Résumé

Experience

Funny Garbage, New York, NY, Art Director, Information Architect
March 2007 – Present
Responsible for direction and design, as well as contributing to user experience and project management of interactive projects. Also responsible for new business proposal writing and preparation. Clients include: Viacom (teennick.com); Us Weekly (usmagazine.com); The Smithsonian Institution; NYC Department of Cultural Affairs & Alliance for the Arts (nyc-arts.org); Crayola; Mattel; University of Texas, Landmarks (landmarks.utexas.edu).

Honestly Now, New York, NY, Product Director
October 2009 – Present
Core team member, focused on IA and visual design, doing most of the production work myself and overseeing the tech team’s work.

Dot & Smudge LLC (freelance), New York, NY, Creative Director, Information Architect, Project Manager
2002 – Present
Clients Include: American Museum of Natural History; The Cooper Union (cooper.edu); Chubby Checker & HiFi Records (various albums); Pitchfork / Simon & Schuster (The Pitchfork 500); Testify Books (Mascots and Mugs, Street Level); CityLore; High Ridge Group (highridgegroup.com); Manhattan Edit Workshop.

Inc Design, New York, NY, Senior Designer & Art Director
September 2004 – March 2007
Responsible for direction and design of annual reports, Web sites, advertisements, identity and other collateral for Fortune 500 and other corporate clients. Clients include: Amerada Hess Oil Corporation; BearingPoint; Wave Biotech; Colony Capital; International Securities Exchange (ISE); NOVA Chemicals.

GK Design, New York, NY, Intern & Designer
2002 – 2004
Responsible for design of print collateral for both corporate and nonprofit clients.

FilmCore Editorial, Santa Monica, CA, Intern
Summer 2001
Interned and worked editing television commercials. Clients include: Wells Fargo Bank, Tosco (’76) Gasoline.

Education

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
BFA with emphasis on Design and Motion Arts
Focused heavily in typography, print design, motion graphics and video

The Basel School of Design, Basel, Switzerland
(Fachhochschule beider Basel, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst)
Studied typography with Wolfgang Weingart, as well as courses in information design and semiotics

Honors & Awards

Webby Nominee & People’s Voice Winner, Cultural Organizations Category (for Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal: ocean.si.edu)
April 2010

Webby Honoree, Magazines Category (for usmagazine.com)
April 2010

Webby Honoree, Guides/Ratings/Reviews Category (for nyc-arts.org)
April 2009

Interactive Media Awards, Best in Class, Arts & Culture (for landmarks.texas.edu)
March 2009

IIR Awards, Outstanding IR Website (for colonyinc.com)
January 2007

Lubalin Fellowship, Design Fellowship
March–May 2004

Art Directors Club Award, Top Young Designers in New York
May 2004

Skills

Proficient in:

» AfterEffects
» Photoshop
» Illustrator
» InDesign
» FinalCut Pro
» QuarkXpress
» Adobe Premiere

Working knowledge of:

» HTML, XHTML, CSS
» Flash
» Dreamweaver

Drawing/Illustration (and traditional handwork skills)

References

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