David Nelson

* Conceptualizing, designing, and digitally illustrating yearbook covers for students throughout the western United States * Art direction * Direct interaction with children, teachers, and sales representatives * Print production industry knowledge involving quality checking and photo editting * Live online and in-person design sessions for customers * Cross training through various company departments * Fast paced, deadline driven work environment involving travel. * Remote work since 2016

*Production Art * Conceptualizing, researching, designing, and hand illustrating new products for a home tile manufacturer * Working directly with the chairman of the board, heads of marketing, and fellow design team, towards the artistic development of new products * Fast paced, deadline driven work environment, involving clients such as Home Depot, Lowes, American Olean, and Dal Tile * Kitchen and bathroom design * Both printed, and hand-drawn graphic media for company presentation * Product photography using digital SLR equipment * Computerized 3D prototype design using SolidWorks * Digital photo retouching, enhancement, and manipulation using Photoshop * Model making, vinyl masking, painting * Meticulous attention to mathematical and grammatical accuracy.

Photographer and Marketing Designer for a five star fly-fishing outfitter
*Photo-digital documentation of client's fishing expeditions, and creation of souvenir vacation CD's., slide shows, and Power Point presentations
*Designing ads, brochures, informational media, web skins and updates

Lone cartoonist, responsible for writing and illustrating the daily cartoon strip for 20,000 Texas Tech University readers