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Art Department at Freelance / Graphic Design Services
Daniel Nelson
Brooklyn, NY
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About
I specialize in assisting companies achieve their creative needs. Presenting a positive, creative, professional attitude to any design dept. I have designed brochures, press kits, advertisements, presentation boards, logo’s, image retouching, catalogue production, in addition to packaging for a collection of clients.
Throughout my professional career I have worked in numerous art departments with varied structures. As a professional graphic/production artist I can be relied upon to get the job done even when it calls for staying after hours. A person that departments turn to when a jobs needs the push to get to press.
I want to say I am a reliable, creative talent that can benefit your art dept. if given the chance.
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Education
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Associate's degree Industrial Design And Product DevelopmentArt Institute of Colorado1997 - 1999Organized many group activities
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Associate of Arts (A.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesRockland Community College1994 - 1995
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Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement AdministrationState University of New York College at Brockport1993 - 1994
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Experience
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Packaging DesignerI-Star EntertainmentGreat Neck, NYApr 2013 - Present (13 years 2 months)Designing custom packaging and Logo's for a variety of products for I-Star Entertainment.
Logo Design, Hangtags, Packaging, Product Photography, Mocking up the different packaging for use by our sales team.
Organizing the design departments server in a manner that will be easy for anyone to find a particular project or associated graphics, photography, fonts or anything related to the project.
Setting up files to be released to the printers - outlining fonts, embedding images, saving to a particular format for the different output vendors, -
Art DepartmentFreelance / Graphic Design Services2010 - Present (16 years)Creating any and everything.
• Logo Development
• Catalogue layout with copy editing
• Product Design
• T-Shirt Graphics
• Corporate Brochures
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Graphic Designer, Project ManagerMiracle Ride2008 - 2010 (2 years)A charity motorcycle ride in honor of a children's hospital.
I wore many hats for this project.
• Illustrator - to create the poster
• reworked poster design into a event shirt given to all involved
• contacted all sponsors for logos
• priced out materials and printing costs
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production artistAquent2000 - 2008 (8 years)as a creative talent with Aquent I would be placed with companies that had a design or production need to be filled. The creative staffing agency would send me on jobs that had me designing brochures, press kits, advertisements, presentation boards, logo's, image retouching, catalogue production, as well as creating packaging for a collection of the clients that used their services.
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Production ArtistENK International2006 - 2008 (2 years)ENK is the premium fashion industry's trade show organizer.
I was responsible for laying out show floor-plans for upcoming shows with coordinators utilizing an AutoCADD program called VectorWorks. I also edited and applied style sheets to the massive list of exhibitors for the many trade show catalogues. -
Technical SpecialistConde NastJul 2005 - 2007 (1 year 11 months)Part of a team that implemented a company wide upgrade of hardware and software for all departments utilizing the Macintosh platform. Transfer of all data, reconnecting departments via IP configurations to all available printers, as well as setting up workstations with dual boot systems for the transition of QuarkXpress to InDesign company wide.
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Packaging DesignerFun-4-AllJan 2002 - May 2004 (2 years 4 months)New York based toy company that I created packaging for product lines such as South Park, Happy Tree Friends, Garfield, Kiss, The Wiggles, The Osbornes, Crayola, Strawberry Shortcake, in addition to other well known brands. Many of the products created followed a strict licensed style guideline that outlined what elements needed to be present on the packaging for final approval.
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@dan1source, member since 2001