about.sandy qadamani

I am a Creative Art Leader based in sunny
Southern California, United States.

I am daughter of a pressman and have grown up around print my entire life from pre-press to final print production, and delivery. I remember when dad would bring home extra Hollywood blockbuster movie posters and mom would fold them into book covers for my text books in elementary school. Fun memories!

I love the outdoors, hiking, camping, survival, you name it! I once explored an island on Alaska that had ZERO rocks or pebbles on it, a bear came and bit my friend’s knife, caught pike, and I found an abandoned cold beer in the bush there too!

innovative

functional

memorable

versatile

technical minded

deadline-oriented

master execution

PLATFORM:

  • MAC/PC (Proficient in Both)

ADOBE CC SOFTWARE:

  • InDesign

  • Illustrator

  • Photoshop

  • Acrobat Pro

  • After Effects

  • Premiere

  • Media Encoder

  • XD

  • InCopy

MICROSOFT 365 SOFTWARE:

  • Excel

  • Word

  • Powerpoint

  • Outlook

  • Teams

  • Sharepoint

WEB CMS:

  • Squarespace (highly recommended)

  • WordPress (keep it updated & you’ll be fine)

  • Shopify

  • Amazon

PRE-PRESS TOOLS:

  • Preps, Creo, Prinergy Evo, Kodak Insite, Acrobat Pro, FTP clients

AI TOOLS:

  • Adobe FireFly, Google AI

  • Chat GBT, but Grok is more accurate

FILE MANAGEMENT:

  • BOX.com, One Drive

  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

  • Lythos.com (InMotion), Progress app, Asana

SOFT SKILLS:

  • Collaborates well with others

  • Highly Communicative

  • Resourceful & Organized

  • Adaptable Critical Thinker

  • Listens with Empathy

THE USUAL SUSPECTS:

  • Layout skills & Resizing

  • Inquisitive about your marketing goals and target audience for your campaign, project or company

  • typography & font choices

  • Ability to follow & create brand guidelines

  • Knowing the difference between RGB & CMYK, and industry standard resolution

  • Mood boards

  • Pre-flight & Press-checks

  • Expert Researcher

  • Digital & Physical mock-ups

  • Retouching, Color Correction, Color Matching, Advanced Cloning, Effects

  • Illustration: Vector Graphics, Digital Ink & Color finishing, Manga/Anime, traditional mediums, handicrafts

recognition.

solutionalist

skillz.

Grand Prize Beer Label Design for ShoeTree Brewing & Jordan Jonas
(2023)

100% created in Adobe Illustrator

International Character Design Contest in Manga Without Borders Vol. 1 & 2
Japanime, LTD
(2006, 2011)

100% created in Adobe Photoshop

Fan art in crayon featured on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim ATHF Vol. 4 DVD
(2005)

Grand Prize Sailor Moon dimensional fan art
in the last issue of TOKYOPOP’s SailorMoon
(2001)

inbox me.

Interested in working together? Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly. We can’t wait to hear from you!