CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL C O N T A C T 617 599 0730 bryanbaker86@gmail.com Los Angeles, CA www.bryanbakermusic.com TERESTS I N VISUA L ART
BRYAN BAKER
O B J E C T I V E
To utilize a natural gift for creativity, as well as decades’ worth of experience and knowledge within the music, design and culinary industries toward the realization of a career with a larger impact and scope, focusing on the entertainment industry and its emerging sectors.
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TOURING GUITARIST Various | World | 2000– Present For the past decade and a half, have spent a large majority of my professional life traveling the world, performing as a guitarist and band member with many of the music industry’s most notable artists and groups, covering a wide swath of genres,
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from rock, blues, jazz and funk, to pop, electronic and country, something that has
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afforded me the opportunity to have seen every country in the world, many
READING WRITING AND HTML CODING RUNNING ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY E D U C A T I O N B . F . A . / J A Z Z C O M P O S I T I O N College of Music, Boston, MA Berklee 2004-2007 (Magna Cum Laude) B.F.A/JAZZ PERFORMANCE The Los Angeles Music Academy 2001-2003 (Magna Cum Laude) C E R T . / V I S U A L D E S I G N Assembly, Los Angeles, CA General 2015-2015
upwards of fifteen times or more. The result of this experience is a profoundly intimate knowledge of the practical, day-to-day details that entail being a professional musician, composer, or producer in all its sometimes less-thanglamorous minutiae. I have found this experience consistently surprising in its ability to provide me with meaningful lessons and parallels in my professional life, and is something I regularly pull from to this day.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR ccStudios | Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix | 2014 – Present Currently direct a small team tasked with spearheading the aesthetic output and design philosophy at ccStudios, a rapidly growing and swiftly emerging digital branding agency based in Los Angeles, CA. With its core client base housed predominantly within the ecommerce and online retail sectors, the lion share of the work that the ccStudios creative department focuses on lies in the distillation of high- concept design ideals that can simultaneously communicate an aesthetic that is both modern and culturally relevant, while being thoroughly approachable to mainstream customer bases, thus achieving both artistic realization without sacrificing profitability for the studio’s clients. The work of the ccStudios creative team has been featured in a verity of respected industry publications for its striking minimalism, clean, efficient design philosophy and ease of end user navigation functionality, all things we continually strive to achieve. .