Visual Designer at Broad Institute

Lauren Solomon

Concord, MA

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Lauren excels in creating elegant, thoughtful and engaging communications. She's passionate about her role at the Broad Institute, where she supports the work of the world's most inspiring scientists.

Lauren's expertise spans print and web design, presentation design, logo creation, advertising, multimedia, information graphics, scientific figures and journal covers.

Software proficiencies include: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat; QuarkXpress; HTML, CSS; Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
Education
- Certificate Web Design
  
  Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
  
  2009 - 2010
- B.A. Biology
  
  Brown University
  
  1972 - 1976
Experience
- Visual Designer
  
  Broad Institute
  
  Feb 2010 - Present (16 years 4 months)
  
  The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 with the visionary philanthropic investment of Eli and Edythe Broad, who joined with leaders at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute to pioneer a "new model” of collaborative science that would transform medicine.
- Senior Graphic Designer
  
  Millipore
  
  Apr 1989 - Dec 2008 (19 years 8 months)
  
  Design and layout of corporate and customer-facing collateral, advertising, packaging, trade show graphics and web graphics. Art direction of free-lance and contract support. Development of creative guidelines, specs and templates. Clientele across all divisions and internal organizations.
- Layout Artist
  
  G. K. Hall & Co.
  
  Dec 1987 - Apr 1989 (1 year 4 months)
- Typesetter
  
  The Type Department
  
  Aug 1984 - Sep 1987 (3 years 1 month)
Affiliations

International Webmaster Association (IWA)
Skills
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
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