# Christine Innes > Illustrator & Graphic Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christineinnes Designer / Illustrator Portfolio: www.christineinnes.com ## Work Experience ### Illustrator and Graphics Designer @ Tea Collection Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States •Create beautiful prints and graphics to be used for tees and textiles in seasonal collections of children’s clothing. Many became best-sellers online and for wholesale. •Work closely with design team to set concept, color, and print direction for each season •Work with cross functional teams throughout the production cycle to ensure print quality or meet design team needs. ### Senior Graphic Designer @ Tea Collection Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California •Produce beautiful design solutions consistent with brand image across site, brand, paid, and physical channels. •Own design of email marketing channel, design reusable templates to streamline workload, and research competitor trends and collect inspiration to keep promotions fresh. •Work with the design team to develop a system for a promotion and then apply it to email, digital ads, and social. •Prepare web design files in Figma for our developer to code. ### Freelance Graphic Designer @ Gap Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco ### Graphic Designer @ ModCloth Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Design a range of branded materials, including on-site experiences, emails, ads, print, and in-store assets - Design and execute a range of recurrent in-store brand collateral, event materials, and marketing placements (both digital and print) - Contribute ideas for seasonal campaigns and collaborate with the creative team to define concepts - Maintain the visual integrity of the brand - Define illustration style of social channels and promotional materials - Ensure aesthetically consistent, top-notch visual output by giving and receiving constructive criticism in a positive, open manner - Work closely with marketing channel leads to ensure projects are on track ### Design Fellow @ Ten Speed Press Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Emeryville, California - Use typography, color and layout to design books and covers at all stages of the book design process. Meet strict deadlines throughout the iterative process. - Assist Senior Designers with completion of their books - Participate in weekly cover critiques. Give and receive feedback from creative and non-creative colleagues. - Set up files for print vendors - Work closely with Editorial, PR, and Production teams to ensure projects are on track ### Graphic Design Intern @ 826 Valencia Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco • Lead art direction for two 200+ guest events. Detail oriented execution of designs from concept creation to print, while under strict deadlines. • Concept creation, illustration, typography and book layout for program publications while working directly with Production Manager. • Applied drawing, digital illustration, hand-lettering, and composition skills to create unique art that reflects the well-defined 826 Valencia brand aesthetic. • Frequent critiques and design reviews with Design Director and team. • Played a supportive role to Design Leads by applying pre-determined styles across a high volume of event materials. ### Graphic Designer, Product Manager @ Headline Shirts Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Illustration of top-performing screen printed t-shirt designs. Prepare for print with proper product specifications for vendors. • Concept development for weekly apparel and accessory releases. • Design graphics for 3+ marketing emails per week. • Present new branding guidelines to marketing team, and implement across all marketing channels. • Design and write HTML/CSS for custom content pages. • Research and design new UI features on the website. • Manage a remote development team by prioritizing tasks, clearly communicating expectations and specifications, and tracking monthly budgets. • Assisted in in-house photo shoots by preparing the samples, assisting in styling the shoot, and organizing the raw files • Color correction and compositing of all product and lifestyle photography. ### Accounts Executive @ TheBestNotary.net Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 • Communicated with a high volume of notaries, clients, and loan signing agents to schedule time-sensitive loan signings. • Trained new notaries on how to lead the clients through the document correctly and efficiently. • Traveled to the clients to notarize loan documents. • Wrote copy and created graphic content for online and print marketing media ### Temp @ ipsy Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 • Resolved a high volume of customer inquiries • Used databases of order and customer info to solve their problems ### Gallery Intern @ Fraenkel Gallery Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 • Recorded and organized a high volume of photography books into an online database • Assisted in filing, cataloging and organizing a gallery space ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Fine and Studio Arts San Francisco State University Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Visual Design General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cinnes-design - Portfolio: https://christineinnes.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/christineinnes JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christineinnes/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25