Graphics | Illustrations | Designs
Objective
A motivated, versatile and efficient designer seeking a fresh start with a highly creative, fast-paced team. I have excellent technical and people skills and love every aspect of design; from the concepting stage to seeing a satisfied client at the final outcome.
Experience
Associate Textile Designer
Eddie Bauer | Seattle Washington
425.755.6544 | July 2009 - Present
Responsibilities Include: creating original art/designs for prints, beading, embellishments,
and embroidery; manufacturing repeats; enginerring prints; digital mock-ups; color
reduction, scanning & recreating/cleaning/revising existing art; creating colorways; color
matching; concepting & researching; designer meetings; illustration & sketching
Textile Designer & Graphic Artist
Tommy Bahama | Oct 2007 - Sept 2008
Responsibilities Include: (Textile Designer Oct 2007-June 2008) creating original designs for
prints, jacquards, and embroidery; manufacturing repeats; engineering prints; digital
mock-ups; ModaCAD color separation; scanning & recreating/cleaning/revising existing art;
brand management; contributing to original motif library; concepting & researching; designer
meetings; illustration & sketching. (Graphic Artist June 2008-Sept 2008) creating ads,
packaging, postcards, corporate identities, booklets, mailers for print; fetching quotes; paper
samples; color-matching; concept sketching; marketing meetings
Inhouse Designer & Production Artist
Pratt Industries | Birmingham Alabama
205.424.1127 | Jun 2002 - May 2007
Responsibilities Include: creating designs for corrugated packaging & POP displays; art
preparation for flexographic & lithographic label output; conceptual illustration; product
series development; digital 3D comps; updating re-designs; conceptualizing brand identities;
product photo shoots; client presentations; image restoration; proofing; large format printing;
typography research; full size mock-ups; four-color process, PMS, & GCMI ink studies
Illustrative Designer
Freelance | Oct 2000 - Present
Responsibilities Include: corporate identities; packaging; logo development;
conceptual illustration; T-shirt design; wedding invitations; band posters;
vector painting portraits; party invitations; water bottle label design; signage;
vinyl record labels; outputting projects
Education
Bachelor Of Art in Graphic Design
University of Montevallo | Montevallo Alabama
Jan 1997 - Dec 2001
Won competitive design scholarship; drawing, sculpture, & painting class figure model;
President’s List; Dean’s List
Online Recognition
Won ongoing T-shirt design contests which resulted in printed products at www.threadless.com, various t-shirts printed at luckythreadz.com, and have an illustration featured in an online zine at www.oddica.com.
