Experience
The Design Studio, Basalt, Colorado
Graphic Designer – Lead Designer: 2006-2010
Job duties:
- Print design, magazine design, website design, collateral design, logos, illustration …
- IT and software management
- Customer relations
- Internet hosting management
Climbing Magazine, Carbondale, Colorado
Art Director: 1998-2006
Production Assistant – Production Manager: 1995-1998
Illustrator/Designer: 1985-2006
Job duties:
- overall design of the magazine and layout
- editorial art, technical art and map illustration
- typography design
- photography selection, processing and color correction
- creating and designing ancillary products such as books, calendars, t-shirts, pins, videos
- design advertisements, promotional material and media kits
- web design and programming
- supervise freelance illustrators
- coordinate multiple projects with complex schedules and deadlines
Other Responsibilities
- Web site designer, webmaster
Freelance Graphic Designer 1981-2010
Locations:
- Boulder, Colorado
- San Diego, California
- Flagstaff, Arizona
- Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- Carbondale, Colorado
Services
- Graphic design
- Advertising design
- Illustration
- Cartooning
- Website design
- Print production
- Production Artist
- Writer
Skills
Computer Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Indesign, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, more.
Web Programming: HTML, XHTML, CSS, Flash. Sites built with Dreamweaver, Flash, WordPress, Joomla.
Expert computer artist, with over 16 years of experience drawing on computers using Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop and Wacom tablets for input. Extensive typography design experience.
20+ years experience using Apple computers, Tech support (IT) for Climbing Magazine. Experience using Apple, Windows and Unix file servers. Operate personal web server with multiple domains.
15+ years experience in web related design and programming.
Proficient in the use of printers, scanners, digital cameras, digital video cameras.
Exceptional traditional art skill in drawing, mechanical drawing, watercolor, oil painting, acrylic painting, multimedia art, pen and ink, rapidograph, film, and photography.
Awards
Climbing Magazine won Maggie awards from Folio Magazine for design and editorial excellence.
Freelance
30+ years freelance illustrator, designer and writer. See my list of clients and feel free to ask for references.
Clients
- Aspen Center for Integral Health
- Albright & Associates
- Aspen Medical Care
- Aspen Gates
- Aspen Valley Hospital
- Aspen Valley Medical Foundation
- Aspen Valley Medical Foundation Presidents Club
- Baby Doe
- Basalt 66
- Carolyn Hardin
- Chepita
- Cheryl Bach
- Colorado Marketing LLC
- Deck Doctor
- Design Studio
- Doc Eason Magic
- Eagle Crest Nursery
- Glenwood Springs Ford-Lincoln-Mercury
- Glenwood Springs Chrysler-Dodge
- Harrington Real Estate
- Home Guide
- I-70 Auto Mall
- John Duffy – Grand Junction Colorado Real Estate
- Kelly’s Cowboy Company
- Lacroux-Streeb Lighting Design
- My Office
- Names & Numbers – Qwest
- Newland & Associates Land Development
- Pacifica Restaurant Aspen
- Pitstop Car Care
- Proguard Security
- Pyramid Peak Center
- Roaring Fork Mental Health
- Signature Framing
- Silich Construction, Aspen
- White River Forest Alliance
- Zheng Bistro, Basalt and Glenwood Spring
- Climbing Magazine
- Rock & Ice Magazine
- Stackpole Books
- Facts on File
- Globe Pequot Press
- ICS Books, Inc.
- National Outdoor Leadership Schools
- American Alpine Club Publications
- Lowe Alpine Systems
- The North Face/A5 Adventures
- Shook Book Publishing
- Mountain Mend
- Bolder Designs
- JRat Designs
Many more not listed.
Publications
Magazines
- Rock & Ice Magazine, contributing artist since 1982. Cartoon and Technical Illustration
- Climbing Magazine, contributing artist since 1986. Technical Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Cartoon, Maps, Art Direction, Design
- Aspen Inside Out, Aspen Colorado. Illustration, Art Direction, Design
Books
- Wild Snow, by Lou Dawson, The American Alpine Club Press. Maps and Illustration
- Stone Crusade, by John Sherman, The American Alpine Club Press. Maps and Illustration
- Encyclopedia of Mountaineering, by Greg Child, Facts on File. Illustration
- National Outdoor Leaderships Skills (NOLS) Wilderness Educators Manual, by Paul Gookin, National Outdoor Leadership Schools. Illustration
- NOLS Wilderness Mountaineering, by Phil Powers, Stackpole Books. Illustration
- Indoor Climbing Gyms, by Randy Leavitt, Climbing Magazine. Illustration
- Climbing Big Walls, by John Long and John Middendorf, ICS Books. Illustration
- Great American Rock Climbs, by Richard DuMais, Dumais. Illustration
- Fly Fishing Guide for the San Juan River, by Michael Shook, Shook Book Publishing. Book design/production and illustration
- Fly Fishing Map and Guide to the Eagle River (and Gore Creek), Shook Book Publishing. Book design/production and illustration
- Quick Clips, Climbing Magazine Publications. Illustration
- Basic Essentials of Snowboarding, by John McMullen, The Globe Pequot Press. +Illustration
- Basic Essentials of Climbing Ice, by John McMullen, Globe Pequot Press. +Illustration
- Modern Rock Climbing, By Todd Skinner and John McMullen, Globe Pequot Press
- Basic Essentials of Mountain Biking, by Michael Strassman, Globe Pequot Press. Illustration
- Basic Essentials of Rock Climbing, by Michael Strassman, Globe Pequot Press. Illustration
- Mountain Biking for Mere Mortals, By Michael Hodgson, ICS Books. Illustration
- Climbing Knots for Lefties and Righties, Michael S. Noonan, ICS Books. Illustration
- Camping for Mere Mortals, Michael Hodgson, ICS Books. Illustration
- And many more …
Catalogs
- A5 Adventures, Flagstaff Arizona.
- Mountain Mend / Bolder Designs, Boulder Colorado
- Lowe Alpine Systems, Lafayette Colorado
- JRat Designs, Boulder Colorado
Newspapers
- Boulder Daily Camera, Boulder Colorado. Advertising design
- Glenwood Springs Post Independent, Glenwood Springs Colorado. Advertising design
- Aspen Daily News, Aspen Colorado. Advertising design
- Aspen Times, Aspen Colorado. Advertising design
Many more not listed.
Education
Colorado Institute of Art, Advertising Design, Denver, Colorado
University of Colorado, Fine Art/Film Studies, Boulder, Colorado
