Coroflot

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• Seeking a graphic design position where I can grow and produce - using my type and photography skills - to help you and the world become positively communicative and productive

EDUCATION. BA in Graphic Design. Cal Poly Pomona 04

SKILLS + PROGRAMS [MAC and PC] . Photoshop. Illustrator. InDesign. Flash. Dreamweaver. Quark. After Effects. ImageReady. HTML. Acrobat. FTP. Word. PowerPoint. Excel. Outlook. Box making. Book art: Japanese stitching + accordion folds . Photography: traditional / digital .

LANGUAGES. English . Arabic . Armenian

MEMBERSHIP. AIGA LosAngeles . Art Student Alliance/AIGA CalPoly

CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

.Dissent Design [Co-founder/designer/photographer]: 05-current
Graphic/web design and Photography for various progressive clients throughout Southern California

.Melissa Data Corp [Graphic Designer]: mar 05 - current
Designing direct mail pieces, logos, letterheads, and brochures for the Direct Mail devision; as well as, assisting the Sr. Designer with magazine ads, catalogs, updating the company's various print and web materials [banners, logos, etc] and preparing files for print

."Bam Bam & Celeste" movie [design intern]: winter 05
Designing posters and book covers for the movie set

.B&A Visual Communication Consultants [design intern]: fall 04
Identity design for various clients in Saudi Arabia

.Harvest International [Competition]: spring/summer 04
Won a competition for a book cover design for Cal Poly's English Department's annual publication

EXTRA - CURRICULAR.
.Member of the Art Advisory Council - helping students/alumni of Cal Poly network and find design positions
.Pomona Police Department mural, 04
.Photography group of community project "Envisioning the Future" (project by artist Judy Chicago and photographer Donald Woodman), 03
.ASA + AIGA officer for Cal Poly, 03-04

EXHIBITIONS.
.Invitational: photo - "Everyone and their Mother" - 51 buckingham, Downtown Pomona May15, 04
.Juried: 3 photo pieces - annual "2D/3D student competition" - W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly, Apr/May 04
.Community project: collages - "Envisioning the Future" - 57 Underground, Downtown Pomona, Jan10-Feb29, 04
.Invitational: Photo - "Destruction/Deconstruction" - 51 Buckingham, Downtown Pomona, Jul12-30, 03
.Juried: Photo - annual "2D/3D student competition" - Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly, May1, 03
.Invitational: paintings - "art on fence" - arts colony, Downtown Pomona, Dec14, 02

GENERAL WORKEXPERIENCE .
.DVD subtitling - Roots Creative, current
.Sales at Rabia Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi, fall 04
.Printmaking TA internship, Cal Poly, spring 04
.English tutor, Pasadena, 02-03
.Caretaker, Pasadena, 98-03
.Cafe Le Jardin, London, England, summer 97

INTERESTS . Photography . Bi/multi-ethnic subjects . Political art . Readings [Nawal Sedawy . Khalil Gibran . Arabic literature . J.D.Salinger . Martin Luther King Jr. Arundhati Roy . Marjane Satrapi] . KCRW . KPFK . Music [Ani DiFranco . Radiohead . Bjork . PJ Harvey . AbdelHalim . Omar Khairat] . Toulouse-Lautrec . Robbie Conal . Malcom X .

REFERENCES . Available upon request