PT Instructor Advertising & Graphic Design

EXPERIENCE

November ••••• to Present. Founder and Creative Director. ••••• Creative Services, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina. Responsible for concept and creation of ads, brochures, web sites, booths, corporate identity and direct mail. Supervision of freelance art directors, photographers, illustrators and production artists. Frequent client and vendor contact. ECS is totally emersed in digital art. With in-house digital photography, high-end digital scanning and color-proofing. Clients include Citizens Savings Bank, The Fauquier Bank, IBM Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union, IBM, Washington Systems Consulting, Axent Technologies, Raxco Inc., ARA Human Factors, Doxa, USAir, Howard Hughes Medical Center, Advantage International, DDA PhoneDisc.

January ••••• to November ••••• Senior Art Director. The Audy Group, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland. Responsible for concept and creation of ads, brochures, booths, corporate identity and direct mail. Supervision of art directors, production manager and production artists as well as freelance photographers and illustrators. Frequent client and vendor contact. In •••••, researched and implemented the change from traditional graphic techniques to digital. Clients included Citizens Savings Bank, Dominion Bank, Maryland National Bank, The World Bank IMF Credit Union, Equitable Federal Bank, First American Bank, National Cooperative Bank, Price Waterhouse, Hibbard-Brown (Financial Planners), Carey Winston, Pulte Homes, Ryland Homes, Martens-Edward Development Company, GEICO, IEEE, American Automobile Association, Presidents Council on Physical Fitness, United Press International.

July ••••• to January ••••• Art Director. Kuper Advertising, Inc., Boulder, Colorado. Responsibilities included concept, design, layouts, photo art direction, direction of freelance production artists, supplier/client contact, pressproofing, illustration, photo retouching, photocropping, mockups, photo props, keyline and pasteup, stat camera, type specification and mask cutting. Graphic Design for ads, brochures, booths, corporate identity and direct mail. Clients included Graftech Division of Burroughs, Chimera Professional Lighting Products, International Sports, Whitewave Tofu, Data Display Corp.

February ••••• to April ••••• Art Director. Temkin, Novack and Temkin Advertising and Public Relations, Chicago, Illinois. Designed and produced large volume of recruitment and retail advertising and supporting collateral on a weekly basis. Direction of freelance production artists. Clients included Union Carbide Corporation, Alexian Brothers Hospital, Homart Development Division of Sears, Thompson Vacations.

April ••••• to February ••••• Art Director. Davidson Advertising Services, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois. Recruitment/retail advertising, recruitment collateral, booths and AV presentations. Supervised two production artists. Clients included Allstate Insurance, TRW, Columbus Cuneo Cabrini Medical Center.

June ••••• to April ••••• Graphic Designer. Dahlstrom Display, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. Chicagos largest silk screen printing company. Along with graphic design, also trained in computerized type setting. Clients included Jewel Food Stores, Ace Hardware, J.C. Penneys.

EDUCATION

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Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree,
Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

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Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

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University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.
HTML

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AGIA, Washington DC.
Conf. on Multimedia and the Internet

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Apple Computer, Philadelphia, PA.
Internet Design Conference

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Art Directors Club, Washington DC.
Computer Graphics Seminar

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Art Directors Club, Washington DC.
Computer Graphics Seminar

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Hewlett-Packard/Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado.
Computer Graphics

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Hewlett-Packard/Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado.
Computer Graphics

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DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
PL/1 and BASIC Programming

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Kodak, Chicago, Illinois.
PMT Seminar

AWARDS

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Medical Illustrators Club of New York.
Race Against Lethal Microbes

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Medical Illustrators Club of New York.
Seeing, Hearing And Smelling The World

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PRINT Magazine Regional Design Annual.
Symbol for Connecting Technologies

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Award for Print Excellence. Bank Marketing Association.
Roll Over Your IRA, Beethoven

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Addy Award.
How One Agency Bet ••••• Won

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Creative Excellence Award

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Alfie Awards.
Kuper Advertising Promotional Piece
A Shorts Story

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Gold Key Awards.
Wang & NBI Are Ready To Talk. (Single Page Ads B&W)
Sightseeing? (Fractional Page Ads B&W)
A Shorts Story (4c Catalog)

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Alfie Awards.
Kuper Advertising Corporate Identity
Wang & NBI Are Ready To Talk

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ADAC Awards. Art Directors Club of Denver.
A Shorts Story (Annual Reports & Brochures)
Wang & NBI Are Ready To Talk (Newspaper Advertising)
Chimera Catalog (Annual Reports & Brochures)

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Addy Awards.
A Shorts Story
Wang & NBI Are Ready To Talk
Z Designs Letterhead
An Uncensored Conversation
Our Manual vs Your Labor
After Booth D•••••

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AE Award from Consolidated Paper Corporation.
The Press Kit