Steve Cup Creative

Art - Motion - Design

About Me

Steve Cup is a multidisciplinary digital artist with over a decade of experience in creating digital content to delight and amuse. In his most recent position at RECUR, he created key art, digital assets, and animation for popular brands such as Hello Kitty, Care Bears, and Nickelodeon.

Prior to Steve's work at Recur, he spent over 5 years at The Topps Company as a Design Lead for the MARVEL Collect! Trading card app. He oversaw the creation of 2D/3D content and motion graphics.

Mr. Cup is an alumni of SVA's prestigious Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program where he studied under Marshall Arisman. He also holds a BS in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Education

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

School of Visual Arts, 2013 - 2015

 

BS Graphic Design

Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 2006 - 2009


Software

Photoshop

Illustrator

Blender

After Effects

Cinema 4d

Fusion 360


Experience

Senior Digital Illustrator

RECUR Forever Inc, 2021 - 2022

Artist responsible for the creation of key art, art assets and social media graphics; Digital product design from licensed brand experiences including Hello Kitty, Care Bears and Nickelodeon.

Graphic Designer

The Topps Company, 2016 - 2021

Design lead for MARVEL Collect! Trading card app; 2d/3d content, motion graphics, and UI element design; Manage team of freelance designers; Art direct illustrators to maintain strict consumer products brand standards.

Graphic Designer

TradeWeb, 2015 - 2016

Desiger for print and digital; Tasked with redesigning all internal media to match new brand guidelines; create and code HTML email marketing templates, landing pages and event invites; infographic illustraion.

Production Artist

DICK's Sporting Goods, 2010 - 2013

Layout and typeset newspaper inserts for weekly release schedule; Maintain vendor logo database and process new and updated logo files; Design special event and grand opening ads to increase customer attendance.

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Contact

Want to work together? Give me a call or drop an email and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

+1 347.903.4077

New York, New York
United States