Resumé

DJANGO PHILLIPS
Professional Experience

Aug '05 - present
Melissa & Doug, LLC
- Art director/graphic designer and head photographer/retoucher for CT based toy company
- Designer, art director and photographer for all annual catalogs, brochures and
advertisements
- Graphic design and photography for trade show and in-store environmental graphics
- Create label and packaging graphics and photography for products
- Create and maintain product photography library for website and promotional purposes

Mid-April '05- Late July '05
Swingshift LLC
- Freelance graphic designer and production artist for CT based recruiter.
- Assignments include graphic design work for GE in Fairfield, CT and Combe Incorporated in White plains, NY

March '05 - Mid-April '05
L' Oreal , USA
- Freelance graphic designer and production artist for hair color division
- Performed preliminary retouching and color-correction for retail products

March '95 - Feb '05
GoodTimes Entertainment
- Senior art director and graphic designer for NYC entertainment/branding company
- Provided artistic and technical direction to a staff of seven graphic designers
- Conferred with dept. head in maintaining schedule
- Created concepts and designs from inception through finished piece for Video and DVD Jackets, corporate brochures, cds, magazine ads, POP displays, Interactive DVD menus, web graphics, posters, and a variety of other media
- Handled final retouching and maintained quality control of Imaging from staff.

Sep. '94 - March '95
Compucolor Design Center
- In-house graphic designer for walk-in computer service bureau
- Sat with clients to design brochures, mailers, catalogues and corporate logos
- Prepared digital files for output to a variety of color printers
- Served as technical consultant to clients at seven mac rental design stations.

Jul. '92 - Aug. '94
Warner Bros. Music
- Graphic designer and production artist for music publication division
- Prepared comps for all major releases for submission to artist management
- Photostat room manager and technician
- Created and maintained art research archives for creative dept

Nov. '91 - June '92
Designer Sign Systems
- Silk-screened and assembled architectural signage
- Worked with blueprints on sign installations

Freelance Experience (from earliest to most recent)
CYBERGENICS AMERICA - Designed sell-sheets, labels , brochures, displays and magazine ads appearing in FLEX and MUSCLE & FITNESS magazines. WILBERT'S BLUES RECORDS - CD Design for violinist JOE DENINZON. WIRED ENVIRONMENTS - designed 3d web animation for internet wiring co. ALFA-PARF - prepared comp idea for 4-pg magazine advertisement. KROLL ASSOCIATES - designed 30 pg brochure. JOE DENINZON - 2 CD designs and various flyers, mailers and promotional pieces. QUAD- Designed 3 CD packages, flyers, posters and a website. PRENTICE HALL PUBLISHING- designed motion graphics for CD-ROM for “MOSAICS” educational series. HOLIDAY HILL FARMS - created key art and packaging for “Spookly the Square Pumpkin” children's DVD

Skills and Software
Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, After Effects, some 3D

Education
o 1988-91 Drew University, Madison NJ
o 2000-NYU Continuing ed. classes in Softimage, Discreet Logic Flame
o 2005-SVA Continuing ed. Experimental Design Portfolio

Projects by Django Phillips

Marketing & Promotion
14 Files

Retouching
7 Files

Web Graphics
8 Files

Environmental Graphics
11 Files

Miscellaneous
8 Files

DVD and Video Packaging
14 Files

Music Packaging
7 Files

Toy Packaging
14 Files