Ramya Krishnan
Freelance Visual Designer | ex AB InBev | Art Direction, Branding, & Graphic Design🎨👩🏻💻
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Graphic Design✨
Art Direction✍️
Illustration🎨
Logo Design💻
Web Design
Bangalore, India
Hi! I'm Ramya, a Freelance Visual Designer with 5 years of experience. I've worked with popular brands like AB InBev and have expertise in graphic design, art direction, branding, and digital media. #GraphicDesign #ArtDirection #BrandStrategy
Design Ninja, Unlock Impact
July 2024 - Present
Visual Designer and Design Consultant, Self-employed
April 2020 - Present
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Senior Designer | BrandSheep, AB InBev India
May 2023 - May 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- I lead creative design for ABinBev's only in-house craft beer and brewery brand Seven Rivers Brewing Co
- Conceptualizing and crafting compelling designs for marketing, packaging, and promotional materials
- Ensuring brand consistency and cohesion, presenting innovative concepts that capture market trends and resonate with consumers
- I also design for ABinBev brands like Budweiser, Corona, Leffe, Magnum Double Barrel Whiskey, and ABi Corporate on occasion
- Conceptualizing and crafting compelling designs for marketing, packaging, and promotional materials
- Ensuring brand consistency and cohesion, presenting innovative concepts that capture market trends and resonate with consumers
- I also design for ABinBev brands like Budweiser, Corona, Leffe, Magnum Double Barrel Whiskey, and ABi Corporate on occasion
Design Consultant, theSound
November 2020 - May 2023
Remote
- I work primarily on advertising and marketing collateral in collaboration with theSound on brands, both big and niche
Design Consultant, GimmeGamma
May 2020 - May 2023
Remote
- I work as a designer and consultant for GimmeGamma on a number of multi-national SaaS companies in creating engaging content, with the primary aim to increase website traffic
Social Media Design & Strategy, SHARAN India
December 2020 - December 2022
- As the primary social media designer for SHARAN my responsibility lied in planning and developing monthly content (static posts, banners, GIFs, video content) along with the SHARAN Social Media Team
- To create a positive, engaging space for people looking to move towards a more healthier plant-based lifestyle
- I also help set the brand tonality, create logos for sub-brands and appropriate guidelines for SHARAN and handled the day-to-day graphic design requirements for the website and any marketing collaterals
- To create a positive, engaging space for people looking to move towards a more healthier plant-based lifestyle
- I also help set the brand tonality, create logos for sub-brands and appropriate guidelines for SHARAN and handled the day-to-day graphic design requirements for the website and any marketing collaterals
Visual Artisan, Graffiti Collaborative Pvt. Ltd
December 2018 - February 2020
Bengaluru Area, India
- As a Visual Artisan, I handled multiple accounts as the primary designer and liaised with client/client's marketing teams when required
- We worked on an array of communication solutions — event marketing collateral, social media, GIFs, e-mailers, brochures, online catalogues, landing pages, web banners, ads (FB/LinkedIn/GDN), illustrated books, infographics, reports, invites, etc
- Most of my work at Graffiti involved ideating for brand building — developing mood boards, templates, designs for advertising, campaigns and digital communication
- We created design solutions across digital and print media for a diverse range of clients
- I worked with a team of copywriters, designers and client managers; managing 4-5 accounts at a time
- I was an active part of ideating and creating social media calendars for many of our clients as well as our agency's own social media handles
- I have also dabbled in some video editing and GIF animations during my time here
- We worked on an array of communication solutions — event marketing collateral, social media, GIFs, e-mailers, brochures, online catalogues, landing pages, web banners, ads (FB/LinkedIn/GDN), illustrated books, infographics, reports, invites, etc
- Most of my work at Graffiti involved ideating for brand building — developing mood boards, templates, designs for advertising, campaigns and digital communication
- We created design solutions across digital and print media for a diverse range of clients
- I worked with a team of copywriters, designers and client managers; managing 4-5 accounts at a time
- I was an active part of ideating and creating social media calendars for many of our clients as well as our agency's own social media handles
- I have also dabbled in some video editing and GIF animations during my time here
Architectural Intern, Centre for Design Excellence Pvt. Ltd
February 2017 - May 2017
Bengaluru, India
- I worked with the team at CDE on a variety of projects ranging from residences, retail stores, industrial, interior design to large scale commercial development
- My primary responsibilities as an intern were to develop ideas and designs as per client’s needs, ensure that all our designs followed building standards, guidelines and regulations, create CAD drawings (Architectural, Working Drawing, Interiors), and make presentations
- My primary responsibilities as an intern were to develop ideas and designs as per client’s needs, ensure that all our designs followed building standards, guidelines and regulations, create CAD drawings (Architectural, Working Drawing, Interiors), and make presentations
Architectural Intern, Sandarbh Design Studio
July 2016 - November 2016
Bengaluru, India
- Sandarbh Design Studio is an architectural firm specializing in residential design of unique, custom, and comfortable homes
- I was the lead on an interiors and renovation project
- Responsibilities of my role included: design of furniture according to client’s requirements on AutoCAD and SketchUp, preparation of cut lists for furniture in association with Attitude Interior Design, supervision of carpentry, masonry and electrical work on-site, preparation of site reports, and interaction and coordination with clients, contractors, vendors and on-site workers
- I was the lead on an interiors and renovation project
- Responsibilities of my role included: design of furniture according to client’s requirements on AutoCAD and SketchUp, preparation of cut lists for furniture in association with Attitude Interior Design, supervision of carpentry, masonry and electrical work on-site, preparation of site reports, and interaction and coordination with clients, contractors, vendors and on-site workers
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Education
Slow Factory | OPEN EDU FALL 2020
2020 - 2020
Open Education, Sustainability Studies
BMS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, YELAHANKA
2012 - 2017
Bachelor of Architecture, Architecture