Artist Bio
Jasmine Myers is a multi-disciplinary artist whose career spans across fine arts and digital arts. From drawing and painting Jasmine’s artistic journey has evolved to include animation, UX design, character design, gamification design, and graphic design. Her wide range of skills lets her combine creativity with practicality, with a goal of creating designs that are both visually appealing and purposeful.
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Jasmine completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at OCAD University in Toronto, where she received a BFA in Experimental Animation. During her undergrad, she also worked part time as a UX designer with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), where she worked on tools and apps used for workplace learning and training. Her team was dedicated to helping improve user experience by including game elements in educational environments to help with user engagement, motivation to learn and learning retention.
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After Undergrad, Jasmine worked as a freelance designer and worked on a wide variety of projects, including character designing for small businesses, creating comic strips, and designing a university textbook cover. Each project allowed her to gain new skills and explore different design disciplines, expanding her versatility as a designer. Recently, Jasmine had the opportunity to do freelance work with My Oral Village TM, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching financial literacy to adults and women in Sierra Leone. She helped create illustrations and animations that became powerful learning tools for illiterate and innumerate adults, using art as visual learning tool that is a bridge to empower and educate.
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Jasmine is currently a junior designer at Poolside by CGT in Cambridge Ontario where she focuses on creating designs that are printed on PVC vinyl for pools and decking, gaining more experience in digital art, 3D modelling and printmaking. Jasmine strives to make unique and beautiful designs in the pool liner industry by using her skills of blending artistry to the gravure printing process.
Whether in her personal creative projects, freelance work or her professional design roles, Jasmine always tries her best to blend fine art and user-oriented design in every project she does, and thinking firstly of the people the designs are for and what she can do to help them most.
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