Malka Media: Creative Operations & Campaign Support
During my time at Malka Media, I managed creative operations and supported large-scale digital campaigns for clients like Amazon Web Services, Twitch, and Showtime. I oversaw the flow of assets from concept through finishing, coordinating closely with creative directors, legal, production, and vendor teams to ensure accurate, on-time delivery across social, digital, OOH, and broadcast. My role blended hands-on design knowledge with high-volume workflow management, helping the design studio move faster while maintaining creative quality. The following projects are a small sampling of my favorite projects during my time at Malka Media. More specific examples available upon request.
Twitch x Trolli
Live Stream Creative Operations
Led end-to-end creative oversight for Twitch live stream packages, from sourcing and onboarding the right designers to guiding the full asset production pipeline. I coordinated closely with creative leads, stakeholders, and broadcast/animation teams to maintain alignment, translate vision into actionable design tasks, and ensure every asset- from overlays to motion elements- was delivered correctly and on time. Managed schedules, maintained quality control, and anticipated downstream needs so designers were set up for success and animation teams had everything required for seamless live integration. The result: polished, on-brand graphics that supported smooth, error-free broadcasts under tight timelines.
We made it happen.
Design Direction: Farnaz Taher & Myself.
Art Direction & Design: Michael Barakat.
Animation: Mia Rico, Russell Konzelmann, Ciel Hyeyeon Kim, Emily Thompson.
Fight Towns x Showtime
Series Graphics
Stephen Jackson hosts the Showtime digital series "Fight Towns with Stephen Jackson," a boxing show where he explores the culture, history, and fighters of different cities. It was my job to resource the talent responsible for giving this series a significantly different look and feel than other Showtime Basketball and Boxing series.
Direction: Farnaz Taher & Myself.
Art Direction & Design: Michael Barakat.
Cognizant Corp Strategy Video
I oversaw the development of all storyboards in alignment with the script, while guiding the broader visual narrative to ensure it accurately reflected Cognizant’s evolving vision, values, and capabilities. This included managing design resources, aligning creative teams against tight timelines, and ensuring consistency across motion, typography, and visual systems.
Through a disciplined use of modern design language, dynamic animation, and clear typographic hierarchy, the final work delivered a compelling, accessible narrative for prospective clients, industry partners, and internal stakeholders—supporting Cognizant’s goal of positioning itself as a forward-thinking, outcomes-driven technology leader.
Design Resourcing: Myself
Producer: Pia Rizzo-Wilton
Art Direction: Sam Alexander
Design: Michael Barakat
Animation: Emily Thompson
Sound & Mix: Gaelan Mullins
Showtime Boxing - 2023 Social Refresh
As Design Manager, I led the creative direction for Showtime Boxing’s 2023 social refresh, delivering a flexible graphics system designed to keep the brand’s social presence dynamic and visually current. The objective was to evolve the look while staying firmly rooted in Showtime’s iconic red, white, and black palette.
I guided the team toward a modular, geometric design language built to imply motion—even in static frames—while enabling the animation team to efficiently introduce movement across future assets. The result was a scalable, easy-to-adapt visual system that was well received by stakeholders and positioned the brand for ongoing social content throughout the season.
Art Direction: Michael Barakat
Graphic Design: Camilo Bermudez, Diego Bassura
