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Summary

I started off in the graphic arts field working with typography and its proper usage. After honing my typographical skills, I came over to the printing industry working as a prepress artist, and later as a production artist at ad agencies downtown.

Moving to the design field, I created banners, logos and collateral materials for The Wildlife Experience. For me, there was no greater thrill than to see my design, such as a logo or 12 foot banner hanging in the front atrium of a large museum. Working with fine artists and exhibitors, it’s been a pleasure complimenting their artwork and making exhibits interesting and fun to be around.

I believe that success hinges on how well we communicate with each other. To learn about a customer’s goals, to listen to their ideas and work in a collaborative effort to get the project completed.

Work History

Cottrell Printing

Centennial, CO, United States
Feb 2010 - Feb 2011
Production Artist 

Responsible for preparing artwork for final plating. This work included design, layout, typesetting,

color correcting and checking for proper folding and die cuts. I had to match typefaces and create artwork

from customer designed sketches. I also created forms and used Acrobat for pdf workflow on all jobs.

 

The Wildlife Experience

Parker, Colorado, CO, United States
Oct 2005 - Feb 2009
Graphic Designer 

Designed and produced banners, posters, logos and museum displays. Work included large murals, kiosk wraps and directional signage. I worked closely with educational and exhibit staff to convey the museum’s conservation message. All designs were output in-house and applied to durable materials.

Downtown Denver Advertising agencies

May 2005 - Oct 2005
Freelance production artist 
Corrected and prepared designs for final reproduction. Duties included editing, creating layouts and resizing ads for final output. Also did color enhancement to photo images.

Magicolor

Oct 2000 - Feb 2005
Prepress artist 
In a timely and efficient manner, I preflighted files before plate making. This involved color correction, editing copy, trapping and imposing final signatures for the press.

Barnhart CMI

May 2000 - Sep 2001
Production artist 
Created mock ups, edited copy, mounted ads and configured designs to match die line. I enhanced production flow by fixing problems with layouts before jobs went to press.

Education

Graphic Design

BBA, Marketing/Management

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Denver, CO, United States
Sep 2009 - Dec 2010
Web Design Certificate, Web Design

I was provided training in the programs of Dreamweaver, Flash, XHTML and how this software is utilized in web design. The second phase was creating our own web site which was our final project.

 

Masters of the Night

Masters of the Night - cave backdrop
This very large banner was used as a backdrop for a cave entrance prop didn’t meet fire code and had to be placed against a wall.
 

Chaparral Banner

Chaparral - High School Exhibit
This banner was used to promote Chaparral and Ponderosa High school artwork exhibiting in TWE’s hallway featuring paintings, sculpture and photos.
 

Art & the Animal ad

Art & the Animal ad
This was an ad created for the Art & Animal exhibit that was featured on the inside cover of Wildlife Art Magazine.
It gave the museum excellent exposure for this fine arts exhibit.
 

Stamp of Approval

Stamp of Approval Exhibit
This was a banner used to promote the sales of stamps for the Colorado Waterfowl stamp program. This exhibit featured winners of the stamp contest.
 

Mile High Photo Club

Rocky Mountain Photo Club intro
This piece was an intro panel to promote the Mile High Wildlife Photo Club that displayed their artwork at the museum.
 

Audubon Intro Panel

Audubon -Animal of North America
This panel was used to introduce this fine arts exhibit called Audubon’s North American Animals, with an eloquent type face and soft light background.
 

Colorado Aspen logo

Colorado Gold logo for ID label
This soft aspen leaf
was created to give
a sophisticated look
to an exhibit promoting Colorado artist. This logo
was also on overhead banners.
 

Hybrid banner

Hybrid - Banner promotion
This banner was hung outside of the museum and was used to promote hybrid cars and explain the benefits of their use in stopping global warming.
 

Celebration of Nature

Celebration of Nature Panel
This piece promoting a photo exhibit called Celebration of art was actually trimmed like
this photo image and
mounted to a wall.
 

Mural of Peaks to Plains

Peaks to Plains Mural
This very large mural was placed over a construction wall to promote the opening
of a new exhibit for the museum called Wild Colorado
 

Slurpee Sloper

Slurpee Sloper
This sloper was
used by the education department at the museum to promote actions that could prevent mosquito bites and prevent West Nile disease.
 

Nurturing Nature Panel

Nurturing Nature Revise
This was a revised layout for an exhibit called Nurturing Nature. I wanted to design this with a natural theme against a soft wood background.
 

 

Wolf to Woof Intro Panel

Wolf Intro Panel

This introduction panel was displayed while the exhibit featuring “How dogs evolved from wolves” was being setup.

I used a ghosting effect to portray the wolf in a softer light, while the German Shepherd was outlined at full strength. The paws were used as a transition from the wolf image to dog image.

 

This intro was created to add

interest to this exhibit and give

a feel of the similarities between

these two species of animals.