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Joe Rhoney

joe@joerhoney.com

Job Objective:

Graphic Designer and/or Illustrator

Professional Experience:

2000-2008 joerhoney.com: Freelance Illustrator and Graphic Artist (my freelance name)
Illustration, graphics and web design. www.joerhoney.com

2007-2008 Entrepreneur Media, Inc.: Internet Production Associate
Web maintenance and design.

2007-2007 Pro-Mart Industries: Layout/Graphic Artist (in-house freelancer, then employee)
Creating new package layouts (and fixing olds) for houseware products including all responsibilities from die-lines, dimensions, color designation and occasional photo shoots, to photo prep, type setting and mock-ups for approval.

2001-2007 Pacifica T-shirts: Graphic Artist (Employee, then in-house freelancer)
Layouts for shirts and other promotional items, graphic and logo clean-up/recreate, color-separated films for screen-printing, Illustration (drawing or piecing together scenes and other art renderings), customer service and multi-tasking.

2005-2008 So Cal Promo: Graphic Artist/Designer (Out-source freelancer)
Layouts for shirts and other promotional items, graphic and logo clean-up/recreate, Illustration (drawing or piecing together scenes and other art renderings).

2006 Web Search USA: Web Builder (Out-source freelancer)
Design, graphics and html based websites for clientele. Also created and published company website: websearchusa.net

2004-2005 Youth Specialist Centers Inc.: Director of Promotion and Marketing (Employee, then in-house freelancer)
Full creation of promotional pieces from proof to product including brochures, pamphlets, presentation books, website (temporarily down, pending proofreading). Also non-promotional pieces such as ID Cards.

2002-2003 Flawless Faces Caricatures: Caricature artist (in-house freelancer)
Flagged down foot traffic at the Irvine Spectrum Center to pose. Drew and sold caricatures.

1999 Success Makers: Web Designer (Employee)
Design, graphics and html based websites, layout and html editing.

1997 California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA): Student
Created animated shorts including story, design, layout, animation and editing bay. Learned the history, techniques and application of various types of animation including cut-out, stop-motion, traditional (cell) and other experimental and basic styles.

1997 "The Creative Spirit" Visual Arts Exhibition at the State Capital Governor's Council Room: Participant
Entered life drawings and scene pieced together from cut-out animation done at CSSSA into visual arts exhibition.

Selected Specialized Skills:

Software:
* Adobe Illustrator -expert
* Adobe Photoshop -proficient
* Adobe Imageready -for animated web graphics
* Adobe Indesign -experienced
* Adobe Livemotion (much like Flash) -proficient
* 3D Studio Max -well experienced
* Dreamweaver -experienced
* Quark -experienced
* Word -experienced
* Excel -experienced

Art Forms:
* Web graphics -expert
* Web design -expert
* Web animation -expert
* Video editing -experienced
* Digital & manual photography -experienced
* Color design -well experienced
* Character design -expert
* Background design -experienced
* Illustrating -expert
* Life drawing -well experienced
* Caricatures -experienced

Other Media:
* Ink -well experienced
* Charcoal -expert
* Colored pencils -expert
* Graphite -expert

Honors and Awards:

2004 CCROP Certificate of Competencies, 3D Animation
1997 California State Summer School for the Arts participant
California Arts Scholar Certificate of Recognition for Distinguished Achievement in the Visual Arts
California Arts Scholarship
California State Senate Certificate of Recognition, Animation Award issued at Irvine Fine Arts Center
California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition
California State Summer School for the Arts "The Creative Spirit" Certificate of Recognition

Education:

Instructional classes, 3D Studio Max, CCROP

Received three college credits, Animation, California State Summer School for the Arts

Professional training, Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop, Pacifica T-shirts

Website

Please visit joerhoney.com for my portfolio and testimonials.