JONATHAN ROBERT AUBE

Senior Graphic Designer | Brand, Event, Presentation and Production Design

Chicago | 312.391.7429 | jonathan@auroj.com | auroj.com | linkedin.com/in/auroj

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SUMMARY

Senior graphic designer with brand, event, presentation and production design experience across B2B conferences, commercial and residential real estate, manufacturing and independent clients. As the sole in-house designer at BuiltWorlds, built a modular conference system applied to stage visuals, signage, wayfinding, presentation templates and speaker decks, managed production vendors and worked with marketing, sales, research and executive leadership. Designed conference slides and white papers at JLL, catalogs and trade show graphics during a global rebrand at Robertshaw and print collateral at Magellan Development Group. Portfolio: auroj.com/portfolio.

CORE SKILLS

Brand systems and visual identity | Event and conference design: stage visuals, signage and wayfinding | Presentation and PowerPoint decks | Print production and vendor management | Brochures, catalogs and collateral | White papers and information design | Large-format and trade show graphics | Reusable templates and asset libraries | Photography

Tools: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop | PowerPoint (presentation decks) | WordPress (page builds, asset management) | HubSpot (asset and contact management)

EXPERIENCE

auroJ (Independent Design Studio) | Senior Graphic Designer | 2012-Present

• Goldstreet Partners (professional services firm): ongoing website and brand maintenance; designed for-lease and for-sale brochures and signage.
• Holiday Bright Lights: production design for info sheets and product sheets.
• Manage client relationships and production partners, including printers, for each engagement.

BuiltWorlds | Graphic Designer (Creative Lead scope) | 09/2023-09/2025

• Served as the sole in-house designer, owning the visual identities and creative execution for 10+ B2B conferences in the U.S., Tokyo and Paris.
• Built a modular conference system with structured layouts and color-coded tracks that scaled across multiple events, applied to stage visuals, large-format screens, presentation templates, speaker decks, signage, wayfinding and digital promotions.
• Managed event creative budgets up to $50K, tracking all design and production spend for conferences of 200 to 500+ attendees; managed production vendors and worked with marketing, sales, research and executive leadership to keep every conference on brand.

Robertshaw | Multimedia Designer | 07/2022-04/2023

• Contributed to a global corporate rebrand, applying the new identity consistently to catalogs, trade show graphics and sales materials.
• Developed a structured product photography library for digital asset management, giving teams a reusable source of approved images.

Bradford Allen (contract through Robert Half) | Senior Graphic Designer | 05/2022-06/2022

• Designed brand refresh materials for 209 W. Jackson in Chicago and a commercial property email and brochure for the New York office.

JLL | Graphic Designer | 10/2021-04/2022

• Designed presentation slides for the 2022 Management U Conference using one layout and type system across speakers.
• Designed white papers for JLL Americas business lines.

NAI Hiffman | Graphic Designer | 05/2021-08/2021

• Designed property marketing materials for commercial real estate brokers.

Magellan Development Group | Graphic Designer | 04/2015-07/2020

• Designed branding and marketing for luxury residential developments, including digital campaigns, websites and print collateral.
• Designed print pieces including a floor plan book, folded neighborhood map, trifold outreach piece and email blasts.
• Designed building graphics and event pieces, including a lobby decal and an event invitation.