Haris Cizmic
Encyclopedia
Haris Čizmić is a Bosnian American
artist
, musician
, video producer and graphic
, industrial and web designer.
degree in Design from University of Sarajevo
. He began his career working as a consultant for companies in Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Croatia. As the youngest member of the Bosnian Professional Artist Society, he exhibited his work at several own and group exhibitions.
After graduation, he worked as an assistant teacher at High School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo. In 2000 he moved to the United States
. Since then he has worked in areas of marketing and advertising to all forms of media: Web, TV, video, print, illustration, 3D, animation, and traditional media. As a senior Art Director at Campbell-Ewald and later at Wunderman-Team Detroit his work includes brand and online media units for Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Warrior Sport, Scotts, Bosch, and many others.
As a professional artist/designer, Cizmic does flash websites and online media pieces, including home page takeovers (MSN, Yahoo, Youtube, Aol, etc), flash animated banners, expandable rich media units and video integrated microsites. His current position is Sr. Art Director at Team Detroit Marketing Agency (Online Media Account). Among other awards, he won a 2010 "D" Show Award in digital media category (warrior.com website) , he was on the OMMA awarded winning team in 2009 (for Sync) http://www.mediapost.com/events/?/showID/OMMAAwards.10.NYC/type/AwardFinalist/itemID/1427/OMMAAwards-%20Finalists.html, and as a designer, artist and a musician, Haris was featured in hundreds of magazines, articles, covers and other press releases (press section). He produces, edits and do post & FX of videos for online media (2010 Ford Mustang Youtube takeover, Warrior sports, Bosch...) music videos (INGRAY, Spyderbaby, AXA, Rocquel Wallace... and most recently his own solo project), TV commercials (1.800.law.firm, Neurontin,...) and independent films and videos.
Among other printed and published works, Haris designs magazine layouts & covers ("@313NOW", "Insight"), catalogs, brochures, posters, billboards (mostly in Florida, New York, Chicago and Detroit areas), corporate identity & branding, and more. Haris is ranked in top five best selling authors on Graphic River, an Envato Marketplace with 800,000 members (photoshop templates, flash, video designs, etc)
As a "traditional artist", Haris does oil on canvas, illustration, airbrush, and recently he does lots of digital artwork and mixed techniques. Haris had illustrated books, newspaper articles, magazine cover pages and several comic books. One of his small galleries is available here http://www.redbubble.com/people/hariscizmic.
and several compilation CDs worldwide
Currently recording his solo album.
Bosnian American
Bosnian Americans are Americans whose ancestry can be traced to Bosnia and Herzegovina. A large majority of Bosnian Americans emigrated to the United States during and after the Bosnian war which lasted from 1992-1995. History of Bosnian arrivals to the United States, however, dates back to as far...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, video producer and graphic
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
, industrial and web designer.
Biography
Čizmić obtained a Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree in Design from University of Sarajevo
University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo is the first university in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was originally established in 1531 as a Madrasah or Islamic Law college, with a modern university being established and expanded on top of that in 1949. Today, with 23 faculties and around 55,000 enrolled students, it...
. He began his career working as a consultant for companies in Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Croatia. As the youngest member of the Bosnian Professional Artist Society, he exhibited his work at several own and group exhibitions.
After graduation, he worked as an assistant teacher at High School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo. In 2000 he moved to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Since then he has worked in areas of marketing and advertising to all forms of media: Web, TV, video, print, illustration, 3D, animation, and traditional media. As a senior Art Director at Campbell-Ewald and later at Wunderman-Team Detroit his work includes brand and online media units for Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Warrior Sport, Scotts, Bosch, and many others.
Work
In 2011 Haris http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4421119/ produced, edited, did special effects, post production and music score for the movie "One Last Call" (Official Selection for Detroit Windsor International Film Festival -06/25/2011) . The movie premiered in April 2011 at the packed Main Art Theater Detroit. Currently, the movie is being submitted to festivals all over the world . Along with the film, Cizmic's music video "OneLastCall" ist also being accepted to film festivals around the world . He also scores soundtracks for other films, documentaries and TV shows, including "Escaping Otis" http://indie.imdb.com/title/tt0319376/ - *Sundance Festival. Haris scores music for flash animations and websites (Original design and sound for official Chevy Camaro website in 2007 and soundtrack for Chevy Autobots (Transformers) site). In 2009 Haris scored the theme for 2010 Ford Fusion Advertisement http://www.fordvehicles.com/2010fusion/?m=comparisons§ion=sync performed by his band INGRAY. See more under "discography".As a professional artist/designer, Cizmic does flash websites and online media pieces, including home page takeovers (MSN, Yahoo, Youtube, Aol, etc), flash animated banners, expandable rich media units and video integrated microsites. His current position is Sr. Art Director at Team Detroit Marketing Agency (Online Media Account). Among other awards, he won a 2010 "D" Show Award in digital media category (warrior.com website) , he was on the OMMA awarded winning team in 2009 (for Sync) http://www.mediapost.com/events/?/showID/OMMAAwards.10.NYC/type/AwardFinalist/itemID/1427/OMMAAwards-%20Finalists.html, and as a designer, artist and a musician, Haris was featured in hundreds of magazines, articles, covers and other press releases (press section). He produces, edits and do post & FX of videos for online media (2010 Ford Mustang Youtube takeover, Warrior sports, Bosch...) music videos (INGRAY, Spyderbaby, AXA, Rocquel Wallace... and most recently his own solo project), TV commercials (1.800.law.firm, Neurontin,...) and independent films and videos.
Among other printed and published works, Haris designs magazine layouts & covers ("@313NOW", "Insight"), catalogs, brochures, posters, billboards (mostly in Florida, New York, Chicago and Detroit areas), corporate identity & branding, and more. Haris is ranked in top five best selling authors on Graphic River, an Envato Marketplace with 800,000 members (photoshop templates, flash, video designs, etc)
As a "traditional artist", Haris does oil on canvas, illustration, airbrush, and recently he does lots of digital artwork and mixed techniques. Haris had illustrated books, newspaper articles, magazine cover pages and several comic books. One of his small galleries is available here http://www.redbubble.com/people/hariscizmic.
Discography
- "Demo" (1991) - Dethrone
- "Face In Dust" EP (1994)- MackoFlack
- "International Music Festival Forte 98 - 2CD set (1998)
- "Therion Confidential"(1999) http://www.answers.com/topic/therion-confidential
- "Pandemonium" - Electronica - Instrumental CD(1999) http://theaxart.com/archive/memorex.html
- "The Other Side" - EP (2000) http://theaxa.com/otherside_big.htm
- "AXA _multimedia" (2001) http://theaxa.com/multimedia_big.htm
- "Therion Confidential - remastered" (2004)
- "Good Girl" - EP (2005)http://theaxa.com/goodgirl_big.htm
- special Guest Star on "Kill the King" - from "Let Us Prey" - Spyderbaby(2006) http://www.myspace.com/spyderbaby
- "AWAY" (2009) - INGRAY http://www.ingrayband.com/home.html - available on itunes, napster, etc.
- "One Last Call" - Soundtrack - Original film score http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4421119/
- "One Last Call Video" - music video supporting the main film theme, featuring Rocquel Wallace, officially selected for Detroit Windsor Film Festival 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSDZqwRFbg
and several compilation CDs worldwide
Currently recording his solo album.