experience
04 – 09 Bonfire Communications, Art Director + Senior Graphic Designer
Responsible for art direction, concept, and design from start to finish of branding and communications for clients such as Gap Inc., Banana Republic, Genentech, SunPower and SFMTA as well as internal marketing and events for Bonfire. Responsible for client-facing presentations of design strategy, development of style guides and designer training workshops. Art direction of junior designers, interns and external creative talent including photographers, illustrators and designers. Projects included career development packages, event design and collateral, employee benefits collateral and websites. Internal projects included marketing collateral such as mailers, white papers, and event design.
04 – 05 GQ Magazine, Senior Graphic Designer
03 – 04 Teen Vogue, Senior Graphic Designer
02 – 03 Food Network, Senior Graphic Designer
99 – 02 Seventeen Magazine, Senior Graphic Designer
Responsible for concept and design from start to finish of print and online advertorial sections. Art direction and production of original photo shoots including managing photographers, stylists, models, illustrators and direction of press checks and color correction for production. Responsible for producing original illustration work. Responsible for concept and design from start to finish of in-house promotional materials including branding and identity of sales and marketing collateral, media kits, event collateral, signage and merchandise for sales meetings, concerts, and fashion shows.
98 – 99 Tommy Boy Records, Graphic Designer
Responsible for design of CD packaging and promotional print advertising.
97 – 98 MTV Music Television, Graphic Designer
Designer for the off-air and on-air creative department. Projects included
merchandising, book design, CD packaging, print advertising, sales materials
including media kit and on-air sales videos and major event collateral.
clients
Advertising Production Club • American Illustration Annual • Cargo Magazine •
Domino Magazine • Elle Magazine • Esquire Magazine • Inside Track • Interscope
Records • Jessica Gregg Jewelry • Lucky Magazine • Manhattan Short Film Festival •
The Nok Yoga • Nova Jazz • One Source Printing • Poken • Yoga Journal Magazine
education
2008 Brand Gap and Zag Branding Workshops, Neutron LLC., San Francisco
2008 Envisioning Information Workshop, Edward Tufte, San Francisco
2007 InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop Workshops, San Francisco
1997 BFA, Graphic Design, School of Visual Arts, New York City
awards and exhibitions
2007 IABC Silver Quill Award, Excellence in Publication Design Award for Banana Republic’s “Fashion Your Future,” Career Development campaign
2006 MarCom Creative Award, Platinum Winner for Banana Republic’s “Fashion Your Future,” employee guide and commitment book
1999 How Magazine Merit, International Design Annual, Business Collateral
1996 New Museum of Contemporary Art, “alt.youth.media,” Group Exhibition, New York City
skills
Adobe Creative Suite including Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage
