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Joan Kaghan

Joan Kaghan

New York, NY USA

https://jbkaghan.myportfolio.com

22 Years Experience

Professional Experience

Accomplished Illustrator, Designer and Production Artist with over twenty years' experience in the fields of publishing, both educational and trade; and not-for-profit arts. Able to multi-task and work successfully in an environment that requires multiple skills Organized, efficient and able to work as a team player and independently

Expertise

  • Graphic Designer 15 Years
  • Production (print) 20 Years
  • Illustrator 22 Years

Specialty

  • Books & Literature 22 Years
  • Education 20 Years
  • Entertainment 20 Years

Industries

  • Book Publishing Consumer 20 Years
  • Nonprofit 20 Years
  • Other 20 Years

Other work history

8 years at a Graphic Artist at Triumph Learning; 2 years as a Production Artist at Scholastic Inc.; Design and Production on a book for Omi International Art Center, Freelance Typesetter for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Illustrated 2 picture books for Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Unions

Freelancers Union

Computer skills

Desktop Publishing Software Skills include Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat, HTML, OS X

Equipment

Mac OS X, Adobe CC software, Sublime Text editor, iPad

References

Belen Negron, Carol Frederick, John L. Haber