SUMMARY

Experienced creative with over twenty multi-million dollar automotive launch event designs, numerous national brand rollouts in consumer goods box stores and a passion for logo, branding and marketing collateral development. Directly responsible for the strategic development, and creation of client initiatives. A conceptual thinker whose creation of design concepts and art direction transformed clients strategic goals into actionable design solutions. Established and maintained vendor relations to meet extremely tight deadlines on a large capacity of projects simultaneously.

Areas of work in which I have been directly involved include corporate logo design and positioning development, event and product branding, collateral design, photo art direction, digital image manipulation, environmental design, architectural renderings, 3D space design. Additionally, I managed project timelines and budgets, internal and external design resources and provided staff coaching—always ensuring customer corporate guidelines and requirements were met.

Special interests include vendor and client communication including industrial interaction and quality assurance. Proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PPT.

Notable clients include Alfa Romeo, Audi, Banner Health, Children's Cancer Network, Honda, Dial, Mayo Clinic, Land Rover, Lexus, Maserati USA, Mazda, MINI, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Scion, Toyota, Volkswagen.

WHY ENZO?

Whats the connection to Vince Schwartz? A native Italian, Vince spent his formative years in Naples Italy where he found his appreciation for pizza, fast cars, and beautiful things. His name—Vincenzo Alberto Connola, ENZO for short. After immigrating to the USA, he spent the second half of his childhood assimilating western culture; first in up-state New York, then on to Scottsdale, Arizona, where his Italian-American family finally put down roots.

In 1997, Vince founded Lulham|Black Design Group, a corporate branding and product development firm specializing in consumer products, automotive education, and corporate communications. Through his firm's keen eye for design and branding, Lulham|Black Design Group's product and advertising collateral strategically positioned clients with their target audience, creating and finding the right images and words to evoke emotional responses.

In 2010, Vince was recruited to automätik, where he was charged with elevating automätik's capacity to conceptualize and produce leading-edge design for the automotive OEM industry. During his time at automätik, typical client feedback to his design work usually begins with "Wow" and ends with "Holy Cow," thus justifying Vince's pseudo-title of dimensionalist.

In 2018, Vince decided it was time for the next challenge. ENZO Creative was born.

When Vince isn't conjuring up the latest batch of amazing, he savors time with his lovely wife, Claudia, and his stable of fast-growing children... and recently, grandchildren (no other grandpa in the world possesses Vince's Photoshop and InDesign chops...we've checked). Oh, and in case you were wondering, he still loves pizza, fast cars, and beautiful things.