Ann France

Resideo, a company that provides the next wave of supported home technology and known for the Honeywell Home Brand:  Rebrand and update existing materials such as brochures, data sheets, sell sheets, flyers, direct mail pieces, and packaging. Create digital banners, social posts, ads, and emails. Retouching images in Photoshop. Edits and final files shared through their project management system.

RLA Creative Agency, a division of GemsOne: Production of flyers and catalogs for the retail jewelry market. Produce business collateral including sell sheets, order forms, posters, advertisements, and digital assets. Customization of flyers for individual stores.

Cambridge University Press: Adapted book cover and created scope and sequence charts for marketing text book sampler. Composed worksheets using text, math, charts, and created illustrations. Design and layout for 600+ pages of correlation charts. Designs follow product and company branding.

Peterson's Educational Publishing: Page composition, including equations, charts and art for several Study Guides and Test Prep Books. Edited illustrations.

IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants): Design and layout of 200+ page study guide. Convert charts and art provided in Excel to print ready files.

Tristar Products: Cookbook design and template preparation including style sheets and master pages for book composition.

Bulbrite: Layouts for product catalog. Produced price lists, packaging, sell sheets, and eblasts. Work included InDesign tables and retouching images in PhotoShop.

Managed high profile projects in all aspects of design, page layout, photography and illustration. Provided quick delivery in deadline-driven environments. Ensured quality control, troubleshooting with compositors and printers, managed deadlines and budgets. Designs follow product and company branding.

Conceptualized designs for covers, texts, packaging and marketing materials. Produced digital assets for multi-media and websites using templates provided by the developer.

Represented design department on Content Management Initiative Team. Facilitated corporate initiatives by training design staff in Extensible Markup Language (XML) workflow. Led team-based in-house design initiative to reduce cost and improve schedule.

Provided art direction for the top seller Top Notch and for Project Success, a blended digital course integrating student book, eText, multi-media and on-line activities providing self-practice content for the learner. Successful cover design for Focus on Grammar established the brand identity for other products in the Focus line

Art direction for a variety of disciplines: Science, Math, Engineering, Business Management and Economics. Coordinated informational graphics for business titles. Applied a stream line approach to initial designs, saving the company money without sacrificing quality. Developed standard designs for 1 color titles that reduced the production budget.

Designed magazine spreads for Woman's World, an American weekly magazine. The magazine is published in a large tabloid newspaper format, with about 60 pages per issue.

Compset operates as a graphics and composition company of college level texts, medical reference books, academic and university titles, professional journals, and high school textbooks. Formatted books making design/layout decisions. Created templates and style sheets for support staff. Trained personnel in software and department procedures.

CPP/Belwin produces educational, reference, pop, and performance materials for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Designed covers for sheet music and music books. Trained staff artists in computer design.