Skills
Packaging Design
Illustration
Branding
Typography
Hand Lettering
Art Direction
Hand-Comping
Retouching
Catalogs
Logo Design
Prototypes
Licensing
Concepts
Style Guides
Software
Adobe Creative Suite
Illustrator expert
Photoshop expert
InDesign
Acrobat
Microsoft Office
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Professional experience
Lead Creative
Sheeran Design and Illustration, Park Ridge, NJ • 4/2022 – Present
Responsible for creative, client development on a wide variety of projects.
Clients: Warburton Brewery Co., Ganache Confectionary and Go2 Media.
Westport Corporation, Pine Brook, NJ • 10/2013 – 4/2022
Art Director for Men’s Division of one of the largest manufacturers of leather goods in the market today. Supervisory member of highly efficient Art Department producing work for a multitude of products for many top brands. Focused on creation of packaging for wide specialty product line ranging from wallets, belts and briefcases to wine caddies and specialty items created to match key licenses and requests. Responsible for process from concept to final production, including creation of custom dielines. Responsible for brand identity and application from conceptualization through application including logo creation and brand conceptualization. Initial concepts from sketch, schematics for in-store display shipping units and full integration to the larger box stores requesting end caps, pallets and display units. Clients: Timberland, Steve Madden, Skechers, Haggar and Andrew Marc.
Westport Corporation, Pine Brook, NJ • 4/2004 – 10/2013
Responsibilities included design and production of all print materials and packaging art working in collaboration with the Senior Art Director and VP of Sales. Designed internal sales catalogs. Revamped our catalog system for use throughout company. Created a DAM for company wide access including sales and development divisions giving them access to photos of all of our products. Creative lead for photography and image retouching including hand comping of packaging for marketing presentations. Clients: Perry Ellis Portfolio, Orvis, Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s
Senior Designer/Staff Illustrator
eFashion Solutions, Secaucus, NJ • 8/1999 – 4/2004
Integral part of team that built company from eight person startup to industry leader with 130 person workforce. Senior Designer involved in all aspects of the company’s design work. Responsible for design of our e-commerce websites from initial concept to programmable artwork. Managed design and production of all print advertising and collateral. Served as staff illustrator, creating original artwork for use in web and print applications. Created standards and practices guidelines for preparation of product photos for use on e-commerce websites and oversaw daily preparation of product photos. Managed a staff of seven production artists. Clients: Baby Phat, XOXO, JLo by Jennifer Lopez, Orange County Choppers and RocaWear
Graphic Designer
Yoe! Studio, Peekskill, NY • 1/1995 – 8/1999
Hired as intern and worked way up to one of only two designers trusted to work on projects for company’s top clients. Designed and managed projects from concept through final production. Eclectic studio produced work that included branding, style guides, promotional marketing materials and textile design., specializing in design geared towards kids. Responsibilities included concept development for toy and advertising, styles guides, original logos and pattern design. Clients: Cartoon Network, New Line Cinema, Ohio Art, Bob’s Big Boy Restaurants and PepsiCo.
Education
BFA Graphic Design