Kimi Takemura



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Hi, I’m Kimi.
I’m a visual designer, with a background in UX and animation.
minimalist, married to a maximalist. fond of grids, rectangles and ink on paper.


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current location:
denver, co
LANGUAGES:
english (fluent)
chinese (conversant)
japanese (beginner)
french (beginner)




jump to:
+ visual design
+ prototype
+ code
+ 3D software

+ experience
+ education


work experience:



microsoft learn

(2022-current)
senior design lead
 
organize & collect assets into one cohesive location. cross-department communication to help other departments. presentation design, marketing assets used in social media, r&D for animation on the web. storytelling in presentations. icon art for cloud achievemnt badges.


Microsoft Azure
{2018 - 2022)
web & visual DESIGNWebpage Layouts, hero images, built an icon library, illustrations about the cloud in isometric style, svg diagrams with tooltips.

notes:introduced to growth mindset at microsoft. worked in-office with a great team. went full-remote in 2020.

Smart Deploy
(2016 - 2018)
visual design
web design, iconography, powerpoint slides and templates, animations, commercials, product ui design.

Amazon Web Services
(2017)
entry-level design
worked among information architects, ux designers and engineers for aws website.  Iconography, phone layout, hero images and illustrations

Freelancer
(2013-2016)
graphic designer + student
logos, merch creation for small businesses, branding, built a series of digital products, vectorkits.
around mid 2015 i started teaching myself ux design


Digital Domain
(2010-2012)
Production runnerpicked up and delivered supplies, food, people, cameras. accounting. worked in the commercials sector of digital domain.

big Red Button
(2008-2009)
animator for a commercial design studio in singapore.
macromedia flash + after effects + adobe illustrator


Education:

College
Lasalle SIA
Singapore



Diploma:
Diploma in animation (2007)

notes:Received a scholar grant from the Singapore government to almost fully pay for college, based on us citizenship and high school O’Level results.

High School
Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar
Malaysia
o’levels:English, English literature, drama, Art, Chemistry, Accounting.

Notes:Achieved Duke of Edinburgh award, a british cultural, volunteer and adventure activities program. went camping a lot in the malaysian rainforest.



softwares:

Visuals / graphics

illustrator
svg is the main 2d graphic format i use

adobe photoshop
image touch-up, compression, raster edits

adobe after effects
2d animation, motion graphics, compression

micrsoft powerpoint
presentation design (built in other softwares, imported into ppt near completion)

web design

figma
web prototypes, mockups, image formatting, idea generation, notes, feedback.

sketch
used this for prototypes and layout compositions, pre-figma

cargo
website builder with code implementation

paper and pencil
note-taking, to-do lists, scribbley idea generation

3d software
houdini fx
main 3D animation software

maxon redshift
rendering software. was using c4d for redshift, as of 2024 will be switching to redshift in Houdini

blender
low-poly modeler. uv painting.

Unity
hobbyist for vr world building, vr avatar rigging.

zbrush, unreal, c4d, modo
other 3d tools (not the main ones i use)


code
html
{beginner}
decent foundation

css
{beginner}
Enough to make a stylesheet and some minor animation.

javascript
{beginner}
animation and interactivity for web

processing / P5.JS 
(beginner)
creative coding for generative design