Marcus Lin
Graphic Designer
About Me
Contact
Skills
- Exhibition graphics
- Wayfinding systems
- Large-format print
- Adobe InDesign and Illustrator
- Brand identity
Language
English
Mandarin
Experience
(Jun 2023 – Present)
Senior Graphic Designer
Meridian Exhibit Studio, Portland, OR
- Design the graphics, wayfinding and large-format print for around 14 museum and trade show installations a year, from concept boards to press-ready files
- Built the studio’s large-format production templates, which cut reprints across a season from 11 to 2 and saved about $18,000 in print costs
- Art-direct two junior designers and brief the print vendor and the install crew on every build
(Aug 2020 – May 2023)
Graphic Designer
Northgate Events Agency, Seattle, WA
- Produced stage screens, signage and social graphics for more than 40 corporate events a year on a two-week turnaround
- Redrew the agency’s event branding kit as a 60-page template set, taking a new event from brief to first proof in three days rather than eight
Education
(2018 – 2020)
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
3.7
(2016 – 2018)
Seattle Central College, Seattle, WA
Associate of Arts in Visual Communication
3.6
About the Cinder template
Cinder is a two-column resume in grey and charcoal on a white page. A charcoal band runs across the head of the page a little below its top edge, a large round portrait in a pale ring sits on the band over the grey column, and beside it the name reads in white on two lines, the first name in bold and the surname in a light spaced face, with the job title small beneath. The grey column under the portrait carries the about, the contact lines, the skills and the languages as short bulleted lists, and the white page beside it carries the education and the work history. Every heading, one the writer adds included, is its section’s icon beside a bold label with no rule. A degree and a role each open on their dates in round brackets beside a large dot, then the school or the title in bold capitals, then the award and its grade or the employer and the bullets. The column and the band are each a slot the reader can change, so the band can take any colour. It suits a graphic designer, an illustrator or anyone in a visual trade whose resume should look designed without a colour on it.
Read the graphic designer resume shown hereMarcus Lin’s resume in full, with notes on why each part works.How it is built
- A charcoal band across the head of the page set a little below the top edge, with a soft shadow under it onto both columns
- A large round portrait in a pale ring standing on the band over the grey column, and the name beside it in white on two lines, bold over light spaced type
- Every heading its section’s icon beside a bold label with no rule, the same on both columns and for a section the writer adds
- A degree and a role each opening on their dates in round brackets beside a large dot, then the school or the title in bold capitals
- Two slots on a white page: the charcoal of the band and the grey of the column
- Style
- Modern · Creative
- Best for
- Design & Creative · Marketing & Sales · Tech & Engineering
- Career stage
- Mid Level
- Layout
- Two Column · With Photo
- Photo
- Includes a photo
Templates with a similar look
These share at least one style with Cinder, so they are the closest alternatives if the proportions here are not right for your history.
- PipA red dot before every heading, a grey rule beneath it, and one thin line dividing the columns
- SwoopBlue swooshes over the head, a ringed round photo, banded headings with an icon at the tip and every entry on a rail
- HarbourA teal name band, a ringed photo beside the intro, and a divider down the middle of the page
- ApricotA grey column with the surname in orange over a full-width photo, and bold headings on thin rules down both columns
- BerryA raspberry head band with a round photo and the roles three abreast under spaced capital headings
- PlumA plum head band and a grey-lavender column, with every page section hung on a rail under a plum badge
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