Natural Organics

Art Director

Design and production of two health and fitness magazines and related web sites.

 

Energy Times Magazine: Redesigned existing web site which resulted in double the traffic in 2 months

 

Discover Life Magazine: Designed and launched in 2017; 4 issues per year and geared towards millenials

 

Relix Magazine

Art Director

Design and production of music magazine; Produced 8 issues per year while redesigning the format

 

Canon USA

Art Director

Design and production of all internal magazines including Imagine and Insight

 

Hearst Smart Money Custom Solutions

Art Director

Design of custom magazines for financial companies including Schwab,
T. Rowe Price and Mercer Securities

 

Metal Edge Magazine Redesign

Consulting Art Director

Hired as a consultant to redesign 20 year old music magazine;
Created new typography format, feature and department designs
and color palette; Set up style sheets for existing
Art Director to follow

 

Trump Magazine

Art Director

Art direction of upscale quarterly consumer magazine featuring
Donald Trump products and properties; Redesigned entire issue for re-launch; Photo research, retouching and editing and responsible for all
production work, including creating press-ready PDFs

 

Poker Life Magazine

Art Director

Art direction of quarterly consumer magazine, media kits, collateral and ads; Supervised Assistant Designer

 

Smoke Magazine

Art Director

Art direction of quarterly consumer magazine, collateral and ads

 

Ziff-Davis: Computer Shopper Magazine

Design Director

Art direction and design of monthly consumer tech magazine; Supervision and management of 4 staff designers Achieved bottom line results with the creation of an in house digital photo studio, reducing art budget by 30%; Functioned as
in-house tech support for Mac workstations

 

Games Magazine

Art Director

Art Direction and design of Games Magazine and Games Junior;
Control of budget for illustration and photography assignments

 

National Lampoon Magazine

Associate Art Director

Art direction and design of magazine articles and ads;
Management of photo shoots and art assignments

 

Cowan Publishing

Designer

Design for magazines specializing in music and electronics

 

 

 

 A W A R D S

 

2010 American Graphic Design award for Energy Times
2008 Boli award for Canon Insight Magazine,
Folio Ozzy
Society of Publication Designers: Merit & Silver awards,
Society of Illustrators, Dimensional Illustrators: Gold

 

 

 C O M P U T E R

 

Expert in Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Muse,

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere and Acrobat

 

 

 E D U C A T I O N

 

B.S. Degree in Art Education, State University of New York at New Paltz