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Cathy Bruce-Graphics, Web Design, Illustration      

“My professional goal is to create inviting designs for the target audience. My web design focuses on usability and stickiness. I am experienced in project management and can take the lead, but I am also a team player.”

Experience


Graphic Designer

August 2003 to Present
Graphcom, Inc.
I am the lead designer for the Suburban Hospital account. My duties include interacting with the Public Relations, Foundation and Community Outreach offices at Suburban; designing flyers, posters, mailers, promotional pieces, brochures, regular newsletters and internal communications.
I also do design work for some of Graphcom's other clients including: Adam's County Nursery, Gettysburg Hospital and Gettysburg College. This work includes catalogs, brochures and magazines.

Freelance Web and Graphic Designer

April 2001 to Present
I have worked with companies and individuals including:

Peter Li Group

I am designing and illustrating a series called "Children Celebrate." These are Sunday school lessons designed for children ages 4 to 13. It includes handouts in book form and a leader's guide.

The Education Center, Inc.,

I have designed, illustrated and laid out an 8-book series called “The Learning Library Math/Language Arts”, a 4-book series called “I Can Make It-Science/Math” and 2 Busy Kids Preschool activity books. These books included simple full color art and black & white line drawings.

Kneadful Healing--http://www.kneadfulhealing.com and collateral

I designed and developed this equine/canine massage therapy website for owner Gina Farago. I also designed her business card and brochure. Gina’s goal was to educate her customers about massage therapy and present a professional image to her clients.

Advertising Coordinator/Designer

September 2002 to December 2002
Hot Off The Press, Inc., Canby, OR
I created and coordinated the magazine ad schedule for the year 2003. (This included working with the reps to get the best insertion deals for the company.) I also designed several ads for both trade and consumer magazines. I designed and laid out 2 newsletters. I also organized, designed and produced the first pass of a 96-page catalog of the company’s products.


Web Designer

December 1999 to March 2001
The Education Center, Inc., Greensboro, NC
I was a member of team that launched the site in BroadVision. (launch date: Oct. 26, 2000) This included redesigning the site’s architecture to include the store, the subscriber-only area and the weekly content updates. We two designers created every piece of art that went on the site, including hundreds of downloadable pdf’s. I helped maintain and update the site using Dreamweaver and BroadVision Command Center.

Art Coordinator/Workflow Coordinator

May 1997 to December 1999
The Education Center, Inc.
I have managed several book series from concept through production, directing a team of artists (generally 5 to 8). I also acted as liaison between the artists and editorial staff.
As the Workflow Coordinator, I scheduled a 14-member art staff and coordinated the flow of work for the department.


Graphic Designer/Illustrator

July 1993 to May 1997
The Education Center, Inc.
My responsibilities included: designing new products and packaging, illustrating books, posters, and games, and overseeing projects from production through prepress.

Typesetter/Paste-up Artist

April 1993 to July 1993
Harmon Publishing, Greensboro, NC
I typeset and laid-out black and white real estate books. This job was high volume production work. Although I was primarily a typesetter, I also pitched in to do paste-up and proofreading work.


Education:

Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major: Illustration
Graduated July, 1992 - Cum Laude, GPA: 3.65

Skills

Quark Xpress 6
Since 1993
Expert
FreeHand MX
Since 1993
Expert
Photoshop CS
Since 1996
Expert
PageMaker 6.5
Since 1993
Expert
Illustrator 10
Since 2001
Adept
InDesign CS Since 2002 Adept
Acrobat 6.0 Pro Since 1999 Expert
Word 10
Since 2000
Adept
Painter 5.0
Since 1996
Adept
Dreamweaver MX
Since 1999
Adept
Fireworks MX
Since 1999
Adept
PowerPoint
Since 2003
Adept
Flash MX
Since 2002
Familiar
HTML
Since 1999
Adept
Excel
Since 1999
Adept
Macintosh platform
Since 1993
Expert
Windows platform
Since 1999
Familiar
Illustration
Since 1992
Expert
Design
Since 1992
Expert

 

 

 

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