Spencer Matern

• Work closely with executive staff to provide comprehensive design management for editorial, sales, and marketing divisions within budgets.
• Oversee and assign juniors, freelancers, and interns through multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Improve brand standards and design of magazines, websites, and special edition books including Design Bureau, Alarm, Architecture, and Inspiring Interiors.
• Coordinate, art direct, and style photo shoots.
• Create and distribute Design Bureau magazine digital edition Apps for iTunes.
• Redesign front end of alarm-magazine.com.

• Led a team of designers creating monthly regional magazines for the top tier of consumers in ten of the largest markets in the U.S.
• Conferred with Creative & Editorial Directors to conceive and execute national and local features and departments within budget.
• Mentored junior staff and provided guidance to senior designers while innovating new designs to strengthen brand.
• Designed the magazines Manhattan, Angeleno, Miami, CS Brides, CS Interiors, Houston, and Atlantan.
• Updated design and produced launch issues for ancillary markets.

• Managed a small team of production artists at a daily newspaper publisher serving several cities in north Texas.
• High-volume & tight deadlines.
• Produced monthly special sections, advertising features, and daily ROP.
• Improving efficiency and raising design standards allowed the launch of the region's first city magazine.

• Responsible for design & production of corporate catalogs, brochures, annual reports, sales & marketing kits.