling me to lead projects with precision and purpose. I invite you to review my past work and contact me to discuss how my skills and experience can benefit your organization.
MY WORK
In this section, you'll find a curated selection of my best marketing design work. I specialize in creating visually engaging designs that effectively communicate the message and personality of a brand. I approach every project with a focus on achieving results and ensuring that every design element is tailored to project specification and objectives.
Design for
Marketing
Whether it's creating visually stunning layouts for books, magazines, brochures, or other printed materials, I strive to bring both creativity and functionality to every project I work on. From concept development and typography to color palettes and image selection, I believe that every element of design should serve a purpose and contribute to a cohesive and impactful final product.
Design for Print and Publishing
I excel at guiding artists to create diverse illustrations in various styles and purposes. Whether it's imaginative storytelling or precise visuals, I bring out the best in illustrators. I specialize in graphic novel-style art and dynamic storyboards, with a talent for communicating my vision effectively. I ensure every project receives meticulous attention and delivers outstanding results.
Art & Illustration
Direction
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Creative
Writing
My professional journey thus far...
ABOUT
As a seasoned Creative Director, I have had the privilege of exploring and evolving in various domains of the industry. From a young age, I knew that design was my calling, and my journey has been nothing short of exhilarating.
Starting my career as a graphic design instructor, I gained invaluable experience in imparting design education and honing my teaching skills. This helped me inculcate a strong foundation of design principles and techniques, which I later applied in my professional work.
Subsequently, I ventured into the publishing industry, where I worked on designing layouts for books, magazines, and other print media. This experience not only refined my aesthetic sense but also taught me how to work under strict deadlines and deliver high-quality designs consistently.
My foray into eLearning design opened up a whole new world of opportunities for me. As I designed instructional materials and learning modules, I became proficient in creating engaging, interactive, and effective visual aids for online education.
Currently, I am working in marketing design, where I create designs that speak to target audiences and help drive business growth. This experience has honed my ability to create design strategies that align with marketing goals, and has also helped me develop an acute understanding of brand identity and consumer behaviour.
Throughout my journey, I have remained committed to staying up-to-date with the latest design trends and technologies. I continually strive to improve my craft and deliver designs that are not only visually appealing but also align with the needs and objectives of my clients.
Overall, my career graph is a testament to my passion for design and my unwavering commitment to professionalism.
Companies and clients that
I have worked with
EXPERIENCE
What people say about
my work
TESTIMONIALS
"Working with Anuj was truly a pleasure. He was always happy to help overcome project challenges, and could often see potential obstacles before they become problems (saving our department time and resources). He is an efficient and organized team leader with proven project management abilities. We also worked together on the creation of best practice documentation to help streamline work flow, and the project helped to focus departmental goals."
Danielle Simbajon
Project Manager–Content Development, Six Red Marbles
"Anuj is a talented and skilled designer and creative team manager. I had the opportunity to collaborate with him on several projects and he is proactive, dedicated, and his work is high quality. He approaches all projects with enthusiasm and builds positive relationships with both staff and clients. Working with Anuj was a pleasure."
Michele Campbell
Director Of Communications, The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
"Big Step Creative truly lived up to their name when they created illustrations for a textbook I wrote - they helped me move my work a huge step forward. Not only was Anuj a delight to work with and his team exceptionally speedy, the illustrations were AMAZING! They turned my ideas into whimsical, jump-off-the-page characters that brought everything together and gave my work a cohesive look and feel. I highly recommend Big Step Creative, and I can't wait to work with them again!"
Elizabeth (Hammett) Shang, EdM
Director of Account Management, Vector Solutions
"Anuj is highly creative, fast, and with a tremendous work-ethic. I know this, having worked
cross-border with Anuj on projects that moved at a crackling pace, required skill, resource management, client approvals, research and execution, all across international time zones. Anuj's skills, creativity, and ability to ferret out what exactly is needed and then deliver is what makes him outstanding."
Amit Shah
Managing Director & Founder, Green Comma
"Anuj has a winning combination of creativity, as well as cognitive and social intelligence. We've had the opportunity to work together in the same organization, as well as associates in cooperative businesses. He comes to every situation with energy, talent, and the know-how to get the best out of everyone he works with. I look forward to any opportunity he and I have
to work together again in the future and highly recommend him to anyone who needs great creative and leadership talent."
Jason Gorman
Founder and Managing Partner, Jackrabbit Learning Experience
"Anuj is a very resourceful and talented creative manager and team leader. He is adept at assessing requirements, managing costs and effectively leading design and production teams to successful project outcomes. Always positive and enthusiastic, Anuj is an excellent communicator. He possesses a natural, client-facing business acumen. He is experienced and effective at managing international resource teams remotely across multiple timezones. He enjoys collaboration, welcomes feedback and is always quick to offer productive ideas and solutions. A great guy and a pleasure to work with. I would be happy to work with Anuj again any time."
Doren Berge
Creative Director, Six Red Marbles
"Three things define Anuj: (1) Passion for all arts - visual design, movie script writing, typography, photography, layout, music trivia, illustration (2) Leadership style focused on people and the team (3) Client-centric drive to exceed expectations in all deliveries. I admire his ability to lead by example, his finesse in handling difficult conversations, and his good humor in brightening a co-worker's day! Anuj is a true gem of a design manager! He motivates, collaborates, maintains strong self-awareness and contributes in all aspects of complex project conceptualization and creation for US and UK clients covering small scale through multi-million $/£ jobs."
Joanne Markow
Chief Operating Officer, Six Red Marbles
"Anuj is a truly wonderful colleague and team player. He was instrumental in creating our offshore creative team at Six Red Marbles. Anuj lead the team and developed strong understanding and seamless integration with our US Team and in service and outstanding creative support for major publisher, custom content, K-12 and Higher Ed companies and organizations. He lead creative projects across multiple disciplines, technologies and provided insightful leadership to our entire content and learning experience design team and methodologies. Anuj was very adept at leading and working with high level customers to ascertain their creative needs and delight them with his integrated approach with outstanding customer service, project management, joint prototyping brainstorming and feedback sessions and the like. Anuj delivered on time, on budget even when work was required above and beyond the call. He was very skilled at working with cross functional teams from content, design, tech, vendors and other providers and doing so on a multi-national cross cultural and geo-dispersed virtual team basis. But perhaps most of all Anuj is the kind of person you want to work with, like and is fun to have on your team! He has my highest recommendation for any role in the creative design, project management and cross functional team environments."
Bob Fogel
Chief Executive Officer, Six Red Marbles
"Anuj is one of the most strategic creatives I've collaborated with in my career. Instead of simply taking a project at face value, Anuj always ensures what I'm requesting is actually going to solve a problem or spur desired action. He is also efficient with his work and timely with his updates."
Derek Hernandez
Director of Brand & Content, Mentor Collective
"Anuj is a leader people want to follow. He cares about the company culture, about his colleagues, and his employees. He leads by example with tremendous work ethic and team spirit. He supports and mentors his employees, and helps them achieve the best they can be. It goes without saying that Anuj is a very talented creative. Just as important, Anuj understands how to interpret clients' direction and feedback -- even when not clear -- how to communicate the direction in a way that is both understandable and actionable, and how to take the direction beyond what the clients express to a result that delights them."
Michael McCay
Chief Financial Officer, Six Red Marbles
"Anuj is an exceptional creative and collaborative partner. In my role as Content Marketing Manager, I'm constantly in a state of planning and creation. Having Anuj as an extension of our team, has allowed us to work efficiently and get campaigns launched on time. He takes the time to understand a brand's aesthetic and voice and carefully translates that into compelling visuals that enhance our storytelling.
We recently asked Anuj to take on some of our Hubspot web development for our virtual event stream, and his redesign of our landing pages for legibility and ease has contributed to increases in registrations.
He excels at both custom creative and design production and, importantly, knows when to take creative liberties on projects to enhance them within brand guidelines. It's also been great to see how effortlessly he adapts to various design platforms. Any company would be lucky to have his talent uplift their content."
Samantha Emelock
Content & Brand Management, Mentor Collective
A good design is focused, effective and efficient in fulfilling its purpose.
I have over 18 years of progressive experience in creative leadership, spearheading end-to-end creative processes across domains such as Marketing, Publishing, and eLearning. I have a proven track record of successfully leading creative projects across diverse disciplines and technologies, while implementing design-driven strategies. My extensive experience includes managing cross-functional teams and external partners and providers across cross-cultural and geo-dispersed teams. As a results-oriented creative professional, I have consistently delivered high-quality creative outputs that exceed expectations.
