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Evan Pittson is a designer, visual artist, and musician living in New York. His specialties include print and digital layout, hand-drawn and vector illustration, and typeface and lettering design. He works within a variety of print and digital media including signage, CD covers, brochures, web sites, food and beverage packaging, and clothing.
Evan currently works at Eventide Audio as a graphic designer, making contributions to branding, packaging, audio plug-in and software UI, hardware interface design, and web design.
Mr. Pittson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Design and Multimedia, and a Master of Professional Studies degree in Branding and Integrated Communications from the City College of New York. He is skilled in Adobe Creative Suite applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Muse, Premiere and After Effects, and has a foundation in HTML and CSS.
In 2015 Evan established his business as a fontographer, designing custom fonts in traditional and variable formats. His newest typeface Mecha is a modern 16-style font family designed for display and body text. Mecha fuses sleek geometry with classic humanist letterform design, with extensive language support, contextual ligatures and alternate glyphs.
EDUCATION
The City College of New York
BFA in Electronic Design & Multimedia
September 2011 – June 2016
The City College of New York
MPS in Branding and Integrated Communications
September 2019 – June 2021
SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite
– Indesign
– Illustrator
– Photoshop
– After Effects
– Premiere
Typeface design
– Glyphs
Illustration
– Drawing
– Painting
– Vector
– Digital painting
Web design
– HTML/CSS
– WordPress
Photo touch-up and manipulation
Figma
Microsoft Office
Social media marketing
EXPERIENCE
Evan Pittson Design
Freelance graphic design and illustration: custom font design, logos, packaging, print and digital layout, motion graphics, video editing, photo manipulation, web design, social media marketing
2012 – present
Eventide Audio
Graphic Designer
Audio plug-in and software GUI, pedal and rackmount artwork, font design, illustration, packaging design, instructional manual layout and technical writing, product QA, branding, social media graphics, website design
April 2021 – present
RedArtichoke
Print and web design: WordPress, logo design, branding, business cards, brochures, signage, posters, flyers, social media
2012 – 2020
Above Average
Graphic & VFX design
Logo design, photo manipulation, motion graphics, social media design
July 2016 – August 2016
CCNY Jazz Program
Branding, logo design, web design, brochures, advertisement design, registration forms, social media marketing, event flyers/posters, Marketing for music department
2011 – present
Scholastic Inc.
Intern, Visual Content Group
Deployment of Extensis UTC font management software,
font licensing, event scheduling
June 2015 – August 2015