Freelance designer & illustrator with more than a decade of corporate, packaging, and advertising experience. Specializing in brand identity, logo design, digital illustration, packaging design, infographics, icon design, photo retouching, custom lettering, letterpress, and character design.

Clients: A la Frog / A Touch of Home / California Closets / Chick-Inn / Eastland / The Gap Foundation / The Graceful Cookie / Hass Avocado Board / HereWeClick / Hotwire / IGN / Indigenous Tuna / The Kaiser Family Foundation / Koa Capital / MOG / The Mother Nature Network / National Geographic / National Geographic Kids / RadarCorp / RadarGolf / Ramsell / ReputationDefender / Sprint / Stuff / Tastings / Thinkbox / Whole Foods / Yerdle

Agency work: Alt / Anthem / Brandtank / Continuum Crew / Forty Forty / Hoffman Lewis / JUMBOshrimp / JWT / Liquid / The M-Line / Magnetic Creative / SiteLab / 26DotTwo

Recognized by Communication Arts, Print, Step Inside, How, Graphic Design USA, The San Francisco Show, and The New York Festival. 

Book appearances include LogoLounge 5, LogoLounge 6, LogoLounge 7, White Graphics, Design Secrets: Layout, Then Is Now: Contemporary Designs Look Back, and 1000 Icons, Symbols and Pictograms.

Chris Rooney Illustration/Design  
San Francisco, CA - Berkeley, CA
Designer, Art Director, Illustrator
1994 - Present
::Branding, logo design, packaging, collateral design, print advertising, custom lettering, infographics, icon design, and illustration. 
::Clients include California Closets, Chick-Inn, Gap Foundation, Indigenous Tuna, Kaiser Family Foundation, Koa Capital, LEVEL, MOG, Mother Nature Network, National Geographic, RadarGolf, Ramsell, ReputationDefender, The Graceful Cookie
::Agency work with JWT, JUMBOshrimp, Anthem, Magnetic Creative, The M-Line, Hoffman Lewis

Y&R 
San Francisco, CA 
Senior Graphic Designer, Art Director
1997 - 2009
::Design and art direction for business collateral, corporate identity, print advertising, packaging and promotional materials.
::Clients include Adobe, AMD, Chevron, Foster Farms, Hitachi, Jacuzzi, McAfee, MGM Grand, NetApp, Polycom, San Francisco Film Festival, Sony, Texaco, Tivo


EDUCATION
Virginia Tech, College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Bachelor of Architecture Degree, focus on graphic design

SKILLS
Extremely fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat) 
Digital photography and retouching, storyboarding, mock-ups, pre-press production, and letterpress printing

RECOGNITION
2009  Graphic Design USA (cover)
2006  How Magazine International Design Annual
2004  How Magazine International Design Annual
2003  Print Magazine Regional Design Annual
2003  How Magazine International Design Annual
2002  Communication Arts Magazine Design Annual
2002  Step Inside Magazine 100
2002  Print Magazine Regional Design Annual
2002  How Magazine International Design Annual
2001  New York Festival
2000  How Magazine International Design Annual
1999  San Francisco Show
1998  San Francisco Show
1998  Print Magazine Regional Design Annual

PUBLICATION APPEARANCES
2012  LogoLounge 7
2011  Letterhead & Logo Design 12 
2011  LogoLounge 6
2010  LogoLounge Master Library: 3000 Animal and Mythology Logos
2009  LogoLounge Master Library: 3,000 Initials & Crest Logos
2009  LogoLounge 5
2006  1000 Icons, Symbols, and Pictograms
2005  Letterhead & Logo Design 9 
2004  Design Secrets: Layout 
2002  The Best of Business Card Design 5 
2001  Then is Now, Contemporary Designs Look Back 
2000  White Graphics