( SELECTED) FREELANCE DESIGN/PRODUCTION/TEACHING
07-present | CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) | graphic designer
building/design/colour correction of graphics and short animations
screened daily on Canadian National television. Programs include News Now,
The National, and Business News | (SELECTED PORTFOLIO)
06-present | Broken Pencil | magazine design/pre-production
quarterly magazine | design, layout, and pre-press
advertising materials (web and print)/event marketing materials: design/production | (SELECTED PORTFOLIO)
09 | ECW press | typesetter/graphic designer
book typesetting, design, and layout of Can'tlit: fearless fiction from Broken Pencil magazine (218 page anthology of fiction)
(SELECTED PORTFOLIO)
09 | freelance teacher/tutoring | Adobe CS3 photoshop (BERLIN)
teaching basics of photoshop including composition, layer masks,
colour correction, importing/exporting, tools overview, etc.
05-08 | Brick Literary Journal | production manager/designer/assistant editor
bi-annual literary journal | layout, typesetting, design, pre-press files preparation
colour correction of photos and illustrations | coordinating deadlines and designating
print specifications with printing house | troubleshooting in-house computer/technical problems
(as assistant editor) copy-editing/proofreading/inputting changes | (SELECTED PORTFOLIO)
07 | Magazines Canada | (freelance) graphic designer
graphic layout and inputting information updates: educational workshop marketing materials | (SELECTED PORTFOLIO)
06-07 | Kiss Machine/Kiss Machine Presents | graphic designer
bi-annual magazine | layout, design, pre-press
bi-annual
comic series | layout, type-setting, pre-press
05-07 | Coach House Printing | production/design assistant
typesetting, design, pre-press for books/print publications including Film Print,
Arab World Geographer, TPL Occasional Papers lecture series,
Canadian Journal of African Studies
05-06 | Summerworks theater festival | graphic designer
annual program | design,layout, pre-press
05 | On the Danforth magazine | art director /graphic designer
quarterly magazine | design and layout;
co-ordinating contributing artists/ acquiring stock imagery and illustrations
print specifications / coordinating and meeting printer deadlines
02/03 | Mainstay Housing | graphic designer
annual reports | design/pre-press and cover illustration
00 | Ontario College of Art and Design | teaching assistant
teacher | Photoshop/ Quark Xpress/ foundations of design
99 | On The Fly 3/4 (video shorts festival) | graphic designer
design and production of posters/programs/marketing materials
99 | Art Centre (Central Technical School) | graphic designer
Annual Art Exhibition 99 | posters/invitations design
98-99 | Sculptors Society of Canada | graphic designer/editor
monthly newsletter | design/editor
COMPUTER/TECHNICAL SKILLS (mac/pc platforms)
Adobe Creative Suite 3 including InDesign | Quark Xpress 8
Microsoft Office 2008 | digital delivery of files/FTP
Adobe Dreamweaver (including knowledge of HTML)
Adobe After Effects CS2 (basic)
[book layout] film-stripping/manual imposition
exceedingly strong Photoshop colour correction/photo rebuilding skills
one year screenprinting/printmaking
two years b/w and colour photography
(photo developing/darkroom)
LANGUAGES
french (intermediate)| german (B.2 [Goethe Insitut: Level 7])
EDUCATION
08-10 | Goethe Institut
german language studies: A.2 | B.1 | B.2.2
09 | Neue Schule (BERLIN)
german language studies: B.2
04-05 | Centennial College Book and Magazine Publishing
one-year intensive program in all areas of book and magazine publishing
including design, production, copy-editing, editorial, writing and marketing (diploma)
96-99 | Central Technical School | Art Centre
three-year full-time post-secondary program in fine art/design | (diploma)
94-95 | Concordia University | Westen Society and culture
member: Liberal Arts College | special program focusing on
European art and music history, literature, philosophy, and politics of the 20th century
94-95 | McGill University
20th century literature | german language studies
90-92 | Etobicoke School of the Arts
double major: theater/visual arts | graduated suma cum laude
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