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Hi, I’m a freelance creative/art director based in Brooklyn. With a decade of experience working in-agency and in-house, I’m looking to join projects with purpose, especially those involving abnormally large dogs or dancing robots.

When I’m not working, I teach a photography-based ghost-hunting class at Harvard.  


Places I’d haunt if I were a ghost:
1. U.S. Supreme Court   
2. Film Forum  
3. The cast of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

hellodawnkim@gmail.com
availability
@dawn.kim

Education

MFA from Yale in photography, 2020
BFA from ArtCenter in advertising, 2011


Work Experience

Freelance Creative - Present
Latest clients: lululemon, 92Y, Bard College
Latest agency: AKQA NYC

Red Antler
Associate Creative Director—Aug 2021-22
  • Spearheaded creative for startup brands with products like MLB NFTs, self-installing artwork, a dating app that wants to be deleted
  • Doubled as a hand modelócalculations concluded that there was, at one point, a 3% chance the hands in subway ads were mine

iCrossing - Hearst
Freelance Senior Art Director—Mar 2017-20
  • Art directed and concepted 360 campaigns to revitalize household brands like Orajel and OxiClean
  • Casted a TV commercial in Orlando FL, nestled between a space-themed strip club and Churchís Chicken-turned-Seventh-day Adventist Church

Annex88
Freelance Senior Art Director—June 2018-19
  • Art directed and concepted 360 campaigns for Keurig with James Corden
  • Garnered unsolicited fashion advice from the interns (very grateful now)

Naked Communications
Freelance Senior Art Director—Nov 2015-18
  • Lead creative to relaunch legacy brands like Carrís Crackers and launching new tech in pharma, like app-connected medication
  • Re-established sense of humility by sitting in on qualitative testing

WebThriftStore
Head Creative—Mar 2013-15
  • Spearheaded UX and visual language with teams of designers and coders across social, web, and mobile platforms
  • Got one degree away from Oprah when we were featured on her magazine

J. Walter Thompson
Art Director—Mar 2011-13
  • Art directed and concepted 360 campaigns for Macyís, Smirnoff, Nestle, The America Tourism Board, and UC Santa Cruz
  • Ask me about my after hours tour of Herald Squareís Macyís and their night guards

WongDoody LA
Creative Intern—May-Sept 2010
  • Art directed and pitched creative for ESPN and Cedars-Sinai
  • Curated Seth Meyersí table of Chinese takeout leftovers on set at my first TV shoot


Expertise

Adobe Suite, Figma, Visual thinking, Social media strategies, Strategic concepting, Client-facing relationships, Mentorship



Additional Expertise

Ice cream

Other work includes a magazine and an artists’ book acquired by the MoMA library and NY public library and a visual recreation of the origin of the world told through the Google search images.