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About
Accelerated designer, passionate creative, extremely organized visionary, excellent graphic design skills working independently or on a team ensuring client satisfaction, revenue return and diplomatic communication.
Challenge my own creative sensibilities on a daily basis. Design projects from concept to completion. Stay abreast of current graphic trends as a thriving visual artist. Render thought into effective design to communicate a simply stated message. Comply with company integrity standards in branding a classic look.
Specialties: Design sensibilities put forth daily in a fast-paced deadline oriented environment in collaboration with various departments that harmoniously produce publications for print and online.
Designed one on one with Marketing Director for a thriving competitive marketplace, the New England Seacoast. Conceptualized and produced endless, targeted marketing products. -
Education
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UNH Marine Docent Marine ScienceUNH2019 - 2020Able to volunteer after 9 months of Marine Science training (ongoing monthly meetings) in educating the public, schools, tourists, etc. about the values of Marine science life and how to understand and help protect it in our world today.
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Experience
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OwnerDeerfield, NHMar 2020 - Present (5 years 3 months)Started as co-owners with a mother and daughter team, creating book sleeves, totes, face masks and more for purchase at our Etsy shop.
To date we have mailed our products to 12 countries and all 50 United States. Our fabric collection is from JoAnn Fabrics and Spoonflower, fabrics designed by artists from around the world.
Our business doubled from our first year into our second year with more additions planned for our shop inventory. Retail, social media, repeat customers, word of mouth, continue to grow the business. Presently working on 3rd retail store with another right behind. Chicken egg carrying aprons and farmer market bags are some of the latest designs. -
Owneroutrageous possibilitiesDeerfield, NHJan 1996 - Present (29 years 5 months)Accepting commissions for freelance graphic design projects. From teacups to TV commercials using the latest Adobe CS software on my iMac, while perched upon my yoga ball. No job too large or small. Print, my specialty.
Also, create Sketch Books for local school, (18 yrs) artists workshops and individuals. You create cover design. I process into a 40 page 65 lb paper, (accepts watercolors) chipboard backing, spiral coil bound (opens to lay flat) with laminated cover to care for artwork of various mediums. One time ordering only, September of each year for wholesale pricing. Contact me if interested. Artist, musicians, story tellers, journalists, bloggers, journal writing, scrapbooking and just for fun with kids! -
Advertising Art DirectorPortsmouth, NHSep 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 6 months)
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Freelance AdvertisingHampton, NHMar 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 7 months)Design adverts for magazine on a freelance basis with publisher. Designed logo for cover. Designed ads under owners direction.
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Advertising Art DirectorPortsmouth, NHSep 2014 - Sep 2019 (5 years)Freelance position - design advertisements, preflight and reply to advertisers, paginate pages to upload to printer, and manage all client files. Six issues a year or two double flip book issues a year. 240 page spread or 112 page. Responsible for all adverts in both issues of Coastal Home and TASTE of the seacoast magazines.
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Graphic Designer print/web/marketingConcord Monitor PublishingJan 2005 - Jul 2013 (8 years 6 months)Design collateral in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment for Marketing, Sales, Advertising and Online Departments. Print and web savvy. Designed so many advertisements I lost count.
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Graphic/Marketing DesignerSeacoast Media GroupJan 2000 - Jan 2005 (5 years)Designed multi-media with the Marketing Director for all advertising needs. Print, web, products, direct mailers, menus, promos, signage and adverts for the many departments/clients involved.
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Graphic Artist/Sign PainterBagdon Advertising/Saxton SignsMay 1988 - Jan 1990 (1 year 8 months)Desktop Publishing it was called back them. Imagine that!
Sign Painter -freelance, commercial, residential.
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Awards
Artwork displayed in 2 museums
Label designs sold to chain supermarket
Wrote/designed patent/received patent pending
print/publishing/web graphics/signage/photography fields
Artist workshop-Berkshires
Adobe InDesign CS3 Class- Boston
Writing a novel
Library Trustee 3 year term
Community Service - town newspaper
Freelance Commissions - school, business, artists
Volunteer 16 years - MacDowell Medal Day (Artists worldwide residency programs)
Blog, Podcast, PR, broadcast, reporting, photo journalism classes
UNH Marine Docent volunteer as guide to Celia Thaxter’s garden tours on Isles of Shoals
Star island volunteer in opening up the island for summer guests.
Sketchbooks to Deerfield Community School 27 years (kids draw covers with art teacher)
Fashion Designer, returning to the sewing machine with josiesbookcosies and so much more. Taking commissions for all sewing ideas. Currently working on cross-body phone cosies gender neutral with bandanas. Huge flower book sleeves (Georgia O’Keefee sized) from Spoonflower fabrics that design fabric with artists from all over the globe. Retail sales are starting to take off along with Etsy shop sales online. Growing the biz that was started as a mother daughter team. Daughter has gone back to writing her novel while mother plods along in th back end of Etsy shop along with manufacturing, shipping, creating and loving it all. -
Affiliations
Butera School of Art, UNH, Craft Center in Worcester, MA, Nackey Loeb School of Communications, Kelby Training, Adobe InDesign Seminar, Computer Arts, Print Magazine, Arts Projects, Twitter, Linked in
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@jdizzle, member since 2008
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