Old School Experience: The Uncle
Advertising, Design, Illustration, and Photography
- a sole proprietor in the commercial/applied arts industries, in NYC, since 1974
Art direction, design, illustration, project management, studio and pre-press production specialist whose skills were first honed in the days when computer use was still a dream (or nightmare, as one might view it) ... through to the present day (where some say we're all too computer dependent)
Diverse project experience includes:
• cosmetics and healthcare packaging and promotion
• corporate annual reports
• entertainment advertising and promotion
• pharmaceutical advertising, packaging and publications
• interior/exterior signage
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• logo design
• 3-D POP displays
• 4 color, b&w print posters, adv. campaigns, FSI coupons
• direct mail catalogs, posters, brochures, booklets
• medical charts, graphs
• slide presentations
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Past Clients include:
• NBC-TV and Radio - network and affiliate advertising, programming promotional kits, corporate graphic design standards
• Medicus Intercon Int'l. - pharmaceutical/healthcare agency. Proctor & Gamble (Crest, Pampers), Merrell Dow
• Corporate Graphics - annual reports and publications for major corporations
• Leber Katz/Foote Cone & Belding - R.J. Reynolds (Vantage, More, Now, Bright cigarettes), IBM, Netherlands Tourism, Pepperidge Farm, Chipwich
• Ben Kotyuk Group - cosmetic/healthcare product & packaging design. Ralph Lauren, Revlon, Faberge, Lagerfeld, Victoria Secrets
• Knoll International Design Group - brochures, catalogs for office furniture systems and designer home furnishings. Isometric line drawings and schematics of system components
• Biederman & Company - corporate/financial advertising. ITT Corp., Deloitte Haskin Sells, Israeli Tourism
• Korman Mohamad Korman - MCA Entertainment advertising/promo kits, WWOR-TV adv., AFA Backstop Inc.
• Milton Glaser Inc. - Grand Union product packaging and advertising, Barron Books
• Saxton Communications - corporate/financial slide presentations: charts, graphs, color keying
• ... as well as CBS-TV and Radio, BBD&O, Wells Rich Greene, Arthur Young & Co., Gross Townsend Frank Hoffman, J. Walter Thompson, Deltakos, Landor Associates, Rumrill-Hoyt Inc., Lukasiewicz Design Inc., NY Life Ins. Co.
Related Professional Experience and Education:
Of historical value: excellent studio skills; organized, versatile and fast; good communication skills, work well with others; coordinate and execute any size project, design through finish; mechanicals, photo and 3-D comps and constructions, technical line illustration; full knowledge of production; management experience includes working with type shops, art and photography suppliers, studio equipment and supplies dealers; manage freelance staffing for large projects
Computer Experience - Set-up and operate IBM-Windows based computers and software - including drawing, paint, word processing, page layout, spreadsheet, utility and communications software
Fine Painting/Murals/Photography
M.F.A. (Painting), 1980 - BS (Photography), 1977 - both from Brooklyn College, CUNY
Commissions/Exhibitions
• Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. - 7 murals for their corporate headquarters and broadcast operations complex in NYC, 1985 -1989
• Fortune Magazine - "Refineries Refined: A Fortune Portfolio" - article featuring 6 paintings and 6 photographs, and painting on magazine cover, 1980-81
• Private Mural Commissions
• Exhibited painting and photographic work in public exhibitions in various galleries and museums. Works included in corporate and private collections
Published
Including, but not limited to: Fortune Magazine, Print Magazine, Contemporary Graphic Artists (Vol. 2), Who's Who in American Art(18th/17th Ed.), Art Product News Magazine, Gran Bazaar Magazine, American Artists - Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans, Corporate Showcase 5, GAG Directory 4, RSVP 15/16, New York Art Review, numerous "Who's Who" type survey books
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