PROFILE

With fifteen years of combined experience in design, multi-media and technology, Andre Murnieks has taken on such roles as art director, new media designer, instructor, system specialist, assistant editor, recording technician, camera operator and musician. His professional appointments include art director at Blue Diesel (a division of Gerbig/Snell & Weisheimer) and new media designer at Retail Planning Associates.

In the field of interactive and information design, Andre Murnieks has extensive experience with retail, financial, automotive, health care and pharmaceutical industries. Within each of these industries, he has worked on a range of projects including retail consumer and marketing to corporate intranet and extranet applications. The list of clients include BMW, Nationwide Insurance, Motorola, CIGNA HealthCare, Adidas, Bank One, Microsoft and Kodak.

Andre Murnieks has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design specializing in visual communications from The Ohio State University. The program teaches problem solving and a user-centered approach to design. This approach emphasizes efficiently communicating the message to the end user as the overall goal of any design problem.

Recently, Andre Murnieks completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the Department of Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communication Design at The Ohio State University. His research is concentrated on distance communication and collaboration using mediating technologies. In addition to coursework and research, he has been appointed as a graduate teaching associate for an undergraduate course in design.

Though graphic design and production are a large part of Andre’s ongoing skill set, new interests and experiences include project research and development, design strategy, information architecture and multi-user, computer mediated environments and temporal-based media.

In addition to his visiting teaching appointment at the University of Cincinnati, he operates his own design consultancy to either manage or participate on independent projects. The roles vary depending on the project. Some projects required just consulting, design or production, while others are turnkey solutions.