Freelance designer with over 35 years of Textile and Graphic Design services. Classic logos, engineered patterns and design with production skills from beginning to end. Custom high end styles for web, office, stationery, wedding, and advertising collateral.

SUMMARY
Versatile, innovative, designer pursuing fresh new ideas in print, product design, branding, identity, packaging, and front end web design. Researching new product trends and solutions to collaborate with and inspire managers, clients and vendors; motivate and work with the creative team while time managing, upholding quality and detail, meeting tight deadlines and producing cost effective, accurate results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Photoshop • Illustrator • InDesign • Dreamweaver • Quite Imposing • HTML • Illustration • Microsoft Office.
Printing: Inkjet, Laser, Web, Heidelberg and Komori presses. Gravure, offset and flexo printing. Excellent color sense, pantone and 4-color separation systems for print and web.

CLIENTS
Alexander Julian; Ann Taylor; Bonnie Marcus, Bergamo Fabrics; D&G Industries; Droll Design, Fieldcrest; Gant Men’s Wear; Geographics; Lillian Vernon; London Fog; Microsoft; North Sails; Royal Consumer Products; Quality of Life Labs; Save the Children Museum; Stepping Stones Museum for Children; Shoprite; Susan Newbold, Artist/Printmaker, Vera Bradley/Chas. Sadek Imports;
MASS MARKET: Kinkos; Office Depot; Sears; Staples; Target; Walmart, and more.  

EXPERIENCE
Dallas Design, LLC  				                   2001 to Present
Darien, CT 
Owner/Freelance Designer 
Graphic Design, Web Design, Textile Design, PrePress and Production.                               
Packaging, advertising, branding, ID packages. Gift, Party and table-top goods, stationery, desktop and home/décor design. Concept, production, digital files, mock-ups, displays and presentations initiating updated design trends and forecasting new design projects. Printing in US and China.
Artwork, layout, design and direction of all incoming projects. Advertising, direct mail and brand identity. Multitasking, production and hands on printing with Xante, Letterpress and Offset. Direct client relations.

North Sails Group                                    November 2010 to June 2012
Milford, CT
Freelance Designer
Assisting Creative Director in advertising, product and web design for world leading sailmaker and marine apparel supplier. Photo retouching, image design and web content design.

Geographics/Royal Consumer Products                     2005 to July 2010
Norwalk, CT
Freelance Designer 
Art directing, design and packaging for trendy stationery and office supplies manufacturers. Everyday, holiday, wedding, stationery collections and private label packaging. Research, license and create new designs for sales and mass market. Original concept, layout, digital and hand painted art, mock ups, sales packages and collateral. Award winning package design for Microsoft photo papers.

C. R. Gibson Company/Thomas Nelson Gifts                    1986 to 2001
Norwalk, CT
Senior Product Designer
Project director for highly acclaimed manufacturer of gifts, social expressions, paper party goods and baby memory products. Trend and color forecasting for everyday, wedding, holiday and baby collections. Desktop collections, albums, memory books, calendars, tabletop, giftbags, giftwrap, and stationery. Hands-on design, multi-tasking and time management for packaging and production. Initiating contracts with upscale licensees, freelancers and vendors for implementing projects, schedules and tight deadlines. Concept to final product: pre-press, mock ups, photo shoots, catalog design, booth displays. Excellent color sense, pantone, color separation and correcting.
LICENSEES: Beatrix Potter; Collier Campbell; Disney; Droll Designs; Echo Design Group, Lillian August; Nicole Miller; Waverly  

Peter Marino, Architectural Associates                             1976 to 1978
New York, NY
Architectural assistant in design production with clients. Contractor orchestration, communication and purchasing of designer fabrics and home furnishings.

EDUCATION
Hobart and William Smith Colleges                                  1972 to 1976
Geneva, NY
BFA with focus on Illustration and Architecture

Fashion Institute of Technology                                       1979 to 1980
New York, NY
Associate Degree in Textile Design

School of Visual Arts                                                       1978 to 1979
New York, NY
Associate Degree in Advertising Design