Nate Grubbs

During his time at Handmade, Nate worked with forward-looking brands to accelerate product invention. He worked to combine digital interactions with physical objects and spaces.

• Created new concepts and maintained its story through the entire development process. 
• Designed products through visual design, UX, and animation.
• Worked to filter ideas and concepts into digestible forms for clients and users.
• Collaborated with a small team of designers and creative coders. Project iterations happened quickly and included hands-on rapid prototyping and experimentation.
• Worked with clients including Dell, IKEA, Intel, Logitech, and Ahold.

As an independent Art Director, Nate worked with a wide array of clients, teams and agencies. His work included Visual & Motion Graphics Design, UI and UX.

• Developed story-boarding and concept creation for clients.
• Crafted visuals for websites & apps for museum exhibitions and a television product line among others to make content for mass audiences.
• Represented Frog Design, Philips and Aquent in Amsterdam.
• Represented Razorfish, Second Story Interactive, Liquid Agency, Pollinate Media and other companies in Portland.
• Worked with clients including Philips & Philips Television, Microsoft, Levi's, Booking.com, Intel, SanDisk, Coors Brewing, Library of Congress, Walmart and eBay.

With the Philips Design team, Nate worked as a product designer and art director for two mobile apps.

• Led the direction for the Heart Health app, which works in combination with the Philips Smart Watch.
• Worked with the design team to modernize their design language system, making the Heart Health app the first product to use the new language.

As an independent motion graphics designer, Nate worked with Frog and created animated presentations for two different clients.

• Pitch for work with a telecoms company, which led to Frog's success with the pitch.
• Created a vision video for eBay Classifieds.

As an independent motion graphics & visual designer, Nate worked with TP Vision (Philips Television) to create an animated visual language for their TV user interface.

• Collaborated directly with the design team to fix unforeseen problems.
• Created animations to further conceptualize static design and schematics.
• Directed developers in India in software implementation through final works.

Nate was a senior designer at Razorfish and he spearheaded multiple projects and worked with the design team.

• Worked as a print, digital, and motion graphics designer. His clients included Adidas, Apple, BestBuy, Blue Moon Brewing Co., Coors, Expedia, Levi's, Microsoft and Nintendo.
• Designed visuals for a wide range of Microsoft projects, including software packages, interactive CDs, and websites. Examples of websites ranging from Microsoft Office to Expression Studio.
• Designed rich media Flash banner ads for Levi's, BestBuy and Expedia.
• Designed motion-graphics content for Levi's rich-media video banner ads and Coors Light website.

• Worked in the ITC Creative Services Department.
• Created reating educational materials as a print designer.
• Designed, programmed and produced interactive presentations and online courses for the university.
• Maintained B&W photography darkroom.
• Developed and hand-printed B&W film.