Daniel Fain
Graphic Designer

Daniel Fain

Senior designer at Critical Mass.

About

Daniel Fain is a graphic designer and illustrator with over six years of professional experience working in several advertising agencies. He specializes in designing logos, icon sets, and creative visuals with a focus on industries such as tech companies and startups, high-education schools, communications, and insurances. At Critical Mass, he has worked on various print and digital design projects for clients like DePaul University, USAA Insurance, AT&T, and Lactaid. His past clients also include Motorola, Allstate, Harley-Davidson, Good&Co, and Spring Rewards.

Employment

4 roles
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020 1 year 5 months
Senior Designer
Critical Mass Agency
  • Provided art-direction for a video series, as part of a DePaul University campaign; sketched storyboards, directed videographers on-site, and gave close instructions for post-production editing.
  • Designed a digital financial tool for USAA Insurance; worked in close collaboration with a user-experience designer and a creative director.
  • Brainstormed ideas and designed visuals for multiple social-media ads for AT&T and Lactaid, with focus on both consumer and business audiences.
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018 6 months
Senior Marketing Designer
Good&Co Labs Inc.

Good&Co is a platform that connects people, companies, and workplaces. 

  • Designed print collateral items for company’s sales team, for their business-focused presentations.
  • Collaborated in company’s corporate website redesign.
  • Established company’s new brand guidelines together with a creative director.
  • Created visuals for weekly marketing consumer-focused email newsletters.
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017 6 months
Senior Visual Designer
Motorola
  • Designed visuals and user-interfaces for company’s mobile innovations.
  • Illustrated and animated motion graphics for the purpose of demonstrating new experiences.
  • Provided graphic assets and specs for mobile screen developers.
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017 8 months
Designer
Simple Truth

Simple Truth is a Chicago agency offering B2B and B2C brand, communications, digital, and marketing solutions.

  • Assisted in conceptualization of a new visual identity for Allstate Insurance (Fortune 100 company) with a designated team of creative directors.
  • Designed Allstate Insurance sales collateral, such as posters, postcards, brochures, and emails banners, from concept to completion.

Education

Oct 2010 - Aug 2014 3 years 10 months
Bachelor of Design, Visual Communication
Bezalel Academy of Art & Design

Portfolio

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