Professional/Personal Overview
Freelance art + design director who successfully achieves creative solutions that simultaneously convey brand message and draw in users in both print and digital environments. With 12 years in the editorial business, I've become personally invested in visual story-telling, and I'm always seeking new collaborative partners and players with stories to tell on any platform. Specialties include typographic voice, publishing across platforms (including on iOS and Android devices), and redesigns.
Work Info
Expertise
Art Director
6 Years
Production (print)
15 Years
Designer
12 Years
Specialty
International
3 Years
Science
3 Years
Business (general)
10 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
14 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
InTouch Weekly Magazine (11+), Life & Style Weekly Magazine (11+), DISCOVER Magazine (11+), Elmore Magazine (11+)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Nomad Editions (11+), Teachers College, Columbia University (11+), EYES-OPEN Berlin (6-10)
Other Work History
Bauer Publishing, Nomad Editions, TimeWarner Book Group Cover Art, Wenner Media, Hammock Publishing, Inc.
Computer Skills
Adobe Creative Suite & DPS (all), Mag+, K4, WoodWing, MS Office (all), Mac OS X and older versions, comfortable on Mac & Windows (thru Vista).
Technical Skills
Photo retouching, layout production, color correction/proofing, production/pre-press, previous career in I/T (Macintosh) for Publishing, photography, digital printing (commercial).
Equipment
MacBook Pro, 27" Cinema Display, 11x17 Color Printer, Microtek scanner/film scanner, Wacom tablet, Sony Alpha 300 14 MPx camera, CS 4, 5, 5.5 and 6.
Foreign Language Skills
Deutsch
Work Permits & Visas
US Passport
References
Many available upon request
Awards
SPD 45 Rare Specimens (2009):
Associations
Society of Publication Designers
Other
The basics: Currently located in Brooklyn, New York, I have also lived and worked in Nashville, TN (where I grew up) and Berlin, Germany. My BFA in Communications Design and Art History is from Pratt Institute.
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
Magazines
(DISCOVER Magazine , 10/1/2009)
This feature exposé, on the potential of stem cell cures, ran in the November 2009 issue of DISCOVER.
(DISCOVER Media LLC , 10/1/2009)
Cover design for DISCOVER Presents THE BRAIN Fall '09 edition. Commissioned illustration by Bryan Christie Design.
(DISCOVER Magazine , 6/1/2009)
Spread from feature story package in June 2009's DISCOVER Issue. This feature package was awarded a Gold 2009 Folio: OZZIE for Best Feature Design in the Consumer Magazine (250,000+ circ) category.
(DISCOVER Magazine , 6/1/2009)
Spread from feature story package in June 2009's DISCOVER Issue. This feature package was awarded a Gold 2009 Folio: OZZIE for Best Feature Design in the Consumer Magazine (250,000+ circ) category.
(DISCOVER Magazine , 6/1/2009)
Opening for feature story package in June 2009's DISCOVER Issue. This feature package was awarded a Gold 2009 Folio: OZZIE for Best Feature Design in the Consumer Magazine (250,000+ circ) category.
(DISCOVER Media LLC , 11/15/2008)
TOC Designed for the Winter 2009 edition of DISCOVER Presents THE BRAIN.
(DISCOVER Presents THE BODY , 5/1/2008)
Center-spread-style sidebar for "Born to Run", from DISCOVER Presents THE BODY, Summer 2008 Special Issue. This magazine (as an entire issue) was awarded a Gold 2009 Folio: OZZIE for Best Single-Topic/One-off Issue.
(DISCOVER Presents THE BODY , 5/1/2008)
Opening feature story to DISCOVER Presents THE BODY, Summer 2008 Special Issue. This magazine (as an entire issue) was awarded a Gold 2009 Folio: OZZIE for Best Single-Topic/One-off Issue.
(Us Weekly Magazine , 12/15/2007)
Us Weekly's Best Bodies issue, spread design for "In Your 20s"
(HX Media LLC , 10/15/2007)
Cover for HX Magazine featuring Johnny Depp and his upcoming release Sweeny Todd.
(Discover )
Various tear sheets from nearly 4 years in the AD position at Discover.
Resumé
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
