Experience

Element Agency

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Director

  • May 2021 - Present



Nora Gecan Design

• Anchorage, AK

• Creative Director

  • May 2009 - Present

  Nora Gecan Design is an Anchorage-based virtual collective of creative professionals. Since 2009, we have created high-quality and award-winning work to a wide variety of clientele. We enjoy and maintain meaningful and long-term relationships with each of our clients, and you'll receive earnest and undivided attention. We are committed to listening to clients, creating work based on research and collaboration, and providing a high level of professionalism and creativity. At the onset of any project, team members whose skillsets are best suited to help solve your design challenges are hand-selected, and we then partner with you to achieve your project goals. The result? A tailored suite of proven communications tools, created by industry veterans who genuinely enjoy working together and furthering our clients' objectives. With Nora Gecan Design, you'll benefit from a small, flexible team of experts with little to no overhead costs. In this world of technological advances and remote collaboration, we are a modernized, streamlined, and creatively limber alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar agencies.



Mooses Tooth/Bear Tooth/Broken Tooth

• Anchorage, AK

• Graphic Designer

  • Dec 2015 - May 2018

  In-house artist/graphic designer for one of the most-loved companies in Alaska. In-house artist/graphic designer for one of the most-loved companies in Alaska.



University of Alaska Anchorage

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jan 2015 - 2016

  I teach Intermediate and Advanced Typography to undergraduate students. I teach Intermediate and Advanced Typography to undergraduate students.



Northwest Strategies

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Designer

  • May 2013 - 2015



Alaska Conservation Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern Program Manager

  • Jun 2011 - May 2012



Alaska Marine Conservation Council

• Summer intern and freelance designer

  • Jun 2010 - Sep 2011

  Summer intern, June - August 2010 Freelance designer, September 2010-present Summer intern, June - August 2010 Freelance designer, September 2010-present



The New School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - May 2011



Build It Green!NYC

• United States
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Spring intern

  • Feb 2010 - May 2010



Renewable Energy Alaska Project

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer Intern

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009



Alexander Gorlin Architects

• Marketing Intern

  • Jun 2008 - Jun 2008