Resume of Senior Designer

Title
Senior Designer

Primary Skills
marketing communications, promotions, editorial, corporate identity, branding, posters, advertising, project management

Location
US-NJ-Jersey City (will consider relocating)

Posted
May-08-08

OBJECTIVE:

To secure a position as a Graphic Designer where I can enhance and personalize the branding experience.

EDUCATION:

Maryland Institute College of Art; BFA Graphic Design & Painting
GPA: 3.5 Class of 2006

EXPERIENCE:

Gabriel Media Group: Senior Designer
Full-time Baltimore, MD
February 1, 2007 -- March 14, 2008

• Plan, analyze, and create visual solutions for consumer communication development.
• Design promotional displays, packaging graphics, and marketing brochures for products and services.
• Create distinctive brand identity, develop signs and signage systems.
• Produce web construction, multimedia video presentations and visual production on business collateral; such as business cards, letterheads, brochures and novelty spin-offs.
• Develop the overall layout and production design of magazines, newspapers, journals, corporate reports, media/press kits and other publications under GMG.

Gabriel's The Magazine: Senior Designer
Full-time Baltimore, MD
July 25th, 2006 -- Nov. 1, 2007

• Developed format of Gabriel's The Magazine, a Baltimore/DC-based lifestyle publication relaunched in September 2006 with a circulation of 25,000.
• Build the visual direction, layout, design and production of the magazine; select fonts, color palettes, creating templates for editorial/advertising pages.
• Managing and supervising designers and freelancers; and directing illustrators and photographers.
• Collaborate with the editorial department to brainstorm and concept stories, both editorially and creatively.

Fairchild Publications Inc.
Designer for Business 2 Business: Advertising/Marketing Departments.
Part-time New York, NY
June 1st -- August 19th, 2005

B2B Marketing Department publishes 5 trade magazines.
DNR (Daily News Record), HFN (Home Furnishing News), FN (Footwear News), SN (Supermarket News), and Infurniture.
• Collaborate with a team of 2 art directors, 1 managing and creative director and a copywriter.
• Design house ads, client ads, advertorials, developing sell sheets and/or redesigns, photo research, promotional mock ups and provided additional support needed for the 5 publications.
• Create output, high-res PDFs and collect files to be sent to clients, printers, and archived into jobs database.
• Produce quality typography on type face selection.

Certifications
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