Freelance Art Director
Jacksonville, FL
9/2016 - Present
Art Director for multiple industry clients: Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Leisure Arts, Tennessee Trucking Association, Arkansas Bioscience Institute
Senior Art Director
Arkansas Business Publishing Group
Little Rock, AR United States
11/2006 - 9/2016
Senior Art Director for multiple consumer publications. Designing the editorial content using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator), art direction on photo shoots, hiring photographers, working with budgets for each publication. Job duties also include: the stylistic look of the publication and all supporting sales collateral; photography; photo editing; working with the editorial staff beginning with brainstorming to the final printed product; maintains the publication consistency; final approval of publications before sending to the printer.
Senior Art Director
The Thompson Group
Little Rock, AR United States
08/1999 - 11/2006
Senior Art Director for an advertising and marketing agency. Job duties: logo, brochure, print advertising, publication, website design; photography and photography editing; working with writers and clients on concepts for each job.
Freelance Graphic Designer
Little Rock, AR United States
07/1998 - Present
Freelance designer
Art Director
Frank J. Wills
Little Rock, AR United States
03/1997 - 07/1998
Art director at an advertising agency. Job duties included logo, brochure, print advertising, and art direction on photo shoots
Graphic Designer
Stone Ward
Little Rock, AR United States
01/1996 - 03/1997
Graphic designer at a large advertising agency designing local and national client’s print graphics, brochures, small publications and logo design.
Art Director
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Little Rock, AR United States
05/1988 - 01/1996
Art director for a statewide newspaper. Job duties: print advertising, publication, photography and photography editing; working with writers and editors on concepts for special publications; supervisor of layout department artist.