
12/2004
- 12/2009 Staff
Assistant Art Director for
BusinessWeek. From 2004 -
2007 I worked primarily on
the weekly magazine, and
then
increasingly
on BusinessWeek SmallBiz,
the sister publication, published
6 x per year. On BusinessWeek
SmallBiz
I acted as the second-in-command
on a 2-person team, and helped
with its re-design in 2007.
5/2004
- 12/2004 Freelance
design for BusinessWeek
magazine. I worked on front
of book and back of book
stories and special sections,
arriving just after the
magazine had had a major
redesign.
4/2001
- 5/2004 Freelance
design for Sports Illustrated
and Fortune magazines.
2/2000
- 4/2001 Staff
Deputy Art Director, Fortune
Small Business magazine, AOL/Time
Warner, NY. In addition to
designing stories throughout
the magazine and selecting
illustrators, I assumed other
managerial duties, like reviewing
color regularly with the Imaging
Department and coordinating
production with the Copy Department.
In early 2001 FSB increased
production from 8 to 10 issues,
switched to perfect binding
and underwent a redesign.
I hired freelance designers
when necessary, and also found
a full-time junior designer
for the company.
6/1993
- 2/2000 Staff
Assistant Art Director,
Sports Illustrated magazine,
AOL/TimeWarner, NY. I designed
and art directed features
in addition to the front-of-book
columns. From late 1995
to early 1998 I designed
the Golf Plus section. This
section was a popular special
subscriber insert. Golf
Plus ranged from 10 to 20+
pages of edit coverage per
week. While I was the art
director of the Golf Plus
section I also designed two
unique Bonus issues of Golf
Plus. The first such issue
was published in December
1996 and the second in March
1998. They were mailed to
Golf Plus subscribers.
5/1990
- 6/1993 Freelance
Designer, Sports Illustrated
magazine, Time Warner Direct,
Bantam Doubleday Dell, Grey
Direct, NY. For most of
this period I was a freelancer
at Sports Illustrated magazine.
At this time the magazine’s
art
department converted
to use of the Mac. I also
did production and design
for other clients in publishing
and direct marketing.
I
created camera-ready mechanicals,
drew marker comps and
hand
lettering for clients
requiring
concepts and printed pieces
for brochures, direct
mail
packages and insert cards.
4/1986
- 5/1990 Staff
Assistant Art Director,
Clark Direct Marketing,
NY. I produced mechanicals,
comps and designs for direct
mail and sweepstakes packages,
insert cards, and full
page and space ads in magazines
and newspapers. Accounts
included Business Tokyo,
CBS Video, First Edition
Library, Disney Family
Magazine, Book-of-the-Month
Club, Rolling Stone, Architectural
Digest, Cuisinarts, Staples,
Lear’s
magazine, Bantam
Books, Dell, Gevalia Kaffe,
and Chemical Bank. This
small agency closed in
1992.
6/1982 - 4/1986 Freelance Production Artist, Time Inc. NY Corporate Circulation. I did direct mail package mechanicals and marker comps for the magazines Time, Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Discover and Fortune. I also did freelance production at New York, Video Review, Electronic Fun, and New Woman magazines.
Education
MFA,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BFA,
School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
Skills
InDesign/K4
Quark/QPS
Illustrator
Photoshop