Tim Zarras

About

Tim Zarras is a seasoned designer with a Bachelor's Degree in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2016. He has extensive experience in various design roles, starting as a Material Designer I at Nike, where he developed performance-driven footwear materials for the Nike SB category. Tim then worked as a Designer at TRNK NYC, handling all facets of design and product development. At Standard Issue, he led the design direction for e-commerce sites and introduced new workflows. As a Senior Designer/Art Director at Watson & Company, he crafted impactful brand identities and designed innovative brand collateral. Currently, Tim operates his own design consultancy, offering services in industrial and furniture design, brand strategy, and digital product design, utilizing tools like Sketch, Figma, HTML, CSS, and jQuery.

Experience

• Designer / Director / Developer · Tim Zarras06-01-2017

  Services often include: - Industrial / furniture design consulting - Brand and product strategy - 3D model, rendering and production drawing creation - Design and development of websites for people and small organizations with custom CMS solutions utilizing Prismic.io, Kirby CMS, HTML, CSS, and jQuery - Digital product design consulting, building visual mock-ups and working prototypes via Sketch and Figma

• Senior Designer / Art Director · Watson & Company08-01-2023 – 12-01-2023

  Worked collaboratively across all disciplines to craft impactful placemaking-oriented brand identities for diverse real estate and architectural clients. Led the end-to-end design and implementation of multiple property-marketing websites. Set direction for impactful brand-enhancing photoshoots of neighborhoods and restaurants. Designed innovative and actionable brand collateral ranging from tote-bags to notebooks and stationary. Introduced new ways of utilizing Figma to not only work more efficiently, but integrate new elevated forms of animation and motion into all digital and web-oriented designs.

• Designer · Standard Issue11-01-2020 – 06-01-2023

  Designed and developed sample packaging programs, a proprietary IoT product program & digital product, led design direction of a debut e-commerce site, and contributed to overall brand language development of several clients. Directed strategy and development in co-designing two rebuilds of the Standard Issue studio website. Introduced new workflows and adoption of programs like Figma and Miro.

• Designer · TRNK NYC09-01-2019 – 07-01-2020

  As the only designer, I worked directly with the company's founder on all facets of design and product development of new and existing furniture and tableware collections, interior design projects, an apothecary collection, as well as ongoing company catalogs. Traveled internationally to trade fairs to speak with prospective vendors about potential designs and development. Managed and produced company's 3D assets via Solidworks, Rhino and Keyshot, including 3D models, production drawings / tech packs and consumer facing renderings.

• Material Designer I · Nike02-01-2018 – 12-01-2018

  Only material designer serving in the Nike SB category. Assess trends and develop material direction / concepts to seasonally curate, source and develop performance-driven footwear materials. Work closely with vendors overseas and internal product development to bring on-trend and cost-effective concepts to market. Assisted in developing innovative materials used on Olympic models for skateboarding's debut in the 2020 Olympics.

Education

• Rhode Island School of DesignBachelor's Degree, Furniture Design

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