About Fose1 / John Tagle.

John Tagle has been illustrating and painting since the age of 11. At the age of 14, he won second place in Chicago Art Institute's well published contest, "Draw Me." The only thing is, he didn't draw what was shown... he produced a very elaborate perspective drawing of Nintendo's Zelda crouched on top of a cliff, overlooking a forest, a river, and a castle in the distance. He was personally visited by one of the staff from the Institute and was told he took second place for the Southern California region. He studied for 1 year and obtained 1 year of college credits in art by the age of 15.
During his late teens he was well into drawing and painting street art, known as "graffiti", and learned his color palette from there. He met some very famous artists and continued to learn by self-taught methods. After high school, he joined the military and traveled around the U.S. quite a bit and painted at different locations when ever he got the chance.
By the age of 27, he attended The Art Institutes of California - San Diego, graduating at the age of 30 with a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Arts. He began a life in Graphic Design and Illustration as a working professional for companies such as Legendary Headwear, Inc., U.S. Open Golf Tournament, PGA Tournament, Oneill, Rip Curl, Grave Digger Monster Truck, Genius Entertainment, and UC San Diego to name a few. He continues to reside in Southern California and work on his craft and passion.

Education:
06/1999 - 06/2003
The Art Institute of California, San Diego
BA, Digital Arts

Experience:
2008
University of California - Extension - San Diego,  CA
Graphic Designer
Designing brochure covers and page ads, the development of a seasonal catalog, and some simple web graphics.

2008
HD Supply - Poway,  CA
Creative Services : Catalog Development Team
The production of an Annual Catalog with over 1,000 pages of text flow and pictures.

2003 - 2008
Legendary Headwear Inc. - San Diego,  CA
Lead Graphic Designer : Golf Division
From conceptual to final production CADs, logos are a standard must in the "Green Grass" industry. Creation of logo 'name drops', redraws for digitizing  CADs for production, art presentations, to marketing POP, these are a regular ritual of my daily tasks.
Titleist is also a large part of my daily consumption, when I create the logos and CADs for many of the pro golfing events.
Staying flexible with my design direction, I also take on challenges in our company by leaping over to other industries such as surf, skate, snow, auto, and urban.
 
2002 - 2003
Kleen House Clothing Co. - Bonita, CA
Graphic Designer
Designing and creation of urban style designs for t-shirts, headwear, and accessory applications. Development in marketing POP, which includes pamphlets & flyers. From conceptual hand rendered drawings to final product, this is another side of the textile industry I have learned from.

2001 - 2003
Christian Ed. Publishers - San Diego, CA
Production Artist
Publishing of Christian children's books, my tasks were page layouts and coloring of vector art as well as film proofing prior to final run. Prepress and production skills were acquired working in the this part time job while attending college.

Contract:
2008
Cali Camera
Design and development of business cards.

2008
KleenHouse Boutique
Creative development of product advertisement flyer.

2008
For the Love of Food
Creative design of business cards.

2008
Sky Health & Fitness
Development and creation of company logo, business cards, and brochures.

2008
Dubwerkz
Creative development of company Logo, business cards, and brochures.

2008
Eastside Car Club
Redesign of club logo, with heavy photoshop work.

2008
Bumper Specialists
Creative development of brochures, web graphics, and advertisement flyers.

2008
Mandarin Garden Restaurant
Update of Menu and advertisement ads & coupons for 2009.

2007
Mandarin Garden Restaurant
Designing and Corporate Branding, I developed a new logo and packaging, developed a new menu design from interior to cover, and coupon and advertisement designs.

2007
Brandywine Liquor Stores
Business Card Design and Layout.

2006
Stonecreek Lending Corp.
Company branding for San Diego based company.

2006
Performance Web Org.
Design and page layout for online brochures, downloadable as PDF’s.

2006
Fusion Cafe
Design and creation of a local boba cafe’s menu board.

2006
Paradym Corp.
Company branding for a San Diego high-tech software company.

2005 - 2006
Genius Entertainment Inc.
Vector-based cartoon redraws for DVD packaging.
Layouts for CD/DVD packaging for children’s music and songs with video.

2005
San Diego Asian Film Festival Association
Page layouts for brochures for events hosted and presented by this association.

Software (Advanced):
Mac/PC
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Pagemaker
Adobe Premiere
QuarkXpress
CorelDraw
Microsoft Office

Software (Basic/Intermediate):
Mac/PC
Adobe After Effects
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Director
Lightwave 3D
Final Cut Pro
HTML

 

Design/Art Exhibitions:
MiknCircle’s “Boundaries”
La Mesa, CA

MiknCircle’s “Over n’ Over: Rebirth”
San Diego, CA
Url: http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/solaly/imgs/f/0 /f0d59d68.JPG

Jon Phenom’s “Denim Collabos”
San Diego, CA
Url: http://www.jonphenom.com/collabos/collabo.html
**You’ll click on John Tagle”

Graf on Girls 2008 (4 night shows)
Faces Night Club
Downtown San Diego, CA

The Witherby Club
Live Art Painting on Models
Downtown San Diego, CA

Aerosoul 2008
Alliance Center
Chula Vista, CA

Gunnzo Japanese Toy Show (Custom Toys)
Olde Town, CA

The Hip Hop Dance Show
Downtown San Diego, CA
San Diego Cultural Art Festival
Jacob Reeve Center for Arts
National City, CA

Bar Basic - Graffiti Tuesdayz (Nov. 2008)
Downtown San Diego, CA

KleenHouse Boutique
Random Pieces on Display
Downtown San Diego, CA