THE BORING STUFF
+ CG Master Academy, 2014-2016 – Online classes for: Dynamic Sketching 1&2, Fundamentals of Perspective, Analytical Figure Drawing, Fundamentals of Character Design / Digital Painting
+ Artist / Länsi-Lapin Ammatti-instituutti, 1997-2001
+ Graduate of a commercial institute in AudioVisual Marketing / Virtain Seudun Kauppaoppilaitos, 1994-1996
+ Matriculation Examination, Savonlinnan Taidelukio, 1991-1994
STUFF DONE FOR THE MONEY
Career highlights
– Art direction of Angry Birds Brand Book
– Art Direction of Angry Birds 15th Anniversary comix
– Angry Birds Movie 2 Premiere takeover in Tennispalatsi
– Rovio office makeover
– Made a working demo-app for an internet radio app, based on that the company got 10Meur funding and later on Nokia had to shut down their rival project
Rovio Entertainment Corporation, Espoo 2/2013 –
Rovio Entertainment, Finnish mobile game & entertainment company, best known for creating the Angry Birds franchise.
– Job title: Lead Visual Designer in Transmedia/Brand team
– Main responsibilities: Art Direction & Hands-on Design and Execution of graphic design concepts, Creating master marketing materials and assets, Creating and managing coherent visuals across the company (Rovio Brand & AB brand), Event and exhibition designs, Marketing materials for Consumer products, Sales support & Location Based Entertainment, Social Media assets, Logo designs & UI/UX/Graphic design.
Liquid Air Lab Oy / GmbH, Tampere/Viiala, Finland, 4/2006 – 7/2012
Liquid Air Lab, founded in 2002, is an iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia Smartphone specialist, developing mobile multimedia applications and mobile advertising solutions.
– Job title: User Interface Designer / Graphic Designer
– Main responsibilities: Interface designs and graphic designs for mobile apps/games, websites & marketing materials
Rocket Science Oy, Tampere, Finland, 5/2004 – 4/2006
Rocket Science is a development studio for mobile multimedia applications and games. Rocket Science was acquired by Liquid Air Lab in 2007.
– Job title: Graphic Designer
– Main responsibilities: Graphic designs for mobile apps/games, websites & marketing materials
Lumedia Oy, Tampere, Finland, 6/2000 – 5/2004
Lumedia was an advertising agency, I was one of the founders.
– Job title: Art Director, Member of the board, Co-Founder
– Main responsibilities: All creative and design related tasks
Arkkimainos ky, Tampere, Finland, 1/2000 – 6/2000
Arkkimainos was an advertising agency.
– Job title: Trainee, Craphic Designer
– Main responsibilities: All design related tasks at advertising agency
Pohjolan Sanomat, Kemi, Finland, 5/1998 – 1/2000
– Job title: Image Processor
– Main responsibilities: Processing and manipulating photos for the news paper
MILITARY SERVICE
Non-military service:
– Graphic Designer at Tampereen Työväen Teatteri, 10/2003 – 3/2004
– Computer Science Teacher at Virtain Seudun Kauppaoppilaitos / Aikuiskoulutuskeskus, 2/1997 – 7/1997
LANGUAGE SKILLS
– Finnish, mother tongue
– English, excellent
– Swedish, basics
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
– Adobe Photoshop (excellent, used PS since 1995)
– Adobe Illustrator (excellent)
– Adobe InDesing (exellent)
– Adobe AfterEffects / Premiere (mediocre)
– 3D : Blender / Maya (mediocre)
– HTML + css basics and some PHP+MySql+JavaScripting
I’ve been developing user interfaces and graphics for mobile apps and games for several different platforms ( Symbian s60 2ed -> Symbian Belle, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, MeeGo, Samsung Bada and iOS) since 2004.
STUFF DONE FOR THE FUN
Currently I have my own small advertising agency business beside the full-time work, called Kieriö (http://www.kierio.fi). Kieriö provides small website projects, logo / graphic designs, illustrations, etc. and is meant to be just as a hobby, not a competitor for fulltime job.
Photography: #1st prize at “Iltalehden kuvakisa” 8/2008, finalist at “Rajala Pro Shop kuvakisa” 8/2009
Traditional arts: Drawing, painting…
Digital arts: painting with Procreate / Photoshop etc
Commodore 64 Demoscene & Retro Computers
– Multiple Award winning C64 Pixel art and Floppy disk-cover art
– Featuring in Publications:
– “Masters of Pixel Art Vol. 2”, 2017
– “Freax – The Art Album”, 2006
– Exhibitions:
– “Pixeled Years” at Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere, 10/2022-3/2023, curated with Tommi Musturi
– “Digital Territory – Großes Kino der digitalen Kunst” at Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen, Germany, 2019, curated with Stefan Pautze and Tommi Musturi
– “DiskCovers” at Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere, 2018, curated with Tommi Musturi
– Featured in “Masters of Pixel Art”-exhibition at Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere, Finland, 2017
– Founder and member of the board of “Nepascene ry.” – an association for Commodore64 related demoscene people
Comix, music, movies, scifi/fantasy books
Rollerskating, jogging
Family: wife & 2 kids (born -01 and -03) + 2 Canadian Sphinx Cats
LINKS
LINKEDIN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariseppa/
PORTFOLIO
https://portfolio.kierio.fi/
INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/kurimuskierio/
SKETCHBLOG
http://sketchef.kierio.fi